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4 Friday, January 23, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL MEDFORDTRBUliE "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 KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mr 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 Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 , Daily and Sunday A mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Centra! Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hiu, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUiy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising ReDresentative: 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 EDITOBIAl S AS(sbcfATIN "L'lt'.'n'nii 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 , Jan. 23. 1949 (Sunday) Ben Day, Gold Hill, Henry Owens, Ashland, and W- B. Tucker are reelected presi dent, vice president and secretary-treasurer of the Jack son County Stockmen's asso ciation. The Medford .YMCA offers course in skiing at Howard and Lincoln schools-no equip ment necessary. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1939 (Monday) Dog license applications are reported coming slowly this year, with only 55 applica tions received so far while the county's canine popula tion is estimated at 3,000. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The courage . of five " converts in being baptized in the Colum bia river on a chilly Sunday, is commended by the metro politan press. Nothing is said about the preacher, who brav ed the icy waters five times 'In a row." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1929 (Wednesday) Attorney George M. Rob erts plans to build a new home in the Crown Hill dis trict. A federal aide approves of the proposed site for Med ford's airport. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1919 (Thursday) Mrs. Helen Gale presents the city council with a cake for their work during the past year. The public service commis sion orders the P. & E. rail road to continue operations after the previous Jan. 31 closure date. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1909 (Saturday) The waters of Bear creek recede, apparently marking the end of the recent torrent. The Ashland city council considers asking for a federal building. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which state is called the Empire State? 2. Which was the first state admitted to the Union after the original 13? 3. What is a plagiarist? 4. With what country do you associate the "Reign of Terror"? 5. "Who, in Greek mythol ogy, had a hundred eyes, of which some were always awake, until Hermes charmed them to sleep and killed him? 6. Who wrote the "Tarzan" books? 7. What is the Pentateuch? 8. In a golf twosome, who drives first after the first hole is played? 9. What place in the United States is called The Rock? 10. May U.S. postage stamps embossed on stamped enve lopes be cut from the en velopes and used for postage on other envelopes? Answers: 1. New York. 2. Vermont "(3-4-1791). 3. Copier of Artistic work. 4. France. 5. Argus. 6. Edgar Rice Bur roughs. 7. First five books of Old Testament. 8. 1st bole winner. 9. Alcaixaz. 10.. No., Rogue River Guidepost It will take considerable time and study to grasp all the implications contained in the report on Rogue River water uses presented this week by the state water resources board. This much can be safely said, however: It represents a new departure in basin re source studies; it contains new concepts of bene ficial uses of water, and it represents a tremen dous amount of hard work on the part of the board. and its staff in presenting a rounded and, it is hoped, fully inclusive survey of the Rogue basin and its needs. piRST of all, the board sets up premises on which to act. Essentially, these include the idea that there are 10 specific and definable beneficial uses of water, each of which must be considered in deciding how the water of any river basin should be allocated for the greatest good of the greatest number. The ten recognized beneficial uses are for domestic, municipal, irrigation, power, industrial, mining, recreation, wildlife, fish life and pollu tion abatement purposes. Corollary matters of importance requiring consideration in any overall program, the report declares, include drainage, reclamation and flood control. One of the most important is the rela tively new concept of minimum streamflow that to be of benefit, a stream should never be allowed to fall below a certain level. D ASED on these premises, the report goes on to indicate that some of the 10 beneficial uses are naturally desirable in some sub-basins and some circumstances; others are not. For instance, the waters of the Rogue are too limited to permit them to be used for pollu tion abatement, the report declares. That is, riv er water cannot be used simultaneously for muni cipal and domestic use, on .one hand, and for carrying sewage to the sea, or for diluting con centrations of pollution, on the other. In some sub basins power production is found to be compatible with over-all beneficial development. In others, it isn't. . In the Bear Creek, basin, for example, the board found that the maximum beneficial use of water should be limited to domestic, municipal, irrigation, industrial, recreation, wildlife and fish life purposes. Uses which are not suited and not recommended for the basin are power, mining, and pollution abatement purposes. - IN THE Little Butte Creek drainage, as another example, beneficial uses were determined to be for domestic, irrigation, wildlife, recreation, and fish, life, purposes. Because of the limitations of the