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4 MAIL TftlBUNI, MeeW. Or. Unity, May 3, 1939 "Everyone Us Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJ3FORD PRINTING CO. 3 North F1t St. Ph. SP 8-3141 ROBLHT W BUHL, Editor HERB GRfTY Advertising Manager GEFALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Editor CARL 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 a second class matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday l year 913.00 ' Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford 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 Sumlay 1 mo. 1.90 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms casn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford omeiai ppet oi jacuson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLHJATf CO, INC. Of fices in next York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION MATIOMAl E0ITOIIAI Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson f County History from tha files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 3, 1949 (Tuesday) The Medford city council is expected to discuss an ordi nance to ban beekeeping in the city. Water which flooded High way 99 at Savage Rapids dam over the week end is reported receding. 20 YEARS AGO May 3, 1939 (Wednesday) The Rogue river coordina tion board halts placer mining on the river whenever it re sults in muddied water affect ing anglers downstream in Curry county." - From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Econ omy and rain are the chief conversational topics, along with the lack of both." 30 YEARS AGO May 3. 1929 (Friday) Talent citizens are taking up archery. Gasoline prices in Medford range from 19 to 28 cents a gallon as a price war rages. 40 YEARS AGO May 3, 1919 (Saturday) Farmers are asked to he'ip in a war on ground squirrels. Tom Fuson appears on Main st. with the first straw hat of the season. 30 YEARS AGO May 3, 1909 (Monday) More local girls enter the Medford Tribune's great trip contest. ! Sen. George Chamberlain takes up free carrier service for Medford with the U.S. postal department. VhsPs Yosr I.Q.? .Nina or tan correct is superior; ssvs n or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. What Asiatic country is divided into two parts by the 38th paraUel? 2. On what occasion does the President of the U. S. wear a uniform as Command er in Chief of the armed forces? 3. Correct ths following sentence: "He read it like you said." 4. In which State is the Army's White Sands proving grounds? 5. When President W i 1 liam McKinley was asassinat ed.'who became President of. the U. S.? 6. If a home baseball team scores one run in every in ning, and the visiting team makes no score, what is the final game score? 7. The spider is an insect true or false? 8. Supply the missing words in the following: "Time and wait no -" 9. From whom did Jess Wfllard win the heavyweight boxing title? 10. What is the Capital of Washington State? . . Answers: 1. Korea. 2. Nev er. 3. "He read it as you said." 4. New Mexico. 5. Theodore Roosevelt. S. 8-0. 7. False (Ar achnid. 8. "tide . . for . . man." 9. Jack Johnson. . 10. Olympia. North America has 60 per cent of all the world's tele phones. Europe has 30 per cent and the remaining 10 per cent serve the rest of .the world. Loss to . It was only a few years ago that the word "cancer" was spoken in hushed tones. It carried with it an aura of both fear and mystery, and when an individual wTas stricken, the fact often was concealed. But no more. The illness of John Foster Dulles, of Senators Richard Neuberger and Robert Taft, and, more recently, of Arthur Godfrey, prove beyond a doubt that cancer, while it is still feared, is no longer a cause either for shame or concealment. .. DR0GRESS is being made in cancer research. But it is slow progress. And meanwhile many of our best people are suffering from it, and the nation is deprived of-their valuable services. It does not strike the famous alone. It also strikes at friends and neighbors, people we know and respect and like. People like Vincent P. Bevis, who, in his quiet way, was one of our outstanding citizens. Mr. Bevis died the other day after a long and painful seige of the illness. He was a man not widely known outside of his own community, and his own profession of teaching. DUT, in his 11 years in Medford, first as prin " cipal of Lincoln school and then as principal of Hedrick Junior high school, he earned the respect and affection of his colleagues and his students. What finer monument can a man leave? And what finer record of public service can a man leave than one such as his a record of military service to his nation in war, and of serv ice to the younger generation in peacetime? Someday, and we hope it will be soon, the goal of ending cancer as a killer will be achieved, and we will no longer watch m sympathetic pain as our finest men and women succumb to its ravages. E.A. Two 'Weeks' A "press release" on tnere are at least 5b special "months" during each year, and, at latest count, some 