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History from tha file ot The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 vein !)
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5. 1951 (Friday)
A decision on whether
Camn White will be reacti
vated will probably not be
made known until early Feb
ruary at the earliest, accord
ing to Sen. Wayne L. Morse.
Wages paid plasterers and
cement finishers in southern
Oregon will go up under erms
of new contracts, it was an
nounced todny.
20 YEARS AGO,
Jan. 5, 1941 (Sunday)
Committee organization will
be effected for the annual
President's ball at a dinner
meeting of volunteer workers
in the Hotel Medford tomor
row night.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "All of
the soldiers and collegians,
home for the holidays, have
returned to camp or the
campus."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1931 (Sunday)
More than 400 county resi
dents have registered for re
lief road work; only 70 were
accommodated.
All roads to Crater Lake
are now blocked by at least
54 Inches of snow.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5. 1921 (Tuesday) -
Little Butte creek rose sud
denly during a period of
heavy rain last night and
muddied city drinking water.
Turkey shoots are proving
to be a popular sport in the
Butte Falls area.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. S, 1911 (Thursday)
Cily Fire Chief Eugene
Amann reported to the city
council last night that the
total loss from the 38 fires
In the city last year was
$1,400.
Lumber and building ma
terial sales in the city of
Medford, according to H. A.
Thicroff, manager of the Big
Pines Lumber company, were
100 per cent greater In 1010
than In 1000.
Vihaf's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior
seven ol eight Is excellent! five of
lis is flood.
1. In what city in Illinois is
the home town local union of
the United Mine Workers in
which John L. Lewis holds his
card?
2. During whose reign did
the Israelite Kingdom become
an Empire, ruling all the
lands from Egypt to Eu
phrates? 3. What are the natives of
the Phlllplne Islands called?
4. What city In the United
Slates Is called "the home of
the bean and the cod"?
9. What Is taxidermy?
6. What Is an LST?
7. What great disaster oc
curred In Japan In the year
1923?
8. Who was Totquato
Tasso? g
9. For which country was
Muscovy the ancient name?
10. What is batik?
Aniwarst 1. Springfield.
III. (Local 784). 2. David's
reign. 3, Filipinos. 4. Boston.
M?is. 5. Skinning, preserving
and iluf.'lrj animals, S. Land
ing Shio (Tanks). 7, An earth
quake. 8. Italian Poel. 0. Rui.
la. 10. Meihed of axecuting
adored daalyns on fabric
jrj" NEWSPAPi
Calculated Risk
We have been told, repeatedly, that the
ONLY real reason why
enter into a disarmament agreement with boviet
Russia is because, since
sians, we must insist on
advance, to insure that the Russians won t cheat.
This makros sense.
There is. at lone last, reason to hope that,
given luck, determination, and some skillful di
plomacy, this is just what we couia get.
A number of developments along these Snes
have been reported, as isolated incidents, in re
cent weeks and months.
IN a little-noticed statement last November,
Premier Nikita Khrushchev said, "If a decision
is taken on general and complete ,4fomrmmw&,
a decision to destroy s,e4tp(s, wa will them con
sent to any kind of etrol."
Vf he said it (it was not carried m my pu'ess
dispatches daily newspapers we saw at the
time, but the quotation
recent magazines ), and
is increasing evidence to
is a most significant statement.
A Russian willingness to accept "ANY kind
of control," (and control implies inspection,)
meets all the U.S. objections of any substance 0
constructive progress in
A RELATED point is this:
A f fho voia tho "Afnmi? pli.ih" ia ornuinrr
.1.1.1 iillV AM- VV Wl V A. X
(it now includes Russia,
France, and Israel and
join soon), the day is fast
armament will be the
nuclear "incidents" and
We think with foreboding of someone like
Khrushchev having atomic potentialities. Even
the volatile French make us uneasy with their
growing nuclear capability.
How, then, would we feel if Fidel Castro, or
Patrice Lumumba, or Abdel Nasser, or General
issimo Truiillo, had a bomb-bay (or suitcase)
full of atomic explosives?
THE way to control arms is to control them.
Trio iiar in rlicui'm ia in rlicarm
A , J HAUL. ...
And it cannot be a
be universal, worldwide,
or it won't do.
We can't do it ourselves. We must start
somewhere. The place
before we have to deal
1 here is good reason
sians, more and more, are
particularly with Mao-tse
capability with each day
CO the Russians are intransigent.
So we can't trust them.
So we must be infinitely careful in feeling
our way toward agreement with them.
