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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
July 11, 1948 (Sunday)
Commercial cherry canning
begins at the Rogue River can
ning company.
Circulation in the children's
department of the Medford
Public library last month was
reported the largest o rec
ord: 4,455 books.
20 YEARS AGO-
July 11, 1938 (Monday)
From "Side Glances": Fath
er Ernest Bartlam earnestly
practicing with a gift bait
. casting outfit, he doing ad
mirably in snagging tree tops
in his neighbors' yards."
From Argiur Perry's "Ye
SmtrSgs Pot" column: "The
people will vote on 13 meas
ures in November, and none
of the lot offer anything upon
which an irate citizen can
whet h aboriginal hate."
S3 YAR5 AGO -
July 11, 1428 (Wednesday)
Locgl business men and res
idents are being urged to ouy
dewalk rjlags by the Ameri
can Legion flag committee in
preparation for the Legion's
convention here.
O From "Local and Personal"
column: "Seventy-one out of
the at car registered here
yesterday with the local state
traffic bureau."
40 YEARS AGO
Aly 11. 1918 (Thursday)
Alfred A. Chapman, only
living white man who wit
nessed Custer's stand at the
Little Big Horn in 1876, will
give a slide lecture here to
night. From "Local and Personal"
column: "The uniforms for
the Medford and Ashland
companies of the state militia
are still somewhere en route
from New York City to the
valley."
What's Your I.Q.?
o
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
sis is food.
1. In what field of science
was the naturalist Audubon
most active
2. What countries of Eu
rope are known collectively
as the "Low Countries"?
3. In which state is the re
sort town of Biloxi?
4. Name the printing plant
that produces U. S. govern
ment publications?
5. Ottawa is the capital of
n8. Frost penetrates the
' ground three feet or more in
partsO of northern United
State tru or false?
07. Qp i person move a
greater wgjght by pushing or
pulling?
O 8. Tfi Epistles of Paul to
the Corinthians are in the
ld, or the New Testament?
9. A canvas-back is a type
ofJish, bird, or insect?
0. Name the late Ameri
can bandmaster and compos
er ho wag called the "March
King."
Answers: 1. Ornithology. 2.
Belgium, The Netherlands and
Luxerberg. 3. Mississippi. 4.
Government Printing Office.
Washington. D. C. 3. Domin
ion of Canada. S. True. 7.
Pushing. 8. New Testament.
S). Bird (duck). 10. John Phil
ip Souia.
Royalties From Russia
Adlai E. Stevenson arrives in Leningrad on
Monday, July 14. His tour of Soviet Russia in
part is as representative of the Authors League
of America in efforts to arrange royalties for
Soviet use of American works.
Adlai Stevenson's prime mission in Russia
appears to be to find out whether the U.S.S.R.
is willing to pay for as well as to enjoy Western
culture. A Soviet commercial attache here boasted
in Chicago, July 8, that the Soviet Union was
publishing more books than any other nation in
the world. A surprising number are by American
authors, but their payment has been distressingly
greater in prestige, such as it is, than in royalties.
The U.S. State Department told Editorial Re
search Reports, July 9, that while there-may be
an acknowledgement on the part of U.S.S.R. of
a moral obligation to pay royalties to U.S. au
thors, such payments have been relatively few.
And there is no clear-cut pattern aboul them.
SOME authors have received royalty payments,
usually small, in the mail. Before breaking
with the Communist Party, U.S. novelist Howard
Fast had been notably fortunate. And royalties
are paid to some U.S. authors visiting the Soviet
Union, often, though not always, in blocked
rubles.
Moscow announced the payment, June 30, of
$15,100 in royalties to Mitchell Wilson, American
author of such science fiction' as "My Brother,"
"My Enemy" and "Live With Lightning. His
books were said to have sold more than a million
copies in the Soviet Union, with sales still rising.
Wilsnn. on a four-month tour of Russia, where
he has been lionized, received $12,100 in dollars
and 30,000 rubles ($3,000 at the tourist rate oi
PYrhano-pL Tt is suffffested that these uavments
may have been made as a sort of prior demon
stration to Stevenson that no representations for
a more formal arrangement are necessary.
SOVIET Russia has never acceded to the Uni
versal CoDvriffht Convention, and has taken
no advertised steps in that direction. This agree
ment was worked out in Geneva in September,
1952, and came -into force on Sept 16, 1955.
