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f - Friday, Miy 1, 1958 VIAI TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. mw 'PlDFORDTRIBUSE CEveryone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" ftblished Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manage! GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr. XRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An IndeDendent Newsoaoer Entered as second class matter at ' Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 189"i SUBSCRIPTION BATES P7 Mail In Advance: Coo lOe, Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 429 Sunday Only One rear 14.20 By Carrier In Advance- Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle . romu Jacksonville. aoM Hiil ''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 until i;asn in Advance Official Paper of Ctty of Medford wiinai raper or acnsoa county United Pr Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Renresentative! WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC, Of fices in new York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver, ts u. newspaper , fUBllSHEIS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I IasjocCatiQn J1:?,,,ga Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and -40 years ago. t'l YEARS AGO !fay 16. 1948 (Sunday) Voters registered in Jack ifyn county total 24,574, about 9,000 more than were regis ffed for the May, 1946 pri ltry. s The senate committee on labor and public : welfare lopts Sen. Wayne Morse's subcommittee report recom mending Camp White be made a veteran's domiciliary. 20 YEARS AGO May 16. 1938 (Friday) ': An unidentified lone gun man held up Frank Weighill, 26, of Cottage st. Sunday night Jn frontf of his home. - From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "It seems Pacific Coast motorists have changed tactics, and instead picking up hitch-hikers $hey stop to talk to gypsies." t YEARS AGO fftay 16, 1928 (Wednesday) A $50,000 meat packing jiiant to supply a line of Autcher shops from Eugene to Yreka,' to be erected south of Jacksonville. i Jackson county has a great future in the dairy business and instead of returning a revenue of only several hun dred thousand dollars, a reve nue of at least 2 million dol lars should be returned, man ager of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce says. 40 YEARS AGO May ,16, 1918 (Thursday) , R. Boswell, Medford, and son, held up at their gold mine near Holland last week and robbed of $6,000 in gold bullion. ; From local and - personal column: "Get a homestead be fore May 25. See Moore and Hodgson, Austin hotel build ing. Ashland." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five Of six is good. 1. What sort of uniform does the President of the U.S. wear, as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces? 2. Bible: Literally translat ed the title Messiah means what? ' 3. The author of "The Can tebury Tales' was Longfel low, Chaucer, or Mark Twain? 4. With what sport do you associate the names of Sam Snead, Lew Worsham and Bobby Locke? 5. During World War n, was Egypt a neutral power? 6. Which amendment of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the levying of income tax? 7. In normal times, which country other than China, is the largest consumer of tea? r 8. What are Japan's Zaibat zu? 9. Where is the famous "Flirtation Walk?" " 10. In Army slang, what is a shavetail? Answers: 1. He does not wear a uniform. 2. Anointed. 3. Chaucer. 4. Golf. 5. Egypt was an ally of Great Britain. 6. Sixteenth. 7. Great Britain. 8. Family holding companies or cartel. 9- West Point. N.Y. JO. Send Lieutenant.. "ShowMe " Trip The clean, white snow on the jagged north slope of Mt McLoughlin, viewed from the tan gled brush-fields of Hhe Cathill burn, is magnifi cent at this time of year. , This view was just one of the rewards of a recent "show-me" trip around parts of the Butte Falls district of the Rogue River National forest, courtesy of Howard Hopkins, timber manage ment specialist on the forest supervisor's staff, District Ranger Ralph Weise, and others. The most memorable part of the .trip, how ever, was not the view of the mountain. "FHE thing we remember most vividly (and this is usually the case when we get to talking about their work with trained, professional, dedi cated foresters) is the way in which they look upon their work. It is more than a job : It is a way of life, a calling, a profession. There is so much to be done, they tell you, and not enough to work with not enough time, nor manpower, nor money. It's getting better, as people realize what it is they're trying to do, but it is still frustrating