These things are true.
But it is also true that, if some sort of dis
armament, agreement and control-and-inspection
agreement are NOT reached, we are in far more
danger of worldwide atomic devastation than if
we go as far as we can to achieve a multi-lateral,
ironclad, worldwide end to the brandishing of
weapons weapons winch, 11 touched oil 111 mad
ness or by accident, will mean the end of every
thing we value, and, for most, life itself.
Either way is a calculated risk. -And the
stakes are awefully high.
On News
This week the United
into session for the 87th
In two weeks a new
takes office.
Next Monday the Oregon legislative assembly
convenes in its 51st biennial session.
And thereby the perennial problem of the
newspaper makeup editor is multiplied and com
pounded. For news is relative.
COME idea of the relative importance of news
is conveyed, after a fashion, by the size of
headline which appears over it, or Its placement.
But this is not cannot be always so.
And, with the great volumes of news which
will be cascading out of
m the next lew months,
ent time would be placed justifiably at the top
of Page 1, will wiiwl up 01 Inside pages. .
A DD to this, too, tlw "friendly rirafry" fee
tween the telegraph editor and the city editor,
over the placement of the varieties of news whfek
they handle, which complicates the problem.
The telegraph editor, dealing almost exclu
sively with news which comes over the wires of
United Press International, is justifiably concern
ed that it be given proper play. o
And the city editor, who deals with citv coun
cil, county court? school board, and similar
stories of a more local nature, also is imbued with
a sense of their importance.
CO, ALTHOUGH most
of the Jtict, we might
PlaccinoitJ, and size of headline, given a story
is not a reflection otuts "absolute" importance in
the nature ofhings, but only the desk editors'
estimate of its "relative" importance on the day
it appears. And it's a quick decisitS at that.
And, itiiardly need be
lute and the relative importance of a story can.
and not infrequently is, missed entirely. Some
times newspapers are scooped by a magazine.
And once in a while a really significant occurance
isn't brought to public notice until it it is reported
in a book. E.A. O
0
the United States can't
we can't trust the Rus
fool-proof inspection, in
appears in a eouple of
it he means it (and there
show that he does), it
disarmament talks.-
VUIIUV VillJ - 3.vire,
the U.S., Britain and
God - knows - who - else may
approaching when' dis
only chance ot avoiding
nuclear war.
....
one - way street. It must
and adequately policed,
to start is with Russia
with Mao-tse lung. .
to believe that the Rus
feeling the same way,
lung closer to atomic
that passes.
E.A.
"Play"
States Congress went
time.
national administration
Washington and Salem
stories which at a ditter-
readers are fn
remind them :
fully aware
added, both the abso
Dennis the Menace
'frankly.al.i'm paying
for a vead horse .
Communications
Leller-s to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer.
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view 19 clarification and condensaton. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters
printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of rhe
paper; in tact the contrary Is otten
Year-End
To the Editor: The year I960
ended in so many "lasts," I
wondered if you could find
out how often this happens
the last day of the week,
month and year.
I don't remember it hap
pening before in my time.
If you would go further, it
was the last year of the sixth
deeade of the 19th century,
P. J. March,
Route 1, Box 407,
Gold Hill, Ore.
Editor's note: If our some
what shaky reading of the per
petual calendar in the World
Almanac is correct, the year,
month and week have all end
ed on the same day seven
times in this cenlury-1910,
1921, 1927, 1938, 1949, 1955
and 1960.
Correspondence
To the Editor: This Is be
ing written because of some
Interesting c o r r e s pondence
that has been coming my way
for six months. This is not
to belittle anyone, not even
preachers. I will have to ad
mit I've run into some very
interesting ministers at dif
ferent times.
Well, some of the interest
ing correspondence has been
postmarked Chcmult, Spo
kane and Medford, mostly the
latter. I'd write direct to this
"friend," but I understand
over a month's mail is already
piled up at his Medford ad
dress. His last correspondence,
although signed with a fic-
tiuous name, is most unusual
especially from one who has
formally signed "Reverend
before his name. He has asked
me, and I quote, "please have
printed the recipe of how one
can become so stupid and de
spicable . . . you are Satan's
twin brother, so it sceins, if
he could ever stand your com
pany." "Have read many of
(your) letters in the paper and
nearly all are actually until
for young folk to read. He
then places me with the old
age pensioners.
I didn't know a 39 year old
person In Oregon could be on
old age pension. It's news to
me.
