MEDFORD 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
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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.
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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
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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
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Bible contradicts Itself;" "It
was not necessary for Christ
to die to free man from sin,'!,
and "the Bible was not di-.
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Oregon Soldier
Gets Life Sentence
Mannheim, Germany -(UPD
Three American soldiers were
convicted Monday of murder
ing a Mannheim taxi driver
and sentenced to life impris
onment at hard labor, an
Army spokesman said today.
Specialist 4-c Lonel L. Mur
phy, 28, of Dayton, Ore.; PFC.
Robert B; Moore, 25, of Wil
liamsport, Pa., and Pvt. Rus
sel E. Lance, 22, of Clarkston,
Mich., were found guilty by a
general courts martial in the
bludgeon-slaying of taxi driv
er Karl Straub, 55, who was
robbed of $36 in cash. '
The convicted soldiers were
dishonorably discharged from
the service. The Army spokes
man said the court's verdict
and the sentence were subject
to review. '
MEASURE DEFEATED .
Salem - (UPD - The Senate
Monday defeated a measure
which would have required
participation of at least 25
per cent of the registered
voters In any election before
a bond issue could pass.
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