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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. ...Thursday, Jan. 28, 1960 MEDFORDTEIBDlffi "Everyone in Southern Oregon : Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES JZy iUdll ill cai ww,.. Dailv and Sunday 1 "year $15.00 -l i a o nn uauy ana auiiud.v n hiub. u.w Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Qitnrtav fnlv On Vpar 4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, lioia nui. Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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Portland fire captain will be loaned to Medford's fire department for four months to review operations and make forecasts, Medford May or Diamond Flynn announces. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1940 (Sunday) Vice President Garner told friends today that John L. Lewis' opposition to him is he best political asset he has. i From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Vot ers are now speculating on who will run for everything, but Mayor of Medford. He has until next October to an nounce he will make the sac rifice." 30 YEARS AGO jan. 28. 1930 (Tuesday) i. Price of milk in city to be reduced to 12 cents a quart February. Statesmen confer with President Hoover and declare there is no real cause for pan ic in U.S. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1920 (Thursday) The formation of a third Oregon political party is planned by upstate workers. Flu epidemic hits Portland and the Puget Sound areas. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 28. 1910 (Friday) Paris beset by terrible floods, fears are that disease and pestilence will be wide spread. Editor of Central Point Herald is p r a i s e d by Mail Tribune for work he has done to get that town on its feet. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superipr; seven or eight is eicellent; five or lis is good. 1. What is a glazier? 2. Does the sun revolve around the earth; or the earth around the sun? 3. Does the moon revolve around the earth; or the earth around the moon? 4. Who are more closely related by blood; mother and daughter, or two sisters? 5. The Attorney-General of the U. S. is the executive head of which Department of the U. S. Government? 6. Does Great Britain rec ognize the Communist gov ernment of China? 7. Mankind is the only ani mal that blushes; true or false? 8. What is the name for the container in which an archer carries arrows? 9. How many cabinet offi cers are in President Eisen hower's cabinet? 10. On what island do the descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers live? Answers: 1. Glass culler and setter. 2. Earth around the tun. 3. Moon around the earth. 4. Two listers. 5. Department of Justice. 6. Yes. 7. True. 8. Quiver. 9. Ten. 10. Pilcairn Island. Dirty AirAnd the Law Progress in alleviating some of the chief sources of air pollution in the Rogue valley is, in a word, amazing. Top officials of Elk Lumber Co., Timber Prod ucts, Medco and Kogap each gave a report on their efforts toward that end the other night, and the reports were heartening. They showed that a great deal of thought, effort and money have gone into their plans. Greater utilization of wood by-products, in one, way or another, accounted for almost all this progress. The orchardists, too, deserve commendation, Progress is being made in seeming signatures of a majority of orchard owners here which will bind them to replace smoky-type smudgepots with less smoky orchard heaters over a five-year period. . TP TO this point we agree whole-heartedly with Jack Foster, who presided at Monday evening's meeting of the. Air Pollution Control and Abatement League, and who showered praise on these actions. Where we part company is where, he said he (and presumably other members of the league although we know for that the progress made eliminated any need for air pollution control leg islation. We believe that Jack is incredibly naive if he thinks that the problem can be solved by these four major mills, plus the orchardists, alone. He is incredibly naive if he thinks that other sources of air pollution are going to be eliminated vol untarily, and without at least the threat of control legislation. IT SO happens that each mentioned above is a with a civic conscience. several of them mentioned the other night, that they had seen the handwriting on the wall handwriting which says that the rapidly grow ing population of this valley simply will not long put up with flagrant air pollution abuses. There is another point which was skipped over too quickly the other night. That is that these four mills are not the only ones in the valley. And some of the others have shown little nor no "vol untary" interest in minimizing their own smoke nuisances. And, while we believe that most orchardists are good citizens, we wonder just how long their "voluntary" program of minimizing smudge smoke would last if it were not for the threat of legal compulsion in the background. POSTER made a big point, during his talk, about how much air pollution is caused by back-yard burning of refuse. True enough. But does neaiy householder is going to find some other method of disposing of leaves unless he has to? There are two other lution in the valley. One is year-around. The first is slash-burniner in the fall. When this is mentioned, most heads as much as to say we 11 just have to live. The other is automobile exhausts. DOTH of these are, or will be, amenable to some degree of