178 special "weeks," to say nothing of countless special "days." This results, inevitably, in duplication. The week which starts today has been desig nated, for instance, both as "Conservation Week," and "Be Kind to Animals Week." . Each is, perhaps, worthy of comment al though the practice of setting up special days and weeks and months gets sort of commonplace and boring after a while. ' 4 a) a) a) a) 1IITH the objectives T we are wholly in accord. It is designed to create a greater public aware ness of our natural heritage the soil, water, trees, animals, fish and minerals of this land and of the necessity to use them in such a way that it- 1 Ml - 11 1 uieir Deneiiis win remain Each of these, with the is a "renewable resource . that is. if treated properly, they will always it is on these resources rests, it is important to IT IS ONLY in the relatively recent past that 1 Americans have become conscious of the need for conservation, for America's resources were so bounteous that it always seemed to prior gen erations that if one were depleted, there was al ways more over the next hill. This is no longer time. The physical frontiers have been reached, and there are no more hills to cross. But we have, as a result of research and ex periment and experience learned, sometimes the hard way, that there are methods by which soil can be saved, trees harvested and regrown so that there will always be a new "crop," wildlife conserved so it will always be plentiful. And it is to the self-interest of everyone that these methods be used and expanded and in sisted upon, so that our children and our chil dren's children may have'at least a part of what we now enjoy. "DE KIND to Animals Week" is an entirely different sort of affair, but it, too, touches many people. The quality of kindliness is a hu man virtue of real value, and its inculcation can not begin too early in a child. Those who have taken upon themselves the protection of animals from needless cruelty have come far, for as little as 100 years ago the con cept was one which resided entirely in the con science of the individual, and . not at all in the rules and conduct of society. ' The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded only 93 years ago. QUINCE that time the movement has been success- fill fn ornfninrr onopfmonf rf Tonrcs nynTrn-nf inn- cruelty to animals (and. dren-altfeoags' that came later). ine most recent victory was the passage of a federal law which requires most packing houses to use . humane methods in the slaughtering of meat animals. We do not eo alone- some of the anti-crueltv anti - vivisection protests. (Actually, animal ex perimentation is 'almost universally done under strict ruies ior preventing pain, and the knowl edge thus gained has alleviated much human and, indeed, animal dul junuuness, uie prevention oi unwanted animal pets, and the other objectives of the week, can claim reasonableness anH real henefite ac their goals. E. A. ' . Cancer the desk renorts that of Conservation Week wirn us ior always. exception of minerals, be plentiful. And. since that our entire wealth treat them properly. oddlv enouo-h. tn c.hil- with all the. nhieetives nf neonle. siit h as thpir suffering.) - Dennis the - - 'OH, NO SPECIAL fZEASOM. Ite JUST THOUGHT UtfD 0I3 A HOLE. Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE LABOR REFORM BILL Having been passed by the Senate, the labor reform bill now goes-to the House which is expected to hold hearings throug h o u t the month of May.," The main, debate will be on whether the amended Ken necfy bill should be Walter Lippmann tougnened or softened. In fact, however, the over-riding national interest is that a bill should be passed which establishes the prin ciple, as does the Senate bill, that there is a public interest in the internal management of the labor unions, and that the right to regulate them is legally recognized and uni vsrsally accepted. This is ever so much more important than any specific provision of the bill. Forthe regulation of labor unions in order to prevent the crimes and abuses revealed by the McClellan Committee is a vast undertaking. There are in this country some, 200 na tional unions and some 60,000 local unions. They have a membership of about 17,000, 000 workers. It is easy to say that these unions must all be honestly and faithfully ad ministered in a democratic way. But it will not be easy for the Federal government to enforce these desirable cri teria in a vast and complex community like the labor unions. As an undertaking, it is comparable in its difficulty with the problem of achiev ing equal civil rights in all parts of the country. , AS IN the problem of civil riffhts tho fnirial num. tion is what is the maximum that can be achieved in the way of observance and en forcement by assent and con sent, without imposing upon the government impossible tasks of enforcement. It is no good to say "there ought to be a law" against this or that when the real question is what kind of law can be expected to work. Anybody can write