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?
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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.
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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. It said low
pay was the chief reason.
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