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Newspaper Page Text4 A MedforiJ!Tribunb Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! The Mill Tribune" publiihed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St. Ph SPa-14i ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advlliini Manner GERALD T LATHAM Bua Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mns Edltol EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAtJ. Telei .Editor ntnuion iwumptt snnrti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE EKlKSUiN. .ircuiw A Tnnnrfint NeWSOBOer Entered a econd clan matter M March S. 1MT o T . II O 1, T T3T T O fd BATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally -nd Sunday 1 year 15M Dally ana Bunaay o !" Dally and Sunday a moi Sunday Only-One By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland. Central Point If Pnlnt, Jackaonvllle. Gold Hill Phcnl. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor rjji'ea Dally and Bunday-1 vear .18 no Dallv and Sunday 1 mo 1B0 Carrier and Da.;ri - copy too All Term Caah InJvanc, "official Taper of Cltv of Mf " olflclalJMpirlaclcion CountY ""United Press International FuU Leaaed Wire tj p ijrphotoJewBplctujrei "TifEMRERO? AuorrrnmEAtr OJIRCULMTONS Advfrtlilna Renreientative: WEST HOLIDAY CCj. INC Of flee In Mev- York. Chicago De troit. San Franclnco. Lol AngelM. Seattle. Portland St Loult At. Innta Vancouver. B n NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL LlAS3C8T,tN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from lho files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 8, 1951 (Thursday) Sen. Ben Day, Gold Hill, Introduced a bill today pro viding for the strict Inspection of Oregon slaughter houses and meat packing firms. Frank Carter, Jacksonville, escaped uninjured when he jumped from his logging truck as it left the highway on Jack sonville hill late Tuesday. 20 YEARS AGO March 8, 1941 (Saturday) Southern Oregon's three- day Christian mission, open ing tomorrow, Is expected to attract an unusually large at-1 tendance at all its session. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The old dance hall at G. Hill will be torn down. For years it was the favorite spot for throwing the festive hoof, and was as much a landmark as the Alaskan nugget on Frank Amy's watch-chain." 30 YEARS AGO March 8. 1931 (Sunday) Ashland High school defeat ed Medford 25 to 24 last night to win the Southern Oregon basketball championship. . Medford is recovering from a mild flu epidemic; several pneumonia cases are now be ing reported. 40 YEARS AGO March 8, 1921 (Tuesday) A carload of horses, ISO In all, will be needed for work on the Medford Irrigation dis trict expansion project. The court has ruled that the city of Medford has the right to purchase property upon which Is holds tax liens. SO YEARS AGO March 8. 1911 (Wednesday) The Medford Commercial club has reported that the city Is being Investigated for the possible location here of a big new chicken hatcnery by California firm. The city of Jacksonville has reelected Dr. T. T. Shaw may or. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine er ten correct it mperler: even or eight Is excellent! five six is good. 1. Is the avacado a fruit or vegetable? 2. Which U.S. coins were withdrawn from circulation In 1933? 3. In which state Is the Everglades National Park? 4. World War I Indebted ness of foreign nations Is, or Is not, carried on U.S. Treas ury Department accounts? 5. In which part of the world was the Leyte campaign fought In W.W. II? 6. Which U.S. Admiral be came an honorary chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan? 7. Did the former League of Nations expel the Soviet Union from Its membership? 8. Are living persons ever depicted on U. S. postnge tamps? 9. A nock court held by vagabonds or by prisoners In a jail is called what? 10. Is it possible to skate on glass with Ice skates? Antwtrsi 1. Fruit, 2. Gold coins. 3. Florida. 4. It Is. S. Philippine Islands. 6. Adm. Chester Nlmlls. 7. Yes. (Fin land aggression, 1939), 9. No. 9. Kangaroo court. 10. No. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8, 1961 No Be-All At the risk of appearing maudlin and mystic, we wonder if the spirit of the Gifford Pinchots, Theodore Roosevelts and Dick Neubergers do not view with concern the saga, thus far, of the warfare man is waging against his habitat on the Oregon seacoast. At this writing, with action on the program to establish a protective National Seashore Rec reation Area under unified management of the National Park Service at a standstill, it looks like "progress" has won out over "protection." For mankind in terms of the coming decades we are fearful that the victory, insofar as it is a victory of the concept of claim-staking as a policy to ward our land resources, can be a sour one. T ET us hope the younger generation, as well as - tomorrow's generations will not view a sea coast eroded by lowered water table, scarred by t.hp asnhalt and blacktoDDinor of industry, pol luted and contaminated and industry, and ruefully note civilization's progress. Such "progress" is . . i , n. t can Doast as it manes ius way uuuugu wie shiny red apple. That is the way of worms, and on