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4 Monday, April 7, 1958
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1948 (Wednesday)
Heavy snows in March and
April brightened water pros
pects for year in southern
Oregon, according to the an
nual water forecast commit
tee. Property owners will be or
dered to construct sidewalks
on both sides of Hamilton
st. between Main and 11th
sts., according to the city
council.
20 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1938 (Thursday)
The wife of the mail clerk
killed in the D'Autremont
train robbery in 1923 says she
has received a second letter
inquiring of the- victims' fam
ilies. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge. Pot column: "Several
epicureans report .they have
braved the first skillet of
fried wild mushrooms."
30 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1928 (Saturday)
Final plans are being made
for the reception of E .E. Spaf
f ord, national commander of
the American Legion, to ar
rive here tomorrow.
A new law puts a stop to
swearing in votes on election
day, persons must register to
vote in the primary election
May 18.
40 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1918 (Monday)
Lt. Hector McQuarrie, of
the British Royal Field artil
lery, to speak at the Page
theater April 10.
Pamphlets describing Ore
gon and California railroad
grant land to be opened in
Jackson and Josephine coun
ties will be ready April 12,
the land office announces.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In which ocean is the re
gion called the Sargasso Sea?
2. Bible: How did St. Peter
die?
3. How many days are in
Leap Year?
4. Name the Central Amer
ican country between Nicar
agua and Panama .
5. South Carolina was, or
was not, one of the 13 or
iginal states?
6. Which President said, "I
do not choose to run for Pres
ident in 1928?"
7. Who was the first Secre
tary of the Treasury of the
U.S.?
8. Jackie Robinson, the
first Negro to achieve major
league baseball status, was
purchased from the Montreal
Royals by which National
League team?
9. The natives of which city
in Nova Scotia are called
Haligonians?
10. Caviar is obtained from
catfish, whales, or sturgeon?
Answers: 1. Atlantic. 2. On
a cross. 3. 366. 4. Costa Rica.
5. Was. 6. Calvin Coolidge. 7.
Alexander Hamilton. 8.
Brooklyn Dodgers. 9. Halifax.
10. Sturgeon.
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Editorial Correspondence .
San Francisco, April 5 Our last word from here was to
the general effect that the storm had apparently passed, the
skies were clear, and we were going for a walk. Having
been deceived several times before, we added that if we
had an umbrella we would take it.
Well we had none so we didn't take it. Wish we had. If
and when we come to "Sunny California" again we will in
clude an umbreally British style and make it our constant
peripatetic companion.
We left in brilliant sunshine about 3:30 p.m.; at exactly
5 p.m. we were caught in a cloudburst at the corner of Geary
and Stockton which started as a hailstorm and ended as a
deluge. But for sanctuary in the Pan American airways office
we would have been drowned.
Speaking of airways offices. If it were not for a few
department stores and airplane offices the landlords here
would be bankrupt. Even the Denver Rio Grande has left
Union Square, the Union Pacific is still at the corner of
Powell and Geary but in spite of an Easter Crucifixion pano
rama in the window looks deserted. The United Air lines at
Post and Powell is as busy as a beehive. So are most of the
other airplane offices except Western Airlines which has a
large notice in the window that it has had to shut down be
cause of a strike.
It is nice to be in a town
running. There were plenty
Tucson streets, half buried in
The new street-cars on Market
ington, D.C., quiet, comfortable
bearings but are not certain.
street cable cars are still clanging up hill and down dale in
the general direction of Fisherman's Wharf. (May they
NEVER be abandoned!)
In our dash for sanctuary
thunder if anyone is interested we found ourselves in the
St. Francis entrance with a slick looking Jap at our side. His
hair was black as ink and slick
he could not talk much English. He peered at the skies, shud
dered at the torrential rain and repeated over and over again,
" Tomic, 'tomic, 'tomic."
One needed no interpreter
precedented weather was for
at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and elsewhere. And he may be right
for all we know, but our GUESS is he isn't. However this is
for sure the Japanese people, whether we like it or not,
will never forget those first atomic bombs. And the people
here in San Francisco had they suffered a similar catastrophe
would not, either.