Under its terms, each member nation provides
for protection of the rights of authors and other
copyright owners in literary, scientific and artistic
works, including writings, music, . drama, cinema
tographic works, paintings, engravings, and
sculpture. Works first published in any member
nation, get the same protection in other member
nations as these afford their own nationals.
The United States and 28 other nations are
members. Under U.S. law, the original term of
copyright extends for 28 years, with a renewal
term, upon application, of another 28 years.
e
THE Soviet Union claims 276 publishing houses
and says it published 59,600 titles in 1956.
Writers and others wTho earn royalties make up a
prosperous intellectual elite in Russia.
John Gunther reports: "The richest man in
Russia is supposed to be a composer of popular
music, whose earnings probably amount to a mil
lion rubles ($250,000 at par) per year." And writ
ers and artists can always win Stalin (now Lenin)
prizes running up to 200,000 rubles ($50,000)
each.
Russia has always published the no longer
copyrighted works of such American writers as
Mark Twain,. Jack London, and .Theodore
Dreiser, all extremely popular in the Soviet Un
ion. But of late books by Ernest Hemingway and
John Steinbeck even Mickey . Spillane have
been widely pirated, as have U.S. technical
books. And as Russia opens the doors wider to
Western "popular culture," the piracy will prob
ably multiply unless Stevenson's mission should
prove spectacularly successful. E.R.R.
What Price the Sahara Now?
Who cared about the Sahara until recently?
The great Powers let France acquire political
control of the desert practically by default in
the 19th centuiy. France wanted to connect her
northern and western African possessions, and
all she seemed to be getting was sand. .
But in August, 1956, a rich oil field was dis
covered in an interior area of Algeria that really
lies within the northern Sahara. Various oil com
panies have been exploring for other fields in
central and eastern Algeria. These explorations
will be intensified once the Algerian hostilities
cease.
Who can say that the Sahara doesn't contain
more oil? Or that new developments in air trans
portation won't make profitable the working of
other minerals knom to be present in the desert?
Or that new processes won't make practicable
the watering of large stretches of the Sahara?
TTHE northeast part of the Sahara often called
the Libyan Desert lies largely within inde
pendent Egypt, the extreme eastern part within
the independent Sudan. If Algeria gets inde
pendence it will share with independent Libya
the north central Sahara. And independent Mo
rocco is trying to chase the Spanish from the
western strip along the Atlantic called Spanish
Morocco or Rio de Oro.
Interest in political sovereignty over the
Sahara would have seemed fantastic not many
years ago. But so would have the present disputes
about sovereignty in Antarctica, to say nothing
about speculation on the United States and Rus
sia, some day staking out rival claims to or on
the moon. E.R.R.
Dennis the Menace
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'There's a suy oowhstairs. gur he's not a
6U031AR 'CAUSE HE'S NOT W4RM' A AMSfC.
Washington Report
By William S. White
Washington Congressional
investigations, with few ex
ceptions in memory, are fated
to an almost
- inev i t a b 1 e
I' cheapness and
' sordi d n e s s.
This is now
being illus-
trated in the
1 House com-
m i 1 1 ee's in-
quiry into
matters run-
Wiiiam s. white ning from A
to G that is, from Sherman
Adams to Bernard Goldfine.
A Congressional hearing
room is not a courtroom and
can never be. But the very
absence of the restraints of a
proper court proceeding often
creates a vulgar parody of a
trial. For the Congressional
committee will sit simultane
ously as grand jury, prosecu
tor, judge and trial jury
with some of the functions of
defense counsel, too, being
loudly and inexpertly exer
cized by a few of the mem
bers. No presiding officer, how
ever able and determined, can
always keep order and main
tain fair play. There is no
judge here with remote and
absolute authority. There is
only a chairman doing the
best or sometimes the worst
he can.
rpHE "Adams-Goldfine com-
mittee" is far from a hor
rible example. It is an unusu
ally responsible group as Con
gressional investigators go.
Its chairman, Representative
Oren Harris of Arkansas, is a
fair-minded and leading mem
ber of the House. A first-rate
man as a person, he is highly
respected by those who know
him best, his own colleagues.
Thus here is a Congression
al investigating unit that is
considerably better than most,
and one with a chairman who
is very much better than
most.
