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4 Friday, October 24. 195t I MAIL TBIBUNC uibtaan mi l "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. : 33 North Ftr St. Ph. SP 8-6141. ROBERT W. RUHU 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. Sporu Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women"! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Kewsoaper Entered as second class matter at M effort Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy !0c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4.33 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Medford.f 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 Official Paper of City of Medfor Official Paper of Jacfcioa County United Press International roll Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. UfC Of. fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. XIWSrAM rutiiSNfit 'ASSOCIATION ESS NATIONAL CDITOIIAl N 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 Oct. 24, 1948 (Sunday) Medforcl school officials deny blame for painting the city high school's colors on the new Grants Pass High school building on the eve of the big game (Medford won, 7-6). Robert B. Duncan has ar rived in Medford to take up the practice of law with a lo cal firm. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 24, 1938 (Monday) The SouthernvOregon Con cert association's membership campaign gets underway to night. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Democratic candidates ' for Governor and U.S. Senator re port they see landslides for themselves, come Nov. 8. They are both as sure of this as the deer hunter who blazes away at the horns he sees on a huckleberry bush." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1928 (Wednesday) Police report someone has been passing lead dollars this week, and urge merchants to make sure future coins re ceived ring true. "Underweight girls are like flat tires," the state health director informs a local gath ering of ladies. 40 YEARS AGO Oct.. 24. 1918 (Thursday) The new reduced freight rate on aDtle shipments is now officially in effect, and i lively traffic is expected. Heralding winter's arrival, the big stove in Gates auto store is now operating, with war arguments among those who gather near it limited to 59 minutes per hour and po litical arguments, to three seconds per day. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct ft superior; even er eight is excellent; five er is it goad. 1. Dean Acheson occupied what post in the Federal Gov ernment? 2. In the historv of base ball, who was known as the "Georgia Peach." 3. Who composed the ever popular tune "Star Dust"? 4. If an object is ovate, what shape is it? 5. In the early days of the New Deal administration, what was the NRA? 6. Where is the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes? . 7. Quote the line in the Star Spangled Banner which follows this line: "Then con quer we must." 8. What is another name for the card game Twenty One? 9. A famous bell, nick named "Big Ben," is in what European city? 10. Name the European ex plorer who discovered the Philippine Islands in 1521. Answers: 1. Secretary of state. 2. T t u s Raymond fnhK. a. Hoaav CarmiehaeL 4. Egg-shaped. 5. National Re covery Administration, e. Alaska. 7. "When our cause it is just.- 8. Black Jack. 9. Lon don. 10. Magellan. Happy in the Middle There is a strong possibility rather, a prob ability that International Paper company, one of the three or four largest woods products firms in the world, will build two plants in Oregon in the near future. Scuttlebutt has it that they will be located at Roseburg and Klamath Falls. And, apparently part of a "package deal," plans are well along for a pipeline to bring natur al gas into southern Oregon, at least as far as Roseburg, and presumably through Medford and Ashland and across the hill to Klamath Falls. IF THESE speculations turn into truth (and we'll be surprised if they don't), people in Medford may be tempted to cry, "Why not Med ford?!" v Our reaction, after thinking about the pros and cons of such a possibility for nearly 10 years, is one of pleasure. Medford, we say, will be in a position to have its cake and eat it too. It will not have any single large new payroll, but in every respect save that single one, it will benefit just as much as will Roseburg or Klam ath Falls. And, thank Providence, it will not have the odors, the fumes, the smoke and the conges tion which go with big new industries. AS a matter of fact, it may even have less fumes than it. does-now. Instead of burning up their wood waste, the mills in the Rogue valley will, for the first time, find it economically sound to chip their waste wood (except for sawdust), dry the chips (per haps using natural gas to do so), and then sell them to the Roseburg or Klamath Falls plants. Waste will be turned into profit, and smoke back into clear air. The highway from here to Roseburg is ex cellent now, and is due to be improved even more so soon. And the new route across the Cascades, by way of Lake of the Woods, will bring Klam ath Falls closer to Medford than ever before. Chip shipping will be