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4 Thursday, December 11, 1938
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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
Dec. 11. 1948 (Saturday)
, Prof. F. C. Reimer is
' awarded the much coveted
Marshall T. Wilder medal in
pomology.
Downtown building owners
are asked for permission to
string Christmas decorations
from their buildings in order
to properly receive Santa
Claus.
i 20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 11. 1938 (Sunday)
The Medford 20-30 club
! undertakes a fingerprinting
1 project.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
. Smudge Pot" column: "Nippy
weather Sat. brought out new
fur coats by the womenfolks,
and last year's wool socks by
; the menfolks."
I 30 YEARS "AGO '
Dec. 11. 1928 (Tuesday)
The Retail Merchants asso-
" ciation declares war- on ped-
t dlers.
t Residents of the Dead In-
dian district prepare a peti-
' tion asking for a county road.
( 40 YEARS AGO
Sec. 11. 1918 (Wednesday)
An Army aviator is visible
; ever Eagle Point again, his
I plane reportedly . appearing
I "about the size of a chicken
t hawk."
Red Cross workers take a
well-earned day's rest from
the making of flu masks.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
sis is good.
; 1. What river do the Cat-
i skill mountains overlook?
I 2. A "laughing jackass" is a
; fish, a bird, or a mammal?
3. Paul Revere was a silver-
: smith; true or false?
I 4. What is the derivation of
J the state name Dakota?
! 5. The famed Folger Shake-
! speare library, is located in
; wnioi vj.o. city ; . - - - -
6. With what colony was
I Roger Williams connected?
7. Name the capital of
I Northern Ireland.
t 8. Of 'what is an' olive
J branch a symbol?
I 9. Is the diameter of the
moon about 2,100, 5,100, or
10,100 miles?
t ,
10. Which character in
Shakespeare speaks the lines:
"To be or not to be, that is
the question ?
. : Answers: 1. Hudson. 2. Bird.
'. 3. True. 4. Indian tribal name,
' 5. Washington, D.C. 6. Rhode
- Island. 7. Belfast. 8. Peace,
' or amity. 9. 2.100 miles.
I 10. Hamlet.
; SENTENCED
. . Bonn -l?D- Robert Schneid-
er, former chief psychologist
' of West Germany's armed
- forces, was sentenced to three
. years and ten months in pris
on Wednesday. He was found
guilty of forgery and fraud
. in representing himself as a
; I doctor of psychology, psychi-
atry and medicine. Schneider,
38, spent nearly two years in
" jail awaiting trial and this
:time will be deducted from
Hard Winters &Palm Trees
The Bend Bulletin speculates as to whether
this is going to be an especially, hard winter.
The central Oregon newspaper takes note; of
some unnamed local prognosticators who are pre
dicting the 1958-59 winter, will be a ;tough one,
weatherwise. They base their predictions on the
law of averages citing the fact that Oregon is
long overdue for a hard winter, that the last one,
the "winter of the blue snow." was some 40 years
ago.
Snow was 48 inches deep on Bend streets
then, they recall, traffic stalled on roads, and
tunnels were dug from houses to woodsheds.
-.
yHE Bend editorial writer also recalls that the
winter of 1883-84 was another tough one,
with stock dying on the ranges, and ranchers dig
ging tunnels under the drifts between house, barn
and haystack.
The editor has his doubts about a recurrence.
And even if it proves out, he declares that modern
snow-removal methods and other appurtances of
modern civilization will take the hardship out of
it. - -
Further 'south, in Klamath Falls, Herald and
News Managing Editor Bill Jenkins is convinced
that the time of hard winters is passing, and that
Oregon is turning into a Banana Belt. For the
past couple of years, he points out, it's been diffi
cult to get decently chilled while sitting in a duck
blind. , - - .
DE THAT as it may, our worries in the Rogue
valley are not those of the high desert coun
try shared by Bend and Klamath Falls. " ,
We seldom have fenough jsnowto cause more
than temporary inconvenience,' and if Jenkins
and some rather .more., scientific, observers re
correct about the climate
er, we 11 have few if any
except, probably, the
Indeed, the chief complaint of some winter
sports enthusiasts even
some distance to find
decent sport.
