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5. Ben Davis, Mcintosh,
Rome Beauty, and Delicious
are names of varieties of
which fruit?
6. In which city, and on
what date, is the Rose Bowl
football game Jlayed?
7. Derails of the Nordem
bombsight aro, or are not,
now available to the public?
8. Where did the Civil War
battle between othe Monitor
and the Merrimac occur?
9. The tongue of a wood
pecker is longer than the
bird's head; true or false?
10. In early colonial days,
Massachusetts drove Quakers
out of the community; whal
was the penalty imposed if
they returned?
Answers: 1. True. 2. Max
Adelberl Baer. 3. Montana.
4. Germany. 5. Apples. 6.
New Year's Day, in Pasadena,
Cal. 7. Are. 8. Hampton
Roads. Ya- 9- True. 10. Hang
ing.
East-West Highway
Chances for completion of the Lake of the
Woods road to Klamath Falls and eventually
construction of the long-sought route from Win
nemucca, Nevada, to the sea never looked so
good.
The most important step, to have the trans
Cascade route place on the forest highway net
work, hinged on the decision by the bureau of
public roads, a decision reportedly made favor
ably last week.
The forest service has already approved such
a move, and so has the state highway commission.
A BPR representative has expressed himself as
favorably impressed with the project, and agreed
to use the highway commission's engineering sur
vey of the proposal, thus eliminating the need for
additional on-the-spot work, duplicating what has
already been done.
"IXHEN the forest highway designation is ap-
proved, then the route will take its place on
a list of upcoming projects, and in its turn will
be improved to a high standard.
The route has many advantages over the
Green Springs route.
It has fewer curves, an easier grade, and is in
a more, direct line of travel. It will help tap large
stands of timber, and make the trip from Medford
to Klamath Falls a much faster, easier jaunt.
And it would open to much easier access one
of the best recreational areas in the state, the
Lake of the Woods, Fish Lake, Fourmile Lake,
Mt. McLoughlin area.
"II7E HAVE travelled the route several times in
its present, . unimproved condition, and it
would appear that bringing it to a high standard
forest highway would not be a major undertak
ing. We have heard no cost estimates, as yet, but
it would be far less than cutting through an en
tirely new right of way.
this section, in many ways, is the most im
portant to Medford of the whole Winnemucca-to-the-sea
proposal, for our economic ties with
Klamath County are strong, and roads in other
directions are mostly good.
But the other portions are of great importance,
too.
. To the east, Highway 66 continues to Lake
view. But here one must gp either north or south;
for there is no decent east-west road. If and when
it is cut through, from Lakeview to Winnemucca,
by way of Adel, Ore., and into Nevada south of
Denio, it will cut some 150 miles off the trip to
Salt Lake City and points east.
IN THE other direction, the road to Grants Pass
is fair, and soon will be good. But from there
to the coast, and a seaport, the choice narrows.
There is Highway 199, which from the California
border almost to Crescent City, while beautiful,
is full of curves and grades. K
lo the north, the first westward highway is
No. 42, which is one of the worst state highways
in Oregon. The first decent route to the sea is No.
38, but one has to go all
to it.
Someday, a new route to the ocean will be
opened up, either to Brookings or Gold Beach.
And when that happens, Medford will take
on an added importance
east-west route, as well
ot travel and commerce. b.A.
Merlin Division Project
The Talent project, the $22 million reclama
tion and irrigation undertaking which is now well
under way in Jackson county, is the only portion
of the overall Rogue Basin Project so far ap
proved by Congress.
But there is increasing interest in other phases
of the Rogue plan including the Illinois Valley
project and the Merlin Division project.
Neither is as large as the Talent job, but each
is important in its own area.
TTHE bureau of reclamation recently completed
a study of the Merlin division, and declared
that it is feasible from an engineering standpoint.
Located in Josephine county a few miles north
of Grants Pass, the project would provide irriga
tion for 9,260 acres of land near Merlin, doubling
the amount of irrigated Acreage in the area, and
providing a reservoir some 2X2 miles long. This
would provide both recreational and flood con
trol benefits.