Thanks to our excellent clipping service we have enjoyed
the past few days, reading the editorial comments of Ore
gon's Republican press regarding the alleged feud between
Democratic senators Morse and Neuberger. All of them have
taken particular exception to the remarks of C. Girard David
son, national Democratic committeeman from Oregon, charg
ing the "One Party Press" of the state with a persistent effort
to exaggerate these personal differences between our two
senators in an effort to disrupt and weaken the party in the
state. .
In choral unison they all proclaim Mr. Davidson is en
tirely out of line, that the Republican papers had nothing to
do with this schism, they did not create it, Messrs. Morse and
Neuberger did. They are merely commenting on the facts
not in any sense responsible for them.
That is true of course.
No one denies Senators Morse and Neuberger have had
differences, one bing a confirmed "perfectionist" and the
other a congenital "idealist"; such differences were inevit
able. But that doesn't refute the charge that the "One Party"
press HAS blown up this conflict far beyond its actual im
portance, and has done and is still doing everything it
can to fan the flames of discord, and do as much harm to the
relationship between the two senators, and to their effective
ness in Washington as possible. Such making political hay
while the sun shines or in this case doesn't should be ex
pected. We are not complaining about what the Republican
papers in the state are doing, our only complaint is they
DENY doing it.
As evidence also as a result of our clipping service and
some private letters from upstate if the differences between
Messrs. Morse and Neuberger are of such supreme impor
tance, why should the differences between the three Repub
lican candidates for Governor be of no importance whatever?
We read nothing about what Secretary Hatfield thinks of
Treasurer Unander (off the record of course) or what Sena
tor Gill thinks of them both. Yet wherever these candidates
have visited, their serious differences are known to the
newspapers, and would seem to be of SOME news impor
tance. There is complete silence, however, regarding this
intra-party split. In unison they deplore the fact that on all
issues, two men as different temperamentally as Senator
Morse and Neuberger, should fail to see eye-to-eye on every
issue that comes up.
Nothing in this wicked or scandalous of course. It merely
adds up to the fact there are only two or three daily papers
in the state that are not 100 per cent for the Grand Old Party.
In other words it is 100 per cent partisanship en masse.
Nothing wrong about that. Our only complaint, as noted, is
WHY deny it?
We are pleasd to note from the SEPost that Barney
Baruch agrees with the Mail Tribune. (Two great minds of
course!) Only we fear Barney said it first. The great finan
cial wizard also believes the idea of slashing federal income
by an income tax cut is utter folly, and that before the re
cession can decline price levels must.
We find our Jap friend under the St. Francis canopy who
thinks this cock-eyed weather is the result of " 'Tomic" dis
turbances is not alone. One of the older girls at breakfast
this morning informed her attentive mate that there is no
doubt about it whatever Sunny California including Los
Angeles has been completely ruined by the Russian "sput
niks." (Of course the Eisenhower "sputniks" could have
nothing to do with it!)
Returning to our excellent "clipping service," we are
getting extremely tired of hearing the old familiar wheeze
repeated over and over again, that the only thing that pre
vented FDR's New Deal recovery program from ruining the
country was that Madman Hitler, with an assist from Tokyo
in short this country's entrance into World War No. II. Up
to that time the Hoover depression got steadily worse instead
of better and statistics, particularly unemployment records,
are quoted to prove it.
Interesting if true but it is 100 per cent false.
How do these "experts" including the "Oregon Voter"
of course, KNOW what would have happened from 1933 to
1942, if Franklin Roosevelt had done nothing but take Her
bert Hoover's place in the White House and declared "a-gain
and a-gain, and a-gain" "Prosperity is just around the cor
ner"? The answer is they don't. No one does. It is all a guess,
made up 80 per cent of hatred, bitterness and stupid parti
sanship. Moreover what do the official statistics for 1933 show
according to Edward A. Rumely, trustee of the Committee
for Constitutional Government, Inc.? Quote:
"In four months after April 1933 when the Frank
lin Roosevelt administration allowed the dollar price
of gold in world markets to increase from $20.67 to $35
there was an immediate upsurge in the prices of farm
products, metals, oil and other basic commodities.