CPEAKING of the Rogue Valley Banana Belt,
it is interesting to note that a few palm trees
are growing in this area.
A Sacramento man, in a letter to the Salem
Capital Journal, takes note of a recent editorial
in that paper which makes
trees grow m Oregon.
; He says :
"For many years there have been quite a. few palms
growing in the Medford-Granla Pass area in Southern -Oregon.
In fact the first palm; set out there .was. at -
Jacksonville in 1871 .
He also cites others in the state, including, he
says, a couple on the Capitol grounds in Salem.
.'" -
pOUNTY Horticulturalist Cliff Cordy reports
Vr. there are a few palms in Medford and Ash
land, and we've also seen them in the Coos Bay
area. A former resident of Ashland says he re
members a few there which succumbed to a cold
winter some years ago.
Jacksonville.
All of which proves
have a generally wonderful climate, that the
weather is an ever-intriguing topic of conversa
tion' and speculation, and. that the only way .to
determine u ine cnmaie
waitandsee. E.A.
Thermoelectricity
Long-neglected discoveries in the actions of
electric current are beiner studied these davs. and
ultimately may well produce practicable thermo
electric devices. v-;;. ' r - '"
Thermoelectricity is a phenomenon of certain
semi-conductors which converts heat directlv into
electric current without moving parts and without
the loss involved in using a steam-activated gen
erator. It also will use electric, current directly,
without the use of special gases, to remove heat
in other words, to refrigerate; . ,
POTENTIAL practical.- applications of - these
principles are widespread, and some manu
facturers are already looking to the day v that
simple, low - powered and mobile contrivances
can be operated electrically from, sayr a kerosene
lantern, or that containers can be devised to either
heat or chill foods, at the turn of a dial.
These are still in the futurer but at present
development rates, they could actually .be on the
market within a few years. 4
Most of the recent studies of thermoelectricity
have been done in Russia, and progress in the
field is described by Soviet .physicist Abram F.
Joffe in a recent issue pfjthfi Scientific Ameri
can.. ' ; ; ,
EFFICIENCY of the devices so far i$lo4, about
10 per cent but that will be improved, and
the fact that they are relatively inexpensive, that
they have no moving parts, and are lightweight
and mobile, makes them almost immediately
practicable, particularly in isolated areas where
electricification has not yet reached. '
Joffe says: . ' , r :
"Many citizens of the U.S.S.R. now make electricity
to power their radios simply by lighting a small kero
sene lamp. The lamp is part of a small electrical gen
erator which' has no moving parts. It converts heat .
directly into electricity and could use a wood fire or
the concentrated rays of the sun as readily as the heat
of the lamp. Russian citizens are soon to be furnished
-.with a refrigerator which utilizes the same principle to
produce the opposite effect . . ."
He also predicts that thermoelectricity, virtu
ally ignored for 100 years, is now "unfolding be
fore our eyes. Let us see what will happen in the
changing for the warm
winter weather- worries
fog.
now is that one must go
enough snow, to make
the claim that no palm
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We don't know of- any in
nothing except that we
reany is cnangmg is 10
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Dennis the Menace
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
BEFORE CONGRESS MEETS
Since the elections, the
same issue,-though in different
forms, has risen in both of the
two parties. It
is the peren
nial and fun
damental is
tu e of who
shall predom
inate Con
gr eisional
leaders or the
leaders who
ronniin -thn
Walter Ii. o I' I
Lippmann the State
Houses and the parties in the
big pivotal states. The politi
cal interests of the two sorts
of politicians are not identical,
and personal, interests play a
very big part in political
alignments.
Owing to the rule of senior
ity and the one-party system
in the Southern states and in
some Northern states, . the
prime interest of the Congres
sional leaders is to hold their
places in Congress, If possible,
they would,, of course, like to
control Congress. But in any
event their main object must
be to keep their own seats.
