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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Mewo; RIBUNE "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC AI.1.E..N, jr. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 - Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Z Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, 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 Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassociTatiQn 3 U Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. - 10 YEARS AGO : Feb. 19. 1948 (Thursday) - Medford irrigation district schedules election March 19 : to authorize issuance of $265, 000 in bonds, board of direc tors announced. O. H. Bengtson, Medford attorney who has served two terms in the Oregon house of ; representatives, announces he : will be a candidate for elec- tion to the senate. : 20 YEARS AGO - Feb. 19, 1938 (Sunday) One of the modern fly and 1 insect proof type privies con ; structed by the Works Pro- gress administration is now Z on display at Economy Lum- ber company. Z From Arthur Perry's Ye - Smudge Pot column: "Sever Z al Sisters of the Skillet met Wednesday p.m. and compar- ed notes on how to make Z pancakes less deadly." : 30 YEARS AGO - Feb. 19. 1928 (Sunday) Z Ten tons and 360 pounds of Tuscan cling peaches har- vested on the Spring Bank Z orchard southeast of Talent. Z Reports on the progress of the highway clean-up and beautification program in ; Jackson county discussed at Z the local garden club meet t ing. E 40 YEARS AGO : Feb. 19. 1918 (Tuesday) " Dog given as cause of ac- Z cident which resulted in ov- : erturned auto and six Med- Z ford men being injured. ; From local and personal Z column: "Medford mining Z men are eagerly watching - developments at the Grey : Eagle mine at Happy Camp Calif ." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. - 1. Name the 'months which - have only 30 days. - 2. Bible: Does the Apocry- - pha exist in any Hebrew r Bible? - 3. In which war was the - Battle of Mobile Bay fought? ; 4. What is the scientific Z name of that branch of hu- - man knowledge which treats - of the aquatic gill-bearing ; vertebrates? Z 5. Which country is some- - times referred to as "The Z Land of Regrets"? : 6. In leukemia do the red or the white, blood corpuscles multiply with deadly swift ness? 7. If a plastic surgeon did : some rhinoplasty on his pa tient, on what part of the pa tient's face would he concen trate his work? : 8. In which war did the "Minute Men" participate against the English? 9. Is the appendix of "a book in the back, or the ... front? 10. Is Lisbon the capital or - largest city in Spain? Answers: 1. April, June, - September and November. 2. Z No. 3. Civil War (Aug. 1864). 5 4. Ichthyology. 5. India. 6. Z While. 7. Nose. 8. American I Revolution. 9. In the back Z of a book. 10. No. (It is the Capital of Portugal... . , MAIL TRIBUNE How Much 'Wilderness"? What is a "wilderness"? Once upon a time and not too long ago at that there wasn't "a" wilderness, there was "the" wilderness, that vast expanse of unin habited country which lay to the west, a continu ing challenge to the pioneer, the homesteader, the trapper. Today, of course, "the" wilderness no longer remains. But in the big spaces of our western states, in particular, and to a lesser extent in some of the mountainous states of the east, wildernesses still survive. There are many people who believe much of them should be preserved. In this feeling we join. 'HY? xiLiiy vviiu nao kjk.k.xi il uiic vv xikmil jJ) who has felt the closeness to nature, and sampled its rewards, can tell why. It is a feeling which can be duplicated in no other way, and it is a feeling which "belongs" in the life of America, in its heritage of wilderness life, from the first colonies on the Atlantic up to the recent past. Our vounffsters should be able to see samnles of unspoiled wilderness, . 1 V A should, m these days 01 increased time oil irom the job, have available what is probably the most wholesome iorm ot recreation. THE so-called "wilderness principle" that of preserving areas in a established m the thinking of foresters generally. It is exemplified in the rules and regulations and aims, and the Forest Service also acknowledges it as one of the valid uses of land in a multiple-use program. - Even the big associations of lumbermen acknowledge the principle, although one is some times tempted to suspect that this acknowledge ment is more lip service than it is genuine agreement. This suspicion arises from pressures to cut timber in the Olympic National Park, for example. But whether this acknowledgement is genuine and whole-hearted or not, it is a matter of record. The difficulty is one of degree, not of the principle itself. The organized lumbermen believe the multiple-use theory should be applied in such a manner that a bare minimum of wilderness area should be provided, and that only in areas which are not readily susceptible to harvesting timber. fN THE other end of the argument are the outdoorsmen and ardent conservationists who believe that a number of big tracts of wilderness should be preserved intact for their unquestioned values to us and to our posterity. The ideal solution, as in most such disputed cases, probably lies in a compromise somewhere between the two extreme positions. We envision something not too far distant from the present system, under which the wilderr ness idea is being earned on, but with some defi nite added "rules of the road" for the future. 