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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDbsTRIBUSE "Everyone in Southern Vrregon Reads The MaJ Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 Korth Fir St. Ph. SP.2-614X ROBERT W Rimi. rrfm 555?. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRK ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLTVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An IndewnHmt i a:ucnnnar Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 189T SUBSCRIPTION RATES F7 MailIn Advanp fnnv 1 fir Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 iJajiy and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 aunaay only One year $450 By carrier In Advance Medford Asniana. Central Point. Eagl oint. Jacksonville. Gold Hill -rnoenix. 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A more man Z to 1 major ity vote consolidates Ashland and Bellview school districts 20 YEARS AGO April 4, 1938 (Monday) Barring unlikely 11th hour entries, there will be no can didates on the Democratic ticket for the lower house of the legislature from Jackson county. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; "The I, Loieman boy. John, an nounces next Sunday he is going to the big church to see the babies advertised." 30 YEARS AGO April 4, 1928 (Wednesday) Local Lions club endorses Jackson County Humane So ciety, organized over a week ago. From local and personal column: ''The high wind of last Sunday night did consid erable damage to the forests in this section. A big tree was blown across the Green Springs mountain highway and traffic was delayed until members of the state highway maintenance crew could clear it away." 40 YEARS AGO April 4, 1918 (Thursday) J. P. Weyerhaeuser, the tim ber magnate, and George W. Marshall, the tax agent of the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany, Tacoma, Wash., arrive to pay the company's taxes. Another compara tively heavy frost occurred last night but not nearly as heavy as the previous morning. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What is the chief agri cultural crop of Cuba? 2. Bible: Who was chosen as an Apostle in place of Judas? 3. Quicksilver is another name for what metallic ele ment? 4. Name the capital of Bur ma. 5. Does a Captain in the Army hold an equal rank with a Captain in the Navy? 6. What great military lead er and Emperor was born in Corsica? 7. Does the U. S. possess resources in anthracite coal that are greater or less than the resources in bituminous? 8. Desertion of husband or wife for seven years consti tutes automatic divorce; true or false? 9.. Japan's attack on China prior to World War II began in 1936, 1937, 1938 or 1939? 10. Does the United States produce more wool or rayon? Answers: 1. Sugar cane. 2. St. Matthias. 3. Mercury. 4. Rangoon. .5. No. (Army Col onel equals Navy Captain. Army Captain equals Navy Lieutenant). 6. Napoleon Bonaparte. 7. Less than bitu minous. 8. Falsa. 9. 1937. 10. Rayon. DIPLOMAT DIES London (W Baron Percy of Newcastle, 71, diplomat who served twice in the Brit ish Embassy in Washington, died Thursday. 71 'imberfor Do our forests have enough timber to last in definitely? No. At least, not unless we get busy and do something about it. This is the moral in a new publication of the Forest Service, entitled "Timber Resources for America's Future." The 700-page report is the most complete appraisal of the timber resources of America ever compiled or published. . It points out that if the forecasts of population growth are true and such forecasts have in the past been too conservative, rather than too liber al this country will need to expand its timber inventory. 4 TPHE amount of land available for growing trees 1 is limited. It totals approximately 498,000,000 acres. It will no increase, and it may decrease, as more demands for space are made by dams, high ways, and other developments. If the per capita use of wood remains at the present level, without increasing, the increase in population alone (a predicted growth of another 100 million people in the next 40 years) will in crease the demand for wood by more than 80 per cent. Existing stands of sawtimber, under existing standards of protection (from fire, insects and disease), reforestation and forest management, won't do the job. jlfl'ORE intensive forestry practices can help pro vide the answer. And the picture is by no means entirely a gloomy one. On federally-managed lands (national forest, O & C and public domain), management prac tices have been greatly and the principle of sustained yield has been firmly entrenched as a guiding philosophy. Many of the large industrial owners of timberlands have done almost as well And the tree farm movement, which includes owners of many smaller done much to improve agement and sustained .Reforestation has million acres planted to how has improved. Research has improved tech niques of utilization of DUT the point of the report is this: These techniques, this know how, this phil- osophy will have to be than at present if the demand for mmber prod ucts 40 years from now Richard E. McArdle, "If Americans are to have the timber they need in the years ahead, we must begin