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Medford and. Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and. 50 years ago. ': -
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 14. 1950 (Tuesday)
Nevada Senator calls for
U.S. return to protective trad
barriers at Lincoln club Iresr
quet here last night.
Residents ,pf Applegate aee
petition for election on' con
solidation of Ruch, Little Ap
plegate, Union Town and For
est Creek school districts.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 14. 1940 (Wednesday)
Japanese Army issues proc
lamation calling for Chiang
Kai-Shek's surrender in China;
say further resistance is use
Jess. From Arthur Perry's Ye
"Smudge Pot" column: "A
bent grass expert will be here
next week. Farmers : have
been complaining the grass
won't bend, and when it does,
It's generally the wrong way,
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 14, 1930 (Friday) ,
Local man sentenced to life
term in state penitentiary for
torturing a local junk dealer.
"Progress Week" to open
tomorrow, "Old Man Depres
sion" to be burned in effigy.
4.
NATIONAL
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 14, 1920 (Sunday)
State board of health threat
ens to "close up" Klamath
Balls unless flu regulations
are observed.
Site for new "Methodist
church here selected, but
won't be made public until
pext week. ?--
? 50 YEARS AGO '
Feb. 14. 1910 (Monday)
A new saw-mill having a
75,000 foot a day capacity
and employing over 100 per
sons is being planned in Gold
Hill. . . .
County court says electric
road franchise in county is
being held up pending inves
tigation as to true owners of
American Development com
pany.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten correct is superior
seven sr eight is excellent; five or
ra is good.
1. What two Japanese cities
were atom bombed during
during World War II?" -
i
2. According to the Bible,
what giant stood "six cubits
and a span," or something
over 11 feet tall?
3. What two bodies of water
are connected by the Erie
canal?
4. How- many wives did
Henry VIII of England marry?
i
5. Who wrote the novel
"Pickwick Papers"?
6. Is the capital of Saudi
Arabia Mecca or Raidh?
7. Who succeeded Wood
row Wilson as President of
the United States? --
8. In what war was the bat
tle of San Juan Hill fought?
9. By what means was Sir
Walter Raleigh executed?
10. What is the name of the
British National Anthem?
Answers: 1. Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. 2. Goliath. 3. Lake
Erie and Hudson river. 4: Six.
5. Charles Dickens. 6. Both.
7. Warren G. Harding. 8.
Spanish-American war. 9. He
ras .. beheaded. .. 10. .."God
Save the Queen."
Medford In 1970
No one really knows what Medford will be
like ten years from now.
But we heard one educated guess the other
night, when Mayor John Snider, half humorously
and half in dead earnest, made his own. forecast
for Medford in the year 1970.
Mayor Snider, in our view, hap been an un
usual chief executive. He has combined vision
with practicality, a determination to forge ahead
with an amazing ability to get along with people,
and a personal reticence with a talent, almost a
genius, for quiet leadership.
.
LIIS forecast was made during the first annual
"Living Report" of the city administration
and departments.
The meeting, which was attended by 65 city
officials, members of unpaid boards, committees
and commissions, and others interested in the
city, provided probably the best overlook of what
the city is and does than :has. ever before been
presented here.
We wish the audience , could have been 100
times as large. And thought is being given to
making this annual 'event a larger affair next
year, in larger accommodations, and. inviting all
citizens of the city who wish to hear and see the
people who have been elected and appointed to
serve them.
It was an impressive arid reassuring meeting.
A NYWAY, here are the major portions of the
mayor's 10-year look ahead :
"As elected and appointed city officials, we
have a responsibility to furnish services at a
minimum cost to the taxpayers. During the next
10 years, urban 'growth will be staggering, and
the demands for service will be without prece
dent. v
"Let's look at what is expected of us and fore
cast a few of the things to be -accomplished :
Population
. ,195017,305
195926,300'
197040,850 (a eity
Growth
"In order to keep pace and provide the serv
ices demanded, the city s
in some proportion to the
have 189 employees, including water department,
we will probably count 292 people 40 police
men now, 62 in 1970: 37 firemen now, 58 then.
These numbers could be
reduction in horn's and
Streets
"The 10-year through
have been completed m
will be inaugurated to implement the city's master
plan for development. Underpasses or overpasses
will be constructed at 10th street and the bouth
ern Pacific tracks, and possibly at Jackson" street.
