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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medfordtribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager ..GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN, JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor . RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor " DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. v- An Independent Newspaper . . Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 r. - Dally and Sunday 8 mo. 8.00 Cailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday finlv One year S4.20 -Bt Carrier In Advance Medford -Ashland. Central Point. Eagle foint, jacKsonvuie. ooia mu, ' Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- ' er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 ; Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford .omciai paper or daemon county .United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OE CIRCULATION Advertisine Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC.. Of- nces in New YorK, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ; RATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County fc History from the files of The f.MaW Tribune 10, 20. 30 and X40 years ago. JO YEARS AGO Teb. 16. 1948 (Monday) Top honors in the old-time tiddlers' contest at the Dis abled American Veterans' car nival went to John Belding, ferants Pass. A new addition to the Apos rtolic Faith church here will idbe dedicated at special serv rices Tuesday and Wednesday. 20 YEARS AGO -Feb. 16. 1938 (Wednesday) Medford shivered today as the temperature dropped to within a degree of the year's low mark; the mercury dip ped to 24.2 degrees. From Arthur Perry's Y Smudge Pot column: "Candi dates asked how they stand on labor strike curbing legis lation shy from the subject gracefully. It reminds them of a story they won't tell for fear they will lose the church vote." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 16. 1928 (Thursday) Ludlum Engineering cor poration of New York and its active operation in construc tion of a $50,000 gold dredge on Foots creek, is an impor tant event in the resumption of mining in this region. From local and personal column: "The new Southern Pacific maps of the United States showing four Southern Pacific routes to the east, are out this week." 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1918 (Saturday) Under the auspices of the health department of the Red Cross and the state associa tion for the prevention of tu berculosis, Jackson county wiU have the first community nurse in Oregon. The state lime board at its recent meeting in Salem this week reported it expects to have the lime quarry leased near Gold Hill in operation by June 1. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Are sugar beets white, red? rr 2. Bible: Did Paul visit "Bithynia or Egypt during his -missionary activities? 2 .3. Which ranks highest in n - t British peerage, a duke, an S earl, or a baron? - - 4. Will a bull more readily C charge red colored objects 2 than any other color? 5. Addis Ababa is the cap- - ital of which country? Z 6. Horse meat is. or is not, 2 used in England for human 2 consumption? .... 2 7. How do you indicate 50 - in Roman numerals. 8. Give the line which fol- lows "And what is so rare as 3 a day in June." , 2 9. Whose likeness is depict Tjed on cigarette revenue t? stamps? . 10. Which State is nick- named "Old Dominion" State? Answers: 1. White. 2. No. 3. Duke. 4. Mo. (bulls . are color blind). 5. Ethiopia. 6. Is used for human consump tion. 7. L. 8. "Then, if ever, come perfect days." 9. DoWill Clinton. 10. Virginia. An Explanation We have added a few words to the "box" heading of our "Communication Column." Such an addition never occurred to us as necessary during all the years we have made a feature of "letters to the editor." But last week, we printed, in answer to a request from a subscriber, an editorial from the St. Louis Post Dispatch commenting upon the high cost of hospitals and doctors. Immediately the Mail Tribune was charged with "EDITORIALIZING" against hospitals, and the medical profession in general, and our local hospitals and M.D.'s in particular. (XF COURSE nothing of the sort was done. So we have added to our communication column "caption" the statement' that sentiments expressed in our "letter box" do not necessarily express the opinions of this paperin fact very often the exact reverse is true. IT IS difficult to understand how any readers of the Mail Tribune could have believed other wise, for this paper has always welcomed criti cisms of its editorial or business policies. This has been, of course, within the usual restrictions regarding personal abuse, libel, or violations of police regulations. We believe, moreover, the record will show a larger percentage of Mail Tribune letter box paper m the state. "1XTE REGARD our communication department as a sort of public forum, a kind of Hyde Park soap-box," where people may express their opinions on any subject, pro or con, provided they are willing to stand publicly or on file and keep within the 400 word limit. , This we regard as sound policy and the "letter box" as one of our most popular features. MEEDLESS to say, under such a policy, for the Mail Tribune to in any way, directly or in directly, endorse or share ALL the views ex pressed in this department would be impossible. But as there are some readers who have failed to realize this, it seemed desireable to make the point entirely clear in the "box of rules