a bin which commands what he thinks should and should not be done. But what counts is a bill which not only points in the right direction but (WT-mJtjaSaliL Communications Michigan in Trouble " To the Editor: The chickens are really coming home to roost in Michigan, my home state. A visiting schoolmate out of the long ago was telling me about it. He says the feathers are black on 'em, save atop the neck and head there 'aint any. Makes them, look scary, so much so he plans to go back and sell the farm and move out here, if he can sell it for anywhere near a fair price, as property vahies are skidding down. What he told me was just too hard to believe. Michigan has been one of the most sta ble states in the Union, its wealth of farming, memory of its maple-sugar making gives me a chokey feeling. Its tremendous industrial prog ress has been phenomenal. There has been some hint of financial troubles of Mich igan in news releases of de pendable publications like U. S. News and World Report, the Christian Science Monitor. But the last two issues of our home paper, the Mail Tribune, carries items headed with pay less pay-days in Michigan. So it is a shock to acknowledge that Michigan, one of the very dependable foundation stones in our Union, is today virtu ally bankrupt and disinte Menace Lippmapn offers a good prospect of mov ing in that direction. By this test me senate bill is. a good one. The proof that it is good is that it was passed unanimously, taking account of Sen. Goldwater's dissent for the sake of the record. The bUl has the support of the responsible labor leaders, be ginning with Mr. George Meany. Thus, if enacted into law, we may expect that there will be a large amount of voluntary "observance and a limited need for measures of enforcement. I have not in recent months followed in detail the expo sures of the McClellan Com mittee. But a year ago, its sensational exposures of rack eteering and corruption had covered only seven .out of nearly 200 natipnafunions. No doubt there are others which need 'to be exposed. But no doubt also, there are a great many which are hon estly and faithfully run. Their example and support are very necessary to effective regu lation of the labor movement. ' . TN MY view, the criticaUy important and desirable feature of the bill is the re quirement for detailed finan cial reports. For if this re quirement can be enforced, if there is full and continuing disclosure of the income, the investments, and the expendi tures of the union, the founda tion of effective regulations win have been laid. This will not be the last bill to regulate the unions which is to come before Congress. The regula tion of corporations was not done in one bill. It has evolv ed with experience. The same wUl be true of the regulation of the unions. ' For this reason, it is an ex aggeration to become too much concerned about the softness or toughness of the provisions about labor union practices. As for the provis ions to make the internal gov ernment of the unions Vdemo cratic," they may be regard ed as in a class with laws de ploring the sinful nature of man. - It would be a great pity if in an excess of zeal and of righteousness, this very prom ising bill were lost. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. grating. How come? The way it was told to me, Michigan's governor, G. Men nen Williams, one of the youngest governors in the Un ion, is the fair-haired boy of the labor unions which are all powerful in that state. Auto union head Reuther is report ed to have proposed to Gover nor Williams that with "prop er" legislation, they, the un ions, would make Michigan the outstanding state. WeU it seems like they have. Its in dustries, like those of other states, have been badgered with union-demanded yearly pay raises that put the Costs of their products beyond the ability of people to pay. So, the manufacturer can choose to go broke or, like some hardy souls, box up the dies, jigs and lay-outs and ship to foreign countries where the cost of labor allows some de gree of profit. This is why we import far more cars than we export, same with radios, watches TVs and endless oth er products, once the source of jobs and wealth. Yes, the labor union and Gov. G. Men nen Williams have Michigan in the headlines. F. J. Clifford, . Route 2, Box 200 F, Central Point, Ore. Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE BRIDGES AND NIXON Washington - There is a spreading tendency to com pare the prospective Nixon Rockefellej Presidential con- H ' 'M ' iiiimila x x - r . nt i test oi iaoif with the Taft i Eisenhower i contest of 1952, and so X. 1 A. ( .. iv assume uiai " Rockefeller will come out on top - as Ei senhower did eight years ago. ' . One of those intimately in volved, Vice-President Rich ard N. Nixon, has a highly practical determination to ac cept no such parallel. And he has now taken his first deci sive step to" see that it doesn't happen again. Mr. Nixon has decided, with the certain and warm ap proval of the whole orthodox wing of the Republican party, to "git thar fustest with the mostest" in New Hampshire. His prototype (to a point), Sen. Robert A. Taft, got there second in 1952. And it was then and there that the very doubtful candidacy of Gen. Dwight D: Eisenhower for the Presidential nomination got its first, and psychologically its greatest lift, and became a real candidacy. SHERMAN ADAMS, who was then governor of New Hampshire and thus had much of the GOP machine in his hands, blitzed the ReDublican primary of March 8, 1952, and caused an all-Eisenhower delegation to be chosen for the national convention. Sen. Styles Bridges was a Taft man. But circumstances, in cluding timing and a Bridges timidity in face of an unfa vorable power balance, made him ineffective. But there is no more Adams now in the New Hampshire governor's ' mansion. Indeed, Adams and his influence have long since departed from the Eisenhower Administration it self. He had served as Assist ant President (and some thought rather more even than that) until his resigna tion1 from , the White House was forced by the disclosure of the vicuna coat gift from friend Bernard Goldf ine last year. Now, the regular Republi cans generally are on Nixon's side, as they were on Taft's side in 1952. The difference is that this time the regulars will not be caught napping and that this time Bridges is in command of the small but vastly important NewH amp shire ship. . ' Tft St William S. White Matter of Fact BERLIN AS A DIVERSION London - No one on the highest political level here in London, any more than in Washing ton, regards the Soviet threat to Berlin as a diversion in the true sense of the word. The threat is univers ally believed to be painfully se- -liwiph Alsoo nous, wiui no trace of a feint in it. The maximum objective of the "Kremlin is to create con ditions in which the light of freedom can be gradually snuffed out in West Berlin. The minimum objective, which the British government is basically willing to accord to the Kremlin, is to secure a sort of de facto recognition of the satellite status quo in Eastern Europe. The notion that the threat to Berlin is a mere feint, not intended to achieve any local result, is dismissed as a piece of foUy, born of the Penta gon's obstinately smug com placency about the increasing ly unfavorable ; balance of military power. The Penta gon, of course, is where the "Berlin-as-a-diversion" story originated. But even if it is accepted . that the Berlin threat is no mere feint or di version, it must also be ad mitted that it is producing at least one of the side effects of a military diversion. v BEING the most grave and immediate problem con fronting the Western leaders, the Berlin crisis has almost j wholly absorbed the leaders' attention since it began six months ago. It has produced Prime Minister Macmillan's journeys; a succession of meetings of Western ' Foreign Ministers; President Eisen hower's reluctant decision to go to the summit; in incred ible profusion of "working groups," both civilian and military; a quantity of "posi tion" papers without any former parallel; and a series of diplomatic episodes with out previous Western prece dent, such as Chancellor Ade NOW, INDEED, Senator Bridges - a tough and able and frankly right-wing poli tician who is, in fact, also the present GOP boss of the Sen ate is riding high again in New Hampshire. That part of the party technically not in his control is, technically, in control of a new, governor, Wesley Powell. But PoweU is a Bridges protege aU.the way. Bridges and Nixon have now arranged for the Vice President . to go into New Hampshire not next year but this coming . September, to "show himself," as they say in the political trade, by mak ing a few speeches. The pur pose is to stake a blunt and early claim to New Hamp shire, against the still-distant GOP. primary of March 8, 1960. An intermediate pur pose is to fire a skirmishing salvo in the vicinity- of Dart mouth CoUege. At Dartmouth a good many young "modern" Republicans, including Dart mouth President John Dickey, are strongly suspect of giving aid and comfort to Gov1. Nel son Rockefeller of New York for the 1960 Presidential nom ination. New Hampshire has the na tion's earliest GOP primary; to carry the first one is always helpful. To lose the first one may be fatal, as the Taft peo ple grimly discovered and as the Nixon people now keenly realize. . THIS Nixon sortie, more over, has meanings even beyond these obvious ones. It shows unmistakably that the most authentic surviving Old Guard Republican in high place, Bridges, is ready this time to stake all on the task of preventing the entry into the White House of another "modern" Republican - Rock efeller. In 1952 Bridges and other powerful orthodox Republi cans elsewhere hesitated a bit - and lost control of the par ty. A Bridges no longer hesi tant, for 1960, wiU assuredly mean other Bridgeses no longer hesitant elsewhere. He is, in effect, signalling his fel low orthodox leaders to join in early pro-Nixon action. It is still possible, of course, that 1960 wiU repeat 1952; that the-"pro," Nixon, wiU fall .before the "amateur,' Rockefeller, as Taft fell be fore Eisenhower.. But it wiU never" happen, at all events, without a far moire profound, a far more bitter, pre-conven- tion struggle than was seen before. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Bv Joseph AIsop nauer's complete repudiation of all the preparatory efforts of his own subordinates dur ing the NATO rally in Wash ington.' The end is not yet, either. After the Western Foreign Ministers in Paris have reach ed a kind of lowest common denominator agreement on tactics and program, they must stiU go to Geneva. There, according to a widely quoted sardonic forecast of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murviile, there wiU be "one week's talk about Czech and Polish representa tion, one week on German rep resentation, a third week to discuss our own agenda, and anywhere from a week to three weeks to talk about the summit agenda." Even after Geneva, the weary travelers wiU only have reached the foothills of summit. With most of the available high-level man hours being used for the Berlin crisis and Its outgrowths, however, his tory has not stopped else where. It has not stopped in Iraq, for instance. The enor mous Increase of Communist influence in this second most important of the Arab coun tries recently caused the Bri tish to recall their ambassador to Baghdad, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, for consulations in London. In the manner of a man whistling in a graveyard, Sir Humphrey reported that the new Iraqi leader, Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem, had not yet absolutely lost his power to assert his independence of the Communists if he chose to do so. IN ADDITION, the British hnnfnllv hplipvp that the fight between Kassem and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser protects what is now Britain's most vital position in the Middle East, in the little, vul nerable oil sheikdoms like Kuwait at the head of the Persian Gulf. Hence the Lon don decision after Travelyan's visit was what might have been expected, to sit tight and hopefor the best. .' Yet in practice, it . is ad mitted that Kassem is highly unlikely to assert his" inde pendence. The onset of chaos (By M-T Staff ahd Contributors) The wet weather last week was mighty welcome, to a lot of people. It started (naturally enough) on the opening day of fishing season. But few were the fol lowers of Izaak Walton who let a little Oregon mist damp en their ardor. ' . As for the rest of us, it brought welcome dampness to lawns which already were getting an August-like parch ed look. It warmed things up enough so that smudging was no longer necessary, and it In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington the house of representatives upholds Presi dent Eisenhower's veto of a rural electrification bill that would have stripped from Secretary of Agriculture Ben son his power to veto loans to cooperatives for rural electric and telephone service. The house vote kept intact Ike's record of never having had a veto overriden. Since he took his oath of office, he has vetoed 138 bills, including this one. llfHAT of the bill itself? Was it vitaUy important? The answer to that must be NO. The secretary of agricul ture has had the power all along to veto such loans. HE HAS NEVER DONE SO. In the present fight over the biU, the position of President Ei senhower has been supported by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which is the eco nomic leader of the farm movement in . the United States. "DESPONSD3LE correspond- A ents in Washington report that the significance of the fight over the bUl that divided the congress along party lines was more symbolic than real. Some members of both parties privately agreed that it was chiefly intended as a slap at Secretary Benson, the purpose being to make political hay for the Democrats in the up coming Presidential campaign. Secretary Benson himself, in an interview ui Washing ton on Wednesday night said the congressional drive to override the President's veto was "largely a political move to. embarrass me and the President-." - FT GENERAL, the bill was favored by the spenders and opposed by the economizers. Former President Hoover, in a statement issued in New York the other day, said the biU . would "turn loose an enormous spending agency from even the restraints of the secretary of agriculture." TN CONSIDERING the whole A incident, which has taken up so much time, it must be remembered that another Presidential year campaign is shaping up. In Presidential year cam paigns we do some weird things. The battle over this biU and the President's veto of it must be included in the list. and civil war, which would probably bring Nasser into Iraq, are in fact just as prob able. The consolidation of Communist power in Baghdad is still more probable, by a very wide margin. And it is further admitted that if the Communists can consolidate in Iraq, the Kremlin's heat wiU be turned on