Farm prices advanced 50 per cent and farmers with
out price supports began to buy in large volume. Busi
ness immediately increased. Four million men went to
work in three months. There was such an upturn as
this nation had never before experienced."
And that took place nearly
,
where the street-cars are still
of street-car KAlL.b on tne
the asphalt, but no street-cars.
street are like those in Wash
and smooth we suspect ball
And of course the famed Powell
from the rain and hail also
as grease could make it, but
to get his meaning. This un
him due to the atomic bombs
a. decade before the U.S.A.
Dennis the Menace
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Congress
For More
On Water
Washington CQ) Con
gress is pressing for an ancient
dream of mankind a cheap
and reliable way to convert
salt water into fresh water.
In 15 years, say Congress
men from water-short areas,
there will be an acute short
age. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson
(D-N.M.), says "there is a feel
ing that not a cussed thing'1
has been done in the past
three years on a research pro
gram begun six years ago by
the Department of Interior.
Anderson has . introduced a
resolution to . authorize Inter
ior to construct a full-scale,
$10 million demonstration
plant to convert saline water
Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.),
would provide the same
amount to build two pilot
plants one to convert sea
water to fresh water and an
other on the northern Great
Plains to treat brackish water
Plant Planned
The Interior Department
March 28 announced that the
U.S. will build its largest
water conversion plant yet in
the Virgin Islands. It will turn
more than 200,000 gallons of
sea water into fresh water per
day.
Behind renewed Congres
sional activity on water con
version is the fear of a serious
water crisis. Agriculture and
industry have consumed ever
increasing quantities of water
and in some areas there never
was a great supply. For cen
turies man has looked to the
oceans which, if de-salted,
would provide a limitless
supply of fresh water. Inland,
mines and low areas filled
with brackish water are po
tential sources of fresh water.
The problem is to find a rea
sonably cheap conversion
process.
Hearings in Congress
The Senate Interior and In
sular Affairs, Irrigation and
Reclamation Subco mmittee
heard testimony March 20 and
21 on the Anderson and Case
bills. Interior Department
witnesses were criticized by
Anderson for not "taking a
few gambles." The atomic
bomb, he said, would have
taken 75 years to develop if
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
DORE SCHARY, ex-bigwig of Hollywood, is the author of
the new hit-play about F.D.R., "Sunrise at Campobello."
Asked if he would sell the picture rights to the studio he once
ruled, Schary chuckled, "I
refer you to a remark of the
great Samuel Johnson: 'No
man but a blockhead ever
wrote except for money.'"
An associate added, "You
may call this the open Dore
policy."
Incidentally, the movie mag
nate who first summoned Dore
Schary to California thought
he was hiring a girl, and was
mighty surprised when a 6
foot he-man answered the call.
Bandits were robbing a
small but rich Ijank. -Their
leader was scooping up the last trayful of loot when the cashier im
plored, "Do me a favor and take the books, too. I'm a couple of hun
dred thousand short!"
You have to hand it to the state of Texas. Even the birds there
have gotten into the act They now fly south for the winter in
chartered planes.
O 1953. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. ,
entered the Second World war!
There were ebbs and flows later of course before the
Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. But throughout that period,
business conditions were so improved Over what they had
been under a Republican administration that there was simp
ly no comparison. And yet this antedeluvian "political ex
pert" on "The Oregon Voter" has the supreme crust to main
tain that all that saved the country from ruin because of the
"New Deal" was the order of the Fascist maniac in Berlin
to march on Poland!
Is there no limit to the lengths of absurdity that Ancient
Republicanism can take some of the more rabid of the GOP
fanatics? R.W.R.
TUBSisim dogs sr 'em '
Pressing
Research
Purifying
scientists had'nt run a few
risks. The saline water con
version program has only
reached the small pilot plant
stage.
The House Interior and In
sular Affairs Committee plans
to hear testimony in mid
April on four bills similar to
those in the Senate. Their
sponsors agree with Case that
"the time has come to get out
of the laboratory and into the
field."
