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J 4 ThunJiy, August 21, 1951 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDHiTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune ' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at ileoford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 STJBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420. Bv Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. 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 All Terms Cash in Advance Offirial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United PressTlnternational Full JeasedWire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OFIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC., Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCUAT Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Alia. 21. 1948 (Saturday) The Southern Oregon Ken nel club holds its second dog show of the season tomorrow. Completion of incorpora tion of the Tucker Sno-Cat company is announced. 20 YEARS AGO Aua. 21. 1938 (Sunday) So far 19 local "Barney Old- fields' have entered the midget speeder derby sched uled next Friday. ".. , From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Gold Hill menfolks are raising ' whiskers for the Northwest ' Jackson County fair Sept. 10, ' and some are long enough for good hand hold." . 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 21. 1928 (Tuesday) Medford's newest dance pa vilion will be opened Satur- . day night in the new Childers building on East Main st. at Sear creek. ' Pear shippers are keeping their rail shipments low this week pending reduced freight rates which go into effect Fri day. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 21, 1918 (Wednesday) Rep. W. C. Hawley has in- ; troduced a bill in Congress to add large areas to Crater Na- tional forest to prevent Cali fornia sheepmen from grazing flocks on land long pastured by Jackson county cattlemen. The first French army uni form to be seen in Medford during the war was observed at the depot this morning on the person of a young French infantry officer. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Three of the five bor oughs of New York City are Manhattan," Brooklyn and Bronz; name the other two. 2. The date of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan was Dec. 7 of what year? 3. Which of these are not mammals eel,, whale, arma dillo, ant-eater, pigeon, itur geon, penguin? 4. Atlantic City, N.J., is a summer resort only it is closed during the winter months; true or false? 5. If a cubic foot of water Is frozen, will its volume as ice be greater or less than a cubic foot? 6. With what major league baseball team did Lou Geh rig play? 7. Is a PT boat larger in tonnage than a destroyer? 8. On which party ticket was Gov. Earl Warren of Cal iforna elected in his last elec tion for that office? 9. In which large Eastern city is Fenway Park? 10. What does the name "Stalin' mean? Answers: I. Queens and Richmond. 2. 1941. 3. Eel. pigeon, sturgeon, penguin. 4. False. 5. Greater. 6. New York Yankees. 7. No. 8. Both Dem ocratic and Republican. 9. Boston. Mass. 10. Steel. A recent ordinance provides for a $10 fine for supermarket owners in Kenilworth, N.J., whose shopping carts are found abandoned in the streets. Lightning and Lookouts When the lightning flickers on the horizon, and when the spectacular strikes hit closer at hand, ripping down into the hills and timberland of the county, what is it like to be on top of. a mountain in a forest lookout cabin? Watching this week's storms, with the con stant play of lightning around the horizon, the frequent bolts visible at closer range, and the giumble-rumble of thunder interrupted every so often by an earth-shaking blast up close, we were happy not to be on a lookout. a OOWEVER, Curt Nesheim, district warden for the state department of forestry, claims he's never "lost a lookout" to lightning. 'They get pretty scared sometimes," he said in what must be an understatement. Ferris Simpson, son of L. L. (Doc) Simpson, was knocked down this year in his lookout post on top of Mt. Isabelle, Nesheim reported, but he wasn't injured. And he said that such things happen so fast that the "victim" is never sure whether he was knocked down by a bolt which hit the cabin, or by one that struck close, or by the force of air blasting out from a strike, or by an irrepressible and instinctive reaction to "duck," which bowls him over. MESHEIM told about the time he anu another forester were in the woods during a thunder storm. A lightning bolt some 200 feet away. The suddenness of the flash, the tremendous noise, the Shockwave of air, all combined to make it an experience he'll never forget, he said. And recent storms in the valley,- which have sent bolts crashing down into the . i i i to tnose wno nave Deen nearDy. Actually, a forest lookout is a fairly safe place to ride out a storm, despite the fact that their locations subject them to rather more fre quent lightning bolts than less exposed areas. Each is protected by a lightning rod (first invented by Benjamin Franklin, incidentally), which is grounded by heavy copper wire to the earth. If a lookout building is struck, the