Nevertheless, once Harris
puts an end to one kind of
error,- or silliness, or unfair
ness, another pops up. Not
long ago he had to clean up
the procedures by which a
good deal of hearsay and
clearly malicious evidence
was being allowed to go into
the record.
And then came Goldfine's
valid complaint, theatrically
shrill though it was, that a
committee investigator had
been using a "bug," or tape
recorder microphone, against
him. t
VTOW, "bugging" does go on.
But few would defend itj
except in rare, grave cases
Try and
it
1.V i V ,
-By BENNETT CERF-
REVTVED: the story of the little man homeward bound from
a festive office party. He consulted his watch. It was 7
. p.m.! From the taxi window, he next spotted a clock outside a
' jewelry store. It registered
6:55. . Then he asked
a
driver for the time.-
'The
time," was the answer,
exactly 6:50."
'is-
. Turn around fast,
plored the little man.
lm-
Tm
going in the wrong direc
tion:"
" J -
Texasof course, is the lar
gest state in the union
but
how many of you can name
the following five in their
proper order? Your list made?
Well, here they are: Califor
nia, Montana, New Mexico,
Arizona and Ne'ada. '
. Jones had just flubbed his fourth shot in the same trap one Sun
day morning. "The way Tm playing golf," he muttered disgustedly,
"I might just as well have gone to church."
, 1933. by Bennett Cert. Pirtributtd by Ki Features Sydicte,
where infamous crimes
against public safety or na
tional security are involved.
No sensible , Congressman
could ever justify this essen
tially lawless practice as a
proper one for the highest
law-making body of this coun
try. Certainly Harris would
never have sanctioned it, as
he has so clearly shown.
All the same, the incident
did happen. And it happened
primarily because Congres
sional investigations are what
they are. They are necessari
ly, political less so under a
good than a bad chairman,
but political always.
' .
THEY are never truly objec
. tive, as is a court, nor
could they be. For even the
most decent committee is not
exactly looking for an ac
quittal. When it starts a hear
ing, it naturally can have no
wish to have it end in the col
lapse' of whatever case the
committee ' has developed."
Such investigations, more
over, do not have and cannot
have the decorum and de
tachment of a court. The at
mosphere, though it may vary
markedly in degree, in sub
stance is -always the same:
Ah-hah! You evil fellow;
we've got you, haven't we?
Most of all they are disor
derly, in the deepest sense.
And this is because Congress
is the wrong place either to
conduct investigations or
prosecutions or to dispense
any kind of justice. Not being
a court, and having none of
the carefully measured pow
ers and responsibilities of a
court, a committee is invaria
bly tempted to go where it
has rfo right to go.
And not being under the
protections of a court, the ac
cused witness is invariably
tempted to conduct his de
fense as much on publicity
rubbish as on fact.
'
TERNARD GOLDFINE, for
example, is surrounded by
a battalion of public relations
men. How does objective
truth emerge from a contest
between hucksterism on the
defense side and irresponsi
ble, penny-ante snoopism on
the committee side?
Truth is one of the victims
of this sort of procedure. The
accused sometimes are vic
tims, too. (And rich, conserv
ative Republican businessmen
can bleed from the wounds of
injustice quite as freely as
did the liberal intellectuals in
the days of McCarthyism.)
But perhaps the chief of all
victims is the dignity of the
Congress of the United States.
(Copyright, 1958. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Stop Me
' , ' '
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Letters submitted for publica
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sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary is often the
case.
Moves lo Oregon
To the Editor: Failing health
and old age, I am now 93
years of ageto compel me to
spend my time indoors. I get
anxious to do something. A
friend said . why don't you
write. So I will tell of a trip
my parents, with four boys
and two little girls, made to
southern Oregon in a covered
wagon in 1878.
We moved from our home
at Santa Monica, Calif., to
Jacksonville. We put a canvas
top on our 3V4 Bain wagon.
We had four good driving
horses and two .nice riding
horses for us boys to take
turns riding, which completed
our caravan. .
The reason for the move to
Oregon in reality was drought
in Los Angeles county. We had
three drought years in a row.
The land was so dry no crops
of any kind could be- raised.
New orange orchards set .out
dried up completely. The rail
road freight rates from Sacra
mento on produce was so high,
merchants refused to pay it.
