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Hislory fro.n the lilcs of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 16. 1950 (Tuesday)
Oregon's Liberty boll which
'. is being shown throughout
Oregon in conm-ction with the
Independence savings bond
drive will be displayed in
'Jackson county May '25.
Oregon's democratic nnlion
nl committeemen have recom
mended that the acting ap
pointment of Post ni a s I e r
Moore Hamilton of Mcdl'oni
he made permanent.
20 YEARS AGO
May 16. 1940 (Thursday)
." Medford's Pacific CI r e y
hound bus drivers join fellow
workers in a strike extending
irom Portland to Ja! Paso, Tex.
From Arlhur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot'' column: "To
morrow is election day nnd n
rush of voters to every place
, but the polls is' expected."
30 YEARS AGO
May 16 1930 (Friday)
1 Rogue valley will exhibit
products at a trade fair in
Sacramento.
George Joseph, running on
a platform of "electricity
without cost." is favorite to
win Oregon COP nomination
for governor.
40 YEARS AGO
May 16. 1920 (Sunday)
City police arrest 17 vio
lators of city's water regula
tions. iiroom corn crop is now
Diooming in t n e ii mow
Springs district.
SO YEARS AGO
May 16, 1910 (Monday)
The Jacksonville commer
cial club has finished pur
chasing nearly all the right of
way between Jarksnnville
and the Blue Ledee mining
district in preparation for a
railroad.
Miss Margaret Keith owned
the first car in Medioid and
the second in the valley; it
was a 1IHI5' liroueks. brought
here in that same year.
Whal's Ysar I C-?
Nin or ten correct is lupertor;
teven or tight ii exedtent; live or
lil ti good.
1. Zanzibar is an M.-ind off
the eastern coast of which
toiithieiit:
2. The tutor of Alexander
the Creal was A - e'.'
3. Which is hea n r. damp
or dry air?
4. Mad Anthony was the
nickname of which Major
General?
5. Who was the first Pres
ident born west of the Missis
eipiii" (i. Were the earliest hank
notes (paper currency! i.-mhiI
in China, Home or F.gypi'.'
7. Which state has tl-e l.ing
est fresh water shore line"
8, Name the suns of Chris
lopher Columbus.
II. Is a lypovr.itcn letter,
unsealed, seend class mail?
10. Does the moon travel
around tluc earth ironi east
to west or wi t to r:-t.
Answers: 1. Africa.' 'I. Aris
iolla. 3. Dry air. volumo lor
volume. 4. Anlhony Wayno.
S. Herbert Hoover. 6. China
(about 2697 B.C.). 7. Michi
gan. 8. Diego ard F'euiuiand.
9. Yes. 10. West lo east, -
Treasures In
With the largest stand of merchantable tim
ber in any of the states, Oregon's economy will
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' del nd heavilv unon the
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j How, then, is an industrv
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iwi ia vi.iiuii uuili wun mis lenouice; .uucll
bi tter than many probably realize.
There io growing realization that timber must
be treated as a crop and that it is a tremendously
valuable resource because it is a renewable
resource. More important, large sums of money
are being spent in this state to get new products
from wood. Numerous companies and research
(.roups are active in "silvichemicals" research,
concerned with chemical wood products.
: A N' EXAMPLE of the
which new chemical
finding their way is furnished by Crown Zeller
bach Corp., which says its silvichemicals are go
! in? into asphalt emulsions, briquets, ceramics,
j cleaning compounds, gy)sum board, softboard,
i insecticides, linoleum paste, road binders, con
! creto admixtures, oil-well drilling compounds,
' jiaiiit, paint solvents and
chemicals, synthetic libers, rubber, camphor, wet-
j ling a'eiits, resins, solvents, plasticizers and a
. i host of other products.
Weverhaeiiser Company is shooting for a
; full line of silvichemicals and is presently market
j ing quercetin, a brilliant yellow chemical derived
from Douglas fir bark which protects certain
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spoiling or deteriorating. Company scientists are
continuing their extensive research on bark com-
ponents and whole-wood fiber products.