elec trical charge is conveyed harmlessly into the ground. . DUT the lookouts, nonetheless, do' get nervous. And we would too. During electrical storms they have instruc tions to turn off their radios, and disconnect the antennas. They stay away from the telephones. And most lookout buildings are equipped with specially constructed insulated stools -on 'which the lookouts can sit or An electrical storm is it is raw, elemental nature, powerful and some how mysterious, and (Jurt JNlesheim has never ning, we'd just as soon a bolt-hits. E.A. Joy in Astoria There is joy in Astoria. The albacore (tuna), wThich have mysteri ously been missing from the ocean fishery off the Oregon coast for some years now, have returned and in numbers. The tuna first were offshore fishery in the 1930s. At first, no one paid too much attention, thinking it was a temporary thing. But as they remained, a whole industry built up around the big fish. Lannenes set up equipment for processing and canning them, and tuna clippers were out fitted from ports the full length of the Pacific coast. AT THE height of the tuna's appearance, they sinner if nf or! o cnVief nnf io1 rvoi4 vP A pfnri' o ct economy, supporting a plus the canneiy facilities. Then, late m the 1940s, for no apparent rea son, the tuna vanished. It hit Astoria hard. (It was one of the few towns in Oregon where popu lation gained only slightly between. 1940 and 19o0, and has not grown The salmon fishery of tuna, plus the fall in the bottom-fish market, put Astoria in a seemingly permanent recession. It limped along, supplementing its economy a little with imported frozen tuna from Japan, which mostly served only to keep the canneiy equipment going. . . BUT this year, just as mysteriously as they van-ic-Vinrl 1A irnol.m 1, 4-., 1 lOliCU. J.VT J CCU 3 lgU, U1C UUllct ICLUiilCU. And Astoria's jubilation can be estimated by quotations from the Astorian Budget: "Packers did not estimate how much fish was de livered during the week end although it was believed the deliveries by both boat and truck went well over the 100,000 pound mark. Tuna boats were busy on the ocean all the way from Grays Harbor to Cape Blanco with three separate fleets reporting catches ... "Deliveries by individual boats came in Monday running from four to nine tons per boats, but boats were reported lined up at one cannery Monday morn ing waiting to be unloaded. The price still is $425 per ton on tuna ..." . The Budget also commented that the tuna's return justified the faith of packers, fishermen and fisheiy biologists, who believed they would come back, some day. And it suggested added research to find out where the tuna were hiding during the missing 10 years. I Meanwhile, full boats joy to the Oregon coast. hit an old-growth tree city, confirm his story stand. an awe-inspirirfg. thing. frightening. And while lost a lookout to light be somewhere else when noticed in the Pacific number of fishing boats, m the eight years since.) continued, but the lack and S42o prices bring E.A. Dennis the Menace $na.it iuvwm.mc.-r.M e ' . 8-21 . 'Cctvie on, George- then we can throw this Soviet Hints About Deemed Smart' Propaganda By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London (UPD Soviet Rus sia has thrown out inspired hints that she would favor a higher price for gold. Moscow has refrained from making a definitive proposal so far as what the gold price should be. It has merely term ed the present level as "arti ficial." . First deputy premier Anas tas Mikoyan has been report ed as saying that he 'would make the ruble convertible, if the current "artificially low gold price" were lifted. There was no indicatioa whether, when and to what degree the Soviet authorities were prepared to push their bid to boost gold. But Soviet affairs experts considered the move yet an other element in the Krem lin's versatile propaganda strategy. The Kremlin undoubtedly is aware of United States op position to a change of the price of gold at this stage for fear that it might unleash in flationary trends. On the other hand, the non- American gold - producing countries are in favor of a change. Exploit Element of Conflict ." Soviet propaganda has rare ly lost time in exploiting any element of conflict in the Western world. Just how much she wil be exploiting the gold issue remains an open question. The fact is that Russia has become one of the world's leading gold producers and that she holds quantities of gold second only to the Unit ed ' States. This give her a special position. The growing improtance of Russia as a gold power was spotlighted in the progressive appearance in the last 'two years of large quantities of hammer - and - sickle gold. Considerable gold cargoes were flown from Russia to the West and sold in London and on European markets. Latest estimates said that the Soviet has increased her gold output from a mere 5 million ounces pre-war to well over 17 million ounces today. This equals roughly the pro duction of South Africa, one of. the world's, leading gold producers. At the same time, Russia has become a large scale gold exporter. Last year she was said to have exported little less than half her output (7,500,000 ounces); that was twice the amount