Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 25, 1961, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY. APRIL J5. 1981 PLANE BATTERED A small airplane at over the plane torn to ribbons.' Peotone Peotone airport at Peotone, 111., is one of Mayor Louis Schroeder said damage to the 26 pummeled by large hailstones which ac- 1 area would amount to "several million dol companied tornado-like windsv t h r o u g h ' lars." v -' northeastern Illinois. Keith MePheeter looks " ' ' '.: (UPI Telephoto) Bill in House Could Lead To Mining on Coast Salem (UPD A bill up for final passage in the Oregon House today could lead to ex tensive mining and processing at the mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon and Washington officials said today. HB1732 is a companion to the much-publicized Oregon tidelands oil. legislation ap proved by the House and pending in the Senate. The Tidelands bill covers oil, gas and sulphur and the Minerals bill covers iron ore, gold, sil ver,, copper, lead, and ' other hard minerals. : ., It would permit ' private firms to lease up to 640-acre BEEFEATER BEEFEATER lisps I. ESK&S the imported English Gin that doubles your martini pleasure " unequalled since 1820 BEEFEATER GIN If 4 PROOF 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS lyOBRAND CORPORATION NEW YORK 1', N. 1, parcels of riverbed and delta land in the' Columbia on the Oregon side for mineral ex ploration,' chiefly; extraction of "black sand" which (.con tains iron ore. : . Processing Plant Planned.. State Rep. : C 1 i n t o n P. Haight Jr., chairman of the House Natural Resources com mittee, said he understands a $2 million processing plant is being considered in northwest Oregon if the legislation is enacted and if ore deposits bear out speculation. . The Baker Democrat said the bill guarantees state roy alties, up to 10 per ce.ii uf gross value of any mineral product removed. The royal ties would go into the com mon school fund. The measure requires . competitive bidding for leases. v.- H Columbia Titanium Corp. of Tacoma, Wash., a holding firm, last November filed a lease application with .the Oregon Land Board for about 55,000 acres of riverbed, on Oregon's side of the Columbia. The area sought runs from the mouth about 24 miles up stream. ; , ' ' ' Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorn- Farm Net Income May Show Increase Washington - (UPD - The Ag riculture Department today predicted farm net Income in 1961, bolstered by increased gov,ernment'payments,.will be up from 1960 by a billion dol lars or more. . This represents an increase of about 10 per cent from the $11.6 billion estimated for 1960. . Department e c 0 n o m ists, writing in the ' publication "The Farm Income Situation," forecast an increase of $1.5 billion in realized gross re ceipts. This reflects antici pated record farm marketings, higher prices for crops, and larger government payments. Some increase in. farm pro duction expenses would offset part of the increase in receipts, the department said. . .. .. ton's opinion last fall that present state law ruled out private oil exploration on Oregon's 600,000-acre Tide lands also voided the Land Board's authority to issue riv erbed mineral leases. Black Sand Plentiful Stanley A. Roth, Tacoma mining engineer and presi dent of - Columbia Titanium, estimates the Northern Ore gon and Southern Washington coasts-including the Colum bia river delta contain 12 billion tons of black sand, about 12 per cent of it iron ore. He said it is valued at $12 a ton in the raw and about $60 a ton in pig iron form.. . t Roth said if HB1732 is ap proved he intends to submit amended application in Salem requesting authority to lease the 55,000 acres in 640-acre blocks. .,. A new Washington corpora tion, Northwest Iron and Steel, is also interested in the black sand. . , r Northwest's representative in Oregon, Portland Attorney Phil Roth, said if the legisla tion passes his firm will prob ably incorporate in Oregon. Roth, no relation to Stan ley Roth, said "We know the iron ore is there and it's rich. It could be a real bonanza for the Pacific Coast." Musical Program Planned at College Ashland - Southern Oregon i-nlWp will Dresent a musical program Including the SOC band, chorus, quartet, . ana Populaires April 26 at 10 a.m. in Churchill auditorium. "Jan Wasalin." "Rock-a-my- soul," ."The Creation," and "The Sound of Music" are numbers which the choir will sine under the-, direction ,'; of Oscar Biorlie . '' 'j The SOC band, under the direction of Dr. Herbert Cecil, will contribute several num bers to the program,, as will the SOC . quartet ana ' tne Populaires. i H ". Townspeople are invited. GUARANTEE Buy any other compact-then test The Lark. You'll hate yourself. . . because 9 other compacts make you step over a high door-sill and down into a well. ..7 others have far less power... 