IN PORTLAND, Georgia-Pacific Corporation
1 will soon start production of 200,000 to 300,000
pounds a month of cyanide chemicals in a major
new chemical pilot plant which will use bark and
sawdust. The new plant will turn out glycerin,
copper cyanide, ferric ferrocyanide, copper sul
phate and nickel sulphate worth an estimated
$2,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year.
A new research and devlopment center of
Evans Products Co. at Corvalhs is pushing re
search on chemical utilization of wood residues.
The center is presently turning wood fiber into
plastic-impregnated batteiy separators.
.
!7T;STERN Pine Association's laboratory in
Portland has developed methods for extract
ing arabogalactin, a sugar from larch which is
useful as a pill binder and an ingredient for such
products as ink and glue. The pine industry re
searchers have also improved extractive tech
niques for resin, a source of turpentine and rosin.
Resin, which makes up some 5 per cent of pine
trees, can be obtained from stumps, or lumber.
At Corvallis, the Oregon Forest Research
Center, an industry-supported state organization,
has isolated major chemical constituents from
Western trees and has developed uses for extrac
tives from Douglas fir bark such as tannins,
waxes and dinvdroquereetin. Scientists there are
also studying lignin structure and are working
with wood residues.
All this should be most encouraging to the
citizens of a state that depends to the extent that
Oregon does upon wood products manufacturing.
Hut maybe we "ain't seen nothin' " yet.
A 1TROXIMATELY 30 per cent of every tree in
the forest consists of lignin the glue which
nature uses to hold the fibers of the tree to
gether. Researchers have not yet fathomed its
exact structure, despite their progress obtain
ing a growing range of chemicals from it. Most
of them believe that once they achieve the break
through in pinning down lignin's structure com
pletely they will then have the framework with
which to create a silvichemical industry compar
able to the diverse petro-chemieal field.
When the mysteries of lignin are no longer
mysterious the door will be opened to industrial
expansion in this state of a magnitude that few
can measure today. And it may not be far off.
STive that tree. In a few years mills will not
only want it, but any bark, limbs, knots and pitch
pockets you have. Pendleton East Oregonian.
Leave Us Alone Inc.
A senior citizen we know is tired of it all.
1 le wishes the Golden Agers, the State Council
on Aging, the White House Conference on Aging,
simpering candidates and dozens of others who
bother older people would leave him alone.
He doesn t want to play canasta with some
one just because they have one thing in common,
age. He doesn't want to be stamped and tagged
and numbered and analyzed. He just wants to
uad, occasionally see those with whom he has
mure in common than age, travel a bit and mow
his lawn when he has nothing better to do.
MOW he's faced with what he considers the
supreme indignity. He has been offered mem
bership in a new dub called "Over (io Inc." It's a
discount club. You become a member by show
ing your social security card. Then you go on a
mailing list for member stores which promise to
sell oldsters goods at a discount.
Another friend of oui"s, age -10, has noted this
situation and suggests another club he d call the
"Forgotten Years Club Inc." It would have no
dues, no rules, no discounts, no mailing room,
and no officers. It would be for those aged 25 to
(io and who now have almost nothing done for
tlC(ii by benevolent governments and societies.
It would be dedicated to keeping it that way.
Capital Journal. Salem.
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Our Forests
utilization of that. wood.
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that has not been noted
wide variety i
products of t
of uses into
products ot tne tree are
strippers, agricultural
plastics, vegetable and
c..
Dennis tht
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Party Boat Trips
To the Editor: Recent edi
torial criticism of the Demo
cratic platform has taken the
tone that the Democrats were
very unwise to adopt a plat
form because it must neces
sarily be restrictive and must
Inevitably cause the party to
lose some support from people
who might support us if they
did not know for what we
stood.
In my opinion these attacks
are dead wrong both in pre
mise as well as conclusion.