no problem. IT IS EASY to pretend that paper mill fumes don't really matter. The newspaper in Bend, which at one time was under consideration as a paper mill site, came to the conclusion that the smell really was the smell But those who have bany on a day when the the highway, or who have lived in Salem when the wind is from the paper plant, know that the odor can make life mighty miserable. And one only needs know what it would be like to have a paper mill sending out it fumes during one of the "cold-air inversions" which visit the Rogue valley regu larly each winter, and which hold fog and smog close to the ground. e ACTUALLY, of course, all of southwestern vicguu io on ctuuumit uiul, ucapitc iimiui differences, and what benefits one section ulti mately. benefits all. Jackson and Josephine coun ties will be richer and more prosperous because of the growth and prosperity of Douglas and Klamath counties. And Jackson county, center for the whole area, will benefit with the continued growth of service, wholesale and dis tribution industries, and all the things that go with them. We are just reactionary enough to like things in the Rogue valley pretty much the way they are. Things will change and grow, but we re just as glad International has picked sites on either side of us, and left us undisturbed in the middle, where we will get most of the advantages and almost none of the disadvantages of the big new mills. E.A. Cranes Going South Twice a year, in the spring and in the fall, the whooping cranes come back into the news. This wTeek we read about them again, as they started their annual southward pilgrimage from their summer home in the wilds of Canada to their winter home on the Aransas National Wild life refuge in southern Texas. Last January, the U.S. fish and wildlife serv ice counted the big cranes, and the. total came to 32 of which six were in captivity, and 26 at large. THERE is something extinction of the big rather breathless manner in which bird-lovers keep watch on them, and excitedly report each new addition to the little clan. The flock may have gained in numbers slightly this year. Observers in Canada and the United States have reported seeing a few young birds,' which survived their flight north last spring and the summer in Canada,' arid which are now en route southward again. i Only if the few young survive, and new ones are hatched safely, will the wrhooping cranes be saved from extinction, and join .the dodo and the passenger pigeon and some other species whose last members have vanished. E.A. of fresh, new money. driven by the plant at Al fumes are drifting over a slight imagination to the natural distribution poignant about the ne'ar- white birds, and the 'AfCHf.' Margaret at gha had a 3tT ot& mc, Ak.1' .lAitf evelrr&J sSfAa-ll f4eW UK la Washington Report By William S. Whit, WHY IKE IS 'TOUGH' Washington One of the most spirited of all the con tests going on in the climax of the Congres sional cam paign is a Se ries of brisk battles be tween Dwight D. Eisenhow er and Dwight D. Eisen hower. The "tougher" Ei- WUiiams White sennower is progressively winning over the amiable Eisenhower with all encouragement from the Republican professionals. The President has first de plored and then welcomed foreign policy fighting in the campaign. He first assented to the use in a Republican manifesto of the cry off "so cialism" against the Demo crats. And though he back slid momentarily to repudiate that cry, he has now gone much farther to charge the Democratic party with being dominated by "political rad icals." This accusation, made re cently by the President in a belated effort to help the Re publicans in California, was incomparably the harshest partisan blow he has deliver ed. It was wholly and dem onstrably out of character, not only on this correspondent's experience but on the word of some of the top people in the Republican party organ ization itself. THE PROS at the GOP na tional committee did not prepare, though they happily welcomed, this Presidential epithet against a party that on some critical issues has helped him in Congress more than his own. It was written by White House ghosts who are supposed to be "modern" Reoublicans Innocent of the combative partisanship of the regular" Republicans which the President himself usually deplores. Indeed, Mr. Eisenhower, as recently as Oct. 15,. had tutt- tutted this kind of language, with the chiding observation: "Politicians do love to make things very positive." The fact that within less than a week he himself was making things even more "positive" is still a source of happy relief to the pros. They knew what was supposed to be in the California speech. But they had great fears that the operative words "po litical radicals" would never get uttered by the President when the time came. Many times before they had seen "hard- hitting" Presidential speeches become much soft Alcorn observed that he had not become Republican chair man to preside over the liq uidation of the GOP in No vember. These strong and continu ous representations alternate ly made and lost" headway, But Alcorn successes began to predominate over Alcorn fail ures