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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1961)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE MONDAY. MARCH 6. 1961 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Up in Portland recently an Interesting controversy has been raging. It concerns a century-old elm tree that -as old trees will do-has been playing hob with the pave ments and filling the nearby sewers up with roots. The pragmatic modernists In the neighborhood wanted it cut down. Cracked pavements, they argued, have to be re paired - and repairing the pavement at too frequent in tervals tends to cause taxes to rise uncomfortably. And cleaning out clogged sewers costs a LOT of money. Get rid of the tree, they urged. HPHE sentimental tradltional ists, on the other hand, wanted the old tree left stand ing. Trees, they contended, are objects of beauty that are visi ble for blocks around and whose branches cast a wel come shade in the summer season. If the pavement cracks, they said, it can be fixed at no staggering expense. If the sewers fill up with roots, they can be cleaned out - and may be if the sewers are built right in the first place the rools won't be able to get through the joints in the pipe. KEEP THE TREE was their plea. WHAT CAME of it? " Your first guess will be the right one. The pragmatists won out. It occurred to one of the coun cilmen that if the tree blew down in a windstorm and kill ed somebody it would be tragic. The tree will come down. T SUPPOSE the decision was the right one. Human life must be safeguarded. Still, a lot of us will go on agreeing with Joyce Kilmer: "I think that I shall never see " "A poem lovely as a tree." It's like this: Americans abroad spent well over a billion dollars MORE last year than was spent by foreign visitors to this country. That knocked a billion dollars off our balance of foreign payments, which was already getting badly out of kilter because of the vast sums we spent abroad in for eign aid and in maintaining our troops in foreign coun tries. As a result of this im balance in foreign payments, our gold supply is being drain ed away at a rather alarming rate. President Kennedy thinks that if we could get more for eigners to come to us as tour ists it would help to balance the exchange. C1ROM trees, let's skip to " tourists. President Kenne dy thinks we need more of them. Especially FOREIGN tourists. Why FOREIGN tourists? it" Understanding a 'K Help A&fy We so conduct every fu- Ifrffif ill"'. r ,4 We so conduct every fu neral as to leave endur ing memories of a beau 's' tiful tribute, reverently expressive of eternal love and faith. llSERVIcTlf X1 MEASURED ft NOT BY ' Jfl GOLD J;l BUT BY ' PERL FUNERAL HOME CORNER SIXTH AND OAKDALE Spacious Parking Lot MEMBER BY INVITATION ZH v rx AT f N. Tit t tnSntcnudwnalcAjfilialian of'DcpendaiUSuneralfDirccloa QUESTION: Why don't we get more foreign tourists? Our country is certainly worth seeing. Why don't more foreigners come over to see it? The answer seems to be that it is fantastically difficult to get a passport to this country. Foreigners apparently refuse to submit to the humiliations involved in getting permission to visit the U.S.A. A GAIN the question: WHY? The answer seems to be that we're afraid too many foreigners will come here to make their fortune - or, per haps, to be brutal about it, to acquire a residence and get onto our welfare rolls. So . . . we make it as difficult as possible for foreigners to visit us. We are afraid too many of them will WANT TO STAY. The truth is that times have changed. Western Europe is HIGHLY prosperous. It is doubtful if very many of its people who would come to us as tourists would WANT to stay on as residents. Their own countries are doing quite well indeed. Maybe we'd better make it a little easier to get into our country. We could USE THE MONEY in these days, that Western Europeans would spend with us as tourists. Lumber Officials Are Named to Committee Three prominent lumber manufacturing officials of the Medford area have been ap pointed to the Oregon com mittee of American forest pro ducts industries, according to Irvin H. Luiten, Weyerhauser company, 1961 chairman of the forest industry educational group. They are T. K. Oliver, man ager of Timber Products com pany, Allen C. Smith, logging and timber manager for Med ford Corporation, and George Flanagan, manager of Lumber company. y CROSS SECTION OF ifefe m VAH ALIEN : mrtW . Section Saewinj Via Allen sj- f ftJiliJliiiBiltJAfuntl.'lfi BLUE SCOUT II y ROCKET LAUNCHED - The Air Force launched a four-stage "poor man's" rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday to ex plore the earth's radiation fields. Informa tion from the shot should help scientists de velop "road maps" to make manned space flights safe from radiation danger. The Blue Scout II rocket was to send its small pay load 1,580 miles into space before making a blazing