It appears from these edi
torials that they think a po
litical party should shrewdly
and calculatingly maneuver
itself among the reefs and
shoals avoiding at all cost
contact with any solid sub
stance lest some of the paint
be flaked from the bottom of
the boat.
The trouble with this policy
Is that a preoccupation with
safety and security often re
sults in never reaching the
objective, if in fact there ex
ists objectives to reach-except
to be "safe" and "make
friends."
We in the Democratic par
ty think we do have goals to
reach and we think they are
worthwhile. We think the
way to get there is in a
straight line. If we lose some
paint off the boat, O. K. II
some of the passengers Jump
out along the way, O. K., at
least everybody knows where
we mean to go. The boat
may be dented but we are
not idling our time going
around in circles, trying to
be all things to all people.
They say the Democratic
platform is restrictive. They
think that is bad. Yes, tt is
restrictive! We restrict our
selves to those things we be
lieve in and goals we "want to
move towards I think this
kind of restriction is good.
The political tone of Ore
gon politics would be signif
icantly improved if the Re
publican party In Oregon now
would follow the Democrats
lend and declare where they
stand on these many import
ant issues. The Republicans,
boat may lose some passen
gers if the Republican leader
ship announces where the
party is going, but that is O.K.
The passengers won't drown
because the Republican boat
will be close to shore anyway.
It is my observation that the
Republican leadership in Ore
gon really doesn't want to go
anywhere anyway. hat they
seem to want to do most is
get back up on the safety of
the beach from where they
started. The first rough water
makes them fold their satis
and head back to shore mut
tering to themselves the trip
REALLY wasn't necessary
anyway - only desirable:
Robert W. Straub
State Chairman
Democratic Party
Eugene, Ore.
Mr. Fleming Replis
To the Editor: 1 would like
to answer Mr. Wood's ques
tions as briefly as possible. I
would like to say that having
served in the Army In the Pa
cific area from 1943 to 194S,
that 1 can qualify as a vet
eran.
In defense of my TV ap
pearance in Medford, I had
to assume the people of South
ern Oregon knew of the pro
posed amendment to the Con.'
stltutlon, to repeal the Income
tax, and get the government
out of competition with prt
vale enterprise. To o into
every facet of the $1,100 the
federal government seizes
from your tVOOO yearly pay
check In 5 minutes was impos
sible.
Mnc
it just mrs.
bear the name and address of
certain circumstances the use
publication is permissible. The
right to edit all letters with a
not necessarily represent the
ths contrary is often the casft
If Mr. Wood will read my
platform, he will see that I
do not advocate the sell out
of the disabled veterans
rather all the repeal of the
16th amendment will do is to
eliminate the nine corporate
activities operated by the V.
A. at a loss to the average
taxpayer of $126 per year.
This figure is Included In the
20 per cent more take home
pay if the federal Income tax
is repealed which will help
all veterans all over the na
tion. My whole program is a
protection of private enter
prise and freedom for the in
dividual so how can he think
that I would allow foreign
ers to ruin the American free
enterprise fishing industry?
That is the function of gov
ernment, to protect the free
enterprise system.
As to what would happen
to the farmer with the elim
ination of the price supports,
I as a dairyman, along with
73 per cent of the American
free enterprise farmers who
voted in the Farm Journal
poll, in favor of such elimina
tion, would breathe a sigh of
relief to be uncontrolled, not
destroyed as we are now by
government competition.
Leslie Fleming
Route 1, Box 183
Springfield, Ore.
Somo Thoughts
To the Editor: Ours is only
an opinion and no offense is
meant, but sometimes we get
bored with propaganda and in
tolerance. However, we are interested
in affairs that affect us here
and now, such as old age as
sistance, social security, pro
gressive education, and elimi
nation of unemployment. We
would even balance the local,
state and national budgets. In
international affairs, peace
and friendship have a pleas
ing connotation. Yet we do not
approve of sabre rattling and
snooping around our neigh
bors' backyards. Perhaps it is
the way we were raised.
