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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or. Taesday, May 12, 19S9 "Iveryone 1b Southern -Oreion - Read The Mail Tribune" -published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fli St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBE5T W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W. AI.I.KN JR.. Managing Editor EARL. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEW KIT Sports Editor LIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Cireolation Mgr An Independent Newspaper v Entered as second class matter at Medford Orecon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 znos. 8.0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 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. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL a Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 12. 1949 (Thursday) Sixty city officers from eight cities in Jackson and Josephine counties convene here for a regional meeting with officials of the League of Oregon Cities. With another month of school days to go. the Med ford school board announces school win reopen next fall Sept. 19. 20 YEARS AGO May 12, 1939 (Friday) The pioneer Logtown ceme tery on the Jacksonville-Ruch road is to be made a scenic not. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot' column: "Con sideration of budgets for schools is now underway in many districts of the state. The usual throng consisting of three school directors . and a citizen with nothing else to do are in attendance. . 30 YEARS AGO May 12, 1929 (Sunday) Alice Kellogg of Medford is one of the winners in the state poppy essay contest. : The price for ice cream sun daes is boosted to 20 cents, or a quarter if nuts are added, and the younger set cries, "In flation!" I , 40 YEARS AGO May 12 1919 (Monday) Ray Coleman returns to duty with the Navy after a visit with his family. Dr. R..W. .Clancy, returns from Army service. SO YEARS AGO May 12. 1909 (Wednesday) Pipe trench diggers blazing the trail for Medford's new mountain water supply reach the Bradshaw drop. Local barber shops are com plimented on their sanitation What's Yoar I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; fivo or he is good 1. San Salvador is the capi tal of which Central American republic? 2. Correct the following: "Neither the girls or Jane is planning to go." 3. The champion boxer known as The Brown Bomber had the proper name of what? 4. "On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep," are words from, what anthem? ; , 5. On shipboard, what is the name of the record book in which important particulars of the voyage are kept? 6. Who composed the opera, "Die Walkuere?" 7. Two ex-presidents of the U.S. died on the same day (July 4, 1826). Who were they? 8. After World War II was Hong Kong given over - to China, England, or France? n a n - . . . su cuiuy consisting es sentially of copper and zinc is called what? 10. The Bureau of the Cen sus operates under which of the Cabinet Officers? Answers: 1. El Salvador. 2. It's correct. 3. Joe Louis. 4. The Star Spangled Banner. 5. Log. 6. Wagner. 7. John Ad ams and Thomas Jefferson. 8. England. 9. Brass. 10. Secre tary of Commerce. The Needs of the Forests One of the news services to which the Mail Tribune subscribes, Congressional Quarterly, re ports that the national forests "are becoming in volved in the budget battle between President Eisenhower and the Democratic leaders in Con gress." At issue is a 26-page report entitled "Program for the National Forests." It was prepared by the forest service, endorsed by Ezra TV Benson, sec retary of agriculture, and adopted as part of the administration's planning. The document, an excellent one, outlines the procedures to be followed to protect and enhance the value of the 181,000,000 acres of national for ests in this country. - pQ REPORTS that the Eisenhower administra tion plans to use" the report as evidence .that it is not, as has been alleged, ignoring the natural resources of the nation. But it adds, in effect, to steal the administration's thunder, accusing it of not calling for effective action soon enough, and in sufficient quantity, to do the needed job. We are pleased that the argument is over when the proposal is to be done not if. For the national forests constitute one of the outstanding resources of the nation; and soon, to bring them to their full potentiality, and if both parties in congress are arguing from the premise that no less than the forest service's proposal can be afforded, then something is going to get done. '' pQ REPORTS that the principal bone of con- tention is over access roads. Secretary Benson says the roads are necessary, and are called for in the "Program," but adds, that he doesn't need any additional money for such roads now, and might request some later. Democrats, on the other hand, say they should be built as soon as possible. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), -the assistant majority leader, is quoted as saying "We cannot delay putting this program into effect," adding that increased ap propriations should be made right away, a posi tion with which other Democrats agree. ' In this argument, the of it, for access roads are other proposals in the program. - TTHE PROGRAM outlined by the forest service is in two phases, the first covering the next 10 to io years; tne second contemplating develop ment of the forests by the year 2000. The second phase is forest service believes made in the next 15 years to permit a tripling of the lumber yield 41 years from now, stabilization of soil for conservation or improvement of water and other resources, improvement of the grazing use of the forests, keeping recreational facilities up to, the ever-growing demand, increasing di sease and fire protection, improving roads and trails, stepping up research, and improvement of physical facilities needed for good focest man agement. " All these steps, as we more so than others if their potential. "OREGON, of all 'the states, has the most at stake. . - -It has the largest acreage of commercial timber of any in the nation. Four states Alaska, California, Idaho and: total national forest acreages, but much of these is not classed as commercial. In this immediate area, the Rogue River Na tional forest's 880,000-odd acres (of which about three-quarters are m commercial forest lands) constitutes a tremendously important part of the local economy. " Anything that can extend access roads and control, recreational use, will bring immense long-range benefits to this area. s - FOREST management in the United States is just now coming of age. ; ; In years past, the American forests loomed so huge and so unlimited, little thought was given to their management and conservation. Within the last 50 years this started to change, with a bij boost from President Theodore Roosevelt anc Gifford Pinchot Since World War. II the bier in crease in the value of stumpage has created added impetus to the change. These days there is tentially-valuable tree, not only from fire, but also from disease and insects. (And, by the same token, there is growing pressure to over-cut the forests a pressure which must be resisted. :But that is another story.) TODAY the forest service is seeking to bring balance to the field of forest management . It operates under the wise philosophy that its objective is the greatest number in the long run. overall, and, where necessary or desirable, dedi cation of certain areas whether they be to preserve watersheds, or wild erness areas, or provide recreation. It is a complicated job, and one which de mands the best that the forest service can bring Anything which congress can do to make their job easier will be of long-range benefit to the nation. For in the forests He our vast but limited sources of wood and fiber, food for our livestock, water for our rivers and nis, nuge but without a uuvuuux playground ior that the Democrats want much needs to be done, Democrats have the best vitally important. So are based on the former. The that progress must be see it, are urgent some the forests are to fulfill Montana have larger .n ' be done to improve and trails (for fire and pest and timber harvesting) pressure to save each no ;T . . good for the greatest This means multiple use to their primary uses, dedicated men of the to it. our cities, and the bene- price tag, of an unspoiled tne nation. tu. a. . Dennis the fVe&) AlHT NO CLOTHES OOSBXV Space Committee View on Russian Inferiority By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -4UPD- A Senate Labor subcommittee was bal ing a very attractive hearing on conse r v a tion of youth. But on the strength of re- i nortsfrom i Berlin, Gene va, and Mos cow I decided to pass this one up, and dropped in on Frank Eleazer tne JtlOUSe Space Committee instead. Now, I don t know.: If you can believe what the space committee witness was saying, there may continue to be young folks around to con serve for quite a while yet. Old folks too. Contrary to what a lot of experts have been saying, the witness said the Russians just aren't able to blow us off the map. He said when they claim they are, and that if we push them too far they wUl try it, they are lying. The trouble is we believe 'em, he said, and then let them shove us around. He Toured Russia . The witness was Lloyd Mal lan, a science writer back from ' a 14,000-mile Russian tour and loaded with good news, as above. But the space committee members couldn't seem to bring themselves to accept it. ' It's true they aren't used to hearing good news. Their witnesses run more to people who talk about what we are going to do sometime soon in the future with missiles and satellites, and what the Bus sians already have done. What Mallan said was, this is a lot of baloney. True, they have put up some satellites But he said the technical equipment he saw in Russian laboratories and science cen ters not only wasn't better than ours but was far inferior and in many cases primitive, He said the Russians don't have bigger and better inter continental ballistic missiles than ours. He said he is con vinced; after interviewing their top Scientists and watch ing them ; work, they don't have an ICBM at all. . , A Snow Job? Rep. Frank C. Osmers Jr, (R-N.J.) said maybe the Rus sians gave Mallan a "snow job," thus adding another old American 'institution to then- list of inventive firsts. Rep. Leonard G. Wolf. (D-Iowa) said he bet what Russia want ed was for Mallan to come home, and tell us all to relax. Mallan said he didn't think he was fooled. He said - he's expert enough in astrophysics, electronics and such,, to be able to spot any fakes. Any way, he said we shouldn't relax. We should work hard, and stand up for our rights Rep. B. F. Sisk (D-Calif.) said Mallan was "impeaching" Try and i l n i By BENNETT CERF- A NURSE in the maternity ward of a local hospital discov ered suddenly that a distant relative had left her $100,000. 