Anderson said the Senate
Interior Committee probably
would come up wjth a bill to
authorize construction o f
demonstration plants for sea
shore areas Southern Cali
fornia, New York-New Eng
land, the Gulf Coast at $2
million apiece and inland
areas the Great Plains and
the Southwest at $1 million
each.
(Copyright 1958,
Congressional Quarterly, Inc.)
Holmes' Committee
To Select Winner
Salem (IP) A five-mem
ber committee appointed by
Gov. Robert D. Holmes will
select a 1958 Albany high
school senior to receive the
$5,000 Wah Chang corpora
tion grant for a college educa
tion.
The firm, whose zirconium
plant is located in Albany,
suggested to the governor that
no one from Albany be on
the committee.
Heading the committee will
be State Supreme Court Jus
tice Gordon Sloan.
Others are Dr. W. P. Dyke,
McMinnville; Dr. Dorothy Jo
hansen, Portland; Mrs. Joy
Hills Gubser, Salem; and Sid
Woodbury, Portland.
$10 ERROR
Hartford, Conn. (IP) State
Tax Commissioner John L.
Sullivan complained that
many taxpayers had $10 er
rors in their returns. Because
of a change in the law they
were paying too much and
Sullivan's chief gripe was the
paper work involvea in re
turning the overpayments.
Stop Me
"Dots Schaxy
iet Bomb Test Suspension
Propaganda Fails To
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia's suspension
of nuclear weapons tests has
failed to cause the world
sensation for
which the
Kremlin obvi
ously hoped.
In fact, the
biggest impact
seems to have
been register
ed in the Unit
ed States,
where it was
called a great
Soviet propaganda victory in
the cold war.
In other countries, even the
"neutralist" ones like India,
the announcement caused
much less excitement than
Washington had feared.
A survey of reports which
have reached the United
States from foreign capitals
indicates that there were sev
eral reasons why the big prop
aganda bomb proved to be
more or less a "dud."
Reported in Advance
The Kremlin "telegraphed
its punch." It was reported
long in advance of Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromy
ko's announcement to the So
viet Parliament that Russia
intended to suspend tests.
The announcement was
made immediately after Rus
sia had completed a long, im
portant series of tests itself,
including at least three in the
million-ton H-bomb range. It
will take a long time for
Russian nuclear scientists to
assess the results of these
tests, and hence a long time
before new ones would be
planned. .
The announcement was
made with the knowledge that
the United States was just
about to start a series of long
scheduled tests in the Pacific,
McCibb
Matter of Fact ey
HOUND DOG
Washington "GAM-77"
has now become Hound Dog.
It is a symptom of our
times that the
foregoing ca
b a 1 istic for
mula has gen-
u i n e future
importance to
the people of
this country
ana tne
world. It
means that
josepb Alsop one oi tne ait
Force's ground-to-air missile
projects, with the catalogue
number 77, has shown such
promise that a prototype is
being built. As the custom is,
the weapon has therefore ex
changed its number for a
name, being officially christ
ened Hound Dog.
This" information is import
ant, in turn, because Hound
Dog will provide a badly
needed and really significant
reinforcement of the declining
nuclear striking power of the
United States.
Hound Dog will somewhat
resemble an air-borne version
of the Navy's famous and
promising Polaris. The Air
Force has such confidence in
its new missile's performance
that an intention to "order
quite a lot of them" has al
ready been announced to the
primary contractor, the North
American Aviation Co. Even
tually, the combination of the
long-range B-52 jet bomber
and theh Hound Dog missile
with H-bomb warhead is ex
pected to provide the big
punch of the Strategic Air
Command.
AS Air-to - ground missiles
go, this one will be big.
One Hound Dog will be the
usual load for a B-52, and two
will be a maximum load. It
is not decided yet whether to
attempt an adaptation to be
carried by the B-47, which is
another indication of the mis
sle's size. Hound Dog's big
ness will be worth the load
imposed on the delivering air
plane, however.
One of the most promising
ways to increase the invuln
erability of the manned bomb
er, and to give it something
of the character of a missile,
has always been to put on
board a missile which the
bomber can throw at a target
from a distance.