succeeding trees there are lots more apples. Man so far has only this with our blacktop, our concrete, our smokestacKs. Such abstract considerations form the outer boundaries of the issues involved in the Dunes Seashore Park controversy. But within these gen eral and philosophic boundaries is a complex of problems. '"THERE is the apparent conflict between Inter- national Paper Co.'s program of industrial ex pansion at Gardiner and the concepts and policies of the National Park Service in protecting the natural integrity of the recreation and park areas under its junsdicition. It be no conflict that the would not impair the beauty of the water-source lakes, the purity of the still hope so and we still But have tears been Has the issue as a practical matter resolved down to a choice ; the pulp mill minds of the park sponsors or ot the pulp mill directors, but in the minds of an economically- fearful public; It is a public fearful or poverty, fragamented warring interests. It is an area community ternhed by the sensitive payrolls and incomes of a single resource economy, bolstering its ing to the addition of salvation. . WE ARE confident there is temperate and responsible thought in the timber products industry, as well. as in civic leadership in our communities, state and nation, which realizes that a pulp mill is no panacea ins. Desirable though it may be, in terms of public obligation for fuller utilization of the timber resource, as well as a diversification of payroll, it continues to be a part of the almost unbridled competition of a one-resource industry. It is an industry more driven than directed, more riding than ridden. In times 01 in times of boom, it harvests and depletes. f ET'S face it in candor and without rancor: Today, in the midst of a stymied plywood market, glutted inventories and unemployment, the plywood industry is equipment ior ever iasier ana cneaper proauc tion. We applaud the proposed mill at Gardiner bu,t not as the gateway freedom from recessions rolls. It is not a be-all World. Retain State Forests House Bill 1314, introduced by Reps. Barton of Coos County and Holmstrom of Clatsop, would let counties recapture forest lands they previously turned over to the state management. Promptly came a protest from the County Court of Clatsop County. It adopted a resolution opposing this The Clatsop officials Board "has fulfilled its with good business management and fine coop eration." "THEY commented on which has been done this great resource and proposed "would be a constant threat and a deter rent to sound planning for the future." The reso lution further set forth that the tax levying bodies ot the county have received ?2,2L'5,000 from these ).....!.. ...Li-t. A 1- f?A . L 1 l- 1 1 i liwiua ui wiui'ii ou to iu ptT win tuis uuen aiiocai ed to the school system. "THIS remonstrance is those who assisted forest program was County Judge Guy Boyington, who still serves in that office at Clatsop County. Under the state forest plan the county timber lands received capable management by profes- .t.l. I.. !.... J 1.1.- !-..! J! "l.j'l- 1 siuiiuis in luresuy aim me taxing uisuieis gee 75 per cent of the income from the lands, the re mainder going for administrative expenses and forest development. In time these lands will be supplementary asset yielding excellent returns to the counties. They should be left under state control. Oregon Statesman. Not End-All by the refuse of cities that of which the worm ji u one world to conquer was hoped there need erection ot a pulp mill air, land and water. We think so. allayed on either side l or the park not in the of tomorrow s pay check into myriad narrow and desperate hopes by look a large pulp mill for for the land s economic recession, it conserves; developing and installing to the promised land of and of everlasting pay or end-all. Coos Bay Board of forestry ior bill in its entirety." attested that !ie State part of our agreement the forward planning for the management of declared that the law not surprising. One of in developing the state I Dennis the Menace 1?$ MY 6PEAT- GREAT SFAHOPA . He WAS A BEATNIK. Communications Letters 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 to 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 the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Thinks It A Shame To the Editor; I tnink it is a shame that Mr. Kenry R. Kor- man of Longview, Wash., had to write all the way over here, to have Malemute Slim tell him to have him and "The Weekly People," catch the first plane out of Portland to Moscow, (Or do they have planes in Seattle?) Anyway, report to Mr. Joseph Shevit ski, nick-named Bull! Tell them not to worry about Mr. Kennedy's Peace Corps and- to forget the -bal ance of the Lend Lease Debt. Owen C.. Gearhart Sr., Malemute Slim, White City, Ore. Enjoys A Treat To the Editor: Saturday night our family enjoyed a treat-the Minstrel Show at Ruch. My husband and I had attended one seven years ago but it was a first time for our children-they're still talking about it and repeating some of the jokes. Especially we en joyed a cake walk dance done by two sisters, an unscheduled song by "Rastus," and the "Sambo and Rastus" jokes. "The Charmers," jokingly billed