after Sherman Adams, the former Presidential assist ant, left the White House for good. Mr. Adams, until his forced resignation because of acceptance of gifts, had held Mr. Alcorn at arms' length from the President. ' BUT ONCE the GOP chair man began to see "the boss" himself, and after all the lingering Adam influence had departed from the White House, the President did, in deed, begin to "toughen up" most of the time. Alcorn then on his own account be gan to take an exceptionally "tough" line. This reached its pitch in his charge of Ocl- 19 that the Democrats were "the party of the left-wingers and the appeasers." This was almost exactly the tone of the President's Cali ened before delivery. To determine .why they were spoken has required a good deal of exploration among the labyrinths of the Republican high command. This is the story: VTOT MERELY Vice Presi- A1 dent Richard M. Nixon but also Meade Alcorn, the Republican national chair man, had been axiously at work since early September to "toughen the President up." Mr. Alcorn began going to the White House long ago to say that unless the President went to work in urgent par tisanship the rest of the Re publicans would be able to stir neither the voters nor the "fat cats" the campaign cash contributors. As Winston Churchill once declared he had not become the King's first ( minister to 'preside over the liquidation of the British empire," Mr. fornia speech of two days later, in which the dominant wing of the Democrats became "political radicals." Oddly, by that time, Mr. Alcorn and President Eisenhower himself were very nearly outdoing Vice President Nixon in their attacks on the Democrats. And there is, ironically, sound information from Re publican quarters that neither the President no the party chairman would have gone so far had Mr. Adams, a special Democratic target, remained in the White House. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Don't Kick the Kids To the Editor: It just makes me sick to my stomach to hear every one blaming the poor teenagers for every thing that's done. I have had lots of arguments about that. You can hear an adult say, Oh, that's a stupid teenager," and I have seen grown men and women do things on the highways no teenager could think of. But just let any thing happen and you can al ways bet your sox someone will say, "Oh, teenagers did it." - I'm sure if just some of you would just think back when we were all teenagers you did as bad as they do now, only we didn't have a car to ride in, just horses or walk, but they aren't any worse today. Oh, some try to be big shots, but just think how many men and women do the same thing, but they get by with it. I have driven back and fourth to Medford for about 15 years and I-have seen all sorts on the highway and I have yet to see a teenager in the bunch. As for printing the names of the kids every time they do a little something I think that would make more criminals Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF F5MPOUS LADY stamped into an elevator and declared, Tm in a great hurry, young man. Take me right up to the ninth floor.' "Whom do you wish to see on that floor?" asked the operator. "What business is that of yours?" countered the lady. "None, Madam.' admitted the operator, "but there are only eight floors in this building." Two choice ctrtyns from England's droll "Punch: (1) a. lady in a gift card "shoppe" inquiring, "Have you a eon dolence card suitable for some one who has been superseded by automation?'' and. (2) a pair of mountain climbers on the peak of a jagged mountain in the stratosphere. One is leaning on his pick consulting a book. "There etoesnt seem to be a thing in here,' he says dubiously, "that deals with the descent'' , George Jesse, was acqnatettd with a man who was so active that four yean after his death his self-winding watch still was running. C 135S, by Beaaatt Cert Distributed by King Features Syadicate, Wilson Discusses Responsibility for Debasing of U.S. Dollar by U.S. Debt By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington-fllPD-The ruckus between President Eisenhow er and former President Tru man over re- p 0 n sibility for the dis g r a c ef ul de base ment of the U.S. dol lar and for spending the nation into al most unman ageable debt is one of those Lyle C. WUsoe Who struck John?" disputes. "Who struck John?" was slangy World War II GI ridi- ijr- Klamath Falls Writer Tells Of Trip Over Green Springs (Editor's note: The follow ing description ef the drive across the Green Springs road was written by Floyd L. Winne, city editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, and is reprinted from that newspaper.) In the Day's News By FRANK Let's talk today about some thing other than politics and W3Fa . What shall it be? How about opals? Here, at least, is an inter esting opal story: , AN OPAL worth ogling at arrived in New York by freighter the other day. It is valued at $175,000. It weighs 125 POUNDS. It is named the Panther. Its owner, who is president of Panther Inter national, says the stone, found in an abandoned mine in Aus tria, is the biggest known to exist in the world. ' He says he'll try to