control. But they won't with out some further thought and research done on the problem. Work is now going forward on the automobile gasoline exhaust problem, and it is hoped that in another year or so the engineers' will have it licked. There must be an answer for slash, too one which would be economical, and effective. We don't know the answer, i But matching the little portable "hogging" machine (which chews up branches and limbs into chips) that has been following the Copco tree-trimmers this week, gives us the impression that even this problem could be solved if some thought is given to it. HTHIS much we do know: Air pollution is a serious problem in the Rogue valley, as it is elsewhere in the nation. Men of good will in the lumber and fruit industries are working (and spending hard-earned cash)' to clean up their part of it. m It is incumbent upon the rest of us to keep at it and do what wre'can. But there will always be a minority, be they lumbermill operators, orchardists, or (like us) leaf burners, who must face compulsion direct or implied before they comply. And if the Air Pollution and Abatement League depends entirely on soft talk, and ignores the big stick, dirty air will be with us for years to come. IT IS perfectly true that air pollution -is a na 1 tional problem. But it is also a local problem. And it will never be solved nationally until it is solved local ly first. Pittsburgh did it Los Angeles hasn't yet, but it's working on it. So is Portland. So is Eugene. And they're doing it in an organized, com munity manner, under the laws of the state de signed for this purpose. U we don't follow suit, now or fairly soon, we're simply asking that the problem be continued into the indefinites and smoky future. E.A. a fact not all) believes voluntarily so far has of the four lumber firms well-operated company, And it is also true, as leaves and other yard he think that the ordi- maior sources of air pol is seasonal, the other people just shake their it is an evil with which Dennis the Hi a & I Have you seen a white rat Matter of Fact (The-following article is the third in a series of six.) THE MISSILE GAP: OUR GAMBLE Washington - The Eisen hower administration is gam bling the national future on the assumption that the So viets cannot possibly have a number of o perational ICBM's equiv alent to 10 months of ca pacity output at our own Atlas missile JOSEPH alsop plant. The fact sounds incredible when stated in this blunt manner. It is a hard fact nonetheless. The man who should know best, the bril liant Strategic Air Command er, Gen. Thomas Power, has flatly said that the Soviets can "virtually wipe out" our nuclear deterrent with no more than 150 intercontinent al ballistic missiles, plus .the IRBMs they already have in plenty. The Atlas plant has long been capable of turning out 15 ICBMs per month, if ordered into three-shift pro duction. Yet no serious emergency measures are. being taken to forestall the "wiping out" of our nuclear deterrent, on which our national survival depends. According, to Sec retary of Defense Thomas Gates, such measures -are not needed, because the National Intelligence Estimates do not give the Soviets even the very limited number of ICBMs that General Power says could win the war for the Kremlin. rpHERE are several things to note about this gamble on the micrometric accuracy of the National Intelligence Estimates. In the first place, it is cer tainly not justified by the past record. This record shows a consistent series of gross American underesti mates of Soviet weapons achievements from 1946 on wards. From the atom bomb, to the first Soviet jet engine for air craft, to the first Soviet long range jet bombers, to the ICBM itself, the estimators went on making the same kind of error. On average, the Soviets were always expect ed to make each major ad vance a good two years later than the actual moment when the advance was made. Once, and once only, there was an over-estimate, of So viet heavy bomber output. But this belated correction of previous mistakes about So viet bomber capabilities was only an over-estimate because of still another gross under estimate. At that time, the Soviet missile program was being all but ignored. The Soviet change - over from bombers to missiles was there fore wholly unforseen. TN THE second place, these persistent, of ten - repeated errors have clearly resulted from the very nature of the process by which the National Intelligence Estimates are still produced. The intelligence collector, the Central Intel ligence Agency, does not pro duce the estimates. The C.I.A. may do, and by every feasible test the C.I.A. appar ently does, a remarkable job of intelligence collection. But when data come in, say about the " rate of Soviet missile tests, the C.I.A. must go into committee with the armed services and the State Depart ment. The committee decides the meaning of the newly col lected data. The committee's interpretation of the data is the "national" estimate, . C.LA. director Dulles, a de voted and exceptional public servant, has struggled to overcome the tendency to er ror in the estimates. But Dulles is not in the weapons producing business, along with the armed services. He hardly has a more effective answer t h a n -this reporter had, long ago, when the late I XI I Menace mamed Fu?yo? By Joseph Alsop Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg angrily insisted that the "So viets could not possibly be producing more than six jet engines a month, and anyone