Potential benefits are figured at a ratio of
1.67 to 1, on a 50-year basis, a ratio considered
exceedingly good, and much better than in many
other western reclamation projects.
S A result of the feasibility finding, the people
of Josephine county
er or not it is something they want, and are will
ing to work for as the people of Jackson county
decided some years ago in regard to the Talent
project.
The Grants Pass Courier, in commenting on
the proposal, said that if the people's decision is
affirmative, then "intelligent, coordinated effort"
will be required to obtain authorization.
And it added:
"It is up to individuals and groups to become fa
miliar with the nature of the project, to discuss it and
to promote it for the general welfare of the citizens of
the county. It is a task that must not be complicated by
emotional partisanship or be confused by unrelated
issues. It is a hard task, but one that is not beyond us
if we all work together for our common good."
To which Jackson county people; interested
and sympathetic, and. experienced in just such
a problem, can say "amen." E.A.
the way to Drain to get
as a major point on an
as a north-south artery
must now decide wheth
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EVER A KEEN SURPRISE
Klamath Bill Due;
Interpretations of
Versions Differ
BY A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The Klamath
Indian bill is scheduled to
come up for vote in a special
meeting Monday of the House
Interior Committee amid con
flicting interpretations of one
major change
made thus far
in the Senate
passed ver
sion. The major
change was to
strike out the
the key phrase
at var-
a. Robt smith lous places in
the bill but whether this
means the Klamath forests
would not have to be oper
ated and managed on a sustained-yield
basis, or some
thing basically similar, is a
question government lawyers
are now trying to answer.
This change showed up
when the House Indian Af
fairs subcommitee approved
an amended version of the bill
which the Senate passed sev
eral months ago. The bill's
chief purpose is to prevent the
Interior Department from be
ing required to put the Klam
ath pine forests up for private
sale for whatever the timber
will bring a "fire sale" pro
cedure, Interior Secretary
Fred A.. Seaton has called it.
Bill Changed
The Senate bill would have
allowed private operators to
bid on the timber, provided
they would "agree to manage
the forest lands for not less
than 100 years according to
sustained yield plans to be
prepared and submitted by
them for approval and inclu
sion in the conveyancing in
truments. . ."
But in the House subcom
mittee, Rep. Jack Westland
(R-Wash.) offered an amend?
ment which caused a big has
sle within the committee over
this provision. Rep. Al Ullman
(D-Ore.) said he opposed West
land's efforts to kill the sustained-yield
proviso, with the
resulting "compromise" lan
guage adopted by the subcom
mittee: ". . .purchasers who agree
to manage the forest lands as
far as practicable so as to fur
nish a continuous supply of
timber according to plans to
be prepared and submitted by
them for approval and inclu
sion in the conveyancing in
struments. . ."
Different Interpretations
This new phrase "to furnish
a continuous supply of tim
ber" which replaces the more
familiar term "sustained
yield" is subject to different
interpretations. Congressman
Westland claims this is a
change whose purpose is to
simply use the "same phrase
ology" that applies to the na
tional forests.
"Nowhere does the term
sustained-yield appear in the
statutes applying to the for
est service," argued Westland.
Edward C. Crafts, assistant
chief of the Forest Service,
who has followed the Klam
ath fight all the way, con
firmed that Westland was cor
rect up to a point "the term
continuous supply of timber is
used in our 1897 statute, but
that was before the concept of
sustained - yield was devel
oped." Crafts said the' important
thing was that the 1897 stat
ute is administered under reg
ulations drafted by the secre
tary of agriculture which do
use the term sustained-yield.
Reasons Giren
Westland claimed also that
his purpose in pushing this
change was to prevent a pur
chaser from being in "techni
cal violation of the law" if he
didn't follow the letter of sustained-yield
plan each year.
He explained that a bug infes
tation might one year require
more cutting than normally,
while another year a slump in
the market might make a re
duction in the cut a wise
move. 'j
Westland also contended
that "in some respects this is
tougher" language in the bill
because it would reqire oper
ations to assure a continuous
supply of timber "forever"
and not just for 100 years, as
the Senate bill requires.