One day my father said to
mother, "June, we are going
to move. We have been living
on Oregon food for three
years, we better; move to
where they raise it." We sold
our furniture for any price
we could get, boarded up the
windows and locked up our
nice home, as we could not
rent it during the hard times.
We got our caravan ready
and 'started for Oregon. Us
boys hung a sign on the wag
on. "Oregon or Bust."
The weather was really hot
in the Baker sfield country,
but we traveled early and late
and some days drove 35 miles
a day. It got some cooler when
we got to Stockton and the
Sacramento valley. We came
by way of Adin, Calif., instead
of going by way of Yreka,
Calif., as father wanted to see
the Klamath cattle country
We found a nice country at
Tule Lake and camped for the
night at a bluff called "Bloody
Point." In 1852, the Modoc
Indians massacred an entire
train of emigrants there. We
soon reached Oregon and trav
eled along the north east side
of Tule Lake, and soon reacn-
ed a cattle ranch where the
Modoc Indians killed 1 Boddy
and two sons, and son-m-law.
They are buried at the Jack
sonville cemetery. The tomb
stones are plainly seen.
When we reached Ashland,
we located William Patton and
family and Mr. and Mrs. John
Parham, Patton's father-in-
law. They crossed the plains
in 1858 with my parents in
the Red Horn Ox train.
After my father spent two
days looking over the Rogue
River valley and country, and
returned to Ashland, he said
to mother, "It's the finest lit
tle mountain valley I have
ever seen, and! all produce is
plentiful and reasonably
priced." We lived at Jackson
ville for one year, then settled
at Ashland. Father passed
away in 1882.
I learned the flour miller's
trade in Ashland in 1885. I
accepted a position as flour
miller at the new flour null
built and owned, by the late
Thomas Martin at Cinkville,
now Klamath Falls.
In 1894, Thomas Martin and
I built the Martin and Bran
don Flour mill at Merrill, Ore.
Frank S. Brandon,
211 North Ivy st.,
Medford, Oregon.
Ncse in Tent
To the Editor: Seems the
vicuna has his nose in the
GOP tent.
It started in the United
States, where most of our trou
bles start, and came fuU cir
cle, ending there or has it
ended?
Before there were any Re
publicans, any United States,
any humans, a little critter
large as a jack rabbit enjoyed
liberty in what is now the
United States 50 or 55 mil
lions of years ago. What's a
few millions when the U.S.
government is billions of dol
lars in debt? Elephants of
that time were in Nasser's
Egypt and had not become
the symbol of the GOP. In
that "Dawn of the Recent"
(Eocene) the great, more
great granddaddy of both the
camels and vicunas grew
large. Big animals of that far
away time are dead and gone,
little creatures thrived like
countries and empires.
Many kinds of camels wan
dered over North America be
fore the Mayflower landed
and were one of our most
prominent families. "Gazelle
camels ranged in size from
gazelles to sheep." Some giraffe-camels
grew big, had
very long legs and necks to
see what went on in the
world. Along your own John
Day grazing camels cavorted.
Nixon Seen as No. 1
Of Democratic Party
By LYLE C. WILSON
Unhed Press International
Washington (UPI) It
would be reasonably accurate
to write that the current is
sue of "The Democratic Di
gest" is a sol
id if not de
liberate salute
to Vice Presi
dent Richard.
M. Nixon.
The Digest
is pub lished
by the Demo
cratic Nation
al committee.
Lyle C. Wilsoe It IS a well
edited political pamphlet. The
July issue arrived on news
desks here with a mimeo
graphed attention - caller to
the fact that the pamphlet's
emphasis had been diverted
from the Adams-Goldfine epi
sode to center on the vice
president.
The Digest's cover bore a
Nixon cartoon and the lead
story dealt with Nixon, un
deniable evidence that Demo
cratic strategists rate Nixon
their No. 1 political opposi
tion, the man most likely to
cause the Democratic party
serious trouble in the elec
tions of this year and in 1960v
Traditional Dead End
That is a solid tribute to a
young man who occupies an
office which traditionally is a
political dead end. How 'dead
an end it has been is indicated
by a. paragraph from this
week's Saturday Evening
Post in which Stewart Alsop
writes of Nixon, as follows:
"Since 1836, when Martin
Van B u r e n inherited the
crown from crusty old An
drew Jackson, no vice presi
dent has been nominated as
his party's presidential can
didate. Yet' already, two
years in advance, Vice Presi
American
Featured
BY CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet.