"AH the city streets will be paved (including
East Main). " V
Airport
"Eunways at the Medford Municipal Airport
will be extended to provide for jet plane service,
keeping Medford an important part of: the na
tion's skyways. ' -
Public Buildings
"A new City Hall will be constructed along
side of the (new) Federal Building in the pro
posed Civic Center adjacent to the Library Park.
"A new public safety building will be added.
A new fire station will be constructed in the
northern part of the city.
Pollutants
"Air pollution will be solved and all days will
be bright.
"Bear Creek will be
parks will grace its banks.
"Garbage disposal will all be done by sani
tary landfill method, building up waste land as
the process continues.
Industry
An industnal park development will be made
and several light industries satisfactorily located.
"White City will continue to expand by heavy
industrial development.
Planning
"The wisdom of the city's master plan for de
velopment for the city and the metropolitan area
will become manifest.
"A portion of the central city will be convert
ed into a pedestrian mall. This will be landscaped
and it will become a focal point for. shoppers.
Vehicular traffic will be prohibited in the area.
Adequate Park & Shoo lots on the perimeter will
provide adequate .parking.
Parks and Playgrounds
, "A system of parks and playgrounds will be
Erovided around, the schools in each neighbor
ood. V .- " - -
"A well rounded recreation program will fill
the leisure time of youths and adults alike.
City Beautiful
"The Street Tree Committee's vision of beau
tiful streets will become a reality.
"Advertising- signs will become more sub
dued and smaller. .
"I7ILL it happen this way? ;
V- -"You bet it can, if we MAKE it happen
this way. ' ; ;V ' - - .
; We have ah obligation to bur children and
grandchildren to pass on to them a bright, modern
city, reasonably free of debt
Y "We lose . -. . with sincere thanks that we
live jn a community so endowed with bright, en
thusiastic, dedicated people such as yourselves.''
We like the mayor's" forecast.- May it come
true. E.A.
the size of Salem).
employees will increase
growth. Where we now
drastically increased by
shifts.
street program will
1967 and a new program
' .. ' .
clean again, and many
-
Dennis the
THAT'S no stope dAimiHBl
I. - : ; .
'"' '
Today fir Tomorrow
By Walter
THE WORLD COURT
The Senate Foreign Rela
tions committee has been hold
ing hearings on a resolution
which; cur
iously and re
in a kably
enough, was
introduced by
Senator Hum-
ft SfeiL I Pnrey ana xia&
WaiC3ftthe ardent
VfS5Sr,T support of
i , .
Vice President
TMivnn This.
LlDDmann a S ivi r. a.
might say. is an instance
where a shrimp has whistled
The Humphrey Resolution
has the full backing of the
Administration and it is like
ly to command the support
of the Democratic leadership
There are, to be sure, dissent
ers who are seriously worried
that the acceptance of the res
olution will be an abdication
of American sovereignty.
But they are a small minori
ty as compared with the huge
non-partisan majority . which
includes so many of the lead
ing lawyers of the country.
THE Humphrey Resolution
would repeal what is
known as the Connally
Amendment - to the original
Senate Resolution No. 196.
This Resolution, - which was
adopted in . 1946, called for
the deposit of a. declaration
accepting the compulsory
jurisdiction of the Internation
al Court of Justice. This is
the court set up under the
Charter of the United Nations.
The United States was per
haps its leading advocate.
Before the Connally Amend
ment- was adopted .the 1946
Resolution said that "in re
lation to .any other state ac
cepting the same obligation"
the United States accepts the
compulsory jurisdiction ofj
the International Court of
Justice "in all legal disputes"
which come under four class
es of cases.
The International Court is
to have compulsory .jurisdic
tion in a dispute about (1) the
interpretation of a treaty, (2)
any question of international
law, (3) the existence of any
fact which, if established,
would constitute a breach of
an international obligation,
and (4) the nature or extent of
the reparation to be made for
the breach of an internation
al obligation.
The 1946 Senate Resolu
tion says expressly where the
compulsory jurisdiction of
the Court shall NOT apply.