The Forest Service has its
fingers crossed about just
what this change means.
"We don't really know what
it means yet," said Crafts. "It
depends on how the commit
tee interprets it in their re
port on the bill. Continuous
supply is a little broader term.
It could encompass sustained
yield, or it could be something
less than sustained-yield."
Research Asked
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) said at his request the
Forest Service is researching
its laws in an effort to clarify
the possible effect of this
amendment. Neuberger push
ed the bill through the Senate
and hopes to be able to get
the bill enacted finally with
the term sustained-yield in
tact. Assuming the House ver
sion is passed by the House,
the bill then goes to a confer
ence committee where a com
promise version must be
worked out. Neuberger said
he has been assured he will
head the Senators who will be
appointed to that conference.
Neuberger said he thought
criticism of the House version
voiced last Week by Gov. Rob
ert D. Holmes was justified.
Holmes wired Neuberger and
House leaders in protest
against "emasculating" amend
ments, which he contended
would "result in flooding our
markets with Indian timber
and will rob Indians price
wise." 1
Congressman Ullman felt
the governor's criticism, was
an indirect slap at him, for
Ullman is on the subcommit
tee which made the changes.
Ullman said he didn't want
Westland's changes, but he
didn't think they were so bad.
Sees Higher Standards
"If you've got a responsible
Secretary of Agriculture, you
could conceivably get higher
standards under this bill than
under the other," Ullman said.
He pointed out, as Westland
had, that the 100-year limit
on sustained - yield manage
ment was changed to make
the management for continu
ous timber supply "perpetu
al." Ullman said the commit
tee report will explain the
purpose of the bill to assure
good conservation practices.
Ullman said the significant
thing which his efforts held in
the bill was the requirement
that prospective purchasers of
the timber submit plans to the
Forest Service in advance of
the bid. The plans must in
clude provisions for soil and
water conservation as well as
timber management. They
must be approved by the Sec
retary of Agriculture as com
plying with the minimum
standards set up to govern op
eration of the Klamath tim
ber. The House version also calls
for a review of the appraisal
already made of the Klamath
resources, with values to be
reported to Congress by next
Jan. 15. No timber could be
sold before July 1, 1959 to
private purchasers. If they
don't buy any or all the tim
ber by July 1, 1961, it would
be taken over by the Forest
Service.
Washington Report
By William
POLITICS GOES ON
Washington The fellow
who keeps books at the ce
ment plant will be moved
like the rest of
us when great
crises come
upon the coun
try. But he
will go right
on keeping the
books.
So, too, the
profess i o n a 1
politician. He
mSiwhSris deeply inter
ested in Lebanon, in Iraq, in
Jordan. But he, too, still has
his job to do. While his heart
is with the drama of the Mid
dle East, his mind must re
main prosaically upon the
Middle West and . the West,
the South and the East.
In this sense the black for
eign headlines have become
first and foremost only anoth
er problem in all the other do
mestic political calculations
of the national politician.
In both parties, the top pro
fessionals are supporting the
President in act as well as in
word as he moves fatefully
in the Middle East. And the
Democrats mean this support
quite as much as do the Re
publicans. BUT in both parties, the top
professionals are also very
busy in another way. They
are casting up their early,
tentative balance sheets as to
the effect on the Congression
al elections this fall of Presi
dent Eisenhower's dispatch of
the Marines and paratroopers
to protect the free West's
position.
The most optimistic of the
confidential estimates of Re
publican professionals does
not claim that the party can
win these elections as a result
of the President's action-
after such long inaction.
These confidential estimates
do,, however, raise the possi
bility that the Republicans
might have a good chance to
reduce the degree of losses
that earlier had seemed in
evitable. A Republican pro always
found by this correspondent
to be bleakly realistic private
ly sums it up: "A week ago
we were dead for '58 . ,
simply dead. Now, we are at
least alive, if only a little.'
