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4 Thursday. April 9. 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtSlWrEIBUNB "Everyone lc Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJ.DFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RXJHL, Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager GEPA-LD LATHAM. Business Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing F.ditor 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 ai second class matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talnt and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. ISO 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 Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. &Y NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS)CTlgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 9, 1949 (Saturday) A post office is to be es tablished at the Camp White veterans domiciliary. Plans are laid for an Eas ter sunrise service at Hilltop ranch atop Coker butte. 20 YEARS AGO. April 9. 1939 (Sunday) Drs. Edwin Durno . and Charles W. Lemery depart for a postgraduate study tour, of Eastern clinics. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge .Pot" column: "The leaves that will have to be raked up next fall, are com ing out at random on all the trees." 30 YEARS AGO April 9, 1929 (Tuesday) Faster air mail service is to go into effect May 1. The state tax levy is to be higher than last year. ' - 40 YEARS AGO April 9, 1919 (Wednesday; Another California tourist the second of the year-makes it over the Siskiyous. A whippet war tank is to visit Medford. 50 YEARS AGO April 9, 1909 (Friday) The new high school build ing is to be dedicated this eve ning. , . Nearly all the county taxes $261,618 of the total levy of $329,000-have been collected and are in the strongbox. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Work on the Panama Can al was undertaken originally by the French, British or the Dutch? 2. About 158 years ago, the first White House tenants moved into that structure; name them. 3. Does a somniloquist sing, walk or talk in his sleep? 4. When is ground-hog day? 5. Is the U. S.-Canadian bor der longer or shorter than the U. S.-Mexican border? 6. Which normally beats the faster, a baby's pulse, or an adult's pulse? 7. Is "Wolverine State" the nickname of Idaho, Michigan,, or Nevada? 8. What domesticated ani mal is sometimes referred to as a "razorback"? . 9 ."Old Eli" is a nickname for which eastern university? 10. One hundred years ago, "The Scarlet Letter," a book about sinful love, was a best seller; who wrote it? Answers: 1. French. 2. John and Abigail Adams. 3. Talk. 4. Feb. 2. 5. Longer. 6. Baby's. 7. Michigan. 8. Hog. 9. Yale. 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Trees, Trees, Trees !! Trees, by golly, are busting out all over. And none too soon, either. All the tree-planting activity hereabouts seems to be coming to a head this month, although it is the culmination of many months of work and planning. And it is doing more to dress up the old town than anything that has happened for a long, long time. Nice things should be said to the people re sponsible. I7IFTY-SOME trees are to grace our downtown section, put out in pots along the sidewalks. This was a plan worked out by the Medford tree committee, the Retail Merchants association, and the individual merchants involved, who under take to see they are cared f 01. Five thousand trees, if all goes well, will be planted on the slopes of Roxy Ann Butte this week end. This is a cooperative project, worked out by the Medford parks and recreation commis sion, its sub-committee on Roxy Ann, and the good people of the Welcome Wagon club, who have made that attractive park their special con cern. Trees are being planted alcJng many Medford residential streets, the"' culmination of several years of work and planning by the tree committee in cooperation with individualsand neighborhood groups. (We are told that this is the only coopera tive and voluntary street tree planting project in any Pacific Coast community.) OUT in the "Agate Desert" area, thousands more trees are being put in. Charlie and Bud Hoover are the mainsprings in this project, work ing with the Eagle Point Grange and Girl Scout groups. ' And individual Granges throughout the coun ty also are undertaking to encourage the planting of trees. None of this could have been accomplished without enthusiasm, without a recognition that this is probably the one thing that will do the most to make the county more attractive, without a lot of hard work and planning, and without willing cooperation from everyone involved. TTHERE'S more than just beauty (important as that is) involved in planting trees. On this page yesterday, the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science pointed out that the world's oxygen carbon dioxide balance is imperiled by the in creasing use of the combustion engine, and that the best antidote to this is more vegetation. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, while both animals and gas-burning en gines do the opposite. As population increases, as logging has reduced the amount of natural vegeta tion, and as industiy and automobiles multiply, the amount of oxygen used, and carbon dioxide produced, increases. . We recommend to other communities through nut the world the fruitful benefits of tree planting v , , which Jackson county is Another Step Forward Another step forward in the development of new sources of power was announced this week. It was a further refinement of the thermo couple principle, discussed previously in this space the application of the phenomenon whereby electricity is generated when certain dissimilar elements close together are heated. Thermocouples have been operated success fully before, although with a rather low degree of efficiency. What made this week's announcement of particular interest, however, is the fact that for the first time atomic energy was the source of the heat which in turn was used for direct con version into electric energy. xixj uuieiiueuiiieo cue A A small unit such as this could make iso lated installations self-sufficient as far as power is concerned, without the necessity of large stocks of fuel, or the big turbines and generators which, up to now, have been needed to convert heat en ergy into electric energy. They could even be the power plants for auto mobiles of the future. IHs too soon to foresee what sort of pattern will develop for its general use, if any. We sus pect that power companies will be with us for many years to come, although possibly their sources of power will be affected both by the thermocouple principle and by other develop ments in the nuclear field. THHE only really safe prediction is that we will see, within the very near future, added changes in our concepts of power generation and, perhaps, even distribution. With thermocouples in use to provide rela tively small sources of power directly from heat sources (nuclear or other, including . the fossil fuels and direct sunlight), the main problem may well be usable major sources of power to provide industry with its needs. Hydroelectric power is limited; heat-to-electric energy conversion on a grand scale by use of fossil fuels (oil and coal) is limited by the supply, and it is beginning to appear that nuclear power plants using fission power are limited by a number of f actors, including that of safety. We expect to live to see the day when fusion power, using the virtually unlimited supplies of deuterium in the sea, will be on its way to becom ing the main source of industrial power. E. A. J. CJ now beginning to enjoy. T?l A wiucsuicciu. Dennis the ( OONT TfiOS THINGS AUKS Matter of Fact GENERAL POWER'S WARNING Washington "I think you are just risking the whole country. That is how impor- tant I feel it is." This com. ment, on the inadequacy of l t h e Adminis tration's pro gram for main gram for mai ntaining our deterrent 4ospb Alsop p O w c x, was not made by an ignoramus, or a crisis-monger, or a par tisan. It was made by the wise and moderate man who car ries the lonely and terrible responsibility for the Ameri can deterrent, the U. S. Strate gic Air Commander, uen. Thomas B. Power. Now that a much-censored version has been released, Gen. Power's grim testimony before the Military Sub-Com mittee of the House Appro priations Committee has al ready attracted some atten tion. The attention has been ludicrously inadequate, how ever; and almost no attention at all has been paid to the statements by Gen. Power which had the highest imme diate significance. These con cerned the need for an air borne alert of the Strategic Air Command. t TO put this part of the Pow er testimony in a compre hensible context, it is neces sary to note that the -"missile gap" has two phases. In the later phase, the United States will have some interconti nental missiles in hard or semi-hard pads, and " some measure of warning against the. Soviet missile-attack. In this later phase, the business-as-usual defense budget will permit the Soviets to gain an enormous preponderance of nuclear striking power, ' by permitting the Soviets to out-' build this country in both long and medium range bal listic missiles. Concerning this later phase, General Power in effect said that it was insanely improudent not to maintain a more reasonable balance of striking power, by building more of the Atlas ICBMs, for instance. In the present phase, how ever, the problem is quite different. This year and next year-for at least 18 months and maybe an even longer period-the United States will have no ICBMs in hard pads and no warning whatever against a Soviet missile-strike. A s mall number of Atlas ICBMs will indeed become operational during this phase. But these first Atlas missiles will be "soft," which means cheap, easy targets for Soviet missiles. THE immediate question, therefore, is whether the Soviets can produce enough ICBMs to knock out Ameri Try and 1 , I 1 -By BENNETT CERF- TVTEWMAN LEVY was asked to provide a quick joke for 11 Mischa Auer to deliver in a movie. He suggested that Auer enter a hockshop to pawn a violin. "I'll give you 10 bucks for it, proposed the pawnbrok er. "Ten bucks!" cried Auer. "Why, this fiddle once be longed to Kreisler." "I don't care if it belonged to Buick," concluded the pawnbroker. "Ten bucks is all you get." The producer was de lighted with Newman's