In former correspondence
my "friend" has been trying
to figure me out. In one let
ter lie says, "I sec you as a
stupid fool that fs a detri
ment to the Catholic or Prot
cstant faith." Another one, "It
is exceeding easy to spot you
as one of the Paulish re
ligious sect that went 'under
ground' by moulding Into
other religious sects" . . . "A
blotting paper Christian soaks
H'P scriptures mi-ckward."
Well my "friend", if yo
I'end these limes rcH assi-wedi
I he-Id no 111 fceings. My pray
o?s wi'M be thai Gad. wiM cpon
yem eev-es bctors- it's Ins liite.
BfKwy Joluwn fa,
23.1S Highway
Ashland, Ore.
Ferrer Turfed
Officials Guilty
Yassiada, Turkey -IWP- For
mer Turkish Premie)- Adnan
Me'leres and ex-Foreign Min
ister Fatin Zorlu were found
guilty today of ejyouraglng
the anii-Greek riots five years
ago.
Court sources said punbV
ment would range from six
months to two years In prison.
lie court trying members
of irre deposed government for
alleged treason acquitted for-
JTLZ
Seven othex defendants were
declared Innocent.
EDITOR DIES
Troy, N. Y. - ilTP - Joseph
F. Durrah. 70, telegraph edi
tor of the Troy Times Record
for nearly 40 years, died Wed-
t ireiday.
'Art nemtremi
HSiMeApONYl'
the case.
Why No Benches?
To Che Editor: I was grati
fied to find that someone
voiced their opinion on the
"no bench at the bus stops
situation, as I read the Com
munications column yester
day.
I used to ride the bus occa
sionally. But after waiting,
time and again, for the bus.
either in the hot sun or cold
weather, with no place to sit
down, after many weary steps
shopping and with arms full
of packages, I decided it was
n't worth it. I have been com
pletely cured from riding the
local bus.
So I ask along with Mrs
Mary Jones, why doesn't the
city provide benches for wea
ry shoppers who wait for the
bus?
Mrs, Ruby Rogers
1425 Thomas rd,
Medford.
Morning Plaint
To the Editor: It's time to
lace in the new:
'Mong things that dash the
smiles impressed
On shining morning faces:
Are strands that failed their
final test,
Worn and weak shoelaces
H. W. Robertson
103 North Central ave.
Medford.
Is This Justice
To the Editor: Is it possible
in this country that we have
absolutely no law pertaining
to justice for children? I read
about the little girl who was
molested in one of our local
stores last week and also of
the amount of punishment
given to her attacker, which
I think is very slight and
insufficient. Anyone running
a red light or violating a
basic rule or even a person
becoming intoxicated in pub
lic is forced to pay a bigger
fine or to sacrifice more than
this person.
As far as the child is con
cerned, she was absolutely
innocent of anything as inde
cent, immoral or sadistic as
this must have been, I am
the mother of two young
girls and had this been one
of mine I am sure I would
not want him to get off so
easily; or had the attacker
been a juvenile, he would
have been rapped, but good.
It looks to me as if payola
speaks in other places be
sides television, and anyone
with enough money can prac
tically buy their way out of
any situation.
God help our girls if peo
ple are actually set free to
molest and attack them at
will.
Mrs. Gail Waterbury,
331 Kennet St.,
Medford
Try and
ONE OF THE MOST luxurious sets rtf whisk'ers in tlw
literary world is sported by Author Riibert St. John,
who blithely explains, "I go about lecturing a great deal,
and the beard makes it
casycor welcoming com-
mittces to spot me at air- I
ports aSU railroad sta
tions." o
Mr. St. John got his
come-uppance in Mil
waukee recently. He
found himself sharing-a
parlor car with fifty bc
whiskered orthodox rab
bis. Arriving in Milwau
kee he remained undis
covered by the reception
committee until the last
rafti had vanished irom
sight.
V
In Budapest, a Hungarian told his fr!end, "1 have it on indis
putable authority that the Russians have pcrftctcd a device ta
take them to the moon."
"What?" rorllfd the friend ecstatically. "All of thfm?'
IM4 by Bauilt Cart, DutribuUd by King ruturu Syndicate
Algerian Tension Mounts As
De Gaulle's Plan Hears Climax
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
The shrill cries of Arab
women urging their men to
violence echoed across cash
ban rooftops in Oran, Bone
and Algiers this week.
Algerian Rebel Premier
Ferhat Aobas
called on Al
gerian Arabs
to "thwart the
designs of the
enemy" in the
"sham refer
endum" called
by President
Charles de
Gaulle to start
Newsum Algesia sn tn-e
way to independence or c
tinwed ties with France.