who says different is a damn liar." The former Chief of Air Staff was angry because six jet engines a month was the maximum output we had then attained in this country. The true Soviet output at that time is now well known to have been above 200 jet en gines a month. fTHIS in turn suggests the - main source of error in the estimates. American ex perience is consistently used to measure current and future Soviet achievements. But the Soviet , effort to develop new weapons has always been far more intensive than the Amer ican effort. In reality, the So viet "lead time" from draw ing board to production line is commonly only half the American lead time. So er rors have obstinately occur red. Sometimes, it must' be added, the Pentagon major ity really seems to prefer er ror to truth. For example, the late Deputy Secretary of De fense, Donald Quarles, repre sented the Pentagon majority when he did everything imag inable to obstruct the instal lation of the missile-watching radars in Turkey. " When in stalled, these radars at once revealed the. progress of the Soviet missile program; but even after this sharp lesson the radar evidence has often been, pooh-poohed. For in stance, former Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson pub licly ridiculed the radars' proofs that the Soviets were testing their first ICBMs. Long thereafter, the Chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Nathan Twining, continued to insist that the Soviet ICBMs did not have true intercontinental range. . Such is the depressing back ground against which it is necessary to examine the de tailed intelligence estimates which are the basis of the most hair-raising gamble a government has ever made. This, analysis will be at tempted in the next article in this series. (c) New York Herald Tribune Inc. SOC Tops List Sending Texts Ashland - Southern Oregon college was listed top college in the nation in number of text books sent to the Books for Asian Students program in a monthly report by the Asia Foundation, it was an nounced by Wayne Paulse, president" of the Student Ore gon Education association. The 770 books, which will be distributed by the minis try of education in Seoul, Ko rea, were a part of 21,101 books and 4,041 journals do nated during the month by colleges, universities, public and private elementary and secondary schools and pub lishers all over the country. Other western colleges and universities which contrib uted included Iowa State uni versity, 559 books; Univer siay of Wyoming, 700 jour nals; Sacramento State col lege, 68; University of Cali fornia, 65; University of Ore gon, 55; and Portland State college, 42. Grants Pass High school was also listed in the report as having donated 248 books to the Foundation. The Books for Asian Stu dents program has been oper ating for five years and has shipped 1,341,040 books and 303,500 journals to universi ties, colleges, schools, libra ries, and educational, civic professional and cultural groups all over Asia. During 1960 the program plans to give special attention to the distribution of books and jour nals to teachers and teacher training center libraries. De Gaulle Forces in Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Emergency Care To the Editor: Medford is already a large city,, and is still growing. We have two well-equipped hospitals and a great number, of wonderful doctors in our city. Could they arrange-by taking turns - to spend perhaps just one-half day at a time at the hospitals? That way there would be a doctor on duty at all times to take charge of any emer gency. Last August my father died of a "heart attack" about 30 minutes after being taken to the Sacred Heart hospital. His doctor was out of town, and it took at least 15 minutes for another doctor to arrive. The only treatment he received was a small amount of oxygen administered by a nurse, and this was discontinued before a doctor arrived. Also he was moved from the emergency room to an upstairs ward, be fore the doctor arrived. Did this factor help to bring on the second attack he had? He died at 12:30 p.m.; just a few minutes after the doctor arrived. Could he have been helped, had there been a doctor on duty at the hos pital? Perhaps not, but possi bly some one else might in the future. Why take an emergency case to the hospital-if they can't receive immediate med ical treatment? Mrs. Glenn Bowles, 1130 West 10th St., Medford. He's Disgusted To the Editor: Upon reading the account of Harry Tru man's speech at the Demo cratic party's campaign kick- off dinner, and his remarks to the effect that "If we had anybody with guts, the Rus sians wouldn't be conducting their tests where they are," a few incidents that took place during Mr. Truman's adminis tration came to mind. At this point, let us re member that Russia is con ducting her tests in Interna tional waters, a practice which we have followed in the past, Now, let us ask, where were Mr. Tuman's "guts" when American forces were ordered to hold back and allow Rus sia to occvupy all of what to day is referred to as East Ger many and East Berlin? This is one of the chief causes of world anxiety today. Where were Mr. Truman's "guts" when the tragedy of Korea took place, with loss of thousands of American per sonnel both killed and maimed for life in a war we could not win? A war in which he stripped one of the greatest military leaders of all time of all his rank and honor, simply because General Mac Arthur knew the only way to win a war is to cut off an