We enjoy evaluating new
ideas, but are irked with or
thodox bigotry. Therefore we
can sympathize with Mr.
Wirth when he displayed his
temper when his patience was
strained to the breaking point.
Logic has a strong appeal to
us and the way we see it is
that a dogma that has strayed
so far from home in 2.000
years and yet is so bewildered
in the wilderness that it can
not orient itself to basic hu
man needs and Christian
teachings, cannot be taken se
riously, while the heathen
Chinese are striving for prog
ress and prosperity.
Walter Recce
Merlin rd.
Galice, Ore.
Don't Mako Sense
To the Editor: Regarding
the article explaining the dog
control measures on Page 2 of
Sunday's paper - just what
good will it do if such are
passed?
Dog owners will merelv
muzzle their pets and turn
Uiem loose again! Is this what
we're voting for? In my opin
ion, as a mail carrier, there
are very few dogs in Medford
that are really vicious to that
extent, and not a great many
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Khrushchev
Visit; Africa
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the Foreign Editor'!
Notebook:
KhrushehOT To Calm Down
Look for Soviet Premier Nl
kita Khrushchev to calm down
as the summit conference
progr esses,
and to make
up with Presi
d e n t Eisen
hower. He has
made all the
capital he pos
sibly can out
of the U-2 spy
plane i n c i
dent. He has
proved to his
hll Kr-wsnrji
critics at home and in Red
China that he is still a fight
ing Communist and a tough
man with the West. He has
won a considerable propa
ganda advantage for himself
at the summit, and a strong
bargaining hand for his argu
ment against Western - de
manded arms controls and
open skies inspection plans.
He may not want to let the
cold war relax too much be
fore the U.S. presidential elec
tion, and he also may want to
divert attention from some in
ternal developments in Russia.
But he can derive no major
advantage from deliberately
building up new long run in
ternational tension.
Iko's Japan Visiti
Eisenhower's visit to Japan
next month is bound to be a
much happier affair than his
visit to Moscow. The Japanese
are unhappy that Ike will stay
at the U.S. Embassy rather
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
PRELUDE OVER
Washington-The sound and
the fury have died: the cur
tain falls on a melodramic
prelude to the contest for the
Democratic Presidential nomi
nation. Three supporting actors for
a 1 1 practical
purposes have
departed the
stage. The real
play starts
now with
three real
stars, Senators
John F. Ken
nedy of Massa-
rhnaatt T.vn.
wiutt don B. John
son of Texas and Stuart
Symington of Missouri.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
of Minnesota, beaten so decis
ively by Kennedy in the West
Virginia Primary, is out of it,
by his own admission. Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon, who
has alone regarded the "Morse
Candidacy" as a serious one.
will now have a hard time con
vincing even himself.
Adlai E. Stevenson, who has
not this year been a real aspi
rant, is now out of it, too, bar
ring a miracle. Kennedy s de
feat in West Virginia would
have raised the strong possi
bility of a "draft Stevenson"
movement at the Democratic
National convention. Ken
nedy's enormous victory has
had the opposite consequence
- to kill any real possibility
of such a draft.
NOT merely Humphrey but
also the whole of the left
wing of the Democratic party
has been knocked right out of
the race. Humphrey's own
crushing defeat, advanced lib
eral though he is, is regretted
by many for his sake, for he
is a sensible liberal. Its collat
eral effect of smashing the
frantic professional liberals
who were in his train, how
ever, can only be welcomed by
more who would bite if
tempted.
However, our main concern,
I believe, is damage done to
yards, flowers, and danger to
motorists by those who insist
upon roaming the streets and
chasing cars continuously. If
Uiese things are still allowed,
then I can see no valid reason
for dog control laws. Such
laws would truly be far too
costly to enforce considering
what little we can expect to
gain from them.
My opinion of such laws
was that dogs would be kept
at home in their own yards
unless accompanied by and
under control of their owners.
If such is not the case, then
most certainly defeat both dog
control laws. They just don't
make sense.