quip, and laughed heartily. "Wonderful!" he exclaimed, "but I forget to tell you we've cut this scene out of. the picture." - dowf "If you are not completely satisfied, your money will be gloom ily refunded." A little lady tip at Wellesley calls her gloves Brigitte because they're undressed kid. C 1339, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Menace XXIR EARS TlfZBOV Joseph Alsop ca's deterrent power in this first phase of our maximum "softness." As of today, for instance, the Soviets could win the world in one stroke, with just enough ICBMs to launch a surprise missile at tack on about 50 targets in this hemisphere. The realistic requirement (which was seri ously understated in an earlier report in this space) is ap proximately 350 Soviet ICBMs. This small number of these weapons, plus the ad mitted Soviet stock of me dium range missiles to cover SAC's overseas air bases, would be enough to do the job. They would be enough to do the job, because General Power's Strategic Air Com mand is only authorized at present to maintain a 15-min uite ground alert. This kind of alert will be useful when the missile-seeing radars of the DMEWS system are at last in place, and ready to give SAC 15 minutes warning. But a ground alert is obviously worthless in the present phase, when there can be no warning whatever against a Soviet missile-strike. The only "possible remedy, the only thing that can be done now, is to run a continu ous air-borne alert. If a maxi mum percentage of SAC's bombers are always in the air, ready to go, and beyond reach of a surprise missile strike, the entire American deterrent can never be knock ed .out. But since the problem of the air-borne alert began to be discussed, the great men of the Pentagon have been pouring out the customary flood of lies, inspiring state ments that an air-borne alert was not feasible, that it coujd not De maae to work, and so on and so on. General Power's testimony has now given the lie direct to the smooth,' easy liars, as follows: . WARNING is the crux of the ' 1 problem. We may not get any warning of a missile attack. Mr. Khrushchev knows that, and he might feel these are very favorable circumstances. What can, you do? We in the Strategis Air Command have developed a system known as air-borne alert . . . This is a difficult way to live. It never has been attempted in . . . military his tory. (But) -we have tested it, and we know we can do it. "I do not want to see an air-borne alert (after) any re sponsible person in this coun try says, 'I will guarantee you warhing'-However, I feel we must get on with this air borne alert to carry us over (the period of no warning. For) the minute (Khrushchev) thinks he can strike this, coun try with impunity, we will get it in the next 60 second." You could have no clearer statement, from a more im pressive source. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me )k Hf-9 5v Al U Census Bureau Getting Ready Nose Count; Questions Added By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (UPD People who are uncommonly sensitive-about disclosing their pri- 1 v a t e affairs j may as well make plans to spend the night of Thursday, Mar. 31, 1960, at home. That's the night the cen sus taker will Frank Eleazer you wnax bed you are sleeping in, if not your own. It is' not true, though, that he will ask your relationship to whoever owns it. And if he wants to know why you didn't stay home, feel free to tell him he should mind his own business. Whatever information you impart to Uncle Sam's nose counter, on this or other mat ters, will be strictly between yourself and him (or her as the case may be and very likely will). Spilling the beans can send him to jail for two years. A Know-Ail Survey It's all part of the 1960 de cennial census (that means it happens every 10 years) and what the government wants to do is make sure it counts everybody, as the Constitu tion requires. Of course, they have broad ened it ' out some this time. They will want to know about almost everything but the kitchen sink. Census Director Robert W. Burgess told a House subcommittee the sink was left out on the theory that everybody has one now, so why keep on asking? The 1960 count for the first time will cover (although only in every fourth household) such added items as air con ditioners (window models or central systems); washing ma chines (automatic or only partly so); televisions and ra dios (but list only the ones that are working) and bath rooms (inside or outside and Shifts in Population, New States, Increase Influence By Congressional Quarterly Washington-(CQ)-The West is hitched to a rising political star. The West's political potency is increasing because of rapid population growth in Califor nia and the Southwest and because of Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood. Hawaii and Alaska bring to 13 the number of Western states. Formerly there were 11: Arizona, California, Colo rado. Idaho. Montana, Ne vada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyo ming. The new states increase the Western Senate members from 22 to 26, one more than one-fourth the total Senate membership of 100. In addition to the House new seats aireaay sei asiue for Alaska