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Unity, May 3, 1939
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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.
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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.
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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.
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