and regu lations." AS A final word, we hope this truth will be The opinions of the ject are strictly confined Any opinions expressed m any other part of the paper, are not those of the Mail Tribune. R.W.R. A Poor There may, or may not be, "something rotten" in the Federal Communications Commission, but to date there has been plenty of smoke. Whether there is much or any fire will have to be left to further determination. One thing, however, is certain: SOMEBODY is lying. Dr. Bernard Schwartz, ex-legal counsel for the House Subcommittee, has made explicit and serious charges against certain members of the commission, and the latter, as well as some of the Republican defenders, have called him, with and without, profane explitives a "liar." 1I7ELL, final judgment must be reserved until all the evidence is in, and has been properly sifted. But one thing is for sure. The defenders of the "FCC" have made a poor -start. For they have, to date, adopted the "shyster lawyer" tactic of smearing opposing council instead of answering the charges made. CONGRESSMAN CLARE HOFFMANN of Michigan, for example, led the offensive, maintaining Chairman Moulder of Missouri, had placed his 15-year-old daughter on his office payroll. Another irate defender of the "FCC" charged that Dr. Schwartz had put in a padded expense account. So what? MEITHER Messrs. Moulder nor Schwartz are on trial, both accusations are denied, but if they are true, what has that got to do with the price of spinach? ' If either of these men doing, let the subcommittee, or some other gov ernment agency, take up their cases in a separate inquiry, the charges have no proper place in this one. ' As indicated, whether in a court of law, or in some committee inquiry in congress, the party that fails to answer the charges made but falls back on throwing dirt at the opposing counsel, puts itself under suspicion at the outset. More over it is about a ten-to-one-shot such a party loses its case, whether the hearing is held before a jury in court, a committee, or tEe jury of public opinion. R.W.R. t Repeal It! We were surprised to hower declare that, according to the federal law, members of a regulatory agency like the F.C.C., are premitted to take various honorariums and expense-money from the ties they control. y Sunday, February 16, 1958 critical comments in the than in any other daily by their statements either Mail Tribune on any sub to this editorial column. Start are suspected 01 wrong hear President 'Eisen industries whose activi - Today fir Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann TO GRASP THE NETTLE The Prime Minister, M. Gaillard, has accepted full responsibility on behalf of the i rench gov ernment for the bombing of the Tuni sian border town. He ex pressed regret civilians were killed. But he insisted that Walter Lippmann the bombing an act of "le gitimate defense," and that his government "does not rec ognize culpability in this af fair." This closes the door to what might have been a way out of the affair namely to disavow the violence caused by the local commanders, and to give assurances that their actions will not be repeated Had this door not been closed, there would have been some hope not too much hope but some that the French - Tunisian conflict could have been limited to local actions along the bor der, with the . two govern ments in Paris and Tunis not immediately and directly in volved. There is not much hope of that now, and we have a conflict between France and Tunisia which is spreading to all the critical points such as the naval base at Bizerte where their national interests meet. THIS makes our own posi tion very difficult indeed. For we are caught in a bad squeeze, i ranee is our oldest ally and it is now the key stone of our strategic position in Europe. Tunisia is a new friend. But it is of all the Arab countries the most gen uinely interested in remain ing within the Western world. If we cannot find a way to work harmoniously with Tu nisia under the government of M. Bourguiba, the pros pects are dark indeed of a good relationship between North Africa and the Western world. Our policy, as Mr. Dulles described it in his press con ference on Tuesday, is in sub stance to muddle through, and to pray that neither side will ask us to take a decisive position. Mr. Dulles is hard pressed and entitled to play for time. It is understandable that he should hope that he can in North Africa continue to muddle through. FOR the alternative to mud dling through is difficult and dangerous, considering the temper which now exists in Paris and in the Arab world. But it looks very much as if the difficult course, though dangerous, may nev ertheless be safer than the policy of muddling through a conflict which is becoming so bitter and so irreconcilable. The alternative course would be to take the line that the Algerian war is "a danger to the peace of the world, and that all suitable diplomatic measures must be taken to mediate and to compose the Algerian war. This is hard to believe. It is harder to believe that the President would have made such a statement if it were not true or at least he had not been so informed by a re sponsible and trustworthy source. Unless the "conflict of interests" principle is a farce, and shady deals like Dixon-Yates, (which the President himself repudiated) are legally cor rect, then here is something for SOME congres sional committee to investigate and pronto. . If this IS the law, then here is a law that should be kicked into the middle of next week with an emergency