to know that the resources of the future are in your hands, and not be able to do all the things you know MUST be done: What is it that needs to be done? And why? IF THE forests are to serve their owners, the 1 people of the United States, they must be man aged for maximum beneficial use. This means many things: It means forest rehabilitation and management for a continuing supply of timber; protection of watersheds; ex pansion of , recreational opportunities ; grazing of livestock; production of economically usable mineral resources. Each of these uses has its own priority 'in one part of the forest' or another; each has its own importance; each has a number of people economically dependent on that phase of the resource; eacn Has its In the course of a business with a logger nicker to an attractive claim with a prospector, to put out a blaze somewhere in his district. LL the while, lie has tinuing values of the protection, not only from fire, or bugs, or dis ease, but from their worst enemy mankind. - It is a job which requires the skills of a diplomat and . business executive and silvicultur alist and policeman and outdoorsman. And, when he is not to-day activities, he is the future, laying out next month, next year, for five or twenty or one hundred years from now. As in few other jobs, the Forest Service Ranger is required to deal with the past, as rep resented in the land for which he is responsible, the present, and most important, the future. . .- , N EXAMPLE isrthe In 1912 or thereabouts, fire ravaered thou sands of acres of land along the high foothills. Much of the land is steep and rocky, the remains of an old lava flow. There was no natural regen eration of trees,' but, instead, brush crept into the area, and as the years passed, grew into a thick, tangled and-impenetrable cover too thick to walk through, too dense and tough and steep and rocky to be bladed away with a crawler tractor, too tall and shadowy to permit young forest growth to take hold and grow. And, to this day, there it sits, several thou sand acres of prime, sub-alpine country, good for nothing to anyone or anything except a few birds and rodents. ; For years foresters have talked about it, how to "clear it so trees can grow, how to restore it to beauty and usefulness. Plans are now begin ning to take shape. But they take care to plan and prepare, to be sure that other values are not damaged. And they take money. INURING the too-short six hours we were in the district, we saw in action timber man agement (areas which were clear-cut of sub standard growths; other areas selectively logged to improve stands; areas where new sales. are planned to cut down on a major forest plague, miniature mistletoe ; areas where the best trees are being pruned for better growth ; areas where careful slash-burning is eliminating the twin dangers of fire and bug damage). We saw forest camps which are being expanded and improved. We were told of the impending reinventory of the forest resource of the district, to permit an increased allowable cut. We learned of the need for good manpower, the need for funds for rehabilitation of forest stands, and for a dozen other purposes. THE job of the forest service, in short, is a highly complex one. Not the least of its needs is for public support and understanding under standing of the job they are trying to do, and their need for adequate appropriations to do it The forests, after all, belong to all of us, the American people. And the forest service, and its supervisors and rangers and wardens and fire lookouts, its biologists and range specialists, its game management men and recreation men all these are the custodians of our property. Are they .doing their job well? They are. They are not doing it as well as they would like, however, and it remains our job, as owners, to see that our custodians have the wherewithal to do a better job. For in the forests is much of the.material and spiritual well-being of this part of the country, for generations to come.E.A. own peculiar problems. day, a ranger mav talk or grazier; guide a pic spot; discuss a mining and dispatch a fire crew to keep in mind the con forest, and see to their engaged in these dav- engaged in looking into plans for: tomorrow, for Cathill burn itself. Dennis the Menace U LOVS "WAT KAT! MMZS Trouble in New Red Sputnik, Top News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Riot and rebellion in Vene zuela, Lebanon and Algeria and a threatened political ex plosion in France made news paper headlines this week. In all four countries, anti American outbreaks were part of the picture. . f Vice President Richard M. Nixon was stoned, cursed