area, the other uses municipal, power, industrial; mining and pollution abatement , were found to be impossible, unneeded or unde sirable. . And so the study goes, for all the seven sub basins of the Rogue River basin. Some of the beneficial uses have priority over the others, but all are considered. . The result, it seems to us, is a well thought out, thoroughly considered . assessment of the basin's water resource potential. THE water resources ment of existing laws which, restrict some spe cific uses of Rogue river basin waters. It also recommends that certain specific withdrawals be ended (although not existing water rights). Such action is needed if the board's program is to be put into effect. Fears that the streams will, as a result, be overappropriated, or converted to undesirable uses, seem to be unfounded, for the board's ob jectives are just the reverse of this. Any future approved use would be limited by existing stak utes which provide for rounded, beneficial and multiple use. In effect; the board would become the au thority as to how water can be used, subject to the general statutory limitations which apply to all new uses of water in the state. OO W all this relates to the projects and plans 1 of the Corps of Army Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv ice, and other insterested agencies remains to be seen. We do not see how they could be incompati ble in the long run, although in the short haul it is possible there may arise conflicts of interest, as one agency's plans fail to jibe with the board's overall program. And, of course, there are special interests which majr not like certain provisions of the pro gram; which may feel that they are being dis criminated against in favor of other interests. MOST thinking people realize by this time, however, that water is, at a minimum, all these things: 1. Vitally important to the well-being of every human being in the area. 2. Limited in quantity, but irregular in supply. 3. Necessary for a wide variety of uses and activities, all of which are important, but not all of which are compatible 4. Sometimes a threat to life and property.' The board's findings and recommendations are not, and do not pretend to be, a blueprint for development of the Rogue basin. That is some thing for other agencies to work out. But it is an effective and thorough examina tion of the water resources of the basin, an out line of how they, can and should be . used most effectively, and a guidepost for legislative action and development agencies' to follow. E.A. board,: in making its re- Dennis the In just" charge W)MTwm tub Washington Report By WILLIAM ADLAI AND 1960 Washington - Adlai E. Stev enson is becoming the most active non-candidate in the i field for the 1960 Demo cratic Presi dential nomi nation. And his friends are now op e nly marshaling to s" push him into what he is not William S. -Ti j. white with any dig-ging-in of heels, a third try for the big job. His polite dis claimers of further ambition are no longer treated serious ly by anybody. The decision of a party site choosing group to hold the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles, subject to ex pected approval by the Demo cratic national convention, has several meanings. For one, it is general recognition of the new political power of the Far West. For another, it rep resents a plan to turn the tel evision beams from west to east, to saturate the larger eastern audience on a conven tion schedule that will be keyed to fill the best listening hours in the East. TUT THE decision for Los " Angeles means most of all a break for the Stevenson people. No place in the coun try would be a more likely place for loosing a stream lined Stevenson bandwagon. The high point of Mr. Steven son's whole pre-convention campaign in 1956 was Califor nia. ' v He did better in the Cali fornia primaries. than in any other. And the modified egg headism 'in -the Democratic party in that state, is more nearly Stevenson's kind of eggheadism than" is - shown anywhere else. In a word, the California Democrats really "like Adlai," and he likes them. It is easy to overstate the value and force of psycholog ical factors in political con ventions. Fortune still is nearly always on the side of those with the biggest battal ions. -..Still,' psychology can never be discounted. And no candidacy has greater need to master the psychological con siderations than does Steven son's. His biggest handicap, end it is seVere, is that twice he has had the nomination and twice he has lost the election. Rivals already are trying to press home a comparison with Wil liam Jennings Bryan. They are recalling that Bryan nad three nominations and lost three times in the finals. rpOO, THEY ARE subtly 1 spreading the notion that there is yet another Bryan Stevenson parallel: that both were superb in speech but not so able in action. . - To counter this sort of thing there could be for Stevenson no better convention state than California. The Califor nia Democrats are riding higher than anywhere in the nation, because of their great victories of last fall. They can easily be pre sented as forming the most powerful and most up-to-date single segment of the party. California is now tied with Pennsylvania (with 32 elec toral votes each) as the sec ond biggest and most critical state in the country. (New York, of course, has 45 elec toral votes-but also a Repub ucan governor.) The Stevenson men in Cali fornia will iiot fail to under line all this. And they will not fail to point out that if they are ready to take another chance on Stevenson, as the new and bustlingly successful men of the party that they