Reto-fsrsosl , Fro-nch toofflps
msved up i reply ta reports
that Arab extremists were
stockpiling bottles, stones,
clubs and knives In aoticipa
tion of violence.
Bleeding Wound
This was the far from peace
ful setting as De Gaulle mov
ed into the climactic stage of
his plan to close the wound
which annually costs France
one billion dollars, drains it
of its young manhood in a
war which has dragged on for
more than six years, and pre
vents France from carrying
out its NATO pledges for the
defense of Europe.
Some 30 million Frenchmen
and Algerians are being ask
ed to vote yes or no this week
end on De Gaulle's two-stage
plan to restore Algerian
peace.
The first step would be to!
"Algerianize" local Algerian
governments and remove
"""if
Matter of Fact
FORECAST FOR 1961
Washington T h e gravest
problem confronting Presi
dent-elect John F. Kennedy is
the same prob
lem that con-
fronts an
over-burdened
housewife
with a huge
and hungry
family soon
coming home
to dinner.
It is in fact,
the simple
of time.
The reason was suggested
in a previous report, in brief,
the vast, revolutionary, po
tentially destructive forces of
our -era are now very close to
getting wholly out of control
Furthermore, these forces are
now operating to undermine
the American and Western
world positions in a score of
different places, and in
score of different ways.
After years of supineness,
therefore, the American gov
ernment will now have to
spring into sudden, vigorous
often risky action on dozens
quite literally dozens, of dif
ferent fronts. Everything to be
done is complex and difficult,
yet almost everything is to
be done at once.
pERTAIN very grave local
situations are now de
veloping with such speed
that weeks, and even days
have clearly begun to count.
The future of Southeast
Asia, for example, will prob-
aoly hang upon the fate of
distorted little Laos. But if
anything at all can be done
to prevent a final disaster m
Laos, it must be done Imme
diately, without a moment's
delay. The same rule may
well apply in the Congo
where the Egyptians are flag
rantly nursing their contin
gent in the United Nations
Congo force to strengthen the
pro-Communist rump regime
of Antoine Gizcnga.
Even the situations that do
not now look very urgent will
urgently demand the most
painful kind of policy dcci
sions before the year 1961
draws to its close, ior ex
ample, although no one seems
to have noticed it, this coun
try cannot again count on
mustering a United Nations
majority against admitting
Stop Me
Ss35S,,
l
Atsop
problem
thern from European domina -
tion. The second would be a
plebiscite in which the Al
gerians would vote for total
independence, for a continua
tion of their present role as
a province of metropolitan
France or for semi-independence
inside the French Afric
an community.
At hnmp. Dp Ganlip has
h tKo asritft-A tarn i ah 4 rsf
his own immense prestige be
hind his plan which he says
is the only roadoto peace.
He has issued a thinly veil
ed warning that failure to a ci
Stale Coffee Seenv
As Good as Money,
If it Isn't
By DICK WEST
Washington -fUPD For some
reason which only a psychia
trist could explain, I have de
veloped a re
markable fa
cility for re
nt e m b e ring
things that I
had Just
soon forget.
Just now.
for instance,
my brain
waves washed
west up an article
I read years ago in the Read
er's Digest about the vicisi-
tudes of a poor but dishonest
widow who was left with a
large family to feed.
ane put a coiiee can on
Joseph Alsop
Communist China. So what Is
to De aone aoout tnis un
pleasant fact, caused by the
admission to the UN of so
many other new nations?
....
A GAIN, the talks about dis
armament and the control
of nuclear tests have dragged
wearily onwards for years on
end, with no special urgency.
But the third French atomic
test and the mysterious Israe
li nuclear reactor are indica
tors that this absence of ur
gency is an illusion. The
intelligence forecasters ex
pect the worst, namely a Chi
nese Communist nuclear
bomb-test, within the fairly
near future. If this ominous
problem is not to slip out of
control by the United States,
and one must add, by the So
viet Union, decisive action
will at least have to be start
ed before the end of 1961.
Quite obviously, President
elect Kennedy is well aware
of these countless coming
challenges. He has tried to
prepare to meet them by the
simplest and best expedient
by bringing into his adminis
tration a really startling num
ber of men with outstanding
gifts.