she exported the year before (1956). Reserves A Guarded Secret Moscow's gold reserves are a well - guarded secret. Best available estimates put them Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- A TOUGH OLD mountaineer had been missing for five days, and his wife finally decided to look for him. She found him in a thick clump of bushes, lookingxrather peaked. "Sup pertime, paw," she ventured. "Yep," he agreed. "Well, then, ' she continued, "ain ye comin home?" "Nope," said he. "Why not?," said, she. "Becuz," he said with' finality, "I'm standin in a bear trap." - A minister, strolling through a. crowded neighborhood in Brooklyn, came upon a circle of gesticulating boys, with a puppy in the center. . What are you doing with that dog?" asked the minister. "It's a game of ours," ans wered one gamin. "We're go- ing to give it to the guy who tells the biggest lie " "Outrageous!" cut ia the clergyman. "When I was your age, I never told a lie -" "That's it!" exclaimed the youngster. "Give the gent the dog, fellers!" C i3aS, ly Bennett Cerl. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. shake hands; and sjily sign awaj at about one-third of the U.S. reserves and nearly as high as the combined reserves of the rest of the world. Premier Josef Stalin per sonally ordered an increase of gold production in the 1930s. During his reign, hammer-and-sickle gold rarely ap peared -outside the, Soviet Union. But the large-scale produc tion boost is of more recent date. Vast goldfields were report ed to be operating in the Ko lyma region in the northeast of Siberia. , , More recently, a new center 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 oaper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Cooperation To the Editor: I would like to extend, t n r o u g n your "Communications" column, the heartfelt -thanks of the U. S.: Forest Service for the fine cooperation of many or ganizations and individuals during the recent search for Mrs. Hawks. - Because it would be impos sible to thank each one indi vidually I am taking this op portunity to tell each person how important his efforts were. . Unselfish giving of time and equipment resulted in prompt rescue where delay might have been tragic' C. E. Brown, Supervisor Rogue River National Forest Medford Non-Cruel Rodeo To the Editor: I wish to say a few words in regard to a letter in the Communications column on Monday, Aug. 18. The fact that there are 3,000 rodeos , each year in the United States, along with an uncounted number of western movies and TV programs, amply shows the popularity of this kind of entertainment, and contrary to the implica tions made, the public does not attend merely to witness animals being cruelly mis treated. In fact, it is the love and companionship between cowboy and horse and their ability to work together that the -public comes to see, and for a time to feel the clean wholesomeness that keeps this spirit of the old west alive. The letter I have reference to, signed "name on file" is in fact so full of misinforma tion and half-truth statements Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann PEACE FORCE IN JORDAN As of the moment, the cru cial question is how to make an arrangement which will extricate the British troops who are now in Jordan. iney were flown there in order to protect the King and his governm e n t against a coup like that in Iraq, and the problem is how to take them out again witnout leaving behind vio lent disorder and a very pos sible Palestinian war. Thus far, the Russians and Nasser, fully aware of the Anglo-American predicament, have done nothing to open the way out. They have been calling for unconditional withdrawal. This would be a humiliation which they would Gold Price of gold mining was reported at Irkutsk, in the far east of the country The appearance recently of Soviet gold in European mar kets has been ascribed to large - scale purchases of Western goods and the replen ishment of Communist propa ganda funds abroad. Some - experts believe the Kremlin now holds sufficient gold to be able to throw world markets into confusion if its propaganda strategy were to call for it. . But so far its gold trans actions have been marked by caution rather than specula tive action, that it seems some defense should be made, especially in regard to the rodeo that was just recently in Medford. This rodeo was supervised -by a representative of the RCA (Rodeo Cowboys association) and myself, representing the Southern Oregon Humane so ciety. Some five years ago the na tional organization - of " the American Humane associa tion and the RCA agreed on a set of 16 rules designed to prevent mistreatment or cru elty to animals, and a contest ant can be disqualified, there by losing his entire entry fee, for not observing any one of them. I attended all the per formances of this last particu lar rodeo here and can state that all the rules were well respected and any injuries ob served were suffered by some of the riders and not by any animals. , "Of course, the Humane so ciety does not approve or en courage rodeos, but to do an effective job of educating the public in humane matters we must be factual and realistic, and I feel that credit should be