clause attached. , Members of federal regulatory commissions like Caesar's wife should This will be very unpopu lar position in many quarters in France for the United States to take. But, as the North African conflict spreads, will it really be pos sible for this country to re main strictly neutral and un involved? M. Gaillard's gov ernment is heading into great trouble, and as the conflict deepens and spreads, it will seem more and more intoler able that a professed ally like the United States should also be a professed neutral in the tragic business in which France is involved. pROBABLY the wisest and the safest thing to do is to grasp the nettle firmly, and to say firmly and clearly that the time has come to negotiate a political settle ment in North Africa. Far from this being an action un friendly to France, it may well be a signal act of friend ship to open the door through which the French nation would go, were it free of in ternal entanglements which prevent' it from acting in its own highest interest. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name 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. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Re-Tithing To The Editor: When God organized the Jewish people into a nation, He gave them a law which said, (Lev. 27:30) "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's; it is holy unto the Lord." Note tnat it doesn't say: "The tithe should be given to the Lord." It says it "IS" the Lord's. There are some who take the position that Christians are not obligated to tithe be cause Christ's coming freed them from obedience to the Mosaic laws. I feel that our love for God, our gratitude for the salvation that we have through His Son and our ap preciation for the many bless ings that we receive daily should prompt us to use at least a tenth of our income for God's honor and glory. But the financial blessing that so often comes to the tither is not the main thing The spiritual blessing is far more important. When we tithe, we have the satisfaction of knowing that we are putting God first in this vitally important part of our lives. With this knowledge comes the realization that we are actually in partnership with God. We need never fear the out come of events when we have God for our partner. We need not worry about business deals when He is at the helm of our ship. be ABOVE suspicion. R.W.R. Grants Pass Editor Warns River Plans May Be Last Chance (Editor's note: The follow ing editorial, written by Ken Hicks, editor of the Grants Pass Courier, re Tiews plans for the develop ment of the Rogue Basin for flood control, power and reclamation, and warns that the current plan may be the "last chance" for such a development.) By KEN HICKS Editor, Grants Pass Courier United States Army Engi neers are nearing the end of their Rogue basin flood con trol survey. By June, it now is indicated, they will be in a position to present their conclusions for consideration at community meetings in Josephine and Jackson coun ties. Then, as finally drafted, the report will be considered in a formal public hearing at a place to be determined later. If there is strong public sup port for the engineers' find ings the fight for flood con trol dams will be carried to Congress. If not well, the report will be filed and will gather dust in some Washing ton archive. For the U.S. Army Engi neers will not recommend any project that does not have the backing of the area to be benefited. Ross Hatch, who is in charge of the current sur vey, explained the situation in this manner at a previous meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources Assn. Furthermore without the recommendation of Army Engineers no Rogue basin flood control bill is likely to get serious consid eration from Congress. It behooves residents ' of Josephine and Jackson coun ties to start thinking now about the recommendations that will be embodied in the engineers report. Hatch, at his appearance here Monday evening, made it clear that main provisions of the report already have been formulat ed. No effective flood control can be achieved, he empha sized, through a series of small dams along tributaries of the Rogue river. Either there must be a high dam at Lewis creek, or an alternate project that would include a main stream dam at Lost creek and And the tither has great joy in realizing that he is God's partner too that he is playing a real part in ad vancing God's program in the world today. To enable us to remember always that God has first claim on our dollars He asks us to adopt a simple, practical and business-like plan known as tithing to set aside one tenth of our income or profits, dedicating this tenth to the glory of God and using it for the advancement of His causes on the earth." And "upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store as God has prospered him." (1 Cor. 16:2) For many of us, the most difficult thing of all to sur render is our money. That's easy to understand, because in a very real sense the money we earn is our lives convert ed into dollars it's our time, our energy and our ability- our life blood, if you will minted into coin. I believe with all my heart that the lesson we Christians need most to learn is to put first things first. If you have been giving God the leftovers of your in come instead of His tithe then you nave Deen depriving yourself of one of the greatest joys in your Christian life. You Tiave been cutting your self off from the blessings, both spiritual and financial, that come from partnership