Iran, with excellent chance of success. As a response to these dang ers, sitting tight and hoping for the best is hardly an ade quate policy. But it is better than the American response, which is to have no policy at aU. Furthermore, this Middle Eastern process which men aces the West's oil sources (and may eventually allow the Kremlin to use oil as a blackmail weapon here in London) is only part of a much larger process. Deep concern is beginning to be felt here about the mounting dangers in Africa. There, once again, the main stake is a whole series of vital British investments, in gold and diamonds, copper and cocoa, productive land and much else beside. And in Africa, the Kremlin's agents are also more and more active. In short, the ferment in the colonial and ex-colonial areas is more and; more taking the form of a vast and varied flank attack on the Western nations, principally Britain, which depend on these areas for raw materials. But there is no constructive, unified Western or Anglo-American plan for meeting this massive flank attack. There hardly can be, when everyone is busy worrying about the at- ack on the center, at Berlm. (c) 1950 New York j Herald Tribune Inc. served to wash tie stuff from the leaves and flowers of the trees, which right now are in such gorgeous profusion. It was good for crops, too, making irrigation unneces sary a little longer for many farmers, and giving a new lush look to pastures. It was nice. And, as an added bonus, is there any nicer sound than the plopping of cool, fresh rain on the roof after a long dry speU? Swiped comment; When you argue with a fool,' be sure that he is not similar ly engaged. - Aside from the weather. two, topics have been fore most in the public eye "(and on the public tongue) lately. One is smudge (more po litely known as orchard heat ing); the other is flu. The flu this -year (and we learn there have been more than 2,000 cases in Jackson county alDne since the first of the year) isn't reaUy flu at aU, much of it, but a "flu like illness" which actually is more severe than the usual influenza with which we're all familiar, and which is caused by one of three sepa rate kinds of bugs, or viruses. The Mail Tribune, like many other busmess con-. cerns, has suffered from the ailment. Sports Editor Dick Jewett (who comes to work early, stays late, and is NEV ER away from the job) was felled by it for a few days, and stiU looks a little wobbly around the edges. Farm Editor Joe Cowley came' dpwn with it on his day off last week, and at last re port was stiU flat on his back. Others on the staff have felt a bit rocky, but not enough to put them hors de combat -yet, anyway, knock on wood. ' ' In search of a headline ' about the flu, one of our young men came up with ; one which we felt ought to get into the paper some where, so well put II here, as follows: GRIPPE'S GRIP GRIPES GROUPS . 'As for orchard heating, you'U hear more of It before you hear less of it. The state air poUution'au-' thority is taking an interest in the effects of smudge, for' the first time since it was organized in 1951. The au thority's secretary declares no one ever ' complained to THEM before. Maybe no one thought of it, at least until the city of Medford got into the air pollution control business by authorizing a joint study of the problem hereabouts with the authority. And, since the agreement went into effect, the authority had a number of air pollution test stations throughout the city during the orchard heat ing season which wiU, in the words of the authority secre tary, help "describe the prob lem." Not aU of the comment on orchard heating has been temperate. We received a let ter from a man in the Eagle. Point area - a letter which, if spoken instead of .written, would be stuttering and splut tering from wrath. One of his more moderate passages reads as follows: "ShaU we color the smudge? No. ShaU we perfume it? No. ShaU we flavor it? No. Re-, duce it? No. None of that stuff. The answer is to end it, period. Just simply terminate 100 per cent. Now. Not next week. Now. Not next year. Now." His letter runs for three pages, typewritten and single spaced, much, of it in the same vein. We sympathize with him. and agree with much of what he says. But we don't see putting an $11 or $14 million segment of the economy out of business overnight. We have a hunch that the air pollution authority may -have difficulty in arriving at what it calls "arrangements ... to prevent a recurrence of this problem" overnight. But with all the teeth in the Ore gon law about air poUution, we also believe they'll find a way to do it within a relative ly short time. For one more comment on orchard heating we turn to the Junior Quill, the pub lication of McLoughlin Junior High school: We're all in our places With dirt on our faces. And spots on our clothes And smudge up our nose. Our time spent' in the halls of learning Is fiUed with thoughts of smudge pots burning. If they didn't hare those little trees They wouldn't need the seas Of smudge, that make us wheeze. V I