now to put our forest house in better order. And the report goes to be done what MUST be done, and soon, if lumber is to remain a nomic life of the nation. OERE are some of the borne 5Z.000.0U0 acres ol forest land are now idle, producing nothing. now if they are to support ber load" by the year 2000. At the present rate of planting, it would take 50 years to do this About one-fourth of and is producing less than it should is, indeed, stocked with less than 40 ive capacity. Another one per cent stocked. Thus, ands are being used at far less than capacity. The quality of timber is declining, as the em phasis remains on cutting eft behind are smaller, sulting in an overall decline in quality. One-quarter of all the nearly 3 billion cubic feet annually. It is left m he woods to rot, or burned up in mill-burners. INSECTS,.' disease and fire annually kill some 13 hillinn hnnrrl fppr. of timber about one- quarter of the annual net he amount cut for all timber products. One of the keys to improvement is in the thousands upon thousands of small timber hold- i i i .. . . i n mgs on wood lots, iarms ana sman acreages. One out of ten families small forests, which comprise more than one half of the Nation's timber lands. And it is'm these small forests where management and silviculture are at their lowest ebb. But the report says that the land, if properly handled, can be made to should be done? THE forest service recommends these things: 1 "Dlo-nt killJi-ne in cf qo A rf m i llinnc nf trope J.. X iClliU IJiillWilj lllCbbau JJ. '', WJ- wAwwkj. 2. Step up control of fire, insects and disease everywhere, in small forests as well as large. 3. Use more of the timber being cut, which is now being wasted in the woods or at the mill, and more of the dead and cull trees. 4. Keep recently cut-over lands productive. McArdle concluded : "Clearly, the responsibility rests with present day America you and What we do in the next 10 mine whether we will grow all the timber that will be needed by the year 2000 and thereafter. "The opportunity is favorable factors. The must raise our sights. We children and their children are to enjoy the same imber abundance that we the Future improved in recent years. as the federal services acreages of timber, has standards of forest man yield. proceeded, with some i trees. Protection know- once - wasted wood. put to much broader use is to be satisfied. duel forester, declared, on to detail what needs major factor m the eco facts pointed out: They should be planted their share of the tim the total amount of forest per cent of its produc- - fourth is only 40 to 70 about half of our forest the better-quality trees. poorer - value trees re timber cut is wasted growth, and more than m America owns sucn fill the demand. What me and every citizen. to 20 years will deter here. There are many challenge is great. We must act now if our ourselves have known. E.A., Dennis the Menace Hey,3bey. how'd va DINNER WITH SOWS Civil Rights for Housing Extended In New York City By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) A new civil right was conferred this week on New York City Negroes, and you may ex pect it to ap pear in other cities unless the courts hold this new right to be u n c o n s t itu- tional. C i t y - by Lyie c. Wilson city or state- by-state outside the South, the large N?gro bloc of voters will press for extension of this new civil right. If last year's federal civil rights bill brings the potential Negro vote to the polls in Southern states, there will be great pressure for this new civil right in Dixie. The Law This right became effective in New York City on April 1 It is described like this: "The new law the first municipal statute of its kind in the United States makes it illegal to refuse to. rent pri vate housing to anyone be cause of race, creed or color, One or two family homes are exempt, except when they are in groups of 10 or more. About 1,700,000 housing units in New York City are covered by the act. The maximum penalty for violation is one year in jail." This new civil right is not limited to Negroes, but it was enacted primarily in their -be half . Pending in the New York Legislature is a bill which would confer this civil right state-wide. A likely place for the next move would be Boston, Mass. Boston Prejudice An official of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored P e .o p 1 e (NAACP) cited Boston some months ago in objection to housing segregation. . He said the bulk of Boston's Negroes were forced to live in only three sections of the city "be cause of prejudice." The official was Edward L. Cooper, executive secretary of NAACP, and he indicated what he had in mind. We want equal rights for Negroes," Cooper said. "If we segregate them in any way we are only going half way." Another likely place for this new civil right to be conferred would be Washington, D.C., for which the U.S. Congress acts as a municipal council. Republicans and Northern Democrats in Congress are bidding high for the Negro I Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A RECKLESS DRIVER in a Long Island town was brought before the judge for so many traffic violations that his li cense finally was revoked. A few the young man in the line up again. "What are you doing here?" demanded His Honor. "Wasn't your license re voked?" "It was," admitted the culprit meekly. "This time they got me for jaywalk ing." In Officers' Training School, a lieutenant was questioning a candidate. ' "Say you're on duty on -a pitch-black night," he proposed. "Suddenly some body sneaks up behind you and wraps two arms around you so rifle. What would you say?" Without a moment's hesitation, honey!" A prominent candidate for Alcoholics Anonymous refers to his wife as "my highball and chain." O 1938, by Bennett Cert Distributed like to spoil yok OF77MTV vote. A new civil right prob ably would be good bait for Negro voters. 