and spat upon by Communist-incited mobs in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, at the wind-up of his "good ' will" tour of Latin America. President Eisenhower re garded the incident as so serious that, ne ordered Marines and paratroopers flown to Caribbean bases with in easy reach of Caracas for use if the Venezuelan govern ment "requested . assistance" in keeping order. . . . . ( Gen. Charles de Gaulle, wartime leader of free France, threw the French political situation into turmoil by an nouncing: " ' "I hold myself ready to take over the "powers of the Republic." ... . De Gaulle, "strong - man" regarded by many as a po Ike's Hot Adds Up to Boost For Richard Nixon by lyle c. Wilson United Press Correspondent Washington (ID There was in tne beginning more foot-dragging than enthusiasm among admin istration big shots for the whoop-te-doo welcome home arrang ed for Vice President Richard M. Nixon and his charming Lyle C. Wflsoa w 1 1 e, sr a i. President Eisenhower fixed that in a Hurry. The chill attitude of small interest persisted until the late afternoon h6urs of Tuesday, May 13. By that time there had been told the shocking story of a vice president of the United States , assailed, in sulted and, finally, with his party, practically barricaded in the U. S. Embassy at Car acas, Venezuela. . The White House was get ting its own running report of events m Caracas by tele phone and the story was not pretty. There have been some hot tempered Presidents in the White House since .-your correspondent has been look ing them over. That is a mat ter of more than 30 years now, and the memories even of Cal Coolidge's quick rages have not faded. Hoover Even-Tempered Herbert Hoover, a Quaker, was a placid man. FDR had a temper, however, 'hot and ex plosive.'Harry S. Truman had the hot head of a gun slinger of the Old West. Tough and good men all. When Dwight D. Eisenhower explodes the detonation is considerable. He exploded - during the after noon hours of Tuesday, May 13, as the nasty Caracas story unwound. :', That explosion echoed in the Caribbean where para troopers and Marines shortly were winging to strategic spots from which they could move to Nixon's aid if neces sary. A sharp summons brought before Secretary of State John Foster Dulles a representative of the Venezu elan Embassy who got first HIM HBLTAlUl Four Countries; tential dictator issued - his statement after French troops, demanding a fight to the fin ish against the rebels, took charge in Algeria and called for a De Gaulle government. Pierre Pflimlin had been confirmed by Parliament as France's 27th postwar pre mier when De Gaulle made his statement. Mobs had rioted in Paris, demanding that De Gaulle be put in power, and had tried to storm the National Assem bly and the U. S. embassy. Tough paratroop Gen. Jac ques Massu led the army movement in Algeria. Gen. Raoul Salan, com mander in chief of the 400,000 French troops in Algeria, pub licly proclaimed his support of Massu and hailed De Gaulle." ? A French nationalist mob sacked the United States In formation Service library in Algiers. ' tlobs rebelling against pro- western president Camille Chamoun of Lebanon burned USIS libraries in Beirut, the capital, and Tripoli, and tried to storm the American em bassy in Beirut. The United States air-lifted small arms, ammunition, tear gas and gas masks from West Germany to Lebanon to assist Temper hand word 'that the United States would not gently accept such affronts ;to the Nixon party. . That, of course, was more of Eisenhower's doing. The president told his ad visers there ought to be a grand welcome home for Richard Nixon and, by golly, he would go out to the air port to lead it. No such thing, his State Department advisers ruled. For the President to go to the airport would set a bad precedent couldn't be done, or, anyway, shouldn't be. A Big Welcome Okay," said Eisenhower. If he couldn't go, the entire White House staff barring a single clerk would be there with Sherman Adams in the lead. Ike and the clerk would keep store during the wel come ceremonies. That was Tuesday afternoon Wednes day the President decided to go, himself. So it was that a lot of steam suddenly was generated be hind the welcome home proj ect. Less prodding was re quired to iire up some enthus iasm on Capitol Hill. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and Senate Republi can Leader William F. Know land got the fever and went to work. , .It was a bi-partisan wel come they planned and which Nixon got. It wouldn't have been much, however, had not the President become sudden ly angered by the treatment accorded his young friend. He still wanted to be in "the wel come party, himself, and said as much at Wednesday's White' House, news conference. Alert v and sensitive Wash ington is casting up the polit ical account of all this. It casts up high in Nixon's favor. His enemies well know that Nixon can dish it out. Now, they re fully aware that he can take it, too;" a quality much admired in these United States.. Nixon's South American swing was . tough while it lasted," but the young man stood up to it well and, prob ably, moved thereby a mite closer to his goal, the presi dency of the U.S. " 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. From a New Citizen ... . To the Editor: My greatest thrill of being a citizen came the day I first realized one of the many privileges, which was being allowed to cast my first vote at the polls in a free country. - My children and I are even closer now for our country is the same. There are so many advantages it is. hard to tell what I felt like the day that I received my final papers. For 40 years I lived .in America, loving it more and more each day. My children received many privileges by being born here, , and prob ably the most important be ing spiritual, they can attend the church of their choice and the public schools where everyone who wishes may re ceive an education. police and troops in suppress ing the riots. The strength of the Marines attached to the U.S. 6th Fleet, based in the Mediterranean, was doubled. ' Soviet Russia launched its third Sputnik satellite, to join the three U.S. satellites new hurtling in orbit round the globe. ' f . . The new Sputnik is a big one 2,925.53 pounds, com pared to the 31 pounds of the largest American satellite. Russia's first two Sputniks, which dramatically demon strated its progress in the field of rockets, have expired. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, U.S. Vice President Nixon is holed up in the American embassy in "Ca racas,' capital of Venezuela The embassy is surrounded by a heavily armed police guard, Our vice president and his wife were driven to the sanc tuary of our embassy by howl ing mobs that spat upon them and attacked their car with stones and clubs, shattering tne cars windows., u seems likely that the Nixons would have been physically injured if the mobs had not been beat en back by Venezuelan police using tear gas. In Washington, Senator Mansfield of Montana says; "These attacks on the Nixons (which have persisted all the way from Lima in Peru) con stitute the most shameful of incidents our country HAS EVER BEEN SUBJECTED TO."v W HAT led up to all this? What is it all about? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? I THINK no one is in any doubt as to the answer to these questions. . ' COMMUNISM IS RESPON SIBLE. Americans may not be too popular in South America. In our preoccupation witb the Old World, we have been neg lecting our neighbors of the New World. They doubtless feel slighted: Perhaps they are not to be blamed for that. But No one in the United States, I'm sure, believes that all this violence would have come to pass if it hadn't been incited by communist agents. THAT brings up the Monroe Doctrine. It suggests this question: What prompted the Monroe Doctrine? THE Monroe Doctrine grew out of conditions in Eu rope in the early 1800's. The three - leading absolute mon archies of . Europe then, were Russia, Austria and Prussia. They had pledged themselves to PUT AN END to the sys tem of representative govern ment "in whatever country it may- exist in Europe."' The United States feared that these three powers (some times inaccurately called the "Holy Alliance") might also TRY TO SUPPRESS REPRE SENTATIVE GOVERNMENT in the New World! ' Hence the Monroe Doctrine which pledged us to GO TO WAR if any such attempt were made by the European despotisms. COMMUNISM is a despotism. It is an Old World des potism. IT'S OBJECTIVE IS ' TO DESTROY REPRESENTA TIVE GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD and substitute for it the des potism of communism. -. SO You see We face the same situation We can now express our likes and dislikes in the gov ernment by taking part in public discussions, petitioning and most of all by voting. I suppose I felt more like a child being handed a pencil and being told to draw a great picture. My responsibility was not to draw a picture but rather to help put the right persons in government offices. My way of living and my family and friends were going to be affected by my1 vote. One vote some people say makes no difference, yet I keep think ing of the saying - "What would happen if everyone else thought - that his vote would make no difference ?" The polls would be very lonely places today. Kachiyo Nagayama," : 220 Cottage St., , Medford. Cheap 'Housing Needed To the Editor: In regard to the Jackson County Housing project, I for one don't feel like it should be torn down. The unemployment in Med ford has always been a prob lem and I don't think it is changing. Of course summer will bring temporary work for some but after that it's the same thing. 