as "The Crawlers" from McLoughlin Jr. High played several numbers with surpris ing skill for boys of their ages. We'll be happy to hear them again and againl Mrs. Eddie Trefren, 626 West Fourth, Medford, Ore. Agrees With Plan To the Editor: I see in the communications column of the Mail Tribune of Sunday, March 5, that the plasterers union in Los Angeles has re fused a pay raise in the inter ests of an anti-inflation move. I have wondered for some time how long before some thing of this kind would take place. Have even considered suggesting it to my own un ion, but of course realizing that I might get shouted down and kicked out of the meet ing. What I have in mind was a co-ooperatlve plan whereby the union would agree to take a small wage reduction, and the company would agree to take an equal cut in profits percentage wise. Possibly the government could supply an accountant to guarantee both sides an equal reduction in profits and wages. I believe that such a plan would work if both the companies and the unions were sincere in trying to fight Inflation. Also, the stockholders would be Includ ed. If such a plan were put Into effect and went on long enough it would seem to me that at least we would soon be competing with the prices ot foreign products. To put such a plan into ef fect some of the bitterness of management and labor would have to be put aside and sub stituted with some real coop eration. That might be hard to achieve, as some of the big companies are now in the middle of a campaign to make Industrial slaves out of their employees, and they are doing quite well at It, I might add. To blame the labor unions for the Inflation that we now have is unjust, as the fault is equally shared by the big companies and corporations, as well as the unions. I believe that such a plan would do much to fight Infla tion, but 1 may be wrong. Would like to hear some com ment from some others on the subject. R. Holmstrom, 2908 Old Stage Rd., Medford, Ore. Red Dope Traffic To the Editor: I have rea son to doubt Mr. Edgar Snow's integrity in declaring t h e charge that the Chinese Com munist are still holding MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. American prisoners is false. The thing I cannot imagine is the Chinese showing him in detail all their country in the time that he was there so that he could say unequivocably that there were no prisoners. The Soviet Intourist agency arranges all travels within Russia and the Soviet Repub lics and much of the country is forbidden land. No one is allowed to visit the com munes, for instance. All I have for proof on that is the word of a noted commentator, lecturer, author and editor, Mr. Howard Kershner. He was the author of that editorial so might not be acceptable to Mr. Harr. The facts on the Chinese drug traffic were released in an article by Lawrence Sulli van, coordinator of informa tion, U. S. House of Repre sentatives, and came to light in a recent report from the United Nations commission on narcotic drugs. The U. S. dele gate to the special UN Con ference on the rapidly ex panding narcotics trade was Harry D. Anslinger, chief of the Narcotics Bureau, U. S. Treasury Department. "Narcotics experts attached to the Commission (UN) esti mate that more than five mil lion acres of land in starving China are now devoted exclu sively to intensive cultivation of narcotic poppies. "Everyone connected with the Communist dope traffic is charged with the daily re sponsibility and duty of re cruiting new addicts to 'chase the dragon,' as the habit is described throughout the Or ient," according to Sullivan's review of the Anslinger re port. The Chinese Communists have built up an army of the Chinese Communists hav fiendish criminals in every major port city in the world and in spite of increased police work throughout the U.S., new addicts are recruited dnily. The U.S. Treasury De partment Knows the man in Hong Kong that handles the dope traffic for the Chinese supply, Judah Isaac Ezra, whom they had sent to the penitentiary years ago. They uncovered a group in Califor nia who were receiving the shipments in this country. It is a fact that those who decry our system the most are those who would lower the bars for more debauchery, wonder why? Christians had better start praying and in forming themselves of the Communist menace. Gamaliel was speaking of Jioci-iennng followers of our Lord, the quotation would hardly fit God-less, murdering Communists. Their people have no say in these matters. Dorian F. Woods Prospect, Ore. What Mutt Be Don To the Editor: A recent communication was critical of the part churches are playing In the fight against Commu nism. In the Oct. 10 issue uf Christianity Today, J. Edgar Hoover states the true nature of Communism and what must be done to defeat it. "Hence, under Communism we see a decisive break from and thrust against the Judaic Christian heritage. Commu nism is not just another politi cal party, social organization, or economic philosophy which can be understood within the framework of our traditional Western heritage. So to re gard Communism is radically to misunderstand Its terrific driving power, insidious per suasion, and terrifying intent. The Communists are not in