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 :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Traffic Safety To the Editor: Your editor ial of April 2 concerning the 16 year old drivers is interest ing and long over due. - In the last few years the driver-training classes in our high schools have produced far better drivers than most of their elders. Before these classes were started the only way a youngster could learn was from his parents. Records show this to be unsatisfactory, as our horrible accident rec ord shows. Why not pattern driver-li censing procedure after the method used by the CAA to license pilots? Require all drivers to prove themselves to be capable by completing an approved training course as well as proof of. physical fit ness. However, I do believe that the privilege of driving should be limited to a learners permit until the driver has two years experience, and then placed on probation for three years more. These con ditions may seem strict, but when we realize that some 40,000 lives are takft on our highways every year no mea sure should be considered too drastic. So far a great deal has been said but very little done to reduce the accident rate. Our local traffic safety committees have done very little to pre vent accidents or to remove traffic hazards. It is up to the citizens themselves to demand action to protect themselves and their families from this danger. This can best be done by correcting our own driving habits and by reporting road hazards and traffic violations to local police. Only some 5 per cent are caused by me chanical failures, and all oth er traffic accidents are caused by either ignorance or stupid ity. Firm and fast action is necessary if lives are to be saved. A very large number of ac- cidents are caused by drivers weeks later, the judge saw tightly you. just cant use your the candidate barked, "Lets go. by King Features Syndicate, j Dr. Bell fo Report On Mental Health A report on mental health and family life will be given by Dr. John E. Bell, acting cmei or. mental health serv ices for the west coast area, at the annual meeting of the Southern Oregon Child Giud ance association Thursday, April 10. The dinner meeting will start at 6:30 pjn. in the Med ford High school cafeteria. The business session will start at 7:15 p.m., according to of ficials. Tickets and other in formation may be obtained by telephoning SPring 3-1374. Dr. Bell also will meet with the juvenile advisory council, the mental health committee and the child guidance clinic board at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 10. The meeting will be held at the Red Cross building social hall. An open discussion on family coun selling is planned. Dr. Mary Soule, public health officer from Roseburg, Dr. Frank B. Strange, execu tive director of the Mental Health Association of Oregon, and Mrs. John Waterman, psychiatric social work con sultant for Oregon, plan to attend. who have a record of several traffic violations. The news papers could do a great deal of good by publicizing these violators instead of printing them in their smallest type and hiding them in the back pages. mere can be no compro mise with law enforcement, we must be either for or against it. If you want our highways made safe, send a card or letter to Mr. Harry Swanson Jr., Chairman of the Governor's Traffic Safety Commission, Executive De partment, Salem. Show him you are concerned about our traffic problem and pledge your support of our laws. Only in this way will we achieve safety and assure the privilege of the free use of our highways. (Name on file) Central Point Save The Geese To the Editor: I was glad to see Mrs. Harriette Gibbs of 1375 South Columbus ave. Medford, stating her thoughts about the 2,500 wild geese being poisoned and killed around Klamath Falls. I agree with her 100 per cent. When are we going to stop this poi son spree? I have had many years experience raising wild geese. I know that wild geese have to be three years old be fore they will lay; 2,500 geese killed by poison, would mean 1,250 pairs of geese. The av erage laying of wild geese is six eggs per pair which means the loss of 22,500 geese lost in the three years, or in other words, there would have been 22,500 more geese three years from now, if these wild geese had not been poisoned. What a loss in wild fowl life this is, and a shame. When I came to Medford 26 years ago, we could see several coyotes in the grain fields, and also lots of hawks. There is nothing