8 others are priced $9 to $532 higher.. And you could have had The Lark-so hot, so easy-to-handle, it outran 29 foreign road cars at Little Le Mans! So carefully built, it saves up to Vi on gasoline, Vi on maintenance, Vi on repairs-proven by fleets! WHY HATE YOURSELF? TEST-DRIVE THE LARK TODAY . John Birch Holder of Controversial Views During Days as College Student Editor's note: Just who was Johnuhfph is memorialized In a society pledged 10 ngni communism? ine iomow ing dispatch wns written for United Press International by a reporter for the Macon News of Macon. Ga.. where John Birch's parents live and where John Birch went to school BKL-JZI Vr jP" '.&rte&!'$&li&m, jgBS f THE'61n By GEORGE A. DOSS JR. Written for UPI Macon,' Ga.-flJPB-John Mor rison Birch, as .a ministerial student here 22 years ago, was a holder of extremely con troversial views just as in the ultra - conservative society bearing his name today. Birch, then not quite -21. was leader of a secret fellow ship group of 13 fundamenta list students who sought to purge Mercer University of five faculty members. The students charged the profes sors with teaching heretical doctrines on the Baptist cam- Pus. ' , The faculty members were cleared at a hearing before members of the board of trus tees. Police escorted Birch and his fellow fundamenta lists from the campus the night of March 30, 1939, for their own safety. Robert Welch, founder of the John ; Birch Society in 1958, did not know John Birch in 1939 or at any time prior to his death at the hands of Chinese Communist gueril las in 1945, 10 days after VJ Day. If Welch was aware : of Blrch-insipred charges against Mercer faculty members and the subsequent hearing, he did not mention it in his book. The Life of John Birch." published in 1954. He report ed only that Birch received his bachelor of arts degree Birch-inspired charges against went on to the Bible Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex., to prepare himself to go to China as a missionary in 1940. Charges on Clergy Nonetheless, a similarity exists between the charges by welch that some Protestant clergymen and such promin ent persons as former Presi dent Eisenhower and- Chief Justice Earl Warren are Com munists or their dupes and accusations by Birch's student group that "all denomination al institutions are reeking with heresay." , Welch says he first heard of Birch while reading a con gressional committee hearing report dealing with his death. He says Birch was the first uniformed American casualty of World War III; that he was killed by the Communists "at the first opportunity after the war because of the powerful resistance he would have been able to inspire against them.' Birch's mother, Mrs. George S. Birch of Macon, said in an interview as long ago as 1950 that she believed her son gave his life in an effort to warn Americans of the danger from Communists, and that ' his warning was deliberately kept from the public by govern ment censorship.. 'Three former Army intel ligence officers who served with Birch or investigated his death have agreed in recent statements that he was killed when he tried to bluff his way out of a difficult situation while on a mission in Communist-held territory. They differ as to whether Birch, a missionary turned OSS cap tain, died a hero. Birch was not generally re garded a hero by the Mercer University student body at the time of the heresay trial he inspired. One of the pla cards displayed on the campus at the time read, "Lynch Saint Birch." Rescued from Crowd One member of the Birch fundamentalist group was rescued from a crowd of stu dents, including football play ers, by Dr. Josiah Crudup, one of the faculty members the Birch group accused and now president of Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga. The car in they left the campus was stoned. ' . ' ' According to Dr. Spright IJowell, Mercer president emeritus who was head of the institution at the time, the heresy attack was aimed pri marily at Dr. Jonn D. Free man, 75-year-old head of the Christianity department. He was, in the words of the com mittee which investigated the charges, a man who "for 50 years . . . has been a Baptist preacher and teacher, a man greatly beloved, ,a leader among the Baptists of the world and one who through the years has been regarded as a conservative In his the ology." ' 1 Dr. Dowell noted in his book, " A history of Mercer University," published in 1958, that only three of the complaining students were in classes taught by Dr. Free man. "Twenty of their class mates resented the attack and voluntarily stated .... that Dr. Freeman's teaching was 'doctrinally sound, spiritually sane and genuinely. Chris tain'." . , Dr. Freeman resigned short ly after the heresy trials and died in 1943. Charges of Heresy . Birch and his 12 associates, a fundametalist minority among approximately 60 min isterial students at the school, sent letters to 1,000 Baptist ministers in Georgia leveling the charges against the faculty members. The students charg ed the professors with saying, among other things, "There were no such persons as Ad am and Eve;" "You do not have " to believe . in Jesus Christ to be saved;" "The A 3 Bible contradicts Itself;" "It was not necessary for Christ to die to free man from sin,'!, and "the Bible was not di-. f COMPETITIVE f I PRICES '. 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