Winning the Presidency and
with it the big pivotal states
is for the senior Congression
al leaders, not a paramount
and vital interest. r
- On the other hand, in the
pivotal states the Governors
and the candidates for the Sen
ate and the House J have a
prime interest in winning the
Presidential election. It can
happen, as -in New York this
year, that a state election runs
contrary to the tide of the na
tional elections. But that is the
exception rather than the rule.
pi 'THE Democratic " party,
.the conflict-of, interest is
centered on the rules of Con
gress, on the right to filibuster
in the Senate and in the House
6n the ability of the commit
tees, especially the Rules Com
mittee, to suffocate legislation
which, if it came to a vote,
might command a majority.
The Congressional leaders
have more power if the rules
restrain the majorities which
might otherwise prevail, not
only on questions of civil
rights but also on welfare
measures. " - -. ' ."
The leaders who are based
on the states want to loosen
CAN YOU SPARE A BUCK
FOR THE BARD?
One of the. West's great cul
tural landmarks (and tourist
attractions) is in trouble.' '
The Shakespearean theater
in Ashland, Ore., has been
torn down, condemned as a
fire hazard. And if the Shake
spearean plays that have de
lighted thousands of visitors
every summer are to continue,
it will be necessary to raise
$275,000. Many people from
the Shast a-Trinity-Siskiyou
area have enjoyed Ashland's
spirited productions of ' the
bard's works and may want
to help preserve this fine in
stitution. ,
(We even have a selfish in
terest, since the Shakespear
ean festival each August gen
erates some tourist travel
that comes through, bur re
gion. Also our own ' Bridge
Bay theater with:its summer
stock company forms, the. mid
point in a cultural tour which
includes - Shakespeare on the
northern end and the Music
Circus in Sacramento on the
other.) . , , ... . ... . . ,
Ashland, with only 8,800
population, is striving might
ily to raise its share of the
money, but it will need help.
; If you're inclined to take
part, your check can be made
out to Oregon Shakespeare
Festival building fund com
mittee and mailed to "Shake
speare, Ashland, Ore." Red
ding (Calif.) Record-Search-
the rules in order to win the
votes of the big urban and
suburban masses in the pivot
al states. They are interested
in the White House and in
the candidate for President,
and the national leaders of the
parties work with them.'
THE same , conflict exists in
the Republican Party, and
it takes the form of an issue
between the '"savers" and the
"spenders." Broadly speaking,
the spenders compriseithe Re
publicans who hope to carry
their own states and to elect
another Republican President.
They are strongly disposed to
rally to Mr. RockefeUer. The
savers - have their present
champipn in President Eisen
hower though on the record
he is no saver as compared
with former Secretary Hum
phrey. Mr.Nixon is in a quan
dary. He knows that the next
President is almost certain to
be cast in the image of a pro
gressive spender. He himself
is deeply involved with the
professional-; politicians who
are known as unprogressive.
Although the conflict can
be described in terms of
spenders and savers, it would
be misleading, I think, to sup
pose that, as between Rocke
feller and Nixon for example,
the issue is between the Left
and the Right. Even how,
there are already signs that a
movement is building up be
hind Rockefeller which is es
sentially .like that which
brought about the nomination
of Willkie, Dewey, and Eisen
hower, and defeated Taft who
was the great representative
of the Congressional Republi
cans. A movement of this kind
gets its momentum from very
powerful corporations and fi
nancial institutions centered
in the big cities of the pivotal
states. It is a movement de
signed elect, not merely to
nominate, a Republican. We
shall be hearing a lot more
of it. - ' ' '
WHAT goes on in the coming
' session of Congress will,
of course, deeply affect each
of the two parties. If the Eisen
hower budget and his legisla
tive program are vulnerable
on the question of defense and
if they look reactionary to the
mass of the people in the piv
otal states, Mr. Nixon's quan
dary will become even more
acute. Mr. Rockefeller's posi
tion will grow stronger, .
On the Democratic side an
inert Eisenhower budget may
well precipitate a serious con
flict between the national pol
iticians and the established
Congressional leaders. For
there will be a majority in the
Congress who, as a reaction
against the Eisenhower ad
ministration, will be greatly
tempted to try to govern this
country, .irom the - floor of
Congrles.