sell it all in one piece, possibly to a museum. He adds: "There will be no security precau tions when the big gem. is unloaded. Who would be able than anything could. The poor kids don't have anything to do, no nothing, and what can you - expect of them? Don't get me wrong, I don't have any teenagers, mine are all grown, but I have grand children who wUl be pretty soon. So why can't we all let up on them? You wiU see, we will have better men and women later on. Let's all praise them instead of kicking them in the pants and build them some kind of place to play instead of so many detention homes. Mrs. E. C, ; (Name on file) Medford Did Someone Say Thl Isn't The Silly Season? To the Editor: I write this in answer to Alan B. Holmes' letter which was published nvpr the signature of Bill Schulz of Eagle Point. Mr. Holmes is the campaign man ager for the Republican can didate for Sheriff. Upon receipt of a courtesy rnnv of the Schulz letter. I "T J . compared it with prior cor respondence from the law of fir nf Bover & Holmes and found that Mr. Holmes is, as suspected, the "ghost writer" for a desoerate cause. In the future, this sort of nonsense that the readers were warned to expect, wiU probably come from a different typewriter and be over a dilierent signa ture. All that can be said about the "merits" of your letter, Mr. Holmes, Is that we will wait with eager anticipation your letters after November; 4, when the people elect Lar ry Sheehan their Sheriff. Jim Redden, County Chairman, Democratic Party. cule of any dispute in which the disputants just went 'round and 'round without ar riving anywhere. This fiscal "Who struck John?" dispute relating to the shambles in which the fiscal affairs of the nation have fall en can be exposed however, to certain mathematical checks and measurements. So expos ed, the dispute between the President and the former President just about adds up to a draw bet. They are both wrong or, more precisely, each is about half right, which is just as bad. Take spending, for example. ' The brightly edited "Demo By FLOYD L. WYNNE Traveled the Green Springs twice over the week end. Two trips to Medford, and enjoyed every moment of the drive. Couldn't help thinking on the way over each time what a beautiful country we live in. JENKINS to run away with a 125-pound stone, all crated?" INTERESTING, is it not? -And don't forget that we have opals in Oregon's high desert country. Not that big, so far as anyone knows. And so far as is presently known not too precious. But they have their own hint, of the flashing rainbow of colors that has charmed gem lovers for centuries. Who knows what may hap pen? One of these days some lucky opal hound may stick a pick into a cavity in the desert rock and uncover an opal that HAS EVERYTHING. That's a part of the charm of the high desert Nobody knows what it may contain. THERE'S uranium, for' ex ample. Who would have supposed a few years ago that there is uranium out in our high desert? But if you'll take a trip over to Lakeview some pleasant day you'll find there a multi-million dollar uranium mill that is adding greatly to the prosperity of the area rpHEN A There's the NICKEL in Douglas county. For centuries it lay out in the rain and nobody paid any attention to it. Finally it came to the at tention of modern capitalists and with the aid of modern science they developed it and made it into a modern pay roll industry that is adding to the wealth of the entire Umpqua Basin. AND- Don't foriret the chrome and other rare minerals of Douglas and Josephine and Jackson and Siskiyou coun ties. So far, the recovery and the processing of these miner als have been too costly to make them a profitable asset But who knows when mod ern scientific researcn win come up with a process that will make them EXTREMELY valuable? WEIILE you're at it, let your mind dwell for a moment on the lowly jackpine that for a century was regarded as worse than useless because it cluttered, land that might have been useful for some thing else. Now it's a prime pulp wood and paper is made of pulp and the good Lord only knows what they'll be making next out of paper. They're already planning to make disposable shirts and dresses of it. ITEEP your eye on our mythical State of Jeffer son. Its boundaries are mythi cal No one knows just where they begin or where they end. The State of Jefferson if a mythical concept that has liv ed in men's minds for more than a' century. It rests upon a COMMUNITY OF INTER EST. " But there's nothing mythi cal about the RESOURCES of our State of Jefferson. They are real and tangible. And they are IMMENSE. Nobody knows yet how vast they may turn out to be. HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAneWt at Ceurt IP J-9041 cratic Digest" for October compares the spending record of IDE, and DDE doesn't look so good. The Digest offers HST's surplus and deficit fig ures for the fiscal years 1946 51, inclusive and - discovers three surplus years and three deficit years. The aggregate of the three surplus years ex ceeded the aggregate of the three deficit years by $3,773, 000,000 which is designated the real surplus for the period covered. DDE's