with God. Kenneth S. Keys , 234 Biscayne Blvd. Miami 32, Fla. Variety Show Set For Crater High Central Point The music department at Crater High school will present a variety show at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, -Norman Carothers, band director, has announced. Proceeds from the show will be used for equipment and other items necessary for the band and choir. The band, dance band and choir will participate in the show. Home - brewed coffee costs afiniit. thrift nont. a mm 9(. cording to present estimates. small dams on Elk creek and Big Butte creek. Either plan, Hatch conced ed, is likely to be opposed by some Izaak Walton League members and by the Oregon Game commission. The Lewis creek dam would inundate an area now used by chinook salmon for spawning. A dam at Lost creek, farther up stream, would afford more spawning areas but still would destroy many gravel bars now used by steelhead, silverside and chinook salmon for na tural reproduction. The three-dam plan would be only slightly more costly than Lewis creek, but would not provide as much hydro electric power. And revenues from this power will e im portant, both as a means of reimbursing the treasury for project costs and of aiding in irrigation development under the U.S. Bureau of Reclama tion formula. This provides that power revenues may be used, in part, to assist in the financing of irrigation projects. In this way project costs are held to a feasible repayment level. The Crooked river reclama tion project will benefit from power revenues from The Dalles dam, under a similar application of this formula. This arrangement has been criticized as a subsidy, but in creased costs and lower farm income would - make future reclamation projects few and far between without such help. The cost of water simp ly would be beyond repay ment ability of land owners. So much for this phase of the program. There also will be a dam on the Applegate river, Hatch said. It will have no facilities for the genera tion of hydroelectric power, but "will be confined exclu sively to flood control and reclamation. The site originally favored, at Ruch, probably will be abandoned in favor of one at Copper, which will leave a greater section of the river for the spawning of salmon and steelhead, the Army En eineer observed. The Copper site will not impound as much water, however. This is a dis advantage that maynot ap peal, to the Bureau of Recla mation. Two flood control dams in the Evans valley also will re ceive consideration, as weU as a flood control dam at the Ashland site on Bear creek, Hatch noted. Evans creek, it now is agreed, contributes much water to Rogue river flood crests in the Grants Pass area. WU1 the Rogue valley ac cept this program? A some what similar plan was de feated 10 years ago because of the opposition of sports men. There is still some ol this antipathy, although we feel that it has diminished both in intensity and determi nation since the bad flood of 1955. The continued decline in Rogue river fishing in recent years also has convinced many persons that dams no longer should be resisted. Actually the release of cool water to firm up summer flow has im proved fishing in many other dam-fed streams. It also must be considered that each reservoir will be a man-made lake that can be stocked with trout and pos sibly some species of pan fish. Admittedly the already-dwindling salmon and steelhead runs may be injured to some extend but fishing and recre ation as a whole should bene fit greatly. That certainly has proved true in the case of the Shasta dam and the Sacra mento river. The Rogue basin muffed one chance for major flood control, power and reclama tion development. Opportuni ty seldom "knocks twice," but now we have a second chance to achieve something of tremendous importance to future growth, security and prosperity. This time, however, almost certainly is our LAST CHANCE! If we end up in another valley-wide wrangle we might as well forget the whole thing, reconcile our selves to freshets every few years and real sock-dolager floods every decade or so. And at the same time the Rogue and its tributaries will be lower and lower each sum mer, as continued logging in, mountain areas reduces the forest cover and water-absorption capacity of eroded slopes. There will be insufficient water even for existing irri gation projects and fishing certainly will continue to de teriorate as high water tem peratures discourage summer and faU migrations of steel head and salmon. There will be no prospect of additional water for domestic or indus trial use. That's the picture. We have from now until June to study it. (By M-T Staff What can happen to "do-it-yourself" projects is well known. Orville C. Hamer, proprietor of the West Main Barber shop, has attempted to capitalize on this sad fact, and offers professional assistance for a price, as can be seen above. One of the more refreshing of the recent samples of Am ericana is the rash of stories involving small foreign cars. It all started, if memory serves correctly, several years ago when Volkswagens were beginning to become ubiqui tous on our highways and roads, and a driver of one of them saw a big Cadillac driv ing along with a sign on it saying, "Made in Texas by Texans." The V-W driver re taliated by placing a sign on his own vehicle which said "Made in der Black Forest by Elves." That started it. Signs re ported after that proclaimed all sorts of virtues for the microscopic foreign automo biles, and one said "Don't step on me; I eat insect pests." Another