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4 ThunJiy, August 21, 1951
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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
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
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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
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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.
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