are, . then others,: should not hesitate. : aw - Menace store gets for p&ssmr S. WHITE rpHAT state knows how to -- put on a real show, in and out of Hollywood. And such a show certainly will be put on for Stevenson by his devoted admirers there. What is Mr. Stevenson him self doing? Beginning with his trip last fall to the Soviet Union he has slowly prepared this picture of himself: a man truly interested and sensitive ly informed upon tire one overmastering and terribly is sue of our time, the East-West impasse and how to resolve it honorably. ' Wisely, he is walking only on what the pros call "the statesman road." He is allow ing others to preoccupy them selves with the hard domestic issues, like civil rights.' Mean while, he himself is trying to open a great "dialogue," - a term he once used in another connection, upon the transcen dental theme of peace or war. Irreverent ant i-Stevenson-ites call this "corn." Maybe so; but if so, it is very good corn, indeed. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters-with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Dogs Are Dogs To the Editor: Dogs are dogs, pure breds or mongrels. All have a beating heart and look to humans (if they are humans) for protection and kindness. Etna Ragsdale, I believe your suggestion in answer to Mrs. Hust's plea for sanita tion and a more suitable haven for unwanted dogs at the pound is not the needed solution. On a cold day two years ago I too bought a dog at. the pound, unwanted, cold, filthy and hungry. The sight made me mauseated and heart sick. I'm behind Mrs. Hust 100 per cent. My neighbors and I own dogs and cats. Come see how lovable they can be. The cats' silky body caressing your legs - who can resist returning the faith with a few love pats? And the dog's soft-eyed plea for af fection. While you are out driving, dodging canines right and left, take a trip to the pound. Fenced back yard is the run for my dog, who seldom gets on the lawn. Other dogs who just have to go and can't wait 'till they get home, use my yard too for their comfort. When this happens I'll do like my neighbors, use the scooper. - To quote, Cardinal New man: "Cruelty to animals is as if we do not love God." Hulda E. Branson 710 Palm st. Medford. YCC and Segregation . To the Editor: In regard to your recent editorial on the "CCC," or as one man. Sena tor Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota, called it, "YCC," for "Youth Conservation Corps," I must say I definitely ap prove of such a move. It was the only program sponsored, Dy xne late r resident Roose velt that I'd be willing to say I approved of for permanent status. I can say one thing about a change in that particular pro gram were it to be made ef fective at present or in the future: Leave the damned Army out of it. I was in sev eral of the camps myself, and have no 'regrets. The Mail Tribune could do much worse than to push a program of Johnson Civil Rights Political Solution of By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (LTD - Take another look at the civil rights bill proposed by Sen. Lyndon B. J o h n s on (D-T e x.) be fore writing it off as a phony. Americans for Demo cratic Action (ADA), the lefty heir of FDR's New .yle C. Wilson U e a 1, would so write it off. ADA called the civil rights proposal "a typical Johnson compromise, scratching the surface of the civil rights problem and care fully refraining from digging down to its heart - school segregation." ' ADA, northern Democrats in general and the National this sort in every way pos sible. In regard to the segregation moves by some of our south ern states, I'd suggest a law to require labeling of where products are manufactured if sold in other states. My pur pose is such a law would per mit those of us who object to segregation to boycott goods made in states where segre gation is practiced. Loss of sales would soon make those officials, who do not care to integrate, change their tune. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Route Butte Falls, Ore. A Few Reminders To the Editor: Here are a few reminders for Etna Rags dale, who so unmercifully condemned the dogs in her neighborhood. True - they have no bath rooms to go to, and the only difference is, that she has been taught where to go, but she has forgotten the most important thing of all for instance, all the lives they have saved, and all the love, happiness and devotion they give, which I am sure she could never give. Perhaps she has never owned a pet. In that case I can understand, but to the people who have them, they are mighty precious. . I thank God for people like Mrs. Hust, who has such con cern for them. We need more like her. , D. V. Hutcheson Shady Cove. Mystery of the Girls To the Editor: Perishable though news items ,may be, there are exceptions, like the boxed-in Centennial "TO DAY" of Sunday's MT that told of the troubles of In dian trader Nathaniel Wyeth in 1835, for it did give a little speculative light on the two little Wyeth girls of the Ste phen P. Taylor 'preacher wagon train' that found wel come end of the long long trek here in the Rogue River Valley in 1853. It was at the California route turn of the Oregon trail where the wagon trail found two men, with two pack horses, on horse back, each with a little girl. The men told how the girls' mother had outfitted - a trail-wagon and horses 'back ' east' to guard and guide them across the plains to the Oregon Ter ritory and a " little mudflat town on the Willamette River knowns as Portland to be with relatives there. But the mother had sickened and died a few days before. As the men's destination was Cali fornia, they pursuaded