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History from fh files of The
Mail Tribung 10, 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1952 (Sunday)
Newton Olson, a member
at the Camp White Veterans
Administration domicili a r y,
today became the 100th pati
ent to be carried by the Mercy
Flights air ambulance service.
The total number of regis
tered voters in Jackson coun
ty will probably be about
2.000 more than the all time
previous high by the deadline
at 8 p.m. Saturday, deputy
county clerks have announced.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1942 (Monday)
Lew Wallace, Democratic
candidate for governor, and
Edward D. Kelly, Medford,
D e m o c r atic candidate for
United States representative,
to be honored at meeting
here' . ....
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
frequent soothing comment of
the times is 'After the war
the meek will Inherit the
earth.' If the meek are too
meek to object It will serve
them right."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1932 (Wednesday)
Floyd Gibbons, famed war
correspondent, addresses
small crowd at Medford air
port, during stopover here
while en route to San Fran
cisco. Some 200 Medford and
Rogue valley football fans
plan trip to Eugene to see
University of Oregon -Santa
Clara grid game.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1922 (Thursday)
District Attorney Rawlcs
Moore and Coroner John Perl
Investigate accidental shoot
ing of 18-year-old Tolo girl.
Fletcher Fish, local orchard
1st, appointed federal fruil
Inspector lor Ibis area.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1912 (Saturday)
Section of Jackson street
1.200 feet east from Bear
creek bridge to be graded;
work expected to make street
passable in winter months for
first time.
Medford traveling salesman
seriously Injured when buggy
tips over and goes over Siski
you grade while trying to
pass freight outfit.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ot ten correct ht superior;
seven ot sight Is ncellant; fia oi
il Is good.
1. Which President of (he
United Slates was the first to
habitually dress In long trous
ers? 2. When an alien gets his
first papers does he become a
U.S. citizen?
3. Who led the Norman in
vasion of England in 1006?
4. Between what years did
Jong trousers come into vogue
among the common people in
America?
5. Which U. S. President is
famous for the charge up San
Juan Hill?
8. What instrument would
you use to determine the den
sity of a liquid?
7. What important fuel is
the solid residue remaining
from the dry distillation of
bituminous coal?
8. Arc coach -whip snake,
one-time terror of the South,
harmful to man?
9. Which state is nicknamed
Pine Tree Stale?
10. Hydroponics is the sci
ence that deals with what?
Answtrsi 1. Jamas Madison,
2. No. 3. William of Norman
dy. 4. 1790-1800. 5. Thaodor.
Eoosevell. 8. Hydrometer. 7.
Cok. 8. No. 9. Main. 10.
Raising crops without toil.
4 A-
SEPTEMBER 21. 19S2
Another Candidate's Views
Alexander Dumas, Republican candidate for
the state house of representatives, has responded
to the editorial invitation to state his views on
the state's problems of finance and education. He
is the seventh candidate to do so.
His statement follows:
To the Editor: The time lapse in my attempting to
answer your editorial questions of July 31, 1902 Is not
due in any way to my being delinquent, but caused
by a real mental wrestling with what I consider the
real issues involved. Your first four questions are all
concerned with the raising of money for different pur
poses, and my comments are directed to them in their
order.
1. In our homes, In our businesses, and in our
everyday Uvea we must anticipate, and accurately
plan, what we can afford before we go out and buy
what we think we need and must have. If we do not
we are in trouble. Is there any reason that this same
thinking should not apply to the operation of state
government? If the budget requests of the last bien
nium are not changed and we are shy the $33 million
which existed previously In surplus, new revenue will
have to be raised, or the budget trimmed. It would
be my hope that the state would not have to Impose
any new tax. As to how to raise the additional monies
that might be necessary, I can only say that it would
depend on how much would be necessary and for what
purposes. I cannot fully give an answer at this time.
But I do know that we can't have our cake and eat
it too.
2. It would be hoped that new industry and higher
payrolls could be the answer to raising additional
monies for basic school support under the existing law.
But, we know that our school age children are increas
ing at a great rate. I might say that I am as deeply
concerned about the high property tax rates as anyone
and feel that we must look to some way for relief in
this area. But, I do feel that the citizens and tax
payers closely scrutinize school expenditures when
they know how directly these increased costs affect
them. The citizen-taxpayer keeps his eye out for un
necessary expense and I think a discerning search of
school expenses, always keeping In mind that our chil
dren need and deserve a first rate education, is a key
to both efficiency and economy.