terested in remodeling or re forming our society, but In organizing a completely dif ferent society a society which, by denying God, hopes to create a new type of Republicans Playing Long, Long Shot In Texas Stake Is Senate Position By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-(UPD-It is a long, long shot the Republicans are playing in Texas, and for big stakes. The stake is the U.S. Sen ate seat vacat ed by Vice P resident Lyndon B. Johnson. This is the best chance Texas R e p u blicans ever had to win a Senate election. That wilion may be faint praise but it also is a fact. The election will take place April 4. Of the 71 that's right, 71 candidates who have filed, only one is a Re publican. That one is John Small Albania Joins Chinese In Opposing Moscow Leadership By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Among those who attempt to follow Communist affairs closely, a current favorite topic of specu lation deals with events inside tiny Albania. For this smallest and ;Ssmr jfe j poorest of the Comm u n 1 s t ryaum n a 1 1 ons has joined Red Niwum i-nina to op pose the leadership of Mos cow. Kingpin Albanian Commu nist is Gen. Enver Hoxha 52-year-old first secretary of the party. He was one of the founders of the Albanian party in 1941 and for most of that time has been its recognized leader. He has kept himself in power throughout frequent purges along the same lines man: Communist Man. St. Paul, the great Apostle, could say, 'If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.' The Communists would pervert this profound truth to say: 'If any man be in the Commu nist party, he is a new crea ture'." "If Communism is to be de feated, the task must rest largely upon the theologians and ministers of the Gospel. Communism is a false secular religion with pseudo-theologi cal explanations of the great verities of life, such as the creation, life on earth, and the world to come. Communism is an all - encompassing system with explanations - though wrong ones for this great universe of God. The Party offers answers though perverted ones-for the hopes, joys, and fears of mankind. "In the final analysis, the Communist world view must be met and defeated by the Christian world view. The Christian view of God as the Creator, Sustainer and Lord of the universe is majestically superior to the ersatz ap proach of dialectical material ism concocted by Marx and Lenin. The task of our clergy today is to translate this Holy Truth into the daily lives of our men and women. This truly is their responsibility as Christian clergymen. "Strong, responsible, and faithful Christians, wearing the full armor of God, are the best weapons of attack against Communism and the other problems of our day. 'Seek ye lirst the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.' In this way you will be playing a vital role also in helping defend our cherished way of life." Dorian F. Woods, Prospect, Ore. A Further Word To the Editor: Whether by accident or design, I am glad you placed my remarks on "The Crucible," Medford High school's recent play, between the criticisms in your issue of March 7 by Robert J. How ard and Anna M. Steed direct ed against you and me. As to those criticisms, in general, my comments quoted in that juxtaposition are a sufficient answer so far as I am concern ed. However, I would like to address a further word to both critics on a couple of specific points they made. Like some members of the HUAC and other super-patriots, Mr. Howard has a bad habit of indulging in ground less name-calling against any one whom he suspects of not Interpreting the Bill of Rights or other basic American con cepts just as he does. Not con tent with some uncomplimen tary tilings lie nad to say about me in earlier Communi cations, he wrote me a couple of personal letters In which he was even more abusive. He never has taken the trouble to learn the true and readily available facts about me nor has he accepted my repeated Invitations to meet me in per son. Now, In his latft published letter. Mr. Howard again re sorts to such utterly baseless innuendo when he says, "Mr. I'M Tower whose claim to fame goes back to last November's Texas contest for Johnson's Senate seat. Johnson, himself, then was a candidate for re election as well as a candi date for election to the vice presidency. Garner Set Precedent There was precedent for that. Speaker John Nance Garner, D-Texas, ran in 1932 for reelection to the House and at the same time for elec tion as vice president on the Roosevelt ticket. Like Garner, Johnson won the vice presi dency. Hence the Texas sena torial eletcion now coming up. Johnson polled 1,300,000 votes for senator last Novem ber. His Republican opponent, Tower, got 926,000. That was better than a merely repect- followed by the late Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, of whom he was an ardent ad mirer. Joins Red China Now he has elected to join Mao Tze-Tung in bitter op position to Nikita Khrush chev's policy of peaceful co existence with the West and to Khrushchev's moderate policy toward President Tito of Yugoslavia. Albania always has been a pauper nation dependent for help on others in the Com munist bloc, first on Yugo slavia before