The most pessimistic of the
confidential estimates among
uemocratic proiessionais as
sumes that the Democrats are
fairly certain at worst to
broaden somewhat their pres
ently thin majorities in the
Senate and House. They are
seen as certain to widen these
margins very sharply if the
highest figures of the Demo
cratic party are able to sus
tain their present determina
tion to keep fringe and splin
t e r Democratic spokesmen
from attacking foreign policy
in these dangerous times.
IT IS noteworthy and far
from accidental that those
Democrats who are standing
most strongly with the
President now include former
President Truman, Adlai E.
Stevenson, Speaker Sam Ray
burn of the House of Repre
sentatives and Senator Lyn
don B. Johnson, the Senate
Democratic Leader.
A Democratic professional
of high competence and re
liability puts it this way: "If
we can continue to show that
we are a truly responsible
party and if Harry (Mr. Tru
man) doesn't let his very
understandable memories of
his own shabby treatment by
the Republicans over Korea
get the better of him the Re
publicans are going nowhere
in '58. In any case, they can't
possibly get very far."
Nobody in either party, pa
renthetically, is attempting to
peer into the Presidential con
test of 1960. The question of
1958 is quite enough for the
moment.
Such a rise in heart among
the Republican pros as there
has been is only relative. It
is based upon the belief that
Mr. Eisenhower's bold act in
the Middle East after years
of indecision before the march
of imperialist communism
may help neutralize a power
ful Democratic issue for this
fall.
.
rpHIS issue actually had been
unearthed widely in secret
polls made on behalf of Con
gressional Republicans rather
than Congressional Demo
crats. The bad news brought
to the Republicans had been
this: Not even Presidential As
sistant Sherman Adams and
his vicuna coat and other fa
vors from Bernard Goldfine
were doing the Republicans
so much harm as was a
spreading public image of Mr.
Eisenhower as having faltered
in national leadership.
It would be true irony if
General Eisenhower's decision
to intervene boldly in the
Middle East in 1958 should
save his own party from an
all-out Congressional election
disaster. For his refusal to
intervene at all in the Middle
mm
S. White
East in 1956 except nega
tively in helping to end the
British-French-Israeli invasion
of pro-Communist E g y p t
helped compound a Demo
cratic Presidential election
disaster of that year.
Mr. Eisenhower would have
won over Mr. Stevenson any
how but certainly not by the
vast landslide with which he
did win.
(Copyright, 1958. by United
Fealurei Syndicate, Inc.)
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
THE MARINES IN
THE LEBANON
The Marines have been
landed at Beirut in the des
perate hope of limiting the
disaster which
the Iraqi rev
o 1 u t i o n has
brought upon
the Western
posit ion. It
would be
a miracle,
which is not
likely to hap
pen, if the
Walter Lippmann land i n g ,
which is now confined to Bei
rut and, its airport, is any
where nearly sufficient to
stabilize the situation. The
Marines are quite able to pro
tect the capital of the Leb
anon just by their presence.
But there is no assurance that
they will bring the civil war
to an end.
Moreover, Jordan, which is
an artificial and fragile king
dom beset by a revolution
similar to that in Iraq, has ap
pealed to Britain and Ameri
ca for military assistance. The
appeal of King Hussein was
as difficult to refuse as the
appeal of President Chamoun,
though in the case of Jordan
it was British paratroopers
who were sent in.
Possibly, Saudi Arabia will
be able to get along without
calling for help, largely to be
sure by a policy of neutrali
ty which is increasingly be
nevolent to Nasser.
Finally, it seems most prob
able that the British will feel
that they have to land troops
in the little sheikdoms of the
Persian Gulf, where are their
main oil holdings in the Mid
dle East.
THUS, there is a grim pros-
pect that the British and
the Americans will find them
selves holding on to . beach
heads on the fringes of the
Arab countries of the Middle
East. In no Arab country, ex
cept the Lebanon ' which is
about half Christian, does the
West have any strong friends.
As the cards now lie, the best
that : President Eisenhower
ean hope for is that the bigger
Arab nations can be contained
by a holding operation at the
shores of the Eastern Medi
terranean and of the Persian
Gulf.