3. Oregon's fine higher education system should be
encouraged to continue to grow. We know that ad
vanced specialized industry Is attracted to areas where
the state systems and private colleges, as well, excel!.
Such Industries are solely needed in this state today
to help take up the slack in our employment problems
and timber situation. It still takes X number of dollars
to do X number of things, or provide for X number
of services. Let's not pitty pnt; higher education for
the high school citizen of this state Is essential, and
it should be a first-class-sccond-to-none education. I
would hope that the taxing requirements here could
he made under our present taxing situation. It would
also be hoped that with a first class system more funds
would be allotted lo our higher education system from
private sources in the form of grants, etc.
4. Let's hold the line on community colleges at least
for now. We are going to have expense problems
forthcoming under our present system of higher edu
cation. There is no doubt In my mind that the Stale
of Oregon will some day have a community college
program, but I agree with Senator Ncwbry, that we
must be sure we can adequately meet the financial re
quirements of our present educational system before
trying lo bring college to the students' back door. A
too rapid step into the community college program
without adequate planning might result in a costly
and inferior system.
5. I am not so sure that any of the state services
should be cut back, but I do think that some of the
services have been subject to abuses which should be
cut out. I feel that the welfare and general assist
ance programs are important to this slate and desir
able - but let's make It count where it docs the most
good. By being cautious in this area, it seems to me
that we might make the same amount of welfare funds
now being used lo extend to more people in greater
need. This would benefit Ihe really needy as well as
the taxpayer.
If I am elected, I will approach all of the financial
problems In a business-like manner and to the best
interest of our people in Ihe county and stale.
Alexander A. Dumas,
2011 East Main si.
Medford.
E. A.
The Bombs and the Weather
For some years now, since the explosion of
atomic devices began, the man-in-the-strcct has
idly speculated about a connection between these
blasts and the weather.
Whenever it rained in August, say, or there
was an unseasonable thundershower in January,
or a dry spell in November, "Probably those
bombs" has been an often-heard, half joking re
mark. Now comes a scientist with substantial bona
fides to suggest that there is more than half-joking
speculation. He believes that nuclear explo
sions, particularly those high in the atmosphere,
do in tact influence the worlds weather.
THE scientist is Dr. Irving P. Krick, president
of a private weather-forecasting firm in Den
ver, who earlier experimented in various forms
of weather control (increasing snowfall, iirevent
ing hail, and so on) including some locally.
In an interview with The National Observer,
Dr. Krick said he began to note peculiarities in
weather all over North America last winter, and
is now convinced that Russian and American
nuclear tests are responsible.
This is his theory in brief:
Solar energy from space largely determines
barometric pressures, which in turn determine
weather distribution.
the earth, such as results from a high-altitude
nuclear blast, acts in much the same way as solar
radiation. This causes a surge of cold air down
from the polar regions.
AS a result, Dr. Krick expects colder winters,
cooler summers, fewer hurricanes. He also
foresees the possibility of world-wide weather
control.
These conclusions he labels as "tentative,"
but he is sufficiently convinced that he is right
to discuss them in detail. With a combination of
high solar energy output, plus additional radia
tion from new nuclear explosions, he even fore
sees the possibility of a "new ice age."
This is all purely speculative, of course, and
whether he is right or not remains to be seen.
But those who think "those bombs" have affected
the weather are in distinguished company. E. A.
A radiation belt around
MEDFORD
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Don'i Shool I week by county Keep Oregon
To the Editor: A hunling we Green committees. The com-
win go, noping we Kin a duck
and not a doc.
Some one said how about a
man, that could be called an
accident or thought he was a
deer.
There is no excuse to kill a
doe unless it is said I thought
she was a man instead of a
doe. Don't shoot until you can
count the points on the ant
lers, as I believe it's against
the law to kill a spike.
Marshall H. Waggoner,
3487 Leanard rd.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Indian Policies
To the Editor: American his
tory does not always make
happy, or comfortable, read
ing. Consider, for example,
how in "the march of prog
ress" we often violated trea
ties solemnly made with tribes
of our original Americans. Oil
companies, ranchers, power
interests, even government
agencies, and others, from
time to time, succeeded in per
suading Congress and our
courts to deprive Indians of
ancestral lands guaranteed lo
them in perpetuity.
Typical was the case of the
Wy-ams of Celilo, removed
from their ancient fishing
grounds on Ihe Columbia to
make way for the great dam
at The Dalles. Five successive
limes they were moved, and
except for their fourth new
village, they received no com
pensation from the Govern
ment for Ihe loss "f their
homes.