return through the atmosphere over the Atlantic ocean. This diagram shows po sition of the Van Allen radiation belts in relation to the earth, and the course of the Blue Scout rocket. (UPI Telephoto) Elk Nine Airmen Die In Tanker Crash El Paso, Tex. - lUPn - A KB50 tanker airplane that usually carries enough fuel to supply several planes may have run out of fuel when it slammed into a sand dune Sunday night, killing all nine airmen aboard. Air Force investigators to day planned to study the char red bits of wreckage splat tered across a half-mile of barren desert to check out the plane's last radio message that it was low on fuel. The huge, six-engine plane exploded in a terrific burst of red and orange flame only nine miles from the runway at Biggs Air Force base near El Paso. The aircraft was re turning to its home base from a three-week training mission to the Pacific. The plane, already In its landing pattern, belly-landed In the desert, skidded 300 yards, crashed into the sand dune and exploded. Acfor Peter Law ford To Leave Hospital Palm Springs, Calif. - IUPII -Actor Peter Lawford was ex pected to be released today from Desert Hospital where he was hospitalized after suf fering a nose hemorrhage Friday. Elizabeth Taylor Said Recovering London - IUPD - Screen star Elizabeth Taylor, aided by an electronic lung, today was re ported gaining in her battle for life against pneumonia. A spokesman at the exclu sive London Clinic said this morning the 29-year-old ac tress - given only one hour to live by her physicians be fore being rushed to the hos pital Saturday night -was "much better and much improved." Miss Taylor's physician, Dr. Carl H. Goldman, also report ed her improved when he left the clinic Sunday night but said that she still is not out of danger. Nixon Not To Seek Governor's Job Beverl Hills, Calif. - IUPII -Former Vice President Rich ard M. Ni::on surprised a star- studded Filmland audience Sunday night by announcing he has no plans to seek the California governorship. Sharing the speaker's plat form with California Gov. Ed mund G. Brown and others at a dinner honoring movie pio neer Adolph Zukor, Nixon glanced at Brown while talk ing of h' future and said: "I have no plans to Ret his job. I plan to get others. It was Nixon's first definite statement on whether he would run for governor since he lost the presidential elec tion last November, and no body could have been more surprised by it than Brown Study of Non-Urban Recreation in State Planned by Groups Agreement on the . water resources board; U.S. bureau of land management: Salem needs and requirements for a study of non-urban outdoor recreation in Oregon has been u.b. corps of engineers; na tional parks service; U.S. bu reau of reclamation- state ma- reached by 12 representatives rine board; and the president of county, state and federal groups and agencies dealing with parks and recreation, ac cording to Chester H. Arm strong, chairman of the Gov ernor's advisory council for study of non-urban outdoor recreation in Oregon. The agreement resulted from a recent meeting of the advisory council, and will be used to guide the parks and recreation study currently un der way by a special section under the state s parks and recreation divisions, A r in- strong announced. Purpose of the study under the guidance of the advisory council is to determine the recreation wants and needs of Oregoniiins during the next 15 years; determine the recre ation resources existing in the state; and development of pol icies and methods to meet the needs. Consider Long Period The Oregon study will con sider the period 1D61 through 1975, and will utilize infor mation from the other coop erating agencies. Problems of present or future recreation areas which are operated jointly by one or more county. state or federal agencies will oe consiacrea oy uie siuuy as well as future land acquisi tion. The governor's advisory council for the study includes department heads of the slate parks division; stale commit tee on natural resources; stale and federal forest services; state game commission; state of the state county parks asso ciation Salem Woolen Mill Resumes Operations Salem -IUPII- Thomas Kay Woolen Mills here will re sume weaving operations on a temporary basis probably this week, company officials have announced. Thomas B. Kay Jr., secretary-treasurer of the firm, said about six or seven new jobs will be created when the looms start up again. Some 90 employees lost jobs when the weaving stopped in 1959. Since then the plant has con ducted only dyeing and finishing. Washington -IUPII- The Na tional Education association reported Sunday It is impos sible to recruit all the teach ers needed for the nation's schools under present salary scales. The association said less than 75 per cent of the 1960 college graduate trained as teachers entered the educa tion profession. 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