It will be a momentous
question how deeply and for
how long American forces
are to be tied down in this
holding operation. For Nas
ser will now control, except
for Israel, all that we do not
hold onto by military force.
THE decision to send in the
Marines was, as we all
realize, a tragic choice be
tween two evils. After the
Iraqi revolution, it was a vir
tual certainty that the Leb
anon, Jordan, and the Persian
Gulf states would fall too, if
they were not supported from
the outside. That was the evil
the President decided to re
sist. The other evil, which he
had, therefore, to embrace,
was that we are now in mili
tary opposition to the Arab
revolution, and that in the
Middle East the alignment is
increasingly sharp and spec
tacular between the Moslem
Arabs and the Western pow
ers with their client states.
The President's speech on
Tuesday evening took the un
fortunate line of identifying
Nasser' both with Hitler and
with Stalin, and in declaring
what amounts to an ideologi
cal war against him.
MY OWN view is that the
agonizing dilemma in
which the President found
himself on Monday morning
is due to a fundamental error,
which many have pointed out,
in the conception and design
of our Middle Eastern policy.
The error is in believing that
the way to stabilize the Mid
dle East is to align as many
Middle Eastern countries as
can be persuaded to join in a
military alliance against the
Soviet Union.
This is an . error for two
main reasons.' One is that it
is absurd to suppose that a
great power like Russia can
be excluded from a region
which is as close to her and
PTILUeC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The following letter was
received last week:
Mayor John W. Snider
City Hall
Medford, Oregon
Dear John:
It has come to my attention
that on July 10, 1958, four
traffic lights located on East
Main Street (in Medford) were
inoperative during the day,
and that each of these traffic
as important to her as is Cen
tral America, to the United
States. The other reason is
that the intent of the Arabs
is not to be aligned with us
or with the Soviet Union, but
to be neutral and to profit by
dealing with both sides.
The policies, based on this
misconception, have blown up
and are in ruin. They were
based on theories which are
contrary to the facts of life,
and they were certain to fail.
rpHIS is not mere post mor-
ten. For it is most prob
able, it seems to me, that we
shall not be able to reach any
solution as long as the prin
ciple, or rather the ghost, of
the old policy continues to
dominate the thinking of the
White House and of the State
Department. That is to say, a
policy of the military con
tainment of Nasser, which is
what we are now involved m,
has no promise of any kind
of settlement and is a great
threat of far reaching compli
cations. '
The alternative is to pro
pose a settlement in the Mid
dle East based on the prin
ciple of neutrality. This is
what Egypt professes and
probably wants. And for the
little states, like Lebanon and
Israel, the principle of neu
tralization guaranteed by all
the great powers and by the
United ' Nations offers the
greatest promise!
The essential point is that
we should not merely begin
on the beaches and then ac
cept as the best that is pos
sible an Indefinitely pro
longed indirect and ideologi
cal war with the Arab revolu
tion. We should seek a settle
ment by negotiation, recogniz
ing that both the Soviet Union
and the United Arab Republic
are powers and have interests
with which we must reach an
accommodation., .-.-
(c) 1958 New York
- Herald Tribune Inc.
Article 51 of U.N.
Charter Cited in
Lebanon Landings
U.S. Marines landed in
Lebanon, al the request ef
the president of that coun
try, under the provisions of
Article SI ef the United Na
tions Charter, which pro
vides for "individual or col
ective self-defense" in the
case of an armed, attack.
Lebanon's request was
based on reports of infiltra
tion of armed men into the
country from nearby Syria."
part of the United Arab Re
public. Article 51 says:
"Nothing in the present
Charier shall impair the
inherent right of individual
or collective self-defense if
an armed attack occurs
against a member of the
United Nations, until the
Security Council has taken
the measures necessary to
maintain international
peace and security. Mea
sures taken by members in
the exercise of this right of
self-defense shall" be imme
diately reported to the Se
curity Council and shall not
in any way affect the au
thority and responsibility
of the Security Council
under the present Charter
lo take at any time such
action as it deems necessary
in order lo maintain or re
store international peace
and security."