the wagon train leaders to take the little girls on with them, the older one, 5, taken by the Taylor wagon, the younger one in another ox-powered prairie schooner. Around the campfires that evening, speculation mount ed. Little help could be had from the grief-torn girls. But evidence could not be denied as one sharp-eyed, woman re marked: "Just see the girls' slick-combed hair, that had to be done this . very morning 'cause it's plain as day they haven't' slept one single night since it was combed." And next day or two when the older girl saw Hobert Taylor flipping a $20 gold piece, she lisped, "My momma had lotth of them in her trunk." But what could be done? The two men were gone, wagon train provisions low and winter threatening. So, like many others leaving un marked graves along the Ore gon Trail, the ox and horse powered prairie schooners rolled on to the rich and ready lands of Oregon. The older girl had safe sanctuary with the Taylors on their 640 acre donation claim south of Roxy Ann. the other girl with a nearby family. The follow ing spring, both were sent by wagon train to Portland by the dreaded (but no other) Canyon route. Thus ended the mystery of the little Wyeth girls, only highlighted by the MT Sunday news item. F. J. Clifford Rt. 2, Box 200F Central Point. P.S. Any information on this would be most welcome.; Association for the Advance ment of Colored P e o p le (NAACP) apparently want a Congressional endorsement of the Supreme Court's ruling against school segregation. Some of those opposing segre gation probably would prefer Congressional action to en force desegregation of South ern schools. The implication of that preference is that de segregation should be en forced throughout the South -as in Little Rock - by the armed forces of the United States. Congress and South's Schools It is a fact that Johnson's four-point bill avoids direct approach to the immediate problem of schooling white and Negro children together. Assuming that there is a valid argument against Congress at tempting to deal directly with the school problem, it prob ably would be this: -That both time and pa tience reasonably could be ex pected to help toward a solu tion of the great social and educational crisis now con fronting Southern states. 'Partnership' Gone From Ike's Power Plans; 'No-Starts' Stays By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington - President Eis enhower's budget message to Congress was unique in at least one re spect as far as the Pacific Northwest is concerned-for the first time it did not men tion the term "partnership" in connection with hydro- A.Bobt.smiui electric devel opment. Otherwise it followed a familiar pattern for river development funds. It asked Congress not to appropriate funds to start any more new projects, but recommended funds for a host of projects started in recent years with funds appropriated by Con gress over the president's opposition. John Day dam on the lower Columbia and Cougar dam on the Willamette were both earmarked under the old "partnership" power policy for construction by a joint arrangement between local utilities and the federal gov ernment. Policy Resisted But strongly as the Repub lican administration advocat ed this policy, the Democrati cally-controlled Congress re sisted it at every turn. In stead, Congress put up funds to start both dams as all- federal projects. Now both are under way. And in addition, Ice Harbor on the lower Snake River and Hills Creek on the Wil lamette have been put under federal construction at the insistence of Congress. There is no more talk of the "partnership" policy, pos sibly because its chief advo cates from the Northwest have been defeated at the polls by pro-federal Demo crats. President Eisenhower now sees that the many new proj ects started by the Demo crats throughout the country have swelled his spending program for resources to an all-time high of $1.1 billion. And aftej the coming year, he said it will take another $5 billion to complete these projects they are now work ing on. It will take, for ex ample, another $356 million just to complete the John Day project. The Democrats in Congress TODAY ' In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JANUARY 23. 1851 The city of Portland was incorporated effective this day and became the second incorporated community in the Oregon Territory, Ore gon City having become the first, and indeed the first west of the Rocky Moun tains, upon its incorpora tion in 1844 by the Pro visional legislature. JANUARY 23. 1907 The elections of Jona than Bourne Jr. and Fred A. Mulkey to the United States Senate were con firmed today by joint ac tion of the houses of the state legislature. Bourne and Mulkey thus became the first U.S. Senators in history -elected by popular vote, since under the terms of Statement No. 1, a ma jority of the candidates for the legislature had agreed to vote for the senatorial candidates receiving the greatest support at the polls. Bill Seeks Long-Range Segregation Problem -That direct Congressional intervention, especially with enforcing legislation, would reduce greatly the opportunity of either time or patience to heal raw wounds. Not just around the corner, but far down the road there appears to be one decisive, home-grown solution to the South's problem of racial in tegration of its schools. That solution would be peaceful integration of schools in the South under conditions pretty much conforming to the state's rights point of view of even the most extremist of southern segregationists. Power Of Negro Vote Given time and patience this could and may come to pass by reason of increased political activity