that I know of that kills more mice than coyotes or hawks. But they put a bounty on both coyotes and hawks. They put out poison for coyotes, and many a good dog was killed by the same poison, and lots of fur bear ing animals. Then here come the mice back and they poi son them with the same grain that wild geese and ducks feed on, and kill both mice and geese. Surely there is some way to get rid of these mice with out killing all the wild fowl. If we do not do something to protect our wild geese and ducks, soon they will be as scarce as the Sandhill Crane. I have been trying to get the game commission to make a game refuge for wild geese and ducks here in our own valley, using the waste des ert land, and bring geese into this valley and the heavenly music of the wild geese to people here. It would make better hunting here for the sportsman and also protect the geese and ducks both, while in the refuge. Good feed and some safe ground for them and they would soon come this way by the thous ands. I know this can be done, because I did it . myself in In diana without the state help ing me in any way. I have pictures to prove it. Mrs. Gibbs, I agree with you in all you have said. Ross J. Turman Sr., 1048 West Twelfth st., Medford. L East Main St. DAIRY - Tomorrow's eggs haven't been laid yet I I I Russian Bomb Test Suspension Tops International Events By CHARLES M. McCANN United Prest Correspondent This week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia made the long expected announcement this week that it would sus pend tests of nuclear weap ons in the in terest of world peace. It was a m e lodramatic gesture in the cold war. It was headlined in the United States as a Charles M. McCann major propaganda victory. But the announcement was so obviously a stunt that it seemed to have far less im pact in foreign countries than the Kremlin had hoped and the American government had feared. Russia had just completed a long series of big atomic weapons tests, at least three of them in the million-ton H bomb range. The announce ment was made with the knowledge that the United States was just about to start a series of tests of its own. (fill Babson Asks More Schooling By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Do you realize that school en rollments have increased this year ior tne 13th year in a row; and that right now one out of every four persons is attending school or col lege? This is why two na tional prob- Roser w. Babson lems are reach ing crisis proportions: (1) classroom space; and (2) the teacher shortage. How is your community solving these problems? Already operating expenses of our public schools are con suming about 50 per cent of the budget in the average New England town; and I imagine this is typical of oth er areas across the country. School building committees simply cannot continue to spend the taxpayers' money as freely in the next ten years as they have in the past ten, for already in this slight recession home owners are finding their tax load more than they can bear. In 1952, we were short some 312,000 classrooms. The figure probably approaches 500,000 today, despite all the buildings already completed. How are we going to pay for these needed new school rooms? May I be bold enough to suggest that we cannot at least not in the fashion we have been accustomed to in the past. There must be some changes made. Let me ask you, could you afford a custom-built automo bile at, perhaps, $20,000? Your town can no more af ford a custom-built school. If our federal government offi cials really want to help in this crisis, they will stop talk ing subsidies for education and, instead, lead in design ing prefab schoolhouses that could be mass produce d basic schoolhouses that rooms could be added to or subtract ed from, and which could be moved elsewhere as occasion demands. Communuities are going to have to, "put the horse in front of the cart," first asking how much they can afford for a schoolhouse; then sending their building committee out to buy the best they can afford. New Look Needed To have the average' ele mentary school lying idle for three months and to have the average high school catering to but a few summer pupils compared with the total it might serve is poor econom ics. In many privately en dowed institutions of higher learning today, the seats are never allowed to cool off. Space is at a premium, and they know how to use it. I can hear the hue and cry from parents in your town already, when we talk about running school continuously, perhaps staggering vacations, and even operating Saturdays. All sorts of reasons are going to be given why a five-day, one-session, nine-month pro SMITH af Genessee r I .1 I Further, the Soviet an nouncement contained an im portant qualification that if the other atomic powers, the United States and Great Britain, did not follow suit, Russia reserved the right to resume tests. President Eisenhower, at a press conference, said of the announcement: "I think it is a gimmick, and I don't think it is to be taken seriously." On the same day that Russia made its test-suspension announcement, the Unit ed States, Britain and France proposed that diplomatic dis cussions be started in Moscow the second half of this month on preparations for a summit conference on world tensions. These discussions would be to establish the possibilities of agreement on world issues at a summit conference. The preliminary talks would lead to a conference of foreign min isters at which the details of a summit meeting would be worked out. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, in his first visit abroad since he took over governmental as well as Com munist Party leadership, went for Money gram is a very sacred thing . . . but the only sacred thing about it is that we have al ways done it that way! Teachers and Money Teachers will probably op pose any change in routine. After all, one of the compen sations of teaching is a long vacation. They will probably say that a longer day or week is psychologically unsound for both teachers and pupils. My own college administra tors say that this 5s not neces sarily so. Furthermore, if teachers would accept an 11 month job responsibility, longer work day, and a long er work week like all other professional people, they could readily become more productive and their incomes would be raised. School Com mittees could also help jnake much better teachers by cut ting out a lot of the extra curricular nonsense-. I do not forget that children cannot be put on an educa tional production line and have their education added like parts to a car. Education is a process of reaction be tween student and teacher, and. student and student. This, like a great work of art, takes time to put together; it takes reworking; it takes patience; it takes a master to produce good results. So I say to school committees and those concerned with education, weigh your educational val ues, cut your heavy spending on bricks and mortar, make more economical use of your buildings and time, and imme diately cut out the extracurri cular nonsense. Then, put your tax money where it will do the most good into cap able, inspiring, and devoted teachers. Oil Test Drilling Due at Prineville Portland (IP) Standard Oil Company of Califor nia Western Operations, Inc., announced Thursday that it will join other companies shortly in conducting an oil test southeast of Prineville in Crook county. Standard, principal lease holder in the area, said the test would be on the 159,000 acre Bear Creek anticline, an earth formation which might hold oil. Standard said the hole would be drilled to a depth of 10,000 feet by Sunray Mid Continent Oil Company in be half of the two firms. 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Bulganin, whom Khrushchev ousted as Premier for failing to support him in a Kremlin dispute last June, was named president of the State Bank. Bulganin had held this post from 1938 to 1941. Bulganin remains a member of the cab inet and of the ruling Presi dium of the Communist Party. French Premier Felix Gail lard whose government now has a brief respite from threats of a revolt by right wing Independents while Par liament is in recess over East er received a grim threat from another quarter. About 1 million workers in nationalized industries in cluding railroad, airplane, bus and subway services struck for 24 hours to back up their demands for wage increases. Labor unions said the strike was merely a warning, and would be followed by big ger, longer strikes if neces sary. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Russia's big boss Khrush chev and his new straw boss (a rugged communist by the name of Koslov) arrive in Budapest and are met by crowds of communits and PROTECTIVE guards. As he descends from his plane Krushchev strikes an attitude and orates: "Russia's ties with Hungary CAN NEV ER BE DESTROYED." What are these "ties?" ': The answer is quite simple: They are CHAINS. QRIM thought: The long-term objective of Russia's communist Big Boss es Is to get the United States of America where Hungary is that is to say IN CHAINS. Our job is to see that it doesn't happen. rpHAT brings up the subject of nuclear weapons tests which Russia is trying to trap us into calling off. Consider this: It is expected that at our nuclear tests out in the Pacific this spring at least two H bombs will be exploded 100 miles up in the air, or per haps even higher. What do we hope for out of this test? Our scientists say that at that height the vast swarms of neutrons released by an H bomb will live far longer than down in the denser atmos phere. They add that these neutrons, released in the path of a flight of enemy missiles, MIGHT EXPLODE THEM BE FORE THEY GET TO US. gUPPOSE that is true. Suppose Russia talked us out of conducting experiments that would demonstrate its truth and thus prevented us from developing a defensive weapon that would protect us against Russian guided mis siles. Well - In that event RUSSIA WOULD HAVE US WHERE SHE WANTED US. SOMETHING to remember. What is going on now is COLD war. War (of all kinds), is full of stratagems and guile. A prime objective in war is to catch your enemy when he isn't looking and DO HIM IN. If the Russians could talk us out of perfecting our de fenses while they went on per fecting , their offensive weap ons, they would have us where they want us. H-22B NEED! FOR .y