Hoxha's break with Tito, and then on the Soviet Union and its various partners. Albania's geographical po sition makes her the most vulnerable of the Communist satellites and makes her pres ent actions all the more cause for speculation. On the one side, she has '.'revisionist" Yugoslavia whose success threatens the the very existence of Hoxha's Stalinist-style regime. On the other she has the NATO al Hard Times' Gone; Its 'Dips', 'Slides' Among Economists By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - Anyone old enough to remember the Depression Era will recall that econom ic conditions in those days could be sum marized in just two words "hard times." When a gov ernment offi cial used that exp ression, everyone knew what he was talking Jenny seems pre - occupied with reading the left-wing press of the country." For his benefit and that of others in need of enlightment let me say that my only sources' of press news and editorial com ment normally are the New York Times, Medford Mail Tribune, Portland Oregonian, and the Christian Century, an undenominational r e 1 1 gious journal published in Chicago. If any of these are "left-wing" I leave to your less biased and misguided readers to judge. And for the information of both Mr. Howard and Miss (Mrs.?) Streed: the "doctor ing" of the HUAC film, "Oper- tion Abolition," consisted of so piecing together parts of that film, out of context, as to make it appear as though students at the San Francisco City Hall protest meeting were communists or commun ist-sympathizers, whereas very few recognizable communists actually led or participated In the affair. This is the "doctor ing" (the inaccuracies and dis tortions to which I referred in my letter of March 3) about which William Wheeler, inves tigator for HUAC, had said, "I've admitted that." In this connection it is pertinent to point out, too, that the redoubtable new "Mr. Republican," Senator Barry Goldwater, in a syndicated article in the March 5 Ore gonian indulged in the same kind of exaggeration and guilt-by-association when he said that "the leaders were known members of the Com munist Party" yet identifies only one, a Morris Graham by name. In any case, our Republic still stands; the Constitution and its Bill of Rights remain the law of the land; and all these self-appointed guardians of the purity of our beliefs are free to go right on making themselves silly nuisances if they wish. As for me, I shall continue to oppose commun ism and all other totalitarian isms by leeal and fair means and to sing with heart and soul, "Let Freedom Ring." Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford, Ore. M able showing for a statewide Republican candidate in Tex as. The idea which is causing some Republicans here and in Texas to dream happy dreams is this: This is an election, not a primary. Voters will be choos ing between one Republican and 70 Democrats. Many of these 70 Demorcats are with out any chance whatever of being elected and with no rec ognized qualifications for the office or, even to campaign for it. They simply clutter and confuse the contest. Democrats to Share There are several strong and well known candidates among the Democrats, how ever, such as Sen. William A. Blakley, who occupies the seat by appointment. Blakley lies. Greece and Italy Yet from this position of weakness, Hoxha has dared to accuse Moscow of interference In internal Albanian affairs and to link himself with Red China, a powerful but most distant ally. Reasons for Defiance How does he expect to get away with this defiance of Khrushchev? Entering into his calculations may be these con siderations: Any attack on Albania would be an attack on Peip ing, opening up for all the world to see the ideological and nationalist differences within the Communist camp. To force the removal of Hoxha would be an admission of weakness, since Khrush chev would be doing to Al bania what he could not do to Red China. Finally, despite the develop ment of rockets, the Soviet submarine base in Albania continues of sufficient worth to make Albanian stability im portant, since it provides an outlet to the Mediterranean. about. Consequently, there was some measure of under standing between the govern ment and the people. - Then the government be gan bringing large numbers of professional economists to Washington, and that was when the government and the people began to lose contact with each other. , Each economist arrived with a briefcase load of new terms with which to describe eco nomic conditions. When the briefcases were opened, it turned out that one econo mist's "recession" was anoth er economists "readjustment." Dips and Slides The result is that we don't have "hard times" anymore. Now we have "dips" and "slides" and "downturns" and other giddy sensations. Thus it has become possible for a government official to talk about the economy with almost no danger of being understood by anybody. And that brings me to the illus trated part of my lecture. On Monday of this week, the New York Herald Trib une printed a sort of parody of the economic jargon cur rently in vogue. On the same day, Walter W. Heller, chair man of the President's Coun cil of Economic Advisers, tes tified before the Joint Con gressional Economic com mittee. I have taken some excerpts from the parody and shuffled them together with some ex cerpts from Heller's testi mony. These I have dealt out in paragraph form below. What's For Real You are invited to read these excerpts in random Jux taposition and see if you can separate the parody from the real thing. l-"Sales and income fig ures show an easing up of the rate at which business is eas ing off. . .There is a slow but noticeable slowing up of the slowdown." 