Of these reservations, the. im
portant one is that the Court
shall not have jurisdiction in
a "dispute with regard to mat
ters which are essentially
within the domestic jurisdic
tion of the United States." The
question was then raised in
the Senate as to how it was
to be decided whether a mat
ter is or is not essentially
within the domestic jurisdic
tion of the United States.
rpHE Senate ; answered this
-- question in ,1946 by ac
cepting the Connally Amend
ment which added six words
to the original text.-Because
of this amendment the ques
tion of whether a matter is
essentially within, the domes
tic jurisdiction of the United
States is to be "determined by
the United States." This is
the amendment that both
Senator Humphrey and Vice
President Nixon want to re
peal. . As the law stands today,
the United States . 'govern
ment has the right to exclude
the Court whenever it desires
to dp .so-, without having to
prove or to argue its position
when it declares that the case
is - domestic."- This means
that while we have agreed to
compulsory jurisdiction in
legal disputes, we have in
fact reserved the right to stop
the Court's proceedings. As
a result, no other nation with
which we have a dispute can
bt compelled to comt before j
5 fVfl
Menace
1 MADE IT MYSElFf
Lippmann
the Court. What is sauce for
the goose is also sauce for
the gander. Under the Connal
ly Amendment we cannot be
sued without our consent.
But equally we cannot sue
anyone else without his con
sent. This reduces the Interna
tional Court of Justice to a
kind of small sideshow. It is
no doubt the reason why, de
spite all the international dis
putes with which the world is
beset, the International Court
has so few cases before it.
rpHE question raised in Con-
eress now is whether our
government or the Interna -
tional Court itself shall dc
cide whether a matter is dt
mestic. The dissenters, whc
believe that the Connally
Amendment must be retained,
argue that . the Court might
take jurisdiction in a dispute
which challenged our tariff
laws, our immigration laws,
our currency laws, our admin
istration of the Panama Canal.
These fears, through under
standable, are groundless. If
the Court took jurisdiction in
domestic matters, it would be
violating its own statute
which expressly limits its
jurisdiction to international
legal disputes. -.
It is conceivable, although
it is in the highest degree un
likely, that the Court might
violate the law which created
it. But if it did that,- there
would be a remedy. We would
have an indubitable grievance
and we would be entitled,
legally and morally, to chal
lenge the Court by political
action in the United Nations.
rpHERE is, therefore, no risk
which would leave us help
less. Onjthe other hand, the
advantages of building up the
jurisdiction of the Court are
very great. Perhaps the most
important of these advantages
is one that the Vice President
pointed out in an address last
April. If the richer nations,
like the United States, are
to export capital to assist the
underdeveloped - cou n t r i e s,
there must be legal security
for the investments they
make. To create that security
the International Court can
have a big part to play.
Indeed, in view of what is
happening in this hemisphere
to affect American property
abroad, we have an interest
that every property dispute,
as with Castro today, should
be decided by a Court and
not left to propaganda, agita
tion, coercion, and force.
But if we want to go to
Court to: protect our Tights,
we must be willing to go to
Court where someone else has
a grievance against us.
Copyright 1960, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERT
T ETTERS RECEIVED by an editor during a hard-fought
J- election campaign: "Sir: You are a coward and uncon
scionable swine. Lynching is too good for you and your
stau. uancex my sub-
scription. John Doakes.
P. S. Excuse pencil."
Terence O'Flaherty de
scribes a whale as "the
last of the red hot mam
mals.'' He further as
serts that the first time
he met Gypsy Rose Lee,
he told her, "Don't just
stand there. Undo some
thing!" 'It's not always such a'
good idea to marry when
you're very young," a wise
mother counselled her teen-age daughter. "Just remember it's
the early bird who catches the worm." '
Dick Shawn dismisses a mermaid as "not enough fish to fry
and not enough woman to keep warm."
C I960, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King gestures Syndicate
Matter of Fact By,jo$ePh ais0P
Wausau, Wisc.-The pleas
ant, hard-working, home-loving
peoole of the farms and
small towns
of this part
of Wisconsin
are just pos
sibly going to
play a key
role in the
choice of the
next Demo
cratic nomi
nee for the
Presidency.
Before the voters of Wis
consin's Seventh Congression
al District can lay claim to
being king-makers, a highly
important condition must of
course be fulfilled. By win
ning the Wisconsin Presi
dential primary, Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts has
also got to win the Demo
cratic Presidential nomina
tion. But if this quite conceiv
able condition is indeed ful
filled , the Seventh District
should have its special niche
in our political history. The
District's importance is indi
cated by the poll of Wisconsin
taken for Senator Kennedy
before he decided to contest!
the crucial primary here with
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota.