The problem of Speaker
Rayburn and of Sen. Johnson
is to -distinguish between the
evil of Congressional govern
ment with its wild majority,
and the evil of standpatism,
which is quite out of date in
these times. --
(c) 1951 New York Herald
" Tribune Inc. -
Bid Invitation on
John Day Dam Issued
Walla Walla (DPD Army
engineers- said .today invita
tions to bid on initial excava
tion for John Day dam navi
gation ; lock 'and approach
channel have been issued. In
vitations also were issued for
the north shore abutment em
bankment of the dam.
Work will include construc
tion of a permanent railway
embankment on the north
shore. Bids will be opened
Russian Rocket Pads Ring High Tibetan
Mountains; Give Missiles Blast-Off Aid
Editor's note: Denald wis of
the London Dally Express has
spent some time en the border
of Tibet Interviewing traveler
and businessmen from that re
mote kingdom. In the following
dispatch he report on Soviet
military activities In Tibet.
By DONALD WISE
London Daily Express
Staff Reporter -Distributed
by UPI
On the Tibetan Border-flJPD
-A quarter of a million Chi
nese, working under the "di
rection of Russian rocket ex
perts, are carpeting the roof
Matter of Fact By wh ai,p
NASSER AT THE
CROSSROADS
Cairo-"Now is the time to
normalize relations between
mv country and the Unit
ed States, be
t w e e n the
United Ar.ab
Republic and
the Western
powers." This
remark by the
P r e s ident of
the UJlJL. is
decidedly not
a headline
maker in Ga-
4ospb Alsop
mal Abdel Nasser's old,' flam
boyant style. Yet it implies,
it almost admits, a deep
change in Nasser's situation.
Formerlv. Nasser had no de
sire at all to "normalize rela
tions." All his energies were
mobilized to do rftle against
the West, until the old Middle
Eastern: policy of -the. West
was finally decisively defeat
ed by the coup d'etat in
Baghdad.
The West's defeat is only
half the difference, moreover.
Just before President Nasser
received me. Cairo eot the
erim news that stoutiv inde
oendent Chief of the Iraqi
Police, Tahir Yahya, had been
abruptly replaced by a pro
Communist. At a stroke, in
fact, the Communists' chances
of success in their drive for
full, power in Iraq had been
increased from somewhat less
than even to much better than
even.
FACED in this manner with
a new, unexpected and
menacing foreign intrusion
into the,. Arab lands, from
which he has so often vowed
to expel all : "foreign inter
ference," Gamal Abdel Nasser
today stands at acrossroads.
The simple, otherwise unim
portant fact that he received
me at all meant that he felt
the great change in his situa
tion; for he has seen only one
other American reporter in
much more than a year, and
until recently he was saying
that he , would never : do it
again. He wants "normaliza
tion" because he knows that
he stands at a crossroads, and
he wants room for maneuver
and calm choice.
It must be very bitter to
him that the West's defeat
in Iraq has not also been his
own great triumph. After all,
the flame of nationalism that
Nasser has lit among the
Arabs was the real cause of
the fall of the old Iraqi regime-
But he was not bitter
or excited or oratorical in his
old manner. He seemed only
a little thinner, a little greyer,
and a great deal .more coolly
analytical than when I last
saw him, in the same small,
document-littered study of his
unpretentious Cairn house,
where he does much of his
day to day work.
PRECISELY because he
stands at a crossroads, with
a great choice remorselessly,
almost unavoidably looming
ahead, he did not j?f ve a great
deal that was endUiously sig
nificant to say for the record
in the course of a talk that
lasted more than two hours.
He seemed to have wanted to
make the gesture, so to say,.
of seeing an American report
er again, but to want, too, to
avoid discussion of the hard
realities of his new situation.