of Southern Negroes. The Negro vote al ready is a political power house in the Northern states. Southern Negroes are more numerous actually and pro portionately than are Negroes in the North. But they don't vote much. Disinterest, disenfranchise ment and one thing and an other have so retarded voting aren't satisfied with this argu ment against starting still more new projects. They ex pect to push for funds to start Green Peter dam on the San tiam and Lower Monumental dam on the lower Snake. Looking into the future, this Congress will also prob ably pass some kind of new authorization bill covering many of the recommended projects in the 308 review re port of the Corps of Engin eers. The White .House is not likely to resist this step, be cause an authorization doesn't figure in the budget until it is followed with appropria tions. And the president said in his budget message: "In the interest of sound water resources programs in future years, funds are rec ommended to continue inves tigations and advance plan ning and to assemble basic data for future projects." He then went on to suggest that Congress authorize one big reclamation project in particular, the Fryingpan-Ar-kansas project in Colorado, In the Day's News By FRANK At his recent press confer ence, President Eisenhower vigorously defended his 77 billion dollar balanced budget against charges that it is po litically motivated and in valid. In doing so, he falls back on the sound military doctrine that a vigorous attack is the best defense. He tells the re porters that the Democratic attacks on his budget are "coming from so many dif ferent angles that he can't escape the conclusion that his opponents are suffering from budgetary schizophrenia." THAT crack sent the cor respondents scurrying to the reference books. They dis covered that Webster's New International Dictionary de fines schizophrenia as "a type of psychosis characteriz ed by loss of contact with the enviroment and by disintegra tion of the personality. It in cludes dementia praecox and some related forms of in sanity." If they had delved a little deeper, they would have found dementia pYaecox de fined as "a type of mental disease in which the victim WITHDRAWS FROM REAL ITY and- suffers from false perceptions and false beliefs and delusions." H MMMMMMMMM. As a political leader, Ike is improving. His crack is reminiscent of FDR at his best. PACIFIC NORTHWEST COMPANY IS PLEASED TO Lyle F.TlLSON Chairman of the Board Stanley N. Minor Chairman of the Executive Committee Ben B. Ehruchmajc Vice-Chairman of the Board Seattle, Washington January 9, 1959 by Southern Negroes that they have had little political im pact. That situation began to change some time ago, and the change continues at an increased pace. The federal civil rights bill of 1957 was intended to speed the change already under way. Seek 3 Million Votes The NAACP is campaign ing to register 3 million South ern Negroes before the 1960 presidential election. Registra tion in 1956 was about 1,300, 000. There are enough Ne groes in th South to put the segregation problem far to ward solution if they would and could register and vote. This sort of solution was sug gested by President Eisen hower last week in a National Press Club speech. The fourth section of the proposed John son civil- rights bill would help bring that about. The section would give the Justice Department instant subpoena to obtain all regis tration and other records needed to. prepare voting rights cases. Perhaps South ern Negroes will vote them selves into white schools. but to hold off on funds until "the overall budgetary situa tion is more favorable." Employment Factor One reason for the higher level of spending on these public works projects now is that a year ago everyone was concerned about the rise of unemployment. The White House revised upward its budget figures for public works and the Democrats in Congress added some more fof good measure to combat the recession. Now one hears no talk about unemployment. The president is talking like he will make a fight for holding the line on spending in order to balance the budget and to minimize the affect of federal spending on inflation. There are reports the Dem ocratic strategy will be to pass a big airport aid bill and a housing bill, both of which the president might veto. The outcome of this tussle may depend on whether public opinion sides with the presi dent or the Congress. JENKINS ALL THIS caUs for a little , psychoanalysis of Ike him self. He came to the White House with a soldier's background. When he became President, he had all of the professional soldier's distate for the pro cesses of practical politics. In his six years in the White House, he has learned a lot - including the fact that to be a successful political leader one must make use of the processes and the pro cedures of practical politics. It isn't enough merely-to issue an order. A political leader must PERSUADE his associ ates and his followers to go along. Also, in politics, associates and followers must be RE WARDED if the are to go along. They aren't interested in merely dying for a cause. POLITICS is quite a trade. His performance at his press conference this morn ing suggests that perhaps Ike feels he has served his ap prenticeship as a political leader and that hereafter he must be accepted as a journey man! .If so, he will be a more effective political leader from here on out. BIG HURRY Jackson, Miss. -(UPD- When police spotted a man shoplift ing in a downtown store Thursday he left so fast he didn't bother to open the glass door just ran through it and got away. ANNOUNCE Robert E. Daniel Pretidcnt i