THE real . facts about this
poll (as contrasted with
the widespread but wholly in
accurate rumors) are briefly
as follows: The polltaker, the
able professional, Louis Har
ris, gave Kennedy 53 per cent
of the statewide vote against
47 per cent for Humphrey.
But Harris also showed an
almost exactly even split of
the state's Congressional Dis
tricts, which elect most of
the convention delegates. Four
Districts went to Kennedy,
four went to Humphrey, and
two were in doubt. Of these
two in doubt, moreover, the
Seventh District was the most
evenly balanced.
Right here, then, is where
the make-or-break Wisconsin
1 fight may well be decided.
or just this reason, this re-
Jrter came here a couple of
ays ago, to do some fairly
wintry doorbell ringing in re
vived partnership with his
brother Stewart. And because
the Seventh District is so
largely rural, our first effort
centered in the little villages
of Edgar, in Marathon Coun
ty, and Aniwa, in Shawano
County.
Aniwa is tiny-hardly more
than a few stores, an excel
lent roadside restaurant, and
a handful of houses. Even
Edgar, though' lately- in
creased by the new, suburban-.looking-ranch
houses of re
tired farmers, is also an ex
tremely small place. But the
experts, hereabouts say that
Aniwa and Edgar and their
surrounding rural routes, bor
dered with the small, neat
houses and big barns of the
local dairy farmers, are pretty
typical places in the Seventh
District's countryside. If this
is true, the outlook for Sen
ator Kennedy is hopeful, al
though by no means decisive
ly hopeful.
TN A VERY long day's work
we collected a sample of
56 voters-which may seem
small, but is in fact just about
equal to the entire Wiscon
sin sample in one of Dr. Gal
lup's national polls. Ten of
our fifty-six, as usual, were
people who had net register
ed, or "just never voted," or
were ladies who "might vote,
but just couldn't talk about
it yet" because their hus
bands had not told them what
to say.
The remaining 46 pollees
were offered the choice they
are likely to get in the pri
mary, between Vice President
Richard M. Nixon on the Re
publican ballot, and Senators
Kennedy and Humphrey on
the Democratic ballot. Eight
strongly chose. Kennedy. Five
strongly chose Humphrey
One had not decided which
Democrat ' to back, but was
against that . Nixon." Three,
all. Catholics and Republi
cans, were leaning to a Nixon
vote, but "just might cross
over to the Democrats to vote
loELSOi
for Kennedy,- as one farm
housewife put it. Fourteen
were strong for Nixon alone.
And 15 still wanted to wait
"to hear what they have to
say for themselves."
The scatter of traces in the
primary-straw vote was per
haps less meaningful than the
way the same people voted
in two-man Presidential trial
heats. In 1956, no less than
32 of these people had chosen
President Eisenhower, against
only 7 for'Adlai Stevenson,
and 7 did not vote. The re
sults of the Nixon-Humphrey
trial heat were broadly rep
resentative of the way these
same people now feel about
all other potential Democrat
ic candidates except Sen.
Kennedy. In this heat, 25
chose 'Nixon decidedly, 2
leaned to Nixon, 10 A chose
Sen. Humphrey, and 9 were
still uncertain. :
TN THE Nixon-Kennedy trial
-- heat, Sen. Kennedy got the
same number of decided votes
as Sen. Humphrey, .just 1-0.
But 2 more were leaning, to
Kennedy; only 15 chose Nix
on decidedly; 7, were learn
ing to Nixon but considering
Kennedy; and the total of
"wait-and-see" pollees rose to
12. Among these 46 peope, in
short, Kennedy seemed to
have at least an outside
chance to make a real show
ing against -Nixon,- whereas
Humphrey and the other
Democrats seemed rto have no
chance at all.
In this result, no doubt, re
ligious feeling played a con
siderable part.- As in Wiscon
sin's Seventh District as a
whole, the people of our
sample were almost evenly
divided between Protestants
and' Catholics. And although
Kennedy's faith cut both
ways, being a Catholic helped
him decidedly more than it
hurt him.
Such is the story of Ani
wa and Edgar. It suggests
that the Wisconsin primary
is one of the rare political
contests that will really be
decided by the campaigners'
performance on the stump.