To many Indians, equally
objectionable and a violation
of our treaty obligations has
been their forced "integra
tion'' In a number of in
stances, by "termination" of
Government guardianship and
protection, as in the recent
case of the Klamath and other
tribes of the area now com
prising the Winema National
Forest.
It therefore was heartening
to read an announcement of
new Government policy, In
the Christian Cenltlry of Sept.
26, from which I quote:
"Greater emphasis by the
U. S. government on economic
development in its relations
with Indian tribes was prom
ised the National Congress of
American Indians at its recent
annual meeting in Cherokee,
N.C." At this meeting. "Phil
Ico Nash, commissioner of In
dian affairs under the present
administration, promised fed
eral funds and additional help
to tribal groups wherever they j
are. . . Most welcome was the
commissioner's annorxccmcnl
that termination oi federal
responsibility for Indian af
fairs, which was pressed in a
few instances hy the Eisen
hower administration, would
henceforth be decided entirely
by the Indians; no tribe or
group would be 'terminated'
unless it was clearly ready
and expressed this readiness
in votes taken on its own in
itiative. Since fear of forcible
termination has been wide
spread among the Indian peo
ple, this new policy is reason
for them and all Americans
to rejoice." Amen'
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Vallev Manor
.Medford
Manners for Hunters
j To the Editor: When the
poet William Alliugham Jot
ted off the lines In his stanza
ton hunting, "up the airy
; mountain, down the rushy
"glen." he may have been
thinking of country such as
that which thousands of Ore
gon hunters will be prowling
for deer at the opening oi'
hunting season Saturday.
Moved by the same poetic
muse, Irv Luitrn of ' Wryer
haeuser I'o . a member of thv
Governor's Red Hat Days
commmee. nas wrmen a mon-lout expenditure of tax mon-crn-day
ode In hunters which ley "
Is being distributed on flyers J How about It. Gentlemen
to thousands of hunters this of the city council
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
From Congress
mittee is conducting a pro-
gram aimed at maintaining
good conduct by hunters,
many of whom will be bag
ging their deer on industrial
tree farms and other private
ly owned forest land. The
poem:
If the lure of the woods
is inviting,
And you'll never deny its
call;
If the track of the deer is
exciting,
And you go for your buck
each fall;
Then, look to your conduct,
Hunter.
For a wood to tramp with
your trusty gun,
Is never a right, but a
privilege won,
With good outdoor manners.
American Forest
Products Industries
847 Piltock Block,
Portland 5, Ore.
Medford Shows How
To the Editor: As a former
resident of Medford and a
graduate with the class of '57
from M.H.S., I was very proud
to read the enclosed editorial
from the Sanla Ana (Calif.)
Register
Ed Albright
744 West Maple st.
Orange, Calif.
The editorial follows:
MEDFORD. ORE.,
SHOWS US HOW
Regular readers of
The
Register know thai we have
not been happy with the San
ta Ana City Council's plans
lo spend tax money to build a
new football stadium. We
have contended that the sta
dium should be built and paid
for by those who want and
are willing to pay for it.
City Manager Carl Thorn
ton seems to have convinced
the bulk of the city council
that they have some sort of
obligation to erect a new sta
dium in a former peat bog
in the southwest part of the
city, despite the fact the cost
will be higher than to re
build at the present site at
Sixth and Flower Sts.
Most of the council mem
bers have indicated that the
only dispute is as to whether
it will be financed by direct
taxes or by a bond issue voted
by the people. The city "fa
thers" don't seem to have any
faith that it could be built
voluntarily and without tax
money at all. .
But we are sure it can be
built voluntarily. And we
have some evidence to sup
port our contention.
Just last Friday night the
people of Medford. Ore., ded
icated a $100,000 4,000-seat
grandstand for Medford High
School. And, according lo the
Medford Mail Tribune, t h e
grandstand was financed with
out expenditure of tax money.
Bulk nt the financing was
from sale of more than 800
five-year season tickets at
SI ill) each which the school
bowler organization promot
ed as a means of financing the
stadium.
Now we realize that $100.