The staffing of the sec
ondary ranks in the hierarchy
has been especially impres
sive. John J. McCloy, for in
stance, is one of the great pub
lic servants of the last two
decades. He was President
Eisenhower's first but aban
doned choice for Secretary of
State. He rather contemptu
ously refused a later Eisen
hower offer of the secretary
ship of defense. But now,
though a Republican, McCloy
has agreed to serve Kennedy
in a post which would repel
any normally ambitious man,
as chief negotiator in the field
of arms control.
AGAIN, the deanship of
Harvard tlnivprsilv is nnt
a trifling job, at least when
occupied by MacGeorgc
Bundy. In addition, Bundy
has rejected more than one
first rank university presi
dency. The most recent was
the presidency of the Univer
sity of Chicago, which was of
fered him with the promise of
a mountain of gold to make
Chicago the wonder of the
educational mid-W est. Yet
Bundy, another Republican,
has preferred to serve in
Washington as Secretary of
the National Security Council,,
just as Ch-arl-es S. Beloa hs
appar-e.n!y pre-tcrrorf to serve
as the new President's chief
'f iet expert instead of
grasping the highest honor
ever offered a man in his po
sition, the Embassy in Paris.
But wile this new adminis
tration, thronging with such
men as these, organize itself
rapidly enough to do all the
things that need to be done
in the very short time that
will be allowed by an un
kindly providence? On one's
answer to that question deO
pends one s fortfiet for lflil
This reporter's fomKt, for
the fe' vho be inter'V-
ed mt fsa,c'ul eioisvately
optitaMM. ?.. MBit up)lat-
able chwasMa WMt arilv be
avoidct) i thj yr of Jhe
turning point. CoisideringMhe
numbs.' of arius where posi
tive Tiisastcrir are already
probable, a few misfortunes
seem unavoidable. But the
trend, which has been down
for so long, ought to turn up
before the next new year.
(c) 1961. N.w York Herald
Tribune Inc.
TO
Otept his plan, or to approve
it by only a lukewarm margin,
could lead to his resignation,
leaving France to its own
fate as he did in 1946.
An opposition leader is
Jacques Soustelle, a hero of
the French resistance move
ment, frequently mentionSi
as a possibility for premier
and once one of De Gaulle's
strongest supporters
He predicts approval of De
Gaulle's plan can lead only
to bitter civil war involoving
the Arabs, the, Berbers of Al
geria and the Settlers.
Spent
the kitchen shelf and toH the
kids it contained money for
a rainy day. To the children,
the can became a security
symbol and they would go
hungry rather than let their
mother open it.
It was not until they had
grown up that they learned
the old lady was lying to
them. There actually was
nothing in the can but coffee,
which must have been rather
stale by that time. Neverthe
less, it had served its purpose.
I don't know why this little
tale stuck in my memory box
because it was one of the
most . forgettable magazine
pieces I ever read. But I was
somehow reminded of it this
week as I was looking over
a press release issued by Rep.
Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa.).
Kearns announced that he
was about to introduce a reso
lution calling for the appoint
ment of a congressional com
mittee to count the gold in
Fort Knox. The purpose of
this, he said, would be to
determine the "actual
amount" of bullion on deposit
there.
He noted that no body of
elected representatives had
"ever entered the sanctum of
any of our mint institutions"
to check on "the validity of
inventories which have been
taken by appointed people."
To the naked eye, Kearns'
proposal would seem to be
rife with implications, the
most obvious one being that
some sort of skulduggery had
been taking place in the
vaults. ,
Kearns, however, stipulated
that he was not acting out of
distruct of personnel
charge of the gold, "but rath
er to reassure the public as
to the safety of their securi
ties." Be that as it may, I can't
seem to get that magazine
article out of my mind. I
keep remembering how that
poor widow told her children
there was money in the coffee
can.
Suppose, I say to myself,
the committee that Kearns
wants to create found out
there actually isn't any gold
at Fort Knox . . . that Uncle
Sam has only been using it
as a security symbol.
If that were the case, we
would be like the widow's
children. We would be better
off if we didn't know it.
There is a moral in the
widow's story which can be
applied to the entire mone
tary system. The moral is:
Stale coffee is as good
currency as long as you don t
try to spend it.
Editorial Comment
MORE GROWTH FOR PP&L
The pending merger of
California Oregon Power Co.
of Medford with Pacific Pow-
t Light Co. of Portland
is a natural in several ways.
It will integrate the already
interconnected systems of two
Oregon companies, forming a
1.5 million kilowatt power
pool which will automatically
increase the usable power ca
pacity of the merged systems.
It will provide a broader
utility base for financing the
doubling of the current S570
million plant inveslment of
the tv companies in the next
10 years. It will help fore
stall additional rate increases
based upon inflated costs of
operation.