The story requires no addi
tion, except a word of thanks
to the Aniwa and Edgar peo
ple, for their unusual will
ingness to invite frost-bitten,
red-eared pollers to do their
questioning indoors, in the
cheerful, . steamy kitchens,
rather than on icy, wind
blown doorsteps.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington: '
: House investigators hinted
today there is more than
meets the eye in a fun-filled
Miami Beach convention at
which record companies put
up at least $117,665 to make
disc jockeys "richer and hap
pier."
Edward E. Eicher, an ex
ecutive of a Miami Beach
hotel, testified that a score
of record companies paid the
bills for convention break
fasts, dances, cocktail parties,
lunches and receptions at his
hostelry.
One of the biggest blow
outs, he testified, was an
eight-hour jam session by a
big name band that began
with a barbecue at midnight
and wound up with a break
fast during which 2,000 bot
tles of bourbon were downed
SOUNDS RUGGED, doesn't
it?
But-
Before going off the deep
end on the subject of the in
iquities of the Miami Beach
disc jockeys' whing-ding, con
ventioneers of all varieties
might do well to . consider
this word of advice offered
in the. Good Book;
Le him who is without sin
cast the first, stone. . . .
AND- :;
While we're at it-
We might give some thought
to these words of Isaiah (65:5)
in which he speaks of those
which say: . "Stand by thy
self, come not near to me,
for I AM HOLIER THAN
THOU."
Of these holier-than-thou
persons, . Isaiah adds: . f These
are a smoke in my nose, a
fire that burneth, all the.'day."
1IHAT I'm getting ' at is
this:' -
The weird goings-on of TV
in its rigged quiz shows and
of the radio disc jockeys who
accept payola for plugging
the platters of the record
companies that come across
handsomely (under the table)
are nothing to be admired.
But-- .
Before the other communi
cations industries, including
the newspapers; the ? maga
zines and all theirest of us
who make a living by -selling
advertising, fall for the temptation-to
get more business
for ourselves by pointng the
finger of scorn at our com
petitors, we'd better make
very sure indeed that our-own
skirts re clean and : unde
filed. s, - - t - :
Anybody who tries to get
business by running down his
competitor is a pretty poor
stick.;. -; ; :ri ' ,
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
It may have escaped gener
al notice, but there has been
some small debate in the Mail
Tribune's "family" about how
long the tail of a groundhog
(or. "woodchuck") is.
Artist - Photographer Bob
Vroman on Feb. 2 drew a
cartoon of a groundhog whip
ping back into his hole to
await the expiration of six
more weeks of winter wea
ther. The beast, as pictured,
had an abbreviated tail.
This was challenged by a
proof-reader, who claimed (in
verse, yet) that a groundhog
does too have a tail.
Now we have proof..
A recent resident of New
York (where they have
groundhogs) moved to . the
Rogue Valley (where we
don't), and before leaving he
shot one of the rodents, and
brought its tail (which they
call "scalps" back there) along
as proof.
And here it is:
One of a group of Med
ford people, who visited
Whidbey Navy Air Station
last week, was amased at
the greeting the admiral
himself, and a bunch of lop
ranking officers, met the
visitors at the plane. This
man mused, half to- him
self: "They didn't Co that
. to me the first :time I was
in the Navy. I'd heard of
admirals, but-1 wasn't sure
lhey existed. -Let -alone
TOUCH onel" '
- - Secretary -of State - Howell
Appling Jr. must be planning
to run for reelection.
How do we-know? Well, it'
because we keep getting press
releases from -him -about how
much money -he's saving the
taxpayers, or would like to
save the taxpayers. This is
an almost-sure sign that the
election-bug has bitten. .
In his most recent offering
he declares -that money can
be saved by mailing only one,
instead of two, voter's pam
phlet to husband and wife
who are of the same party.
In arguing for the change
Appling asks: : , .
"If a husband and wife
can't share a voter's pamphlet,
how in the world can they be
expected to share bed and
board?"
I guess, in the Appling
family, they don't get a maga
zine or newspaper which the
whole family wants to read
at the same time. Bed and
board indeed!!
The new sheriffs cars,
which should be arriving
soon, will be a sort of off
white color to distinguish
them from slate or city po
lice vehicles. But this poses
the problem of keeping
them clean, and Sheriff Joe
Walsh is thinking about
forming e citisen's commit-
iV
Editorial Comment
THEY CAN'T STAND
ANY MORE VIOLENCE
Organized labor in Port
land is having as much-trou
ble with its friends as with
its enemies. Two events of
recent days . have been ex
tremely embarrassing to the
unions that are trying to
bring to a satisfactory settle
ment their differences . with
Portland's two newspapers
that brought about a strike
more than 100 days ago.