'How does it feel to be an heiress?" she was asked. "I was so nervous and ex cited," admitted the nurse, "I had to ask two expectant fathers to calm me down." A banker in Minnesota asked the home town police chief if. he-knew anything about a new applicant for. the post of receiving teller!. Til say this about him," re plied the chief thoughtfully. "He's a gentleman to his fingerprints." . A little boy was having a very tough time trying to lift a stone His father asked quietly, "Are you using all your strength, son?" "I certainly am," panted the bov, "No, you are not," cor rected the father. "You haven't asked' me to help." G 1353, by BeuMU Cert PUUjbuUd by King famrti SyadiuU. . Menace the experts. Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.) said no he wasn't, that he was disagree ing with them. And Teague hinted that the experts, in his experience, sometimes had been wrong. "If you are right," Rep. Erwin MitcheU (D-Ga.) told In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, there is tragedy in the news-grim, heart - tugging tragedy.' But also- there is heroism. And COURAGE. Courage of that high and deathless quality that leads one person to lay his life , unhesitatingly " in the scales in an unselfish effort to save the life of an endan gered person. rM to REFERRING, of course, who were swimming in the comparatively quiet water of the Golden Gate just before it goes on out to meet the Pacific surf. A youth and a girl. Suddenly a huge gray shape swirled through the wa ter. It was a killer shark. The youth cried a warning to the girl. "Go back!" he shouted. She started for the shore. Just then the killer struck. Blood gushed in the water. As she reached the safe shore, she heard her companion cry for help. She dashed to a nearby fisherman. He tied a fishing line around her waist and she swam back into battle. The killer had already struck. One of the boy's arms "seemed to be hanging by a thread." She pulled him back to the shore. Fortunately, the killer shark didn't strike again. When help arrived, it was too late. The boy had been so horribly mangled that he died in surgery. . ' AN ARMY sergeant who wit nessed the rescue from a distance (he was too far away to give help in time) told of it in a choked voice. "It was the greatest exhibi tion of courage," he said, "I have ever seen in my life or am likely to see in my whole life." WHAT shaU we say? " Let's say this-with fierce faith in its truth: As long as we have young women like that 'THERE WILL BE AN AMERICA! LETS turn now to young Corky KeUy whose hero father died ten ; days after Pearl Harbor on a bombing mission in the Pacific. .. . Young Corky was then two years old. In one of those graceful gestures he knew so well how to make, President Roosevelt wrote a letter ask ing whomever might be Presi dent in 1956 (when the boy Stop Me Soviet Tactics in Geneva Talks Based on Fear of Surrounding By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Soviet tactics in the coming days at Geneva will be based at least Dartly on fear. For JSdWllL I while Soviet "k ' 'l Premier Niki j&iX ta Khrushchev 1 2 rf boasts ' of So s t i n e ntal mis- sues and says IJComm unism will bury tne West, the Kremlin lead- pwi Newsom ers also nave their nightmares. Weeks in ad vance of the current Geneva discussions, the Soviets began telegraphing their punches in messages to North Atlantic Treaty nations, the members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Baghdad Pact members and, in fact, to al most every U.S. aUy. These messages provided in advance an outline of the So viet Geneva tactics. They also Discount Mallan, "what we should do is send a few roving reporters into the Soviet Union and do away with the Central Intelli gence Agency. That way may be we can balance the budget.'' I'm pretty sure MitcheU was kidding. But then again, who's got a better idea? would be eligible by reason of age) to consider him for appointment to the U.S. mili tary academy at West Point. So- You see- He had it made. All he had to do was to wait. y.OUNG Corky chose other- WISP He chose the hard way.' He disregarded the Presi dential letter and won his ap pointment in the regular way -by competitive examination in which he proved that he HAS WHAT IT TAKES to be an officer in the armed services of the United States. CONSIDER this: - ,;; - The bad news is unusual. It GETS READ. The good news is routine. It is taken for granted. Too often it is