The holding of American
captives, ' military and civil
ian, in three countries fea
tured the news this week.
The ugly details of a Soviet
Russian attack
on an unarmed
United States
transport
plane roused
official and
public Ameri
can anger.
The plane,
on a flight
frAryi fTiiY-b-A.r
McCann to Iran, was
driven across the border of
Soviet Armenia in a storm on
June 27 with its nine-man Air
Force crew.
Russian Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko, protest
ing against an alleged in
vasion of Soviet territory, told
the State Department the
plane was forced down.
The fliers were released
Monday and flown to their
home base at Wiesbaden, Ger
many. They disclosed that Russian
jet fighters attacked them.
Their plane was set aflame.
Five men, were able to para
chute from it. The remaining
four rode it down. While they
were trying to land the flam
ing plane, the jets attacked
again. .
Gromyko had said that all
the men were in good health.
Actually, it developed, one
suffered . serious burns.
It was disclosed also that
Armenian civilians beat the
Later, something happened.
Like people, camels weren't
satisfied. Camels shook for
ever the dust of North Amer
ica from their feet. Some
went to Asia and Africa,
growing one or two humps
there.
The other bunch, deciding
to be Southern Aristocrats,
headed for South America,
including vicunas, llamas' lit
tle cousins, llamas and gua
nacos, no humps.
The vicuna, about 2Vi feet
tall, with yellow brown to
white wool, has had its wool
used for cloth by "Indians"
living in the Andes maybe a
thousand years before Colum
bus discovered America. Vi
cunas do not choose to live
south of Bolivia.
Vicuna wraps are old style.
The only one who would walk
a mile for a camel, advertise
ments notwithstanding, is an
other camel of the opposite
sex. Same holds true for vi
cunas. The only one who real
ly needs a vicuna coat is a
vicuna.
The vicuna seems to have
his nose in the GOP tent and
simply refuses to get out.
Edith Y. Ingle
338 Bessie st.
- - Medford, Ore.
1 A
dent Nixon has the 1960 Re
publican nomination tewed
up in a nearly puncture proof
bag. He unquestionably has a
better chance than any other
man to be the next president
of the United States."
It is with such as that in
mind that Democratic strate
gists hammer away at Nixon
in preference to beating their
drums about th'. currently
timely story " of Sherman
Adams' friendship with Ber
nard Goldfine. The fact that
Democratic sharpshooters are
diverted from the fine target
offered by Adams to concen
trate on Nixon does to a con
siderable degree endorse the
judgment of columnist Alsop
that Nixon has the 1960 Re
publican presidential nomina
tion in the bag.
This Democratic judgment
was not recently come by.
The Democratic high com
mand has been on the offen
sive against Nixon consistent
ly. During the early Eisen
hower years, -the opposition
was reluctant to tackle the
president personally. He still
was too much the popular
hero. A bruising political at
tack on him could have
aroused public resentment.
Nixon became the presiden
tial whipping boy. That phase
is long past, however. The op
position no longer fears to
attack Eisenhower but seems
to count Nixon as the major
target and the more formid
able obstacle to , Democratic
election victories.
Nixon and California
The Digest calls the roll of
Nixon's political problems
and they are substantial. The
lead story is tiUed; "Nixon's
California dilemma." The
pamphlet wonders whether
Nixon will campaign this year
for Sen. William F. Know
land, the Republican candi
Captives
in News
five parachutists and nearly
lynched one of them. But
there was an odd twist to this
incident. As soon as the fliers
were able to identify them
selves as Americans, the at
tack stopped. Apparently the
Armenians thought the fliers
were Turkish or Russian.
The State Department ac
cused the Russian jets of roak
ing an "inhumane" attack on
an unarmed plane. It accused
Gromyko of lying in his state
ment that the men were in
good health.
The State Department con
tinued a long series of pro
tests to Russia against the de
tention by the East German
Communists of nine Army
men - who strayed in a fog
bound helicopter into Red ter
ritory from West Germany.
The flagrant violation of
agreements, the Russians in
sist that the United States deal
direct with the East German
puppet regime for the Ameri
cans' release. In doing so, the
Russians are trying to force
the United States to recognize
the puppet regime as sover
eign. By trickles, the rebels under
Fidel Castro in easternmost
Cuba released Americans and
Canadians 50 in all whom
they had seized as hostages.