The United Stales' action
was reported lo the Secur
ity Council, and the U.S.
requested it to send in a
U.N. police force to take
over from U. S. Marines
and Army troops. This was
the proposal vetoed by Rus
sia Friday afternoon.
Article 51 also was cited
in the landing of British
paratroops
the request
in Lenanon ax
of King Hus-
Since the Security Coun
cil failed to act. the mailer
now will have to await ac
tion by the General As
sembly, which will require
a iwo-lhirdi vole. .
lights was covered with po
tato sacks labelled "Klamath
Potatoes." We have no objec
tion whatsoever to the Citv
of Medford using our potato
sacks, in fact' we are very
happy over the free advertis
ing we have received through
this medium,.
Possibly sometime in the
future we may have a situa
tion where we will have to
cover some of our traffic
lights and we may reciprocate
the favor by using some pear
boxes.
Thank you very much again
Mayor Snider for the free ad
vertising. Sincerely yours,
Lawrence E. Slater ;
Mayor of Klamath Falls
The following reply was
sent the same weekt
Lawrence E. Slater
Mayor,
City of Klamath Falls, Oregon
Dear Larry:
Thank you for the acknowl
edgement of our advertising
effort on behalf of Klamath
Falls potatoes.
This is only the first of our
efforts to help promote the
great Oregon Centennial. Our
next step might very possibly
be covering the lights with
Columbia River salmon. Later
on we have scheduled the use
of some of your scrawny
Klamath pelicans.
Your offer to reciprocate is
accepted with our thanks.
Yours very truly, .
John W. Snider
Mayor of Medford
Still later in the week it
was noticed that the sacks
were taken down, and what
looked very much like pear
box shook used to cover
the lights. And of course, if
the sack dress is really
going out of fashion, at pre
dicted, that would be a won
derful source of material
for covering traffic lights.
We'll volunteer the society
editor's.
An Applegate couple, who
proudly own a beautiful pedi
greed cocker spaniel, took
their pet with them on a re
cent trip to the coast, and in
troduced her to the Pacific
Ocean, of which she took a
"dim view."
Our report continues:
"She has a passion for wa
ter but NOT the kind that
rises up and chases her with
loud swishing noises. She
found herself a bit of drift
wood of just the right size for
chewing, and after carrying
it around a while, decided to
bury it. And the only right
place to do it was right at the
edge of the last wave. She
would hopefully trot out and
make two passes at digging a
hole, only to be forced into
rapid retreat by the next O
wave. As soon as It receded,
she would trot down and try
again with the same unsatis
factory result. Finally, when
she was worn and weary, we
took the stick and buried it
for her, but she dug it up as
if to say, "No, this just isn't
the right place,', and went on
trying until we left the beach,
whereupon she brought the
chewing-stick along with her
and stowed it in her bed box
until we got home. She has
now reduced most of it to
splinters but still hunts up
the remnant at intervals to
play with and munch on.
"Aren't dogs fun?"
Our farm editor has re
ported in his eolumns about
the new emphasis on "in
tegrated" type of farm op
eration. But he informs ui
that an agricultural college
official from Texas told
him recently that in Texas
they call 11 something else.
"Integration" means some
thing else down there, he
said.
The farm editor journeyed
out of town not long ago in
the company of a man who
was driving one of those
small foreign - made cars, of
which he was proud. i-
At their destination they
stopped near a parking lot,
and noticed .how the tails of
the late-model U.S. cars an .
hung way over the curb. The
FE's friend looked at them
disdainfully and declared:
Reminds me of a bunch
of hens all blowed out from
laying too many eggs.
At that point, a tall in
dividual dressed up t a
cowboy ambled up and sug
gested that the occupants
put a rope on the small car
and tie it to the parking
meter, "Otherwise th' li'l
critter might get away." ;
.
A man on our staff, who is
given to attending cnurcn
dinner? and picnics, and such,
has an explanation why the
coffee is always so strong.
"It just has to be stronger
than, the . devil,'. -.-be says
piously. .