70R instance, we believe the national parks are now doing an outstanding job of preserving, as much as can be with heavy public visitation, the most beautiful and important natural scenic landmarks of this nation. Additions to the national park system could well be made to pre serve such outstanding attractions in perpetuity for their owners, the people of the United States. Then there are other areas (and the high Las cade country has a number of them) where wild scenery and mountains should be preserved as they are as wildernesses, where only those who are willing to hike, in, and who agree to do nothing to mar their natural beauty, could reap the rewards the wild areas have to offers Beyond this, we believe the Forest Service, the state park commissions and other agencies, are doing the best they can to provide outdoor recreation areas not on the "wild" levels, but on the "outdoor" level, where people with auto mobiles can sample the outdoor life. FOR while wilderness areas are important to our heritage, and to the well-being of some people, it is even more important to provide for the far more numerous people who have neither the time, the money nor the inclination to carry their gear on their backs for miles, and then sleep under the stars. The park service recently declared : "There is no time to lose if the people of the states and nation are to retain seashores and mountains, forests, rivers and lakes for their own refreshment and enjoyment. The good use of leisure use that will strengthen the moral fibre of America is a responsibility of every level of government." THIS is no more than the truth, as anyone who has inspected America's outdoor recreational facilities more crowded each year than the last can testify. Pressures to despoil growing, and will continue to grow. And they must be resisted. The time is now. But at the same time, equally important perhaps even more so smell of the tall evergreens, for a glimpse of clear, running water, for the taste of food cooked over a fire, and for the refreshment of the spirit which only the clean outdoors can bring so well. Wednesday, February 19. 1958 and people generally S4 state of nature is well National Park service's the true wilderness are is the provision of areas American can go for a JS.A. I'M ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD. AND JVF WORN OUT ELgVNTEN BASy-SiTTRS AUZSAPY1 Matter of Fact TAX CUT COMING Washington The auestion is no longer whether there will be a big administration- 1 cut if the eco- I nomic slide continues, ine auestion is, in stead, how big the cut will be and who will chiefly benefit from it. ct... a sizeaDie tax cut would mean not only a deficit, but quite possibly the biggest deficit in Ameri can peace time history. The President and his cniei advis ers therefore fervently hope that so drastic a measure to revive the economy can be avoided. The hope is that cheerful exhortations, like the Presi dent's "chins up" statement on Wednesday, plus a soft money policy and a little ju dicious pump - priming (.al though it will certainly not be so called) can get things turned right side up again. The hone may be fulfilled, but the auguries are not good. Immediately after the pres ident's statement, the stock market fell again. There are painful memories of the eco nomic ineffectiveness of Pres idential optimism. And the President himself is pictured as being determined to do whatever needs to be done to halt a serious and prolonged economic fall-off. A BIG tax cut very definite lv falls into the cateeorv of what will be done if the need arises. As to the timing and form of such a tax cut, the President will rely on the advice of a sort of informal counterpart of the National Security Council. This Nation al Economic Council, as it might be called, is led by Sec retary of the Treasury Robert Anderson, who proposed it to the President. Other regular members are Economic Ad visers Raymond Saulnier and Gabriel Hauge, and, most sig nificantly, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Martin. The group is necessarily in formal, because of Martin's membership in it. The Feder al Reserve Board is legally independent of the Executive Branch, and it used to be a favorite Republican charge against the Truman adminis tration that the White House and the Treasury were at tempting to dominate the Federal Reserve. For that reason, Anderson's predecessor, George Hum phrey, never met regularly with Martin and the Presi dent. But now, while the eco nomic crisis lasts, the group is expected to meet at the White House at frequent in tervals. Try and By BENNETT CERF- THE PARIS SUBWAY, called the "Metro," doesn't carry as many passengers each day as its counterpart in New. York, but has several features worthy of comment. It has "first" and "second" class compartments, first costing a penny or two more and being equipped with cush ioned seats. There also are special seats on every train for invalids and ladies ex pecting bundles from heav en a fine idea that man agers of American urban rail systems well might borrow. Another excellent feature of the Paris "Metro" pre vents passengers from hold ing up a train by trying to pry open half -closed doors. As it enters the station, gates auto matically shut at all entrances to the platform, so that only passengers already on the platform can climb