And it wiljj bring together
me two companies which Paul
n f . i." , . .
B. McKee, now chairman of,
me rri. Doarn, ns helped
develop since he started in
the utility business with
Copco in 1914.
Several months will bp re-
qufed to effectuate the PPL
Copco merger under the gen
eral agreement already reach
ed by the two boards. Fed
eral and state reRulaiQv
agencies and the 61.000 stock
holders of the two companies
will have to approwthe com
mon stock exchangcGft a ratio
of 12 shares of PPL lor 1
share of Copco.
W'hcn the meraer Is com
pleted, however. PPL wjrrt) be
come the fourth larBesri'Sti.
vately owned electric utilily
in
n i be Western states with j
Oisi income of approxi-1
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In the Day's News
B. FRANK JENKINS
What will the new year b' G
like?
general
It will be what we make it.
Economic progress doesn't;
just happen. It is MADE TO
HAPPEN.
11HE economists tell us that
human beings cannot live
without food, clothing and
shelter. Here in Far Southern
Oregon, and Far Northern Cal
ifornia we have ALL of these
fundamentals. From our ricll
soil we get food, in vtida vs
riety. We get fibtr for cli!
ing. For shelter, we 9rt IsM-ll
ing materials frssa tas ;
Anst ;
In artd-itM
We have WATCT. Waw r
atourHte-aoe - if wo handle it
wisely aiwl s-reveit ite theft
by others who covet it. Water
sot only Hourielies our crops,
including our troos. It pro
vides us with power for the
processing ai our raw nials
rials.
SO, YOU see
Here in Far Southern Or
egon and Far Northern Cali'
fornia we have ALL the basia
essentials - plenty of crops
and livestock for food, plenty
of fiber for clothing, plenty
of building materials for shel
ter, plenty of power for proc
essing our raw materials.
And
Not only do we have enough
of these essentials for OUR
OWN USE. We have a vast
potential SURPLUS of them
for export and sale to others.
It is out of export and sale
of what is in surplus in ona
place to what is wanted and
needed in other places that
opportunities for trade and
commerce arise.
IS ANYTHING else needed?
Well
We could use more MAR
KETS. B
UT
Our markets are EX
PANDING. Already there are
15 million people in Califor
nia. The population of South
ern Arizona is expanding ex
plosively. The whole South
west is growing. Much of this
growth is due to RETIRE
MENT. Retired people want to
get away from winter. Re
tired people produce little and
consume much,
The Southwest is a natural
market for Far Southern Ore
gon and Far Northern Cali
fornia. We'll get the markets
if we can produce what the
markets want at a price they
are willing to pay.
E HAVE another resource
tourists.
Far Southern Oregon and
Far Northern California lie
midway between the far south
and the far north of the Pa
cific Coast. The Southerners
travel north in summer and
the Northerners travel south
in the winter. Tourists spend
a lot of money. It is NEW
money in the areas where it
is spent.
Our problem is to stop them
as they go through.
VO REGION in the West
has brighter prospects for
growth and development than
Far Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California.
But it won't just happen.'
It is our job to MAKE it hap
pen. Let's keep that in mind
in looking forward to 1961
ana all the other new yearl
I that follow it.
matcly S90 million and an an
nual payroll of $13 million.
This doesn't rate PPL with
such utility giants as Pacifia
Gas & Electric and Southern
California Edison, with grosses
of S583 million and S280 mil
lion respectively. But it will
rate PPL ahead of the all
Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Utah, Montana and Wyoming;
companies and next to Colo
rado Public Service Co. which
grosses S102 million annually.
In short, PPL has come a
long way since it was formed
from four tiny Oregon and
Washington companies 50
years ago, later acquiring tha
properties of Inland Power
Light, Northwestern Electrio
of Portland, Mountain States
and several smaller systems.
Its projected investment ol
another half billion dollars in
plants and facilities in tha
coming decade will make it a
major factor in the economia
growth of ie great North.
westOregon Journal, Port
liOid. o
Bill T&Oppose
Welfare Change
Poitiand-'IPli-Rep. Grace O.
Peck (D-Portland) said Wed
nesday night she would Intro.
iVce legislation next weelc
which would prohibit move
ment of the Sta (.Public WeP
fare CQimissiorMfrom Port
land to hflli.
Such move has been or
dered by Gov. Mark-Hatfield.
ah to muster "quite .-(3H3y
of Vpstate ppart lot herbffl.
mrs. reck said shiVfad been