overlooked. Thus we get a distorted picture. THIS, I think, is the truth: If the time should come when the chips are aU down, when we must fight or we must run, when we must be men or we must be mice, when we must defend our liberties or we must lose them, we'll find that this younger genera tion will acquit itself as credit ably as any generation in our history. Communications Letters to th Editor must bear the name and addreis of the writer although nader cer tain circumstances the us 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. No Hearts end Flowers To the Editor: Your policy of constantly praising the Mail Tribune for being impartial unbiased, and fair minded, has been overdone to the point that ' I feel a protest is in order. ; If there are two things the Mail Tribune can be counted on to do it is as follows: 1. To take sides on every issue of local state, or national signifi cance and to print that which substantiates the editor's opin ions and to suppress or censor that which does not. 2. To write an editorial praising the Mail Tribune for having done a great community service by having presented to their read ers an honest and unbiased picture of the situation. ' Such protestations are very touching but somehow I im agine they fail to stir in the breasts of the readers the feeling of gratitude and undy ing devotion which the editor so obviously seeks. In' my opinion it is time the editor of the Mail Tribune called a spade a spade. If he wishes to publish a biased paper with heavily slanted news coverage it is certainly his privilege to do so, but can't we please skip the hearts and flowers?. Joe A. McCalvy, 315 Fluhrer bldg Medford Hydraulic Brakes Blamed To the Editor: In regard to the editorial of May 7 and report from Daniel Moynihan I think there are a consider able number of accidents (??), if they can be called that, help to explain Soviet nightmares. In recent weeks Soviet notes have been handed to Italy, to Germany. Norway. Iran and Japan, to mention a few. Matter of Fact jh aiSoP HERTER'S REAL TEST Geneva - Here in Geneva, the real test of Christian iA. Herter is just about to begin. Herter of course made his debut as Secretary of State at the Paris meeting where the Western foreign ministers papered over the cracks of their" disagree ments in prep aration for the present mon strous rally. After this Herter debut, both Paris and London Aia rang wiin praise for the new secretary, and Bonn too reportedly joined in. Herter's pleasant manners, his easiness as a colleague, his firm grasp of the problems in hand, his thorough knowledge of the massive dossiers behind each problem, were the chief points noted. But against these entries on the credit side of the ledger, there was a major entry on the debit side. He did not impose him self. He was not the chief." That was the substance of the unfavorable comment behind the scenes. It is ironical, but it is significant too, that the other Western allies would have felt happier and more at home, if Herter had been ra ther less nice and a good deal more bossy. "PVEN among the unwaver- ing admirers of John Fos ter Dulles, none would choose to describe him as a nice man." As a negotiator, Dulles was ' too domineering, too crafty and too ruthless for the adiective. "nice." But even the many Western lead ers . and officials who form erly detested Foster Dulles look back with real nostalgia to the . domineering Dulles ways. t The plain truth is that a great many Western leaders found it highly convenient to be driven to do this or to oppose 'that by Secretary Dulles; and then to go home and complain about Dulles' "rigidity." Dulles served the Alliance as what the biolo gists call an exoskeleton. He acted as a kind of external stiffening which relieved other backbones of any undue strain. Precisely this quality - was missed in Herter at the Paris meeting. In his quiet, polite, considerate way, Herter worked as an equal among equals, earning general ad miration, as above noted, for his knowledge, clear views and tact. But working as an equal among equals was not really what the others wanted him to do. Furthermore, the chances are that Herter can not safely continue this ap proach at Geneva. Here the paper over the cracks in the Western. Alliance is bound to wear pretty thin, if not to be torn off altogether, i SIX months have passed since the beginning of the Berlin crisis, without produc ing any solid Western agree ment on any really critical point. There is agreement, of course, on what to say and how to say it at the outset here in Geneva. But after all the meetings and working par ties and position papers, there is no real agreement on how far to go in offering conces sions to the" Soviets; or on what counter-concessions to ask; or on what to do if the Soviets are not satisfied with which are caused by the very feature which the automobile manufacturers stress as a safe ty factor, namely, hydraulic brakes. I have driven for over 20 years and thus far have never had an accident, but have had some darned close calls, and a high percentage have been caused by those hydraulic brakes. I'll agree, they're fine when they work, but it is embarrassing, to say the least, to push on the brake pedal and have it go to the floor boards. Personally, I'll take a well designed and built mechanical brake any day. I can trutn-! fully say "I've never had them i fail me YET." The worst fea- j ture of mechanical brakes is j equalization of pressure on each wheel, but proper design would eliminate that one seri ous drawback. I have been told by a number of persons who had been involved in ac cidents that they had tried to stop but their brakes had failed. No, I don't want hy draulic brakes. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star rt, . Butte Tails, Ore. Kussia Knows tnat witn or without an operational ICBM, the United States is in a posi tion, through its bases around the world, to smash every important center in the Soviet the concessions that are of fered. In sum, the ship of the West is being steered by a commit tee of helmsmen, who have widely different ideas about the right course to steer when the expected high gale begins to blow. This is an inherently dangerous situation. It can become much more danger ous, if it is not cured fairly soon. And because of the special American role in the Western Alliance, it is up to Herter to persuade or dra goon the helmsmen's commit tee to unite on a planned course. The main disagreements, as everyone knows, lie between the British on the one hand, and the French, West Ger mans and Americans on the other hand. Given this line up, Herter can choose be tween two different tactics He can transform the present tacit accord between the French, West Germans and Americans into a detailed un derstanding, involving solid, point-by-point commitments, And he can then tell the Brit ish members of the helms men's committee: '-. "fflHIS is the course the ma-- jority are firmly deter mined to steer, and if you don't like it, then leave the helm (and the responsibility and risk that go with it) to us." Or else Herter can choose a middle course between the ideas of the British and the ideas of the French and West Germans; and he can then go to work in the Dulles man ner to impose his own views on everyone else. Either way, a point will be reached when Chris Herter will have to be authoritative instead of pleas ant, stern instead of nice. Those who have known Herter longer than his new allied co-workers have little doubt that his amiable exte rior conceals more than enough iron to pass this sort of test. He was almost certain ly wise not to try the test at Paris. But .the r fact remains that the test has yet to be passed. . . (Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) MD(Sinl WILY Tuesday, May 12, at 8 o'clock . SEE PICTURES of exotic SOUTH SEA ISLANDS being shown by Missionaries Forrest Damron and Mclyin Frost just returned from the West Indies Loyce C. Carver, Paster Phone SP 2-2757 3rd and Central, Medford Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY ST. Seen Missiles Union. Hence the Soviet notes to U.S. allies, warning in the bluntest terms: You accept U.S. missile bases, you become a primary target in case hos tilities ever break out against the United States. The Soviet campaign of pub lic and undercover terror be gan in 1957. It was about that time that Russia got its ICBM, and the U.S. began setting up equal izers through the simple meth od of basing shorter range IRBMs closer. - In general, the fear of close- up bases for highly accurate IRBMs seems to preoccupy the Kremlin more than any other issue, except a rearmed, nuclear-equipped West Ger many. The fear of pinpoint attack by U.S. IRBMs also seems to have been a governing factor in Soviet tactics at the nuclear conference which has been dragging on for months, also in Geneva. A key stumbling block has been the Soviet refusal to per mit foreign inspection teams on Soviet soil in the event of violation of any nuclear ban agreement. The Soviets fear the inspec tion teams would report mis sile sites back to home coun tries and Western IRBMs could zero in on them in case of war. . Some .experts believe the IRBMs are a. fact of life pre serving peace in Europe o day. They say that no matter how many not - too - accurate ICBMs, the Russians can fire over the North Pole, the So viets also know they are sur rounded by real or potential IRBM bases in Britain, Italy and Turkey and from missile firing vessels of the U.S. fleets in the Mediterranean and oth er seas.. . , ... Hence, Soviet spokesmen, both at the present Geneva conference and at the summit conference if one is to be held, may be expected to fol low two main courses: , . .To demand that present and contemplated Allied bases be abandoned. . . , To refuse reunification of Germany. " , ., . Of all the world powers, Russia would fear a reunited, industrially strong Germany the most. . .. No matter with what good will the West may approach the Geneva meeting, Russia's own fears and suspicions are the greatest reason for expect ing failure. APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH THE HAIL THEY SAY will damage the fruit. Since weather conditions Indi cate this might be a HAIL season we suggest you check our HAIL POLICY. Bill Fish