enemy's supply lines, which in this war were "off limits" because they originated north of the Yalu river. Where were Mr. Truman's "guts" when the Communists were making such great strides toward en gulfment of China? It would appear that Mr. Truman had sufficient oppor tunities to display his intes tinal fortitude during his ten ure of office. Mr. Truman goes further to say the Democrats .should elect the next president, and he should be a man "who must know what to do besides run around the golf course." This remark serves to dem onstrate that Mr. Truman not only has a vocabulary which is limited, for the most part, to four letter words, but he has an extremely short mem ory. Has he so quickly for gotten his frequent cruises on the Potomac in the presiden tial yacht? Such asinine remarks from an ex-president who has as sorry a record in the White House as Mr. Truman, about a man who has worked as hard as President Eisenhower has to achieve world unity, leaves one thoroughly dis gusted with Harry's under handed campaign tactics. Glenn A. Archibald, 534 De Barr ave., Medford. Good or Bad To the Editor: The Demo cratic Party of Oregon agrees with Governor Mark Hatfield in his recent statements to the effect that Oregon has a favorable tax climate for new industry. We have said this consist ently. The tragedy is the reck less attacks made by Gover nor Hatfield during the 1958 campaign when he repeated ly criticized and loosely con demned the Oregon tax struc- Facing Sternest Test as Rebel Algeria Continue Opposition ture for keeping industry out of the state. The tax struc ture which he now applauds is identically the same that he attacked so irresponsibly during his 1958 campaign. The tax program which Oregon now operates under is the result of the Demo cratically controlled special session of the legislature in 1957 courageously called by Governor Robert D. Holmes. The voters will remember that this move was vigorous ly opposed and condemned by the then Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. Nothing that governor Hat field has done during . his term of office, . except now to smile with favor, has con tributed the slightest bit to Oregon's favorable tax pro gram. Robert W. Straub, Chairman Democratic Party of Oregon, Eugene Ore. Labor and Holy Writ To the Editor: The com bined Sunday Journal and Oregonian carried quite a spread on last Saturday's hap penings in Portland. A clerk from whom I purchased this Darjer said. "Oh. that's exag gerated. Someone probably got a bloody nose." I didn't say much, but some serious thoughts were running through my mind. It has been hinted in Port land, that more of the same will follow. All of us well know that some printed stories as well as vocal gos sip get quite a build up. Yet I doubt what we have read has been too exaggerated. The chap who was hospital ized with broken ribs, the fel low who got kicked in the groin, and the insulted po lice officers probably have a feeling that something did happen. It is sad indeed that human beings find themselves resorting to such means. Reminds me of my school rlavs when red headed, freck le-faced "Johnny" punched me in the nose for something I wasn't even guilty of. I well remember how a group of my "friends" and I waited for him in a secluded spot. My bloodied nose had aroused a spirit of retaliation. We would fix Johnnv. Some of his friends were tipped off and with their ap pearance our intended victim was saved being roUed in a Grants Pass mudhole. "How terible," you may say. And it was downright mean thinking on our tiart. True. Johnny had misbehaved and we were let ting the same hateful spirit rule our own thinking. T mieht add that our school teacher took things well in hanri Sad to sav. our friend Johnny, in later life found that even police officers are needed to take care of lawless citizens. He had come from a home where, as we under stand, one of his parents had gone through some terrible things. The spirit of revenge and hate had passed on to the boy. Someone recently dubbea ,me a religious fanatic for some lines T had written. When my friend who had been told this checked up, he found this party hadn't" even read what wrote, but lust heard, when he was shown the clipping, he had nothing more to say. Sure I make mistakes ana stand ready to be corrected. would think it well for those reading these line to take their Bibles and read the 5th chapter of St. James. See if DerhaDS this doesn't give a graphic picture of our present labor difficulties. Let us be sure that on whichever side we find our selves our hearts are attuned to the principles laid down in God's Holy word. Henry Johnson Jr., 2400 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. From Deserted Mother To the Editor: I went to see the D. A. about a warrant for non-support. I haven't heard from my husband for eight months. I have a 2-year-old child. I told him aU the facts and to my surprise he told me this. They neither had the money nor time to spend looking for him. He is wanted by the police, so he told me, let them find him. The police tell me, let the D-A. find him. The amount of money they pay but in assistance to de pendent children should war rant some time looking for these so-caUed "fathers." I earn $35 a week and it just coven basic necessities.1 By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Just over a year and a half ago, Gen. Charles de Gaulle returned as the savior of a disintegratin g France and spoke words which this week had a sorry