Somebody blew up some
trucks that carry newspapers
for the Oregonian and The
Oregon Journal. And a few
days later a small organiza
tion, claiming to speak for
organized . labor, put out a
hate, sheet - in which union
men were encouraged to arm
themselves and resort to vio
lence against the newspapers.
This, you may be sure, was
done , without knowledge of
or participation by the unions
that are on strike against the
newspapers, or the respons
ible leaders of organized la
bor in Portland.
The unions have only two
ways out of their difficulties
at the newspapers. They must
either concede to the desires
of the owners of the newspa
pers or they must bring pub
lic opinion to bear so strongly
upon the newspaper' owners
that the unions won't suffer
a total loss. '
Public opinion is not likely
to be on. the side of violence
perhaps a small segment of
public opinion, but not the
weight of public opinion that
the unions must have in this
case. The unions know this.
They know that destruction
of property and calls for vio-J
tee to keep lhem washed.
Sort of a Jackson Countv
Sheriff's Dismounted Wash
ing Posse, as it were.
We don't know what hap
pened to'the gun, but it may
be for sale again.
Anyway, one citizen of this
area purchased a new .22
caliber pistol not long ago.
and went through the process
of registering it.
Less than 24 hours later he
was treated for a leg wound.
suffered while he was prac
ticing a " fast draw."
What with all the talk
about air pollution, and
with the smudge season
fast, approaching, we've
heard a whole bunch of
ideas for keeping the or
chards warm without smoke.
One of them is to cover
each pear tree with a little
plastic tent-tori of the way
gardeners do with toma
toes. But the one that really
tickles our fancy is the
suggestion that giant pipes
be run to each lumber mill -burner,
and that the hot
air be distributed through
out the orchards. This would
eliminate air pollution from
the burners, and from the
orchards or so the origin
ator of the idea claims.
My, how chemicals have
changed our lives.
Insecticides, fertilizer, food
additives, spray glazes the
list is endless.
One woman about whom
we've heard started to use
the product of chemistry - a
spray-like substance that is
supposed to keep her hair in
place-only to get it confused
with another chemical prod
uct: an air freshener in a
spray can.
She - er - smelled for a day
or two, we are told.
Jury notices mailed our
from the county clerk's of
fice recently bore the rubber-stamp
signature. "Mrs.
Beretb Hopkins, county
clerk." Is this an economical
use of old supplies? Or is it
an omen of what is to
come? Or is it just our im
agination that Marv Mad
den was elected to that of
fice last time around?
On this St
Valentine's
' ' day, we' are
pleased t o
UC ' bring you ' a
'-Valentine:'"''
., ' t I t w a "s
,' s dra w'n b y
w - Craig Huston,
who is in the
first grade at Hoover school,
and it appeared in the cur
rent issue of the Hoover Hi
Lite. "
This is an election year;
so we'll pass along a dilem
ma which may be faced by
one group or another this
year. One man simply can't
make up his mind whom to
vote for because he doesn't
know either candidate. The
other one can't make up his '
mind because he knows
both.
lence drastically weaken
their case in the court of
public opinion. Any more
rought stuff, no matter by
whom, and the unions will
have had it.-Pendleton East
Oregonian.
SLASH BURNING
Loggers . are required . by
law to burn the slashings left
after logging. This is to re
duce the hazard from forest
fires, since the litter becomes
highly flammable in the dry
season. When a fire does
start in the slash it spreads
fast, burns with intensity and
may spread into surrounding
green timber. Controlled
burning ordered by law is
done in seasons of moderate
dryness, in fall or spring.
, The question is frequently
raised whether slash burning
really is desirable. A forester,
writing to the Medford Mail
Tribune, argues that it isn't.
He calls it a hazard to repro
duction, says it robs the soil
of humus, pollutes the air,
causes soil erosion and is de
structive of wild life. The
proper substitute, says this
forester is "good forest man
agement." The subject is worth fresh
consideration by those
charged with forest protec
tion.' Logging now is more by
patches. More equipment is
at hand for fire suppression.
The state forester can give
some tolerance now on slash
burning, and it is quite con
ceivable that the rigid re
quirements for burning slash
are no longer necessary under
present logging practices.
Oregon Statesman, Salem.
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