Hound Dog, being a rocket,
will be as difficult -to inter
cept as a ballistic missile. Its
type of guidance has not been
revealed, but the system is
said to be virtually immune
to the usual electronic tech
niques for "fooling" guidance
systems. And precisely be
cause Hound Dog is big, it
can be launched from its
carrying bomber at distances
up to 400 miles from its tar
get. This long range is the
missile's truly remarkable
characteristic, which will give
the Soviet Air Defense plan
ners something to worry
about.
THE truth is that the rapid
and massive improve
ment of Soviet Air Defense
has been causing much con
cern to our own air staff, de
spite the pooh-poohing of the
and was plainly intended to
rouse international resent
ment against the United
States.
The announcement was so
hedged about with qualifica
tions as to be almost mean
ingless. Gromyko said that
Russia reserved the right to
resume tests nless other
countries followed its exam
ple. This means that if the
United States carries out its
tests, Russia can say that it
must mak more tests in its
own defense.
One thing that seems to
have figured in the reaction
to the Gromyko announce
ment is that Russia's recent
tests were exceedingly "dirty"
that is, that they caused a
large amount of radioactive
fallout.
Democratic Senator Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota as
serted that the United States
had permitted Russia to "get
away with political murder"
in its suspension propaganda
by keeping silent on the fall
out. High Fallout Rate
Humphrey said: "Informed
scientists believe the Soviet
explosions spewed into the
atmosphere at least twice or
possibly three times more ra
dioactive material than ever
before." "N
Scientists of the Atomic
Energy Commission did not
agree with this. But certain
ly the tests were very "dirty."
Even in Japan, the Soviet
announcement caused little
excitement. Japan, which has
experienced nuclear bombing,
is more sensitive than any
other country to the fallout
menace.
United Press advices from
Tokyo say that while the
Japanese welcomed the So
viet announcement, they in
clined to doubt Russia's good
faith.
Alsop
big bomber extremists who
always pretend to scorn air
defense in any form.
Unlike the United States,
the Soviet Union since the
war has consistently spent a
very high proportion 6f its
entire defense investment on
the air defense of its own ter
ritory. Many authorities' put
the proportion well above a
quarter of the whole vast Sov
iet annual outlay for arms.
The result today is a com
prehensive warning net with
far better radars than those
in our DEW line; a huge arm
ada of first class high speed
fighters; and a formidable
and growing point defense
system using anti - aircraft
rockets with nuclear war
heads. The nuclear rockets
that protect Moscow are al
ready in position. The Lening
rad ring is going in. Eventual
ly all major Soviet urban
centers will be similarly pro
tected. TTOWEVER, Hound Dog will
let our B-52s strike at
these nuclear rocket protect
ed cities long before the B-52s
enter the rocket zone. Indeed,
in many cases, Hound Dog
will permit B-52s to make
their strike after a minimum
penetration of the Soviet out
er fighter screen. It will im
portantly extend the B-52s'
range as well, and thus it will
add great tactical flexibility
to SAC's operations. Alto
gether, Hound Dog should be
very useful indeed.
But although one does not
want to seem ungrateful for
such a useful animal, there
are two points to add to this
Hound Dog story.There is
obvious danger to democracy,
which depends on people
knwing where they stand,
when such a sentence as the
opening one in this report can
imply a real change in the
strategic standing of the
United States. The danger is
all the greater, furthermore,
because one can be certain
that Hound Dog will be given
the big Hagerty-Madison Ave
nue treatment, being repre
sented as adding to the
"American lead." In reality,
Hound Dog only very partial
ly remedies the. American lag.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Macmillan Schedules
Visit With Churchill
London (IP) Prime Minis
ter Harold Macmillan sched
uled a call on Sir Winston
Churchill today with a letter
from Nikita Khrushchev as
an added topic of conversa
tion. Macmillan was to be
Churchill's second visitor of
the Easter week end at his
country home at Chartwell,
near London.
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Hmmmmm. What to talk
about today, g
The weather, I reckon.
There doesn't seem to be
much else in the news.
T SUPPOSE you're familiar
- with the crack to the effect
that "everybody talks about
the weather but nobody does
anything about it."
I'm beginning to wonder.