and Hawaii, popu lation increases between 1950- 60 will result in a gain of nine House seats in the West in 1963. California is due to get seven new seats, Arizona one and Hawaii one. This net gain of 11 Western seats during the next four years will be pri marily at the expense of the Middle Atlantic and New Eng land states, which suffer, a net loss of ten. Major losses will be in New York and Pennsylvania, which will lose three seats each and Massa chusetts which will lose two. have a delegation of 37 House members, second only to New York, which will be cut back from 43 to 40. After the 1970 census California will have the largest delegation in Con gress. California's Importance As Presidential electoral votes are based on the size of a state's Congressional repre sentation, California will soon be the major political power house in national elections. It will eclipse New York, which has held the rail position for the last 150 years. Vice President Nixon, a na- GOP Presidential nominee in 1960. California Republicans have played a leading role at the GOP national conventions since 1944. But California's political potency wiU particu larly rise in Democratic ranks where it has not been pro nounced in the past. The California Democratic ticket in 1958 routed a long established GOP state admin istration and a ticket headed by former Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (R-Calif.) Newly elected Dem ocratic Gov Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of , Calif ornia plans to be the state's "favorite son" candidate at the 1960 Demo cratic National Convention in Los Angeles. He may become an active candidate. Seven of the Western governors are how many). On that, Rep. George E. Shippley (D-IU.), thought now they had gone too far. "I'm personally in favor of doing away with about half of these question," Shipley said. "Like how many toilets per house. What possible use could that be?" 8-Cents A Nose Burgess indicated that a whole lot of people, from so ciologists to- plumbing con tractors would be grieved to hear Shipley's comment. He said good statistics on things Iraqi Oil One of Pressing Problems in Mid-East Scene By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Edilor As Communism tightens its grip on Iraq, one of the most pressing world questions is, what happens now to Iraq's oil? . It is an im portant ques- i t i o n because : Iran sits in i the middle of the great Mid dle Eastern oil pool, and Phil Newsom by itself, is the world's sixth largest oil producing country. This correspondent, on recent visit to Baghdad, put that question directly to Dr. Hashim Jawad, Iraq's urbane and sophisticated foreign min ister. His reply was: "Iraq's ties are with the West. Most of our income comes from oil and our oil goes entirely to the West. Our pipelines are directed toward the West." At this moment, no one can predict the future course of the Iraq government, Big Freezeoux American news correspon dents and American business alike are being frozen out of Iraq and Western prospects of West Democrats. All are clamoring for a greater role for the rap idly growing West in national affairs. Strong in Senate Democratic Western Sen ators are also packing a big ger punch in the Senate. Un der the leadership of Sen Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), s conference of Western Senate Democrats was organized on Feb. 20. Mansfield also moved and his colleagues agree, to bring the four Oklahoma and Texas Senators into the West ern Democratic Senators con ference. It now has 23 mem bers-more than a third of the 64 Democratic Senators in eluding Sen. Lyndon B. John son (D-Tex.), the Senate Dem ocratic leader, Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip, and Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.), the President pro tem of the Senate. N Mansfield told CQ the new ly organized Western Demo cratic Senators conference has two prime purposes: to bring together Senators with com mon interests in water, power, mining, Indian legislation, problems affecting freight rates, interest rates, and other economic matters, and to put the weight of the conference zehind such legislation. The conference also serves as a Southwestern bridge for John son, whose native Texas is partially Southern oriented, partially Western oriented. : Western influence is even on the rise in the House, where a small population has restricted the West to a minor role in the past. As in the Sen ate, the West's political po tency will be felt in the House on the Democratic side of the aisle for the next 15 years. This is due primarily to re d i s t r i c ting by California's Democratic legislature follow ing the 1960 census so that the House Congressional delega tion will' be heavily Demo cratic. It is doubtful that the West as a region will materially in fluence the House in the fore seeable future. Most Western ers who will be added to the House following reapportion ment in 1963 and 1973 will be from urban areas. They are likely to have more in com mon with urban Congressmen elsewhere in the country than with their "cow country" col leagues. (Copyright 1959, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.) HELP US! W Need Clothing, Shoes. Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 f Mm LJ. ... "ltk Nasi like outhouses and bath rooms and babies and old folks are the lifeblood of planning by business and the basis for de cisions by governments. Also, the raw material for forecasts by demographers. Rep. August E. Johansen (R-Mich.), said Burgess might as well stop there and define demography. Burgess said it comes from the Greek and means the science of the peo ple. "That doesn't mean the psycholanalysts are taking there deed. now appear dim in- But, so far as oil is con cerned, there are three ele ments which today force Iraq to maintain its ties with the Western nations. One is the oil pipelines. The pipelines handling Iraq oil run from Iraq to Syria and thence to Mediterranean out lets in Syria and Lebanon. There is no- connection with Russia or any of its satellites except via ship through the Persian Gulf. A second, and impelling one, is the fact that Russia at this moment has no par ticular use for the Iraqi oil. Russia is itself an oil export ing nation and has immense and still untapped oil reserves of its own. And a third is that present ly it would be almost impos sible for Iraq to nationalize its oil and seek its own oil markets. A sad example is Iraq's oil-rich neighbor, Iran.. In 1951, under then -Pre mier Nohamme,d Mossadegh, Iran nationalized its oil and repudiated its contract with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com pany of Britain. Iran soon found it had neither the tech nicians to draw out the oil nor the facilities to market it. No Income Taxes By 1954, and with U.S. aid, the dispute finally was set tled. But by that time, Iran practically was bankrupt and the world had managed splen didly without the oil on whlcli Iran's economy depended. Under its 50-50 deal with Britain, American and other oil companies, Iran today takes in well over $200 mil lion annually in oil revenues. By law, 70 per cent of these revenues must be diverted to national development pro jects. As a result, income taxes in Iranare almost non existent. The pipelines through Syria provide an interesting side light to the Iraq oil question. So long as relations between Iraq and the United Arab Re public remain in their strain ed state, Iraq must always have the nagging worry that the Syrians might some day cut the lines. They did that during the Suez crisis and the cost to Iraq ran to about $700,000 per day. Will Look To West If this should happen again, it will be to the West and not to Russia that Iraq looks for aid. In fact, Jawad grim ly told this correspondent: "We should regard such an event as serious indeed. Bu in this case, it would not be Iraq and the U.A.R. alone. The big powers would be in volved." There seems ample reason to believe that Iraq even now may be attempting to increase PROVES OUR ADVERTISING Acre Irani riw m RANK MOtO AN - HAIOU) SNOOMASS, FUNHAl DRKTOtS DAY OR HCHT for 1960 This Time over this job, does it?" asked Chairman John Lcpinski (D I ach.). Burgess assured him it didn't. And as for the people who will be taking it over, he said, about 200,000 of these will be needed, on jobs that will last mostly only two weeks. They will get maybe 8 cents per nose counted and if they don't spend too much time drinking coffee can ex pect to make $1.60 per hour. To get the job you don't ex actly have to be a Republican. But it will sure help. either its income or its oil output at the expense of the Western companies. But, for now, it seems certain Iraqi oil will continue to flow to the West. A possibility for the distant future 'is that some day it m'ght be useful to Red China. In that case, the flow might be reversed. Bond Issue for Columbia River Bridge Approved Salem -UPD- A bond issue of $24 million to build a highway toll bridge across the Colum bia river at Astoria has been approved by the Oregon house 41-13. The bill now goes to the Senate. Rep. W. H. Holmstrom (D Gearhart) said the bonds would not be issued until a contract was entered into with Washington providing thai Washington would be obli gated 50 per cent in case tolls were not sufficient. Eliminates Bottleneck 1 Holmstrom said that ' the only way large single Unit projects such as the bridge could be built was by issuing bonds. "If we pass this bond issue, the greatest bottleneck in Ore gon's highway system will be eliminated," Holmstrom said. He said the Astoria bridge would increase commerce, tourist trade and eliminate the antiquated and expensive fer ries now operating between Astoria and Megler, Wash. Objects To Method ? Rep. George Annala (D Hood River) objected to the method of financing. He thought the state should Issue only $12 million in bonds with Washington providing the rest. All the state's bonding ca pacity would be used on the bridge,-Annala said, although Holmstrom disagreed with him. The bond program could be financed by a raise in the gas tax or by increasing auto li cense fees from $10 to $17 a year. N Rep. Harry Elliott (R-Tilla-mook) said other bridges along the Oregon coast were financed by bond issues. W. T. "Bill" Fasel REALTOR Phene SP 3-3517 1244 S. Riverside To PROVE what one advertises is most 0 important. S Cwrtimn PHONE SP 2-8030 t