Thus aU the first part 7 of
the talk was given, first to
complaint that.-, the Western
press was "poisoning" rela
tions between the West and
the Arab lands, and second to
a long but remarkably suc
cinct and interesting review
of his past relations with the
West. At length, however, an
opening occurred. It was pos
sible to point out that the
Kremlin, which had so strong
Yes . iL. YOU Can-
pun
of the world in Tibet with
the deadliest pattern of .mis
sile launching pads facing the
free- world.
The two dozen or more
pads stretch from the north
eastern frontier of India op
posite Bhutan along the. Hima
layas to the Karakoram moun
tain range against the Indian
and Pakistani . frontiers of
Kashmir.
In terms of what the West
already knows of the 6,000
mile Russian intercontinental
ly supported Nasser against
the West, had now radically
changed its line, with the re
sult that Arab nationalism
now faced an attack from a
wholly new quarter.-
'
ttTHAT would he do about
" it, he was asked. He paus
ed as though to consider, and
then spoke almost hesitantly:
"Really it is not easy to be
lieve that Iraq will finally
line up against Arab nation
alism. It is my hope that Iraq
will always act as one of the
Arab countries," supporting
Arab nationalist ideas. In the
meantime our policy is very
simple-to wait and see the
developments that events
bring. . . -.' ;
"We have to organize our
actions, or there will be a bal
ance that may destroy us. So
inspite of the activities against
Arab nationalism of the Com
munists in Iraq, I cannot take
the position that Iraq today
is hostile to the Arab nation
I said in my last speech that
we shall support Iraq against
any danger." -
At this point, President Nas
ser made a -curious gesture
of frustration and remarked
that although Jhere was no
more important problem, it
was not easy to discuss while
he was still following a policy
of wait-and-see. So the talk
went off the records, into a
remarkable analysis of the
Iraqi coup d'etat and its con
sequences to .the "Arab na
tion." . ,
f ' m e e "
OF THOSE things which
were said, a few; may be
noted without breach of pro
priety..: For example, ; Presi
dent Nasser spoke highly of
Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem,
although Kassem has been the
rallying point for the Iraqi
Communists; and he deplored
the "foolishness" of Kassem's
defeated rival, the advocate
of union now with Egypt, Col.
Abdel Salam Aref. Kassem
had wanted and Aref had
refused to constitute ayFree
Officers committee, like that
here in Egypt. President Nas
ser said that the committee
was the instrument of pre
serving national unity and
protecting the army against
the pressure of the political
parties in Egypt's crucial pe
riod. He implied that if Aref
had been wiser about this
matter, events. in Iraq would
have taken a different course.
Again, in a singularly re
vealing parenthesis of his ex
position, President Nasser ex
plained: that he made his own
policy on the principles of
military tactics, and strategy
that he had learned in staff
school.- The suggestion that
one-of these principles was,
"the offense is the. best de
fense," made him laugh. But
it was clear that the prin
ciple he had currently in
mind' was the strategic rule
against fighting a war on two
fronts, against both the .. So
viets and the West in fact.
: ' ':.' O
THE general impression con
veyed by this conversation
was perhaps the most impor
tant thing that can be record
ed concerning it. In the first
place, Gamal Abdel Nasser
is under no illusions at aU
about the meaning to him
of the new Communist line
in the Middle East. In truth,
he regards the sudden Com
munist attack on the Arab
nationalist movement as more
dangerous than the old West
ern blocking effort. He wUl
not be afraid to fight the Com
munists, because of the aid
he has received from the So
viet Union. In fact one can
predict an early beginning of
the struggle in Nasser's own
western province of Syria. :
With regard to Iraq, how-
Soon!
it
ballistic missile, H-bomb war
heads could be fired off the
Tibetan Plateau to hit ac
curately anything in the world
except maybe for parts of
Africa and America.
Altitude Makes Difference
. What makes these launch
ing pads so deadly is their
altitude. Anywhere in this icy
windswept area the Reds
have a 15,000 to 20,000 foot
start over the West at launch
ing. What this means ia terms
of added flight range of an
ICBM is not accurately
known. But it must certainly
be prodigious since missile
men's greatest"struggle is the
initial surge off the pad and
here the Reds wiU, blast off
with a three mile start over
anything lifting off, say, Cape
Canaveral.