S. J. Dodge
107 South Hollv st.
Medford
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"ACTIVE VARIETIES"
CalnriUw Hw9l ':P m- Medford High
OaiUiaa J, Maj at I School Auditorium
May Calm Down
May Quit commonwealth
than at the official state euest
house - gloomy Geinhinkan.
And the older people erf the
Cbuidry are aghast that tile
emperor will ride in a top
down convertible in full view
of everybody.
Commonwealth and
South Africa
The Commonwealth Prime
Ministers Conference, which
ended in London last week,
apparently has laid the
groundwork for possibly forc
ing South Africa out of the
Texans Ban Passion Fruit;
Hawaii Understandably Hurt
XI nmv urret I m ...
By DICK WEST
Washington-tlTD-In faraway
Hawaii there grows, amid the
papayas and the pineapples,
deli cious
plant that is
i known as
i you should
pardon the ex-
I p r e s s ion
"passion
fruit."
The natives
of our newest
state use pas-
West sion fruit as a
staple ingredient for such
goodies as punches, pies, cake
icings and sherbets. I'm told
that some Hawaiian children
even smoke the stems.
The plant also can be used
as a base for a liqueur, and
thereby hangs this tale. Word
has reached me by a circui
tous rote that the state of
S. WHITE
all who prefer rational poll
tics. The "Religious issue" has
not been wholly surmounted,
and never will be, this year,
at least. Thus the prospective
Republican Presidential can
didate, Vice-President Richard
Nixon, may be about as much
a winner from West Virginia
as is Kennedy.
But religion as a factor has
surely been muted by Catholic
Kennedy's triumph in a heav
ily Protestant state. So the
campaign can now be turned
largely to genuine issues.
Kennedy himself is far more
than ever the front runner.
The big Eastern delegations to
the Democratic convention are
moving toward him. All the
same, he is not yet nominated.
Johnson and Symington are
still to be defeated. It has be
come a hard, tough, adult,
three man race, with Kennedy
far ahead but Johnson Snd
Symington still on the track.
A ND NOW it is every man
i for himself. Up to this
noint Johnson has had some
community with Kennedy. It
was in Johnson's interest for
Kennedy not actually to lose
West Virginia, for this would
onlv have promoted, first
Stevenson and, second,
Symington.
Some of Symington's people
collaborated with some of
Johnson's people - a little bit
and in a mixed and gingerly
way. For Johnson's purposes
would best have been served
for Kennedy to be slowed -but
not halted. Symington's
purposes would best have been
served for Kennedy to be
stopped cold. So not the re
motest reason for any alliance,
temporary or otherwise, exists
any more.
Thus you will now see this:
Kennedy will run an increas
ingly bold and open bandwa
gon operation, plainly warn-
ine all undecided politicians
of the dangers of not getting
aboard in time. Symington's
half-open candidacy will be
come wide open. Johnson's un
admitted candidacy will be
come half-open.
THE Johnsonites already are
preparing for this. The
effort will be to emphasize the
Texan's undenied strength and
maturity and to play down his
liabilities as a Southerner. The
question will be asked: "Which
of the Democratic fellows
regardless of where he was
born - would you really rath
er have representing you
across the table from Khrush
chev?" In summary: Kennedy is the
heavy favorite and it would be
foolish to bet money against
him. But he still could stub his
toe. In that event Johnson
would be next strongest at
the convention in actual dele
gates in hand. Symington
fsC-Ji
LAiAJ
Dick
British community. This was
the significance of the formal
communique which said that
south Africa must seek tne
approval of other Common
wealth members if it changes
to a republic and still wants
to remain within the grouping.
Only one blackball would be
needed and South Africa
would be out, since Common
wealth decisions must be
unanimous on this score.
U-2 Jets in Japan and Koroa
If there was any way to do
Texas, of all places, has ban
ned the sale of passion fruit
liqueur as being a trine too
racy for the safety of its cit
izens. Water Remains
Short in MID
Medford Irrigation district
still has a general water
shortage problem in spite of
recent rains which have boost
ed local stream flow material
ly, according to Jack Hoff
buhr, MID manager.