given where it is due. Wm. O. Herring, 2902 Table Rock rd., Medford. Oregon Gold Coins To the Editor: According to early Oregon Territorial his tory, most of the Calif ronia mined gold in 1849 found its way through Oregon miners back to Oregon by water trans portation for goods and all kinds of Oregon-raised foods. To meet the gold dust supply, a petition was favorably con sidered by the provisional leg islature and a bill was passed to authorize it and coin mon ey. The act provided for two pieces, one to weigh 5 penny weight and one 10 penny weight, and both to be pure gold. The Oregon mint coined $50,000 before Gov. Joseph Lane reached Oregon and closed it up. Afterward the Oregon Exchange ' Company was formed to proceed to coin gold on it's own responsibili ty. The last coining was called the "beaver money," minted at Oregon City. A total of two million of gold dust was reported to be ready to be coined in February 1849. The first gold mining code of Ore gon Territory was adopted on first day of April 1852 at Wal do. . . Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford Heart-Felt Thanks To the Editor: The response of the people of Jackson coun ty when Mrs. Hawks was mis sing in the woods last week was one of the most heart warming things I have ever Walter Lippmann enjoy. But it would also bring chaos and violence which the Soviet Union, in her own in terst, should wish to avoid. The immediate issue, on which the neutrals who are listened to in Moscow might use their influence, turns on the Soviet Union's agreeing to some arrangement under the-U. N. which permits an orderly withdrawal from Jor dan, and of course from Leb anon. As against this, we shall, I believe, have to realize that the real issue was not met by President Eisenhower s pro posal for a U. N. Peace Force to replace the British troops For the British troops are in Jordan to preserve King Hus sein's government. It is not conceivable that two - thirds of the General Assembly will vote to recruit a peace force to maintain King Hussein's government.. ' THE President's proposal was, of course, vague. But it has the inherent defect of the Eisenhower Doctrine, which is the fallacy that the problem in the Middle East is external military aggression whereas in fact the problem is internal revolution. The official thesis, which was im plicit in the President's speech, is that the American troops are in Lebanon and the British troops are in Jor dan to defend these smau countries against attack from beyond their frontiers. In fact, the troops are not guard ing the frontiers. They are protecting the governments in the capital cities against rebellion by native forces, assisted, of course, from out side but primarily internal in character. i These - truths are fully known to most of the General Assembly, and therefore, a proposal which ignores them will not be agreed to. It is hard to ' see, therefore, how the U. N. can be induced to maintain order in Jordan ex cept under some plan which combines the withdrawal of the troops with the liquida tion of the Kong's govern ment. It is not i enough for the West to say that the British troops will withdraw if a U. N. force will come in to take their place. The U. N. cannot and will not maintain this status quo, which is in herently untenable and un stable. The U. N. might, if the great powers had the vision and the will to promote a settlement, preside over a new status for the people and the lands of Jordan. FAILING that, we are in a miandarv. We are in a bad wav if the British stay in Jordan to protect the King, and if we stay in Lebanon to keep the British company. We are in a bad way if we with draw and let Hussein's gov- experienced. I cannot begin to list all tne people and organizations who dropped what they were ao ing to pitch in and help in the search the lumber com panies that shut down so their employees could join the search, the people who helped feed and supply the search ers, and -the others who per formed all manner of helpful and considerate acts. It was a wonderful demon stration of community friend ship and good-neighborliness, and I wish I could thank each one personally. Since I can't do so, I d like to take this means of express ing my heart-felt gratitude to them all. Max Hawks River Road Shady Cove, Ore.) "God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself pa tiently." Leigh Hunt o- ' Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Matter of Fact THE HOUSE IS SWITCHED Washington While the debate about the Middle East goes windily onwards irf the United Na tions, no one is paying m" mucn. atten tion to the f J many signs of a mena c i n g shift in Com u n i s t world policy.' A sim i 1 a r Josvpta Alsop ami i uuiitu after the acute Formosa cri sis in the spring of 1955. At that time,, the Kremlin switch ed its pressure - hose to the new task of washing out the Western positions in. the Middle East. Thereafter, the Far East, which had been so stormy, became, temporarily quiescent. But now all the Western positions in the Mid dle East have been pretty successfully washed out. And another " switch of the pres sure-hose, back to the Far East, now seems to be taking place. The key preparatory epi sode was