echo. Before a French As sembly which was to surren der to him all phMfi.wsoni its authority, he demanded "full powers to be alSle to act in conditions of effectiveness and speed . . . for a period of six months, hoping that by the end of that term order will have been re stored in the state, hope re discovered in Algeria and union remade in the nation." That was June 1, 1958. The fourth French Republic was dead, largely a victim of its own ineffectiveness in Al geria where the "Colons"-the European settlers - were in open revolt with strong sup port from the Army. Hope Rediscovered In his own words and by his own choice, one of his major tasks was that there should be "hope rediscovered in Algeria." With my support money, I could live decently. I suppose if I had money or was "somebody," the D. A. might try to find my hus band. Until you find yourself in this situation, can ayone really understand the prob lem? Thank you so much for reading my letter. (Name on file) Ashland, Ore. Ambulances and First Aid To the Editor: In regard to your editorial Jan. 24, 1 think it is time to state the other side of this matter. As for Dr. Feves' statement that speed ing ambulances to the hos pitals are uncalled for, I agree, BUT I would like to have Dr. Feves explain to the families of the loved ones that are lost because the ambu lance" can't get there in time to give the proper first aid that it requires to save lives On-the-spot first aid is the important factor. How many cases do you have that there is a qualified first aid person on hand? Very few times is there a doctor there. Yet there are a few senators and a few doctors like Dr. Feves who feel that the people if this state are not entitled to the proper care that the trained personnel on your ambulances can and are willing to give Let it be one of them or their loved ones, believe me it will make a difference. I don't think they should have the right to toy with the most valuable thing we have, human life. Would you be in favor of this bill if you or one of yours was in need of help? I know some families here in this valley who feel that if the ambulance could have arrived sooner, one mem ber of their family would still be with them today. This is my feeling too. The ambulance companies do not care about how fast they can get to the hospitals, as Dr. Feves states. All they ask is to be able to reach the patients in time to save lives. That much the people of this valley and the state are en titled to. (Name on file) Medford. I -i ANK MGftOAN - HAXOIO SNODGHASS, FUNEKAl DWfCTOW This week de Gaulle faced his sternest test. The "Colons' once more were in revolt, and for the same reason. Their rallying cry was: "Al geria forever French." And just as they believed the fourth Republic intended to abandon them, to leave them stateless persons in a" Moslem state whose ties with r France were severed, so now they believed de Gaulle also intended to abandon them. De Gaulle stood firm. To Moslem rebels and "colons" . alike he promised that once peace had been restored to Algeria, then preparations would be made for a referen dum in which Algerians would decide for themselves whether to remain with France or be independent. To the French settlers, many of whose families had lived in Algeria for three or more generations, it meant the "suitcase or the coffin" meaning get out or die. De Gaulle's problem seem ingly was insoluble. Yet there were important differences in the situation as it existed in early 1960 and as it was in May and June of 1958. De Gaulle now is vested with enormous power. His government could not be top pled at the whim of the ca pricious French Assembly. The Algerian settlers' revolt was receiving scant sympathy at home, and, so far at least, the army was with de Gaulle- So far as the future of Al geria was concerned, de Gaulle clearly hoped and be lieved it would retain ties with France. Algerian Mos lem rebels who have fought the French for more than five years, he believed, were in the minority. Thus he could promise the Colons" that their ties with France would remain, while at the same time promising the Moslems a free choice. For Algeria to remain French was as important to France itself as to the colons, for French hopes of restored greatness lie there, in the vast new oil fields of the Sahara and its metals. $53 Million Said Needed in Sewers Portland - (UPD - T h e State Sanitary Authority said to day $53,393,000 should be spent on 142 projects to con trol sewage pollution in Ore gon. The Authority, in a 1959 progress report, said 30 com munities needed improvement of existing sewage treatment plans, 53 needed new plants, nine needed interceptor sew ers and 50 need entire sewer systems. The report said improve ment in both domestic and in dustrial pollution control last year resulted in slightly bet ter stream conditions, in the Willamette river. But it held out little hope for better fish ing in the near future. Major progress listed for 1959 included awarding of six million dollars in sewage works contracts by 41 com munities, completion of 12 new treatment plants to serve about 66,000 persons, expan sion of other . improvements to five existing plants, instal lation of new or extended sewer systems in 20 communi ties, formation of eight sani tary districts, improved pulp and paper waste disposal fa cilities, and start of the Port land metropolitan area Tri County sewer system. ...TO FAITHFULLY MEET THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO TURN TO US i