In these days, we blame the
Russians for everything that's
bad. Do you suppose these
Russian scientists we're been
hearing so much about have
been TINKERING WITH THE
CLIMATE?
I wouldn't put it beyond
them. The kind of weather
we've had lately is just the
about the kind of weather a
bunch of communist scientists
would mix up if by chance
they stumbled onto the recipe.
Maybe the Russians are DO
ING something about it .
FOR a long period of time,
tVici "oTrorx'Tinflv tfillrc sM"nit
V w . J wu,, .MA.LM MkVMV
it but nobody does anything
about it" wisecrack was ac
credited to Mark Twain.
Some years back the staff of
the Chicago weather bureau
took time off from predict
ing and did a job of literary
research.
They came up with proof
that it wasn't Mark Twain
who said it. They gave the
credit to Charles Dudley War
ner, who at the time was edi
tor of the Hartford Courant,
one of America's oldest and
most distinguished newspap
ers. I'm willing to lay a small
bet, that Mr. Warner coined
the phrase on one of those
days which come to all
editorial writers when
there wasn't anything else to
talk about, so he fell back
on tbe weather.
TT ISN'T surprising that
mix-up should have occur
red as to the authorship of
this famous remark. Warner
and Mark Twain (whose real
name was Samuel Clemens)
were close friends. They col
laborated in writing one of
Twain's best books The Guild-
ed Age.
Charles Dudley Warner
was one of America's disting
uished essayists. His books
of familiar essays include My
Summer in a Garden, On
Horseback and Fashions in
Literature.
His . "Being a Boy" is
classic record of his New Eng
land boyhood.
MARK Twain did quite a
lot of talking about the
weather, so it is not surpris
ing that the "nobody does
anything about it" remark
should have been credited to
him. One of his more famous
ones was his statement that
he felt that "weather is a lit
erary speciality and no un
trained hand can turn out a
good article on it."
One of his more biting
comments had to do with the
New England climate in the
spring. In a moment of bitter
ness, he said: "In the spring,
I have counted 136 different
kinds of weather inside of 24
hours."
I'd like to add that if he
had been around these parts
this morning he could have
bettered his count.
i : "Almanac
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Chumming and
Sportsmanship
To the Editor: The recent
tremendous incre&se of ang
ling pressure, together with
the change in fishing reasons
affecting the Rogue River
drainage, will put a severe
strain on the fishing resources
of our mountain lakes unless
we can better the conserva
tion and sporting practices of
many anglers.
One of the biggest prob
lems to be faced is the one
of chumming. Aside from its
basic illegality, any defense
of chumming as a sporting
method of taking trout is no
defense, but is rather the ra
tionalizing of a moral weak
ness.
Angling for trout is a sport
and a sport is measured by
how the end is accomplished.
It is easy to lose sight of
the importance of the method
used in trying to achieve an
end, such as in catching fish.
People must be helped to re
alize the importance and this
help goes beyond writing a
law prohibiting chumming.
Those businessmen who will
sell feeder eggs to the pros
pective chummer must be
made to realize they are mor
ally responsible in aiding and
abetting an illegal act. This
is harmful to the sport of
fishing in that it destroys the
idea of the sport; it is harm
ful to the person too weak to
withstand the temptation to
chum for fish; it is harmful
to the businessman who de
pends on the sale of sporting
goods for a living; and it is
harmful to us.
Those of us who desire to
be sportsmen and are serious
about improving the sport of
fishing have a definite job
to do in this problem. We
must realize that an unsports
manlike act hurts all of us
if it harms the sport and we
should make it our business
to see that there is less of it.
We should tell the poor sport
we don't like his method,
and if it is illegal and he per
sists in his illegal act, we
should see that the law is en
forced by signing a complaint
against him. Many people
chum because they are ignor
ant and because they think
no one cares if they chum.
They should be made to re
alize we care about the sport
and that we consider them
thieves of a type. Business
men who sell tackle used to
perform unsportsmanlike or
illegal acts should be told of
our disapproval, and if they
persist, be actively boycotted.
If this sounds severe, re
member that many people
cannot Judge their actions
good or bad without help
from others. Let's give them
that help.
Hank DeVoss,
Talent, Ore.
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