aboard. As the train pulls out, the entrance gates open again on now-empty platforms. Clever, these Parisians, n'estce pas? Ollie James knows a proud citizen who can trace his ancestry back to the Boston Tea Party and its jettisoned bags. His great-great-grandmother was the last one thrown overboard. C 1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kuj Features Syndicate By Stewart Alsop A NDERSON is the key fig ure in the group, since he will have the last word with the President, who has great confidence in him. Anderson is a conservative man, and the prospect of presiding over a record-breaking deficit is certainly abhorrent to him. Yet presiding over a major depression is even more ab horrent, and Anderson is known to believe that a tax cut would have a far more immediate revivifying effect on the economy than any oth er measure. He is also known to believe that, if the thing is to be done at all, it must be done in a big way. It is no use using a "little needle" (to borrow the President's phrase) on the economy a big, horse serum size needle is required. Thus current best guesses on the size of the tax cut Anderson will propose, if and when he decides such drastic action is needed, range upwards of $5 billion. The Democrats show signs of jumping the gun on ;the Administration with a tax cut of their own. But they may hesitate to do so, since the size of the ensuing deficit could then be blamed on their "iiscal irresponsibility," (to borrow another Presidential phrase), while the Adminis tration xook credit lor any resulting economic upturn. As for the shape of a tax cut, it is likely to be a compromise between the "little fellows," or stimulate consumption. cut favored by Democrats like Senator Paul Douglas of Illi nois,- and the cut to stimulate investment favored by admin istration conservatives. A NY tax cut at all will cer- tainly mean a big deficit. The present forecast of a bal anced budget is based on such shaky assumptions as a con tinuing rise in national in come. The Democratic leader ship is likely to insist, more over, in a sharp increase in defense spending, on the or der of $2 billion or more. Add a tax cut of around $5 billion. and you come up with a defi cit big enough to make the eyes of the' old new dealers bug right out of the sockets. And yet the President will certainly choose a huge defi cit, if a really serious reces sion seems the only alterna tive. The President may not be much of a student of his tory, but he certainly remem bers what happened both to the Republican party and the personal popularity of the last Republican President, as a re sult of the last depression. And he is reported to be abso lutely determined on one point he will not go down in history as another depres sion President. This is anoth er reason why a big tax cut now seems a much better than even bet. (Copyright 1958, N.T. Herald Tribune, Inc.) Stop Me Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Soma Questions Asked To the Editor: I have been reading the letters to the Ed itor until I thought I might get my grouch cured by get ting the low down on things I've been told. I live in a rural school . district, where most of the land is either O & C or National Forest. and taxes seem a little high!!! I have been told that when the Friendly Southern Pacif ic owned the O&C land, the taxes on it helped out a great deal, and Uncle Sam also paid taxes on it when he first took it over. Now I understand the rev enue from timber sales offsets the taxes and the money is spread over the whole coun ty. I have been told the land being put into tree farms is practically off the tax rolls. to be made up when the tim ber is sold. I am wondering if that will be spread over the whole county too? Also I've heard that the orchard men got their trees off the tax rolls. If all this happens to be so, I wonder if that could be the reason the stump ranch ers are scratching themselves where -they don't itch about tax paying time, and wonder ing what is coming next. J. R. Hoffman, Box 12, Star Route, Applegate. An Answer To Mrs. Pollard To the Editor: The follow ing is an open letter to Mrs. Louise Pollard of South Stage rd., Jacksonville, and I desire it be published for the benefit of all concerned:. Mrs. Louise Pollard, South Stage Rd., Jacksonville, Ore. My Dear Mrs. Pollard: I have read your very interest ing letter in the Medford Mail Tribune for February 13. I am wondering if you have ever caught an animal of any kind. And if you have found a method of catching an animal painlessly or put ting it to death instantly. Or do you run after them and catch them by the tail? As to your statement that days and even weeks go by before the trapper returns to his traps, I personally have never known a case of a trap per who did as you say they do. I'll grant that there are isolated cases of this sort. But I have no reason to think it is a general situation. Then another thing, how do you and others who propose this bill you mention in your letter propose to enforce this proposed law? If you found an animal in a trap would you know how long it had been there? Or would you expect the trapper to camp along side the trap? Or perhaps you would advocate prohibition of all trapping. There are sev eral very interesting facets to this idea and I should be very much interested in your answers. I, myself, know of no methods of putting an ani mal to death instantly nor a method of catching an