Good rains recently have
helped in the area at Four
Mile lake, one of MID's water
sources, he explained.
Talent Irrigation district re
ported it hit a new high in its
south fork diversion canal
Wednesday due to rains - 54
cubic feet per second. At Fish
Lake, another MID water
source, 5,400 acre feet were
measured recently.
The district is now using
Billy creek canal to bring a
runoff from the area between
Four Mile and Fish lakes
down into Fish lake. How
ever, MID can't expect much
over a maximum of 6,000
acre feet per second, he said.
The district Is trying to get
water -users to use as much
stream flow as possible. This
stream flow is lost If it isn't
used now, Hoffbuhr said.
"The ground is a lot more
arid than people think. Recent
rains have soaked only the up
per 4 inches of ground. Below
that the ground is dry," Hoff
buhr pointed out. "Three or
four days of hot weather or
dry wind could show some
drought on shallow rooted
crops.
TOP IKE'S VOTE TOTAL
Indianapolis, Ind.-UPD-The
353,832 votes cast for Sen.
John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in
the 1960 Indiana presidential
primary topped the 352,000
ballots won by President Ei
senhower in the state's 1956
primary, final official returns
showed Saturday. But Vice
President Richard M. Nixon's
official total of 409.408 votes
exceeded both counts by
about 55,000 votes.
might be latently stronger
simply because he Is neither
so much liked nor disliked as
Johnson and because he is not
a Southerner.
If a choice between Johnson
and Symington had to be
made, Kennedy and Uie old
pros would make the last de
cision. Symington would be
the "safer," because less con
troversial, nominee; Johnson
the abler one. What would the
old pros, headed by Harry Tru
man, and Kennedy then do?
This corresopndent would
predict that Kennedy at least
would go to Johnson. Mr.
Truman? Maybe. Maybe not.
(Copyright I960 br
United Feature Syndicate Inc.)
Ike's Japan
it gracefully, you could look
lor the United States to with
draw the two U-2 jet planes
based in Japan. They easily
could be moved to Okinawa
and operate just as effective
ly. Based in Japan, the U-2
has become an issue compli
cating premier Nobusuke
Kishi's already-difficult task
of winning Diet approval of
the U.S.-Japan security treaty.
Meanwhile, United Nations
officials refuse to confirm or
deny the presence of any U-2s
in South Korea.
I say "of all places" be
cause of the widespread im
pression that Texans are
weaned on "red-eye" and
maintain a lifelong tolerance
for strong beverages. I've
heard it said that if it's wet
they'll drink it.
Board Takes Stand
Therefore, it's hard to imag
ine a Texan being intimidated
by anything as relatively in
nocuous as a liqueur. Never
theless, the Texas Liquor Con
trol Board has taken a firm
stand against passion fruit
liqueur.
In a letter to the Honolulu
firm that makes the stuff, the
board explained that the pro
duct was unacceptable in Tex
as because its name "infers
that the consumption of same
would stimulate the passion of
the individual consuming
same."
The islanders, however, are
incensed over the placing of
such a connotation on one of
their favorite fruits. After do
ing some research on the sub
ject, I can understand their
position too. According to the
dictionary, the name has a
religious symbolism rather
than aphordisiac one.
Write to Senator
ftj? h concocters o' Passion
fruit liqueuer have written to
Sen Oren E. Long (D-Hawaii)
urging him to Intercede with
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D
Tex.) in an effort to get the
ban lifted.
I wish Long success but I
fear his task will not be made
any easier if the word gets
around in Texas that one var
riety of the fruit is called
"purple passion."
I also fear his cause might
be hampered by a book of
Hawaiian recipes which con
tains a formula for "hot spiced
passion fruit juice." That's
enough to get the book ban
ned in Boston as well as in
Austin.
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