record for fiscal years 1954 to 1059, inclusive, shows two surplus years and four deficit years for what is described as a real deficit For some reason the leaves seemed a deeper hue and the rich riot of fall colors wove a magic spell. Maybe it was the fact that at the beginning of my Sun day trip over "the hump" I ran into some snow here and there. Maybe I just appreciat ed the swan song of fall more than usual. Admittedly, when - you're rolling along with only a few feet separating you from a mileMrop into the canyon', you can't be day-dreaming, but the beauty of the trip wasn t lost on me, either. Saw a flock of hunters at every turn, many of them camping out, some of them right alongside the highway. Also spotted three does and several fawns, and somehow they had my deep sympathy. I know it's heresy in deer country to say it, but some how I'm too soft to go deer hunting, and must admit it Also noticed ' just above Keno a furry brown bear chained to a post at a service station. Quite a character with plenty of "bounce to the ounce." I don't know whether you've .taken the Green Springs route lately, but there's plenty to see. The road is now open and you can de tour down to look at the new Copco Big Bend dam and on down into the canyon to the Big Bend powerhouse. Visitors Welcome Visitors are welcome but there are some stretches that have to be negotiated care fully.' Notice, also that after you leave Lincoln the old Green Springs is getting a face lift ing. The Green Springs tun nel project is in full swing and they're grading up can yons, drilling a tunnel for the Talent project on ,the other side.- As you come, down the other side, there is evidence of construction activity every where. New roads are being built, power lines, phone lines constructed and the beauty of the landscape has suffered PAUL GEDDES SAYS: "Pay Ho Communist Blachmair Paul Geddes opposes recognition of Red China and U. N. membership for Red China. He be lieves that a policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. Ap peasement would lead only to more Communist demands. In marked contrast, Paul Geddes' opponent, the present congressman, advocates recognition of Red China, trade with Red China, and U. N. membership for Red China. The Grants Pass Courier reports that he told an audience there on September 30, 1958, that a "world government"-was our major peace hope. PAUL GEDDES DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SUPER -STATES" NOR TN APPEASE MENT.' HE BELIEVES THAT THE BEST GUARANTEE FOB PEACE IS A STRONG AND SOVEREIGN AMERICA. Is This Your Belief, Too? Then Elect A Man To Congress To Represent You, For A Change! PAH (Pd. Pet. Adv, fiedds for Congress Committee, V. E. Jotmerv iueen Owl) of $19,111,000,000. Their re spective spending records for those six years were: HST, $257,700,000,000; DDE, $419,- 400,000,000. Eisenhower is the champ spender. No doubt about that The Digest figures leave out of account, however, fiscal years 1952 and 1953. Fiscal year 1952 ended June 30, 1952, when Truman still had six months and 20 days of White House service ahead of him. The Truman deficit that year was $14,017,000,000. The 1953 fiscal year began on July 1, 1952. The 1953 budget was prepared by Tru man and submitted to Con gress in January, 1952. Tru man directed government spending from July 1, 1952 until Eisenhower's inaugura tion on Jan. 20, 1953 by which time the 1953 fiscal year was . half gone, half spent Spend ing for that fiscal year was a whopping $74,274,000,000 and the deficit was nearly $10 billion. Shrinking Dollar Those deficit and spending figures would considerably change the Digest's compari son of HST and DDE, al though they would not alter the fact that Eisenhower has out-spent 'em all. To the question of who most debased the lovely U.S. buck, the record compiled by the Senate Finance Committee from Bureau of Labor Statis tics and Library of Congress material answers up like this: Assuming that the dollar was worth 100 cents in 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, it was worth only 51.9 cents in 1953 when Truman left office. The dollar lost nearly half of its pur chasing " power in 14 . Demo cratic years. From 1953, when Eisen hower took over, until April of this year, the dollar fell from 51.9 cents to 48.1 cents, a shrinkage of 3.8 cents in about 5 years-less than a penny each . 12 months. The shrinkage during the 14 pre ceding Democratic years was at a rate of about 3.4 cents annually. So, Who struck John? some deep scars. But it takes far more than that to efface the majesty and beauty of the area. Old Mother Nature rests supreme in her unruffled majesty, looking with some humor on the puny efforts of man to undo the work she has done. Noticed, also, that Ashland has taken another big step into the modern era. They have widened the street on both sides of the long lane entering Ashland from the south, and have installed complete line of modern street lamps all along the route. ; It's a wonderful improve ment for Ashland. A Green Springs trip at this time of the year will cer tainly give you a new glimpse of the beauty and the promise that is Southern Oregon. EM 3d