animal painlessly. I repeat, I am very much interested in your solution. Also, would you advocate that a law be enacted pro posing that coyotes, bobcats, bear, and other of the preda tory types not be trapped or killed? If a bill is enacted, such as you advocate in your communication in the Trib une, would it not be advise able to cover with the same bill, a requirement that the same provisions apply to hun ters? As you may possibly know, quite often deer and other animals escape with bullet wounds. Would you be in favor of legislation requir ing that bullets be dipped or otherwise carry a lethal dose of some form of chemical which would instantly cause an animal to die. Maybe one should put salt on the ani mals' tail. I'm STILL very much in terested in your comments and those of others. Floyd R. McCabe, " Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls, Oregon. L DAIRY - East Main St. All our is from ill Ike Pinpoints Weakness of Red Leaders in By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Eisenhower has pinpointed a fundamental weakness Russian leaders in his latest letter to So viet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. That is, their complete ignorance of real condi tions in coun tries like the United States. There was a decided change of tone in Eisenhower's letter, latest in a series of exchanges which Bulganin started last Dec. 10 on holding a "sum mit" conference on world issues. Eisenhower retorted sharp ly to charges made by such men as Bulganin and Commu nist Party Leader Nikita S. Khruschev that "the United States is a nation ruled by ag gressive, war-minded imper ialists." He expressed amazement that such allegations were made by Soviet leaders "who have never even been near this country." If there are Americans who, as the Russians charge, are calling for a "preventive" war and conducting "unrestrain ed" war propaganda, the President said, he does not know them. Ignorant of Conditions It is possible that Soviet leadership feels it necessary of Charles M-McCann Adlai Joins Council Of Atlantic Union Without Fanfare By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) If it is news when a great public fig ure joins an organization ded icated to alter s u bstantially the sovereign status of the U. S. govern ment, then a recent move by A d 1 a i E. Stevenson has been strange ly overlooked. Lyie c. Wilson The Febru ary edition of "Freedom & Union" states that Stevenson recently became a member of the Council of the Atlantic Union committee. "Governor Stevenson made no statement in joining the council,"' the magazine com ments editorialy, "letting his action speak for itself. It does, indeed, and it speaks volumes both as regards the rising start of Atlantic Union and the courageous statesmanship for which so many have so long admired the Democratic party's candidate for presi dent in 1952 and 1956." "Freedom & Union" is the spokesman for the Atlantic Union committee. In its sim plest terms, the committee seeks to merge the free na tions of the West in a federal union to be known as the United States of the Atlantic All hands would become citi zens. The Atlanticans These citizens of a new fed eral union would be Atlanti cans, in the terminology of the Atlantic Umon. There is much more prestige and po litical oomph behind this idea than may be suspected by the average American. That indi vidual goes his way, perhaps, unsuspecting thai he may one day not soon discover to his pleasure or to his dismay that he no longer is merely an American, but an Atlanti can, to boot. Twenty seven members of the U.S. Senate sponsored in 1951 a resolution calling for a conference of the Atlantic powers to move toward a po litical and economic union within the framework of the United Nations. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-Tenn.) i n t r o duced the resolution. It may be significant that nearly one third of the Sen ate membership would make Atlanticans of Americans while only seven of the 435 members of the House of Rep resentatives chose to sponsor such a resolution. Truman Passes On Nov. 4, 1951, Atlantic Union's first national con gress met in Memphis, Tenn. It urged President Truman to summon a conference of the SMITH al Genesie milk cows i i Letter To to deliberately misrepresent the American viewpoint," Ei senhower continued. "Possibly also these misrepresentations constitute blind adherence to what was one of the early tenets of orthodox Commu nism namely, that capital istic societies are by their very nature warlike." Of course, there are Soviet propagandists who do delib erately distort conditions. Of course, it is true also that men like Bulganin and Khruschev do blindly adhere to Commu nist doctrine. But behind this lies the fact that Bulganin, Khruschev and many other high Soviet lead ers are essentially ignorant men as regards world condi tions. They make use of the "big lie" technique as a matter of policy. But, like Adolf Hitler and other fanatics, they believe their big lies themselves. Josef Stalin spent nearly all his life isolated in Russia. He had no conception of the way of life in advanced free countries. Bulganin and Khrushchev have made some tours to for eign countries, mostly the backward ones of Southeast Asia. Did Make Visit They did, however, make a visit to Great Britain, and they must have been bug-eyed at the contrast between condi tions there and in Russia. It is necessary to remember