All 17 American civilians
and two of three Canadian ci
vilians were freed, finally.
Negotiations continued for
the release of 30 American
Marines and Navy men and
one Canadian civilian still
held.
The voters of North Rhine
Westphalia, West Germany'
largest state, gave solid ap
proval to Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer's decision that the
West German armed forces
must have tactical atomic
weapons.
The Socialists made the de
cision and "the threat -of
atomic death" the chief cam
paign issue in an election for
a state legislature.'
But Adenauer, for the first
time, won a clear majority in
the legislature, with 104 seats
out of 20U.
In a big upset, the Com
munists emerged as the big
gest party in Finland, Soviet
Russia's nervous neighbor, in
a parliamentary election.
The Reds won 50 seats in
the 200-man Parliament. Be
hind them were the social
Democrats and Agrarians,
with 48 seats each.
Tte Village
DAIRY-SMITH
East Main Si.
Nowhere In this wide, wide wonderful
world will you find better blended fruit
punch, not even in Fontainebleau, France!
I I I
Problem
in Fall
date for governor of Califor
nia, remarking that Know
land is running on a "fla
grantly reactionay anti-labor
program."
Knowland is making a re-form-the-union
campaign and
advocates right-to-work legis
lation which would bar the
closed shop. The Digest hap
pily scents trouble there for
Nixon because, if he cam
paigns for Knowland, "Nixon
will seem to put himself in
the Old Guard camp of the
GOP."
"Nixon has been working
for years to gain coloration
as an internationalist and eco
nomic moderate to win sup
port from the (Thomas E.)
Dewey wing of the party.
How can he keep this camou
flage suit on and still work
for Knowland."
The Democrats would be
pleased if Nixon found it im
possible to campaign for
Knowland. It will not be that
way, however. Nixon will be
there!
In the Day's Hews
Br FRANK JENKINS
Cold war note:
Radio Moscow issued a stern
warning the other morning.
A broadcast BEAMED TO
WARD NORTH AMERICA
claimed the United States is
pushing the world closer to
the edge of disaster.
Specifically, the broadcast
accused the United States of
juggling with world peace by
senaing pianes toward Rus
sia's borders. The Russian
commentator put it this way:
"In spite of provocations,
Russian planes are NOT fly.
ing toward the United States
but, alas, U.S. planes ARE
still flying toward our bor
ders. The result is that the
world is practically on the
brink of war."
WHAT cooks?
" I
wouldn't know. But
note this:
The broadcast was beamed
TOWARD THE U.S. That
means it was designed es
pecially lor our consumption
and that the Russkies weren't
particularly interested in
whether the rest of the world
heard it or not.
That, presumably, means
that their purpose is to throw
a scare into us. '
WHAT shall we do?
" Here's ,one thing
we
must do: .
WE MUST SHOW NO SIGN
OF FEAR. If we show fear,
the Russians will be on us
like a pack of wolves.
A LONG that line, our state
department has just made
public some interesting World
War II records. The records
cover the ' period when we
were coming to the assistance
of Russia after she had been
attacked by Hitler.
They reveal that every
time the Russkies asked too
much and we yielded they
got tougher and asked for
more. When we stood pat,
they backed off and showed
signs of INCREASED RE
SPECT FOR US.
That's worth remembering.
F PORT ANCE of water note:
Back in Illinois, they're
proposing to divert 1000 cfs
(cubic feet per second) of
Lake Michigan water into the
Illinois waterway. (The Illi
nois waterway leads from
Lake Michigan to the Missis
sippi river and thence to deep
water at the Gulf of Mexico.)
Senator Potter of Michigan
protests bitterly. He tells the
senate public works commit
tee that every one-inch drop
in Great Lakes water levels
costs shippers heavily in re
duced carrying capacity of
ships engaged in 'the Great
Lakes trade. He says Lake
Michigan's level is already
dangerously low and says all
Great Lakes cities would
suffer if the diversion plan i
approved.
THE nation as a whole does
n't realize it yet, but the
time is near when water will
be our MOST IMPORTANT
resource, without which other
resources can be valueless.
Out here in the West in
cluding Southern Oregon and
Far Northern California
we're acutely aware that any
area that loses its proper
share of ITS OWN WATER is
in for bad trouble in the fu
ture. :
I CenettM
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