000 will not build the elab
orate stadium which City
Manager Thornton and the
I council are proposing. But if
! a city of 25.000 can raise
,$100,000 to provide stadium
seats for 4.000 why could not
the city of Santa Ana with
more the 100.000 population
raise at least $400,000. We
don't know whether it would
provide 16,000 seats, hut we
suspect it would provide all
j ,hl), rc nccdcd
And the people of Santa
Ana could hold their heads
high with self-respect and cm
ulale the fine people of Med
ford. Ore . who say with Justi-
! fiablr
stand
pride. "This grand-
being financed with-
OREGON
Mao Still Undisputed
Despite Failures in Farm and Factory
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
If nothing succeeds like
success, then consider the case
of Red China's spiritual and
physical lead
er, Mao Tse
tung. As the Chi
n e s e Reds
wind up their
13th year in
control of the
mainland,
three succes
sive years of
Nawsoaa crop failures
and mismanagement have left
Washington Report
By William
(ei United Feature Syndicate
ON STANDING ALONE
Washington - A new and
involuntary form of creeping
Isolationism is arising in the
free world.
This is a gath
ering spiritual
1 s o 1 ation of
the United
Slates from
most of its
western allies
and most of
Latin America,
in the matter
of Castro Cu
ba. Tihs country in effect is
not only being forced to stand
substantially alone in dealing
with the Soviet Union's mili
tary penetration of this hemi
sphere In Cuba. We are also
being lectured in a rather su
perior tone by our allies about
the foolishness of becoming
"too excited" about Cuba.
Much of western Europe
thinks it knows more than
we do about the degree of
danger in our own area.
Much of Latin America will
not see the danger at all -not
yet. It is in the comfort
able position of being able to
refuse any real cooperation
with us in full awareness that
when attempts are made to
export a bit of Sovietization
to its own soil, we shall move
in as protectors.
11HE plain truth is that the
United States has never
been put in a more galling
position. And even some of
Principals To Meet
On Campus at OSU
Corvallis-The Oregon Asso
ciation of Secondary School
Principals will hold its 34th
annual fall conference at Ore
gon State university Oct. 8
and 9 with "Science and
Mathematics In the Modern
Secondary School ' as the
theme.
More than 300 junior and
senior high school principals
are expected to participate.
It will be the first time the
association has met at OSU.
Maurice Burchficld. Shasta
Junior High school, Eugene,
is president of OASSP this
year. Max MeKinney, princi
pal of the Corvallis Highland
View Junior High school, is
program chairman.
Guest speakers will Include
Dr. Max Beberman, Director
of the University of Illinois
Committee on School Mathe
matics, and Dr. Hall Taylor,
program director of the Fel
lowships section of the Na
tional Science Foundation.
Demonstration classes will be
included.
Discussion topics will in
clude new programs In secon
dary schooi mathematics and
science, the role of the prin
cipal in the modernization of
the science program, the so
cial studies teacher in Oregon
secondary schools, and teach
er certification regulations.
mi
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
JOHN MASON reports this exchange of notes between a
finicky traveler and the manager of a posh Miami Beach
hostelry :
"Dear Mr. Manager:
Please reserve the same
suite I had last year for
the week of February 17.
But please have some
body remove that darned
stuffed bird from
drawing room befor
check in. Its beady eyes
stared at me and ruined
my appetite all during
my last visit. Sincerely
"Dear Sir:
I'm sony
iiid disturb-
I'm afraid "J
our stuffed bii
ed you but
you'll have to take the
bittern with the suite. Please
The manager of a drive-in-movie was show in his setup to a
stranger while n "rpic" was unfolding on the screen. "See that
green sedan in the fouith row over these? ". a.krd the nianager.
"It contains the only married couple here tonight. Hou can I
tell? It's the one car facing the picture."
Grandpa Haas called his daughter Pal en the phone recently
to ask innocently, "lm womicung. my dcr, if could leave
your children with your hiwband and you juat for this one even
ing ? W J're invited to dine with the Governor."
O ISO. b- Rsnnttt Cerf. Distributed by King rtaturve 8adKat
the Chinese people hungrier
than ever, the great leap for
ward in industry is at a stand
still, there is an estrangement
with the Soviet Union, and
a threat of war with India.
Most of these can be laid
directly on Mao's doorstep.
Yet the image of Mao re
mains untarnished, his leader
ship so long as he lives ap
parently secure and the cult
of Mao still growing. i
The Chinese press and ra
dio still refer to him as "like
the sun . . . the Chinese cham
pion, whose thoughts are the
supreme combination of Marx-
S. White
our good friends, human na
ture being what it is. are not
too unhappy at seeing the
powerful American eagle's
tail feathers being pulled.