that Bulganin and Khrushchev Atlantic powers to explore plans for federation. Truman didn't do it. "Freedom & Union" states that the U.S. of the Atlantic should be set up under a con stitution which would con tinue and guarantee the U.S Bill of Rights; give the fede rated states free government in those fields where they agreed this would best ad- v a n c e individual freedom provide that this government shall be elected by, be respon sible to, and operate on, 'the citizens of the federated states and be federally bal anced in its representation of them. The ultimate objective would be to bring all other nations peacefully into the super state until it became a free world republic. A Stevenson or a Kefauver in the White House might move such a project along considerably. Ballot Title Given Legislative Bill Salem (IP) An initiative petition enabling teachers to serve in the state Legislature received a ballot title from the attorney general Tuesday, Purpose of the initiative would be to "amend the Ore gon constitution to permit em ployees or members of a school board or the Board of Higher Education to serve as members of the Legislature." Cecil Posey, Oregon Edu cation Association official, filed for the initiative. Judge Appointees To Face Election Salem (IP) A county judge who has been appointed to fill a vacancy must stand for election at the next general election, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said to day. Thornton said there was no authority for a judge to be elected to fill the unexpired term where a vacancy occurs in the office of judge of a court. If elected, the appointee will serve for a full six-year term, Thornton said. Serving All Who Call . With sincerity and deep respect to the departed, Litwillers' have served faithfully for 23 years, at prices exceptionally moderate. C M. Litwiller Remember . . . We are Ashland's only locally owned funeral home. We have no branches. We devote our full-time to give th finest funeral service, at less cost than obtained elsewhere. I ITAM I CD h,'"m Funeral Home Mountain View Chape! Hwv. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main tSOi ASHLAND . We Ntver. Clost It is better than, to Bulganin derive their conception of con ditions in western countries from fellow - Communists Communist news dispatches, from Communist diplomats, and from Communist adminis trative officials who if they knew the truth would not ven ture to report it. They are ignorant men and blind men, and if they want to keep their places in Com munist leadership, they must remain ignorant and blind. Soviet leaders . found out soon after the end of World War II how dangerous a little knowledge of world realities could be. Russian troops who occupied foreign countries were amazed to find out how much better the average man fared in them than people did in .the Communist paradise. It soon became necessary to restrict contact between the soldiers and the people of the occupied countries. Russia itself is still a 4ast prison camp, from which it may mean death to try to escape. And men like Bulgan in and Khrushchev are prison ers too. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Glimpse of the. future note: Representative Kenneth Keating of New York says in a ' radio interview that the nation that wins control of the moon will be able to con trol the earth. He adds: "The Russians have already said they are out to beat this country to the moon ... It is fantastic, but not impossible, that America may someday face an interplanetary war." QUESTION: Who is this Congressman Keating from the state of New York? That is interesting because what is said nearly always de pends on the kind of man who says it. ITEATTNG sounds like a screwball, but his record doesn't indicate it. He is 58 years old. He is a graduate of Genesee Wesley an Seminary and did post graduate .work at the Univer sity of Rochester. He is an at torney, with a law degree from Harvard law school. He went into the army in World War I as a sergeant and came out with, a commission. He entered World War II as a colonel and came out a brig adier general. He has more decorations than there is room to print here. In the congress, he is a member of the house commit tee on the judiciary. His rec ord sounds like that of a solid citizen. So his opinions are at least worth considering. AFTER all Is the idea of interplane tary war any more fantastic NOW than the idea of air warfare would have been say a couple of centuries ago? And Was the idea of air war any more fantastic than the BOW AND ARRQW when the bow and arrow came into warfare? We must remember that be fore the bow and arrow your enemy had to get CLOSE TO YOU before he could strike you down. With the bow and arrow, he could STRIKE YOU DOWN FROM A DISTANCE. He could launch his arrow at you from the cover of a thick et, and you'd never know., what it was that hit you., In its day, that must have Men x a terrifying thing. BUT The wnrlrt survived It survived gunpowder when gunpowder came along. Taking everything into con sideration, it's a better world now than before the bow and arrow. q0- J T.pt's not on Inmn 4n th O j v-- f lake. Let's do our jobs from day to day, making a living for ourselves and our families to the best of our ability and contributing as much as we can to the progress of our communities, our states and our nation. Mrs. Litwiller - - rK to know us and not need us. need us and not know us.