1 To find housing for families with two or more children in a price range that they can afford-is almost impossible. We can't afford $60 to $80 a month rent., A lot of people here are on compensation, welfare ant mothers that are sole support of their families. We need low cost housing. We admit that this place needs repairs but so would your houses ', if you didn't make any . repairs for eight years or more. These places have made a profit so why weren't they kept L,up? Why not use the money and put them back in order? If not, who gets the money and why? These are questions we have tried to get answers for only to get the run-around. That is why we contacted Gov Holmes. Sen. Morse and Charles Porter. The Authority controls these places and the Author ity consists of six men. .Is it right that these six men should have the whole say on tearing these down or not? They're in the higher income bracket so it's not hurting them, but it does hurt the low income people. We can't even get a straight answer from half the people we have talked to, a lot of them agree that the project should be kept longer but they say their hands are tied. Is that the reason or are they afraid that they will be step ping on some one higher up's toes if they do try to help us? We just get sent from one person to another with none of our questions answered, and we are beginning to won der why there are no -an swers. One last thing, we of the project are the ones who are pushing this and the manage ment has never given us ad vice, help, or stated their opin ions. Put the blame where it belongs and not on the lone bystander. : Those "he says" are not always the truth. . Mrs. - BV G.' Reynolds,. 814 West Jackson, No. 6, , Medford. The Way to Peace . To the Editor: We have not established that lasting peace the humble people of the world desire, namely because we have forgotten God. Greedy men have caused the pioneer spirit of America's early life to fade. They entice us with their labor saving de vices and gaudy merchandise. Soon thereafter we worship leisure, pleasure and mer chandise instead of God, for getting that man was told to earn his bread, by the . sweat of his face, by tilling the soil. We have made it impossible for a man to earn his living on a small farm and he is mi grating to the city.'. We have made it possible for big busi ness to thrive and have caused small business to faiL Truly, we are not a Chris tian nation, and not the Chris tianswe profess to be. Have we no. wisdom? How can we successfully guide and bring peace to oth er nations Detore we have first solved our own prob lems? How can we. build world peace when we defy laws that were given by Him who taught of peace and how to secure it? No nation obeys His laws. We cannot serve both God and mammon, and at the same time create peace." We are now the servants of mammon. Will the people of the world escape destruction; or will that. was faced by our fore fathers. - . Let's hope we have the courage - to- meet it as boldly and decisively as they did. they cause their own destruc tion by their frantic arms, space and missile rivalry race? . - This could be the end, or a warning. If a warning, it is time to awaken, amend some of our laws, and choose men for office who are not ashamed to acknowledge God and His laws, make the need ed amendments and find peace at home. We will then have shown other nations the way to peace. t ' Arthur James Maurer Sr., P. O. Box 318, Bell Fourche, S.D. Tribute . ' To he Editor: Last week, Chiloquin and Klamath coun ty lost a fine young citizen, a victim of the dreaded cancer. Romona Shadley . was the bravest girl ' I have ever known. She. was a high credit to both womanhood and the Indian people: During our re cent basketball tournament queen contest she was a very active candidate, "Despite her disability and the pain that accompanies:,cancer, she won the award for ticket sales. Romona went to grade school at, Elk-Trail and her first two years of high school at Prospect, Ore. She would have graduated from sChilo quin High school this June. Far be it from me to ques tion the ways of God. He gives us life or perhaps loans would be a better word, ; and then takes it away when He sees fit.. I have often wondered though why . He takes the yodng people in the prime of life. Are youngsters like Romona crucified among us Ho shock us into the realization, that cancer can strike anyone, any time and apparently, at any age? . ' Medical science is making tremendous strides in control ling and preventing cancer, and I believe it behooves all of us to support the drive for funds to carry on this re search. ; Nelson Sharp, - Klamath Agency, Ore. Butterflies To the Editor: The Viking among butterflies" is the big brickred Monarch. Like the old Yankee clipper ships, it has made its way to the Phil ippines, Australia, Java, Su matra.