2. "There are a few signs in the economy that give some hope of an upturn. At the same time there still are some soft spots that are not so re assuring." 3- "A quickening of the pace of recovery following a reversal of the inventory-cycle mechanism does not ap pear likely until after mid year." 4- "Of course, if the slow down should speed up, the de crease in the rate of Increase In unemployment would turn into an increase in the rate of decrease of unemployment. In other words, the deceleration would be accelerated." 5- "It is hard to tell, before the slowdown is completed, whether a particular pickup is going to be fast." 6- "A fast pickup. . .is very much less promising than in and the several qualified can didates are expected to share nearly all of the Democratic vote. If these top candidates share about equally in the Democratic vote, it seems pos sible that Tower might get into a run-off election. A run off seems inevitable under the circumstances. Another "if" relates to Tow er. If his 926,000 supporters of last November were all committed Republicans, he could expect to get a great many of them again. There probably were peculiarly anti Johnson votes among Tower's November total, however, and there may have been other factors that helped him then but that would not help him in April. Republicans see a chance, at least, to make a showing. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) will visit Texas March 17 to aid Tower. Goldwater is the most exciting figure on view among Republicans, their voice of , conservation. The eyes of politicians ara on Texas. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In San Francisco, where the tourist business is big business, they are toying with an interesting proposal. The proposal is to levy a three per cent tax on transient hotel room rates and use the money to finance a stepped-up cam paign for more tourist visitors and more conventions. There are two schools of thought. It is expected that the tax would raise about $800,000. One school holds that the hotel room tax should be used to the extent of $300, 000 to replace that amount o property tax money new being spent for tourist promotion, thus helping to lighten the property tax burden. That would leave $500,000 of the hotel tax money with which to go after more tourists and more conventions - which would be an increase of $200, 000 over what is now being spent. TlHE other school is some what more ambitious. It would use not only the $300, 000 of property tax monev but would UP it to $500,000 to be added to the $800,000 to be raised by the tax on hotel rooms - thus increasing the tourist and convention promotion fund to $1,300,000. With that amount of money available, it is argued, it would be a cinch to hold the Pacific Festival this year. The Pacific Festival - a variation of the world fair idea has been regarded as out of the range of possibility for 1961 if more money isn't found somewhere. lROM the stand point of " money and where it is to come from, it is pointed out that the property tax is be ginning to bite in San Fran cisco. It is alleged that be cause of the high property tax industry is already beginning to move out of the city. A sales tax on transient hotel rooms, it is contended, would get around that objec tion. WHAT of the hotel people? Well, so far, they are lying doggo - which is to say, they are keeping still and listening hard. And, of course, doing some thinking. Assuming for the sake of easy figuring that the hotel rate for two persons might average out at $15.00 per room, a three per cent sales tax would mean a cost in crease of 45 cents. The ques tion would be whether lo absorb the increased cost or to up the price of rooms. And, if the price were increased, would it mean fewer custo mers? Would more tourists tend to say in the surrounding suburbs and commute into tha city? This tax business, you see, has many angles. pETTING closer home " Suppose San Francisco de cides to go after more tourist business for all it Is worth. Suppose the Pacific Festival Is launched in 1961. Suppose it Is a great success. Suppose the visitors run up into the hundreds of thousands. What would that mean to ui up here in southern Oregon and far northern California? IT COULD mean quite a lit tle. Figures compiled by Ore gon's Travel Information Di vision of the Oregon state highway department indicate that each tourist car spends an average of $23.60 per day. If we could Induce a million tourist cars to spend one day more in our area, it would mean the addition of $23,000, 000 to our economy. We could use It - very nicely. the previous recessions." For the benefit of the com pletely bewildered, I will now reveal that paragraphs 2, 3 and 6 are the real thing.