We are not, however, the
ones who will be most hurt in
the end by this, our involun
tary isolation. We can take
care of ourselves in this hem
isphere. Indeed, long since we
could have done so. We would
have tossed Castroism out of
Cuba as a tin of annoying rub
bish from our backyard but
for our desire to avoid allied
criticism and anguished howls
of "intervention" from the
same Latin-American nations
we are safeguarding from the;
very real "intervention" of
the Soviet Union.
The true sufferers, unless
soon our western allied
friends and our Latin neigh
bors decide to give us at least
a minimum cooperation, will
be those very western allies,
those very Latin neighbors.
qiHl
a
HHE British, the Norwegians
nd others, who thus far
refuse the patiently determin
ed appeals of Secretary of
State Dean Rusk to halt ship
ping to Cuba, are givng many
fine legalisms for withholding
even 111 i.-, tepid act of sup
port. After all, they say, no
body is at war with Cuba;
free trade is free trade, and
so on. But they can awake
one day to find that in main
taining their "right" to this
tin-pot trade with Castro they
have, so to speak, lost a much
bigger customer, the basic
good will of the people of the
United States.
The Latin Americans, in
hanging back from any joint
plan genuinely to seal off
Cuba in this hemisphere, can
awake and find they cannot
forever play both sides. The
multibillion - dollar American
aid in the alliance for prog
ress does not come from the
pockets of the reformist types
who are so oddly understand
ing of Latin-American hem
ming and hawing. It comes
from the American people,
through the American con
gress. And the American con
gress is already dangerously
fed up with the elegant so
phistries of can't-do allies and
Latin neighbors. Already, for
eign aid in any and every
form is in trouble at the cap
itol. The time may come when
it is in deep and irreparable
trouble.
w
HAT profit to our allies
and Latin neighbors if
they win their little argument
about precedents and all that,
but really do force us to go
it alone?
They would all be wise to
make some effort better to
understand the actual mood
of congress and country. Cuba
may be trivial to them. But
to congress and country, it is
far from that; and the present
mood of bewildered
arger
can, without much more prov
ocation, become ugly indeed,
from their viewpoint.
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Boss of Red China,
ist Leninist universal truth
and the Chinese revolution . . .
the pioneer of natural science
. . . the superlative politician,
philosopher, economist and
military expert."
Yet those who have known
Mao describe him as almost
totally ignorant of science,
poor at mathematics, possess
ing only a second-hand knowl
edge of the world outside
China, and a bad administra
tor. Mao appears in public in-
! frequently now, and. reported-
ly, his speech has lost some
oi us conerence.
His years as a guerilla
fighter and the "long march"
of 1934 in which his armies
retreated 6,000 miles to escape
encirclement by the forces of
Chiang Kai-shek have taken
their toll on his health.
But Mao has been the un
disputed leader of Chinese
communism since 1927.
He crossed with Stalin when
he ignored the latter's advice
to seek his support among
the workers of the city, and
went instead to the peasantry
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises, lne.
PIPE FANATACISM
What with all the ominous
medical talk about the cigar-
et-and-canccr link, I have been
toying with
the idea of
taking up a
pipe. That is, I
was toying
with the idea,
until I began
to snoop
around my
pipe - smoking
friends. These
Hams chaps need
more equipment and resources
than a corps of combat engi
neers in the field. It is not
merely a matter of buying a
pipe and sticking a fistful of
tobacco in the bowl. Any pipe
smoker caught doing this is
considered a bounder who
would probably shoot a
grouse sitting.
The real sport in pipe
smoking is making it hard for
yourself, in setting up almost
insuperable handicaps to pipe
smoking enjoyment. It is real
ly a rigidly structured form
of asceticism, more than a
pleasure.
The gentleman -pipe smok
er, first of all, has to hunt
down a special esoteric
brand of tobacco that is
sold only in a little Ken
tucky village on an outpost
along the Hudson Bay. Then
he imports ihe stuff at fab
ulous prices, by secret code
number like X-38, Private
Stock.
If he finds it can be eas
ily bought in Ihe city, all
the fun goes out of it, and
he has to look around for
another bilious blend that
must be brought from Nome
by dog pack.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Some interesting figures:
Last year (1961) an average
of 11 persons visited Oregon
state parks for every dollar
spent on maintenance and op
eration. This compares with
a national average of just
over four visitors per main
tenance and operation dollar.