The rocket pad building
plan which is being pressed
ahead at breakneck speed is
the third stage of Red Chinese
military planning in Tibet.
The green light from Mos
cow for technicians to come
in with their know-how and
missiles was given by Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev, when
he flew, to Peiping with an
outsize military advisory
group shortly before Mao
Tse - tung's gunners started
shelling Quemoy in August.
Adjusted to Standards
Mao's "liberators" started
infiltrating into Tibet- early
in the 1950's. They spoke the
language, drank Tibetan tea
with salt and yak butter in
it. and dressed in Ions coats.
high soft leather boots and
round fur hats;
Around 1954, with his fifth
column of tobacco traders
and teachers (all of them sol
diers or political commissars)
thoroughly spying out the
land, the Red dictator sent
his blue and khaki-clad sol
diers scrambling up the wick
ed passes and ravines from
Langchow on to the Tibetan
plateau.
Led by the warlike Kampa
tribe, Tibetans lost thousands
of dead fighting their "libera
tors" with British and Ger
man weapons until the Dalai
Llama,' living Buddha and
ruler of Tibet, called a halt to
all resistance.
The only way of preserving
his national entity was to go
along with. Mao's plans and
he knew it.
Wanted Intermarriage
As Czech trucks ground up
roads, which engineers were
blasting and building just
ahead of them, with cheap
gifts of textiles and alcohol
to keep the liberated happy,
Mao ordered his soldiers to
intermarry with the Tibetans.
Stage one of infiltration
paved the way for stage two
-absorption of. the local popu
ever, Nasser has not yet made
up his mind $out the. right
course, even assuming that
the worst happens in Bagh
dad. On the one hand, the
long fight with the West has
left just as much aching scar
tissue in Cairo as it has in
London. On the other hand,
there is the fear of the "war
on two fronts."
Unless Nasser's relations
with the West can indeed be
"normalized," and not Just on
a temporary basis, he will
cling for a long time to thel
policy of wait-and-see. But
Gamal Abdel Nasser still
means what he has always
said, the true Arab nation
alist must oppose any kind of
foreign interference in the
Arab lands, from whatever
source.
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lation and the erection of
military bases.
In New Delhi there is
very worried Prime Minister
Nehru.
India's Himalayan frontier
is impossible to defend for
economic and financial rea
sons. Nehru's defense is to
win big-wig Chinese friends
like Mao and influence Chi.
nese people with the non-
alignment theory that armies
are a thing of the past.
Meanwhile, the little fur
hatted Chinese soldiers at In
dia's borders are trotting over
the passes and reducing the
wispy no-man's-land of what
was never a well-defined fron
tier into merely yards in
some places, a few miles in
others.
Communications
Letter to the Editor mutt
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
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Thinks Retirement
Law Wrong
To the Editor: Where is the
wisdom of this age? We hire
a man to run our schools. We
pay him a salary down
through the years. He was a
good man when he started.
Every year he got better. With
every year's experience he be
came more valuable to us.
Now we suddenly discover
that he will soon be 65 years
old and that we cannot use
him any more.
. Somehow it Just doesn't
seem right. I am speaklnc
about Mr. H. P. Jewett. Who
made the law that men had
to retire from school teaching
or administration work at the
age of 65? What a silly law.
Why can't it be repealed? Mr.
Jewett is a better man now
than he was five years ago or
ten or twenty. The next ten
years of his life should be
the best. Why should the
schools of School District 6
be deprived of his services?
We think this law that re
quires his retirement should
be repealed and he 'should be
allowed to continue in the
work that he knows best.
Carroll W. PoweU
Box 621
' ' Central Point, Ore.
Irrigation District ;
Discussed at Meeting
Cave Junction Lee Mc
Allister, engineer with the
bureau of reclamation, told
the board of directors of the
Sucker Creek Irrigation dis
trict recently that final plans
for the district may not be
prepared until after July 1,
1959.
McAllister said the Sucker
Creek work probably will re
quire about five months to
kcomplete, and the staff' now
has a backlog of work.
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Salvation Army
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