story is told of one advantage of a small car that if the carburetor ever gets flooded, one can turn it over one's shoulder and burp it. The most recent story of this genre to come to our at tention involved a Volvo. The sign on it said: Made in Sweden by Anita Ekberg." ' . A member of our staff : last summer went lo the Middle West for his vaca tion. He and his wife went by air, and rather than dig . into their, savings account io pay for the trip, they borrowed the money from a bank. Ever since, they've been making regular pay ments on the loan, and as each was made, they re ported where they had "got to" with the payment. First It was Denver, then Kansas City, then way points en route back. Now, we are happy to report, they're in San Francisco, and by next week they plan io be "home." A Medford" attorney we know "attended a luncheon committee meeting last week, and ate sparingly only a bowl of soup while explain ing to other committee mem bers how he was watching his weight, etc., etc. His fel low committeemen looked upon him with respect for his self control. Aid Agreement To Help Poland Washington (IP) The Unit ed States and Poland Satur day signed an agreement pro viding 98 million dollars worth of new American aid for Poland. The agreement calls for sale of 73 million dollars worth of surplus American farm pro ducts for Polish currency and a 25 million dollar credit to finance purchase of U.S. con sumer machinery, medical equipment, rawhides, and skins and other items. The state department said in announcing the agreement that the United States was not able to meet all Polish re quirements for American help. It said the United States therefore is willing to discuss additional purchases of U.S. commodities by Poland "at a mutually convenient date" later. Youths Arrested On Theft Charges Ashland Ashland city police reported the arrest of three Southern Oregon col lege youths for attempting to steal hubcaps Friday even ing. Police said they caught James Dietz, Paul Bilamt and Modesto Jimenez, all of 247 Seventh st., Ashland, in the act of taking hubcaps from a car in the Lithia hotel lot about 10:30 p.m. The youths, arrested on charges of petty theft, will appear in municipal court Tuesday, police said. and Contributors) JP Ijr ' Ahah!! We learned later he left the meeting only to at tend another gathering, where he had a second lunch this one including steak and all the trimmings. That's a good system, all right, but I'll bet he didn't lose any weight THAT day. Ah, what wonders doth science bring! Chemical Week, a trade publication, reports that work is being done to develop a pill which will make a person perspire cleaning solvent thus solving the problem of keeping clothes clean. Frankly, we can think of things we need more. . T. K. Oliver, vice-president and general manager of Tim ber Products company, grew up in a northern California logging camp, we learn "by rather roundabout means, and skidded logs with a team of .10 oxen at the age of 16. He explained how to get a team to turn. " - Tom, now a distinguished looking businessman-type, re called that he would "reach over with a -stick and jab one lead bull behind the ear, then tap the other one on the nose. Pretty soon they got the idea and would turn on command." He also reca'lls other meth- . ods which have since given way to more mechanized systems. One of these was the use of a chute greaser, a man who rode logs downhill in a mile - long wooden chute, slopping mutton tallow in front of the log to help the winch keep it moving.. Our farm editor reports there was B near-revolution among local stockmen when a rumor went around that macaroni and cheese would be served at the recent meeting of cattlemen in Central Point. - .Engineers for the Bureau of Reclamation are not required to be linguists but would be increasingly handy for them if they were. Those at the Camp White office of the bureau have been having more and more visitors from foreign lands since work got under way on the Talent project, one of the few bona fide reclamation projects now under construction. They report that, surpris ingly, Australian visitors are sometimes harder to under stand than those from other countries the Sudan, say, or India. The men with non English native tongues take care to speak their school learned En g li s h carefully, while the Aussies chatter along rapidly in their near Cockney accents. A political figure has to be pretty fast on his feet sometimes like the' re cent occasion where a local office-holder was visiting in the south, and was asked to which political party he be longed. Knowing how things are in the "Solid South," he replied, cautiously, "Well. I'm a Republican." Then he added hastily. "But my wife's a Democrat." . A woman we know, a charming person who now v lives some distance in the country, relishes visits from friends and former colleagues, and -looks forward to "gab fests" when they arrive. Such a visit was arranged last week. Now all the women in volved are highly vocal indi viduals, and for several months had been storing up information to be relayed to the others at this opportunity. So our friend, in anticipa tion o'f the party, described her preparations as follows: I'm taking inhale and ex hale exercises already . . . With all my verbosity, I can't get too much said when I'm with - each of them single handed, so the Lord only knows if I will be . able to project myself into the orbit of the day. It's going to' be piles of fun anyway, whether make the full revolution with them or not." .