Oregon's cost per visitor for
maintaining and ODeratine its
state parks last year was
nine cents. This compares
with a national average of 22
cents per visitor. In Oregon
last year, each bark operation
or maintenance employee car
ed for 52.500 visitors, as com
pared with a national average
of 16.800 visitors per em
ployee. Oregon ranked tenth in the
Union last year in total park
expenditures, and far out
stripped the other nine in per
visitor cost. The states near
est to Oregon in pcr-visitor
cost were Michigan and Wash
ington with 17 cents each, as
compared with Oregon's nine
cents.
THESE statistics are taken
from State Park Statistics,
publication issued by the
National Park Service. Com
menting on them. Forrest
Cooper, Oregon state high
way engineer says:
"We aren't short - changing
the public on our traditional
Oregon State Park cleanliness
to achieve this favorable fig
ure, nor are we offering fewer
facilities. A major factor in
reaching these figures is the
heavy use of each park area."
THERE is another factor.
-1 It Is this:
In Oregon, the state parks
are under the jurisdiction of
the State Highway Commis
sion. This results in many
economies. State equipment
can be used in the parks at
times when it might other-
of the countryside.
He battles now with Nikita
Khrushchev for the role as
chief interpreter and spokes
man for Marxist-Leninist the
ory. And, although he shuffled
millions of Chinese as help
less pawns in his determina
tion for the "great leap for
ward" in Chinese industry and
agriculture, he so far has es
caped public blame for its
failure.
The giant communes which,
beginning in 1958, took over
the lives of more than 500
million Chinese, have been
broken down into village
brigades.
As the daily rice ration in
the communes fell from 12
ounces per day to four or five,
peasants are being allowed
small plots for their own use.
Industry has been told that
it must make do with machin
ery and manpower now avail
able, without new invest
ment. Any new gains must
come from the workers
themselves. Some 20 million
city workers have been shuf
fled back to the farms.
J. Harris
Vary often even this does
not satisfy the real con
noisseur, and when the to
bacco arrives he adds lo it
his own mixture of stale
cabbage leaves, chopped-up
rubber bands, a dash of pap
rika, and passes it around
proudly to his pipe-smoking
colleagues. Sometimes ihey
curl up and die on the spot.
But this is only the begin
ning. It is necessary to have
at least IS pipes, all spe
cially constructed, of
course, by a firm in Calcut
ta, one for each day in the
week, as well as holidays
and mornings-after.
a
These pipes must hang in
a sanctified container and any
woman of the house who
dares to stick the Monday
pipe in the Friday rack is
faced with instant dismember
ment. Talk about religious
fanatics.
We must not forget the
reamer, the tamper, the scrap
er, the poker, the mesher,
and the dozen or other mys
terious gadgets that are close
ly guarded in a locked
drawer. Overhauling a pipe,
I gather, is something like
taking down the rear end of
a car, and soon becomes a
life work, like building ships
in bottles.
Despite these delicate and
loving operations, the pipes
have to be taken to the to
bacconist's every three
months to have their valves
ground or something. And
when they come back, bright
and shining, they stink as out
rageously as before. But to a
pipe smoker, this odor is Nir
vana in its purest form. Boy,
bring me a pack of those cancer-laden
cigarets!
JENKINS
wise stand idle. The same
economics apply in the case
of personnel. As a result,
maintenance costs can be held
down.
It is a good system. It has
come under attack from time
to time in the past, but so far
common sense has prevailed
and the parks have remained
under the jurisdiction of the
highway department.
"OREGON'S state parks have
" grown steadily in popular
ity. In 1948, total day use
attendance was 2,157,480. By
1960, total day usage had in
creased to 10.942,800. It is
estimated that by 1985 it will
have increased to 14.381.800
About a decade ago, Oregon
began to provide overnight
camping facilities at selected
state parks. This experiment
arose out of belief that Ore
gon's outdoors provide the
state's chief attraction for
tourists - especially tourist
families.
It has been highly success
ful. In the first year, over
night camping attendance in
the parks where camping
facilities had been provided
was 44.112. By 1960, attend
ance had risen to 595.023 -more
than 13 times the first
year's usage. It is estimated
that by 1965 attendance will
have risen to 1.079,500.
ATTENDANCE figures at
Collier State Park, just
north of Klamath Falls, are
of interest as indicating the
growing popularity of Ore
gon's state parks. For the
past four years, the figures
arc:
1958 105.675
1959 183.591
1960 205.413
1961 249.850
Figures are not yet avail
able for the 1962 season, but
it Is anticipated that the total
will pass 300,000.