the Peking meeting of Mao Tse-tung and Nikita Khrushchev. Concerning this meeting, much still remains mysterous. But the appear ances suggest that the Chi nese used their great influ ence inside the Soviet Com munist . party as a . lever, in order to force Khrushchev into doing several things he cannot possibly have wished to do. FOR example, retention of the. Soviet monopoly of the absolute weapons is clear ly the most vital Russian in terest in Russia's relation ship with China. Nothing else insures Russian supremacy within the .Communist bloc. Yet reports f com Warsaw now suggest that Khrushchev has agreed to hand over to China nuclear weapons and the rockets to deliver, them with. If this is true, it is an extra ordinary development. These Warsaw reports Can also be read, however, simply as a psychological prepara tion for quite another de velopment, which there are more solid reasons to expect. As soon a? the news of the Mao-Khrushchev meeting was received, it was suggested in this space that the meeting probably presaged a renewed Chinese Communist threat to Formosa's offshore . islands and perhaps to Formosa it self. It can now be stated, on ernment collapse. There are great difficulties in the way of a peaceable and honorable resolution of the fix we are in. On the Russian side, there is the temptation to prolong the fix, giving us no help at all in working our way out of it. On our side, there is our frozen diplomacy, which inhibits us from open ing up a serious negotiation with Moscow about the roles of the great powers in the Middle East. Yet until and unless such a negotiation takes place, there is no prospect of a stabiliza tion and there is every pros pect of a dangerous and rapid deterioration in all the posi tions still held by the West, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.. Huge Landslide Blocks Switzerland Pass Domodossola, Italy OD Engineers estimated today it would take them at least 25 days to clear the Simplon Pass, the key rail and high way connection between Switzerland and France that was blocked Wednesday by a landslide The landslide triggered a flash flood that wiped out the Italian hamlet of San Giovan ni, five miles from Domodos sola, and probably killed 32 persons. Mr fis Joseph Kop . highest authority, that the American policy - makers be lieve such a threat is on the way. rFHE hard evidence for this - belief is the military re deployment, especialy of air units, that the Chinese Com munists have carried out in the last month. Something like two-thirds of their entire 2,700 plane air force has riov been concentrated on airfields in the three provinces Che kian, Kwantung and Fukien which are within striking distance of Formosa. A whole complex of new airfields very close to Quemoy and the Matsu Islands has suddenly been occupied by Chinese Communist jet squadrons. The Chinese Nationalist air units on Formosa are thus out - numbered by at least three to one. Worse still, the best aircraft the U. S. has given to Chiang Kai-shek's airforce are the wholly obso lete F-84 and F-86 fighters. The main Communist strength consists of the vastly superi or MIG-17 fighters. And even the Chinese Communist jet bombers, the IL-28s, should do well in any combat with the ancient fighters the Na tionalists must use. In these circumstances, it is clear that the Chinese Com munists can beat down any opposition Formosa may offer, and can establish an air blockade of Quemoy and the Matsus. If these little islands close to the China coast can no longer be supplied from Formosa, they cannot be held by Formosa. If the Chinese Communists move to estab lish such an air-blockade, the American policy-makers will therefore have to choose be tween surrendering these is lands, as the Tachen islands were surrendered in 1955, or using American military pow er to break the air-blockade. . WORSE still, as -Adm. Stump greatly angered the President by pointing out, American military power in the Pacific is now immeasur ably weaker, in terms of men and ships and planes, than it was when the Korean war broke out. If the offshore is lands are to be saved from the blockade that is now feared, nuclear weapons will almost certainly have to be used to save them which is the very opposite of an agreeable prospect. The policymakers are there fore deeply split by this ques tion they see rushing down upon them. One faction says we simply "cannot dfop A bombs and H-bombs for the sake of Quemoy and the Mat sus. The other faction points out, quite rightly, that sur render of the offshore islands will be a heavy blow to Am erican prestige in Asia, which will set off a chain reaction of other, very grave political consequences, beginning on Formosa itself. No one says what is also true, that the whole question was hand-made by the Eisen hower administration. For Chiang Kai-shek never used to have regular troops on the offshore islands. He was quite brutally pressured into putting his troops there by the American government, The purpose was to give some color of reality to the famous "unleashing" that was the first gesture of our "dynamic new foreign policy." (c) 1958 New York -Herald Tribune Inc. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335