- It also has crossed the Atlantic to West Africa. -, - Dr. Holland . supposes the Monarch thus is successful in world-wide radiation because of its defense mechanism. He thinks it has secretions that are distasteful to birds, . also to predaceous insects. Its cat terpillars, for example, feed on plants known to be offen sive, even poisonous, to the higher animals. Kiddies collecting butter flies probably will find the Monarch years .before they do the .Viceroy. They, should be alert, however, to collect the latter. It is one of the most remarkable examples of mim icry in the entire animal king- III ! "( II II 1 "( n mm to auto insurance Fact-filled booklet shows what each auto insurance coverage can do for you. Here's a booklet that answers your questions about auto insurance. No mumbo-jumbo. No legal double-talk. It simply explains what auto insurance cover ages are available, and how they can protect you. Illustrations and examples show how each coverage works. Why not get a free copy, take it home and read it? You may discover that your auto insur ance gives you more protection than you thought it did. Or you may find that you don't have as much protection as you really need. You can get your free copy of this Buyer's Guide simply by stopping in, or calling us by phone. There's no obligation, of course. But if you wish, we'll be glad to answer any ques tions you may have about low-cost Allstate auto insurance. Why not call soon? DOUGLAS H. HINESLY AND JOHN J. FRANTZ 40 South Centrci Medford, Oregon Phone: SP 3-4722 You're in good hands with Feundad by Sr. Roebuck and liabilities. Home dom. The Viceroy V eouslni are not like it, brickred. They range in coloring from all black and white, to those col ors plus orange spots. Some writers assert that, in the ' course of evolution, the Vice roys approaching more nearlv the Monarch type survived be cause oi the above described dislike of birds for the lan?pr butterfly. Other scientists disnnt above theory. In anv event. as one's collection of butter flies increases, it is fascinat ing to have in the same com partment a Monarch, a Vice roy, also- one of the typically different-colored, Basilarchias. It stimulates speculation. ' C. M. Goethe, 7th and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Services Praised To the Editor: The Javcees are indeed to be commended for including church services at their recent convention. Epsilon Sigma AlDha soror ity also has church services at its international conventions held in June. This has been a practice for several years. Our April state convention in Portland had. for the first time, church : and memorial services Sunday mornins;. - Members were so impressed that in the future Epsilon Sig ma Alpha sororities' state con vention will hold church serv ices Sunday morning Drior to their breakfast meeting: These church services are not only heartwarming and gratifying. but bring us closer together for our purpose, handicapped children, and above all, closer to God. We join the'Jaycees in say ing all conventions should adopt this practice. Leone Smith, State Parliamentarian Epsilon Sigma Alpha ' Sorority, 317 Howard st., Medford. Guard Officers Finish Course Portland First Lt. Richard A. Greer and FirstvLt. Paul J. Blair, of the Medford National Guard units, recently com pleted, the basic infantry of ficer class at Fort Benning, Ga., among the top four. Blair was third and Greer was fourth. Second Lt. Robert J. Taylor and Second Lt. Cecil W. Purcell, both of Cottage Grove, were first and second. This is the first time the four top positions in the 135-man classes have been from the same state, according to Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adju tant general of Oregon. Blair is a member of Com pany A of the 186th Infantry and Greer is a member of the Headquarters company for the first battalion of the 186th In fantry. Blaim is employed in the automotive industry while Greer ft, a baker. Both men won their commissions after working up through the ranks. ' NSUItAMCI e"'"1" and Co. with Independent asset omce: sk'. i
