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Helen B. Just let a prob
lem arise, he runs (or the bottle.
Emit R. - It's the only way
' I can unwind when I get tense,
a a a
Helen R. I'm worried about
Emil. He's just opened his own
law office and he's under a
strain. But when he meets a
tough problem, instead of talk-
- ing it over with someone or re
laxing at a movie, he makes a
' beeline for the whiskey bottle.
Last week he emptied one and
stayed in a stupor for 24 hours.
I had to make excuses to cli-
ents.
Emil R. When I'm faced
with a blockbuster of a puzzle,
I get so tied up in knots I can't
get hold of the issue. Those usu
al tricks Helen talks about just
don't work, but after I've really
been under the effects of alcohol,
' I relax and then I'm able to
come to grips with any problem.
This is a new discovery for me.
I'm sorry about last week's ex
cess. I'll have to figure a safe
amount.
,
The Council: How long will
' you stick to the "safe" amount,
Emil, if it turns out to be a
thimblefuU? 'Fess up. What
you're after is enough hookers
to grant you insensibility! Get-ting-away-from-it-all
is your
aim, while Helen's is Bringing-you-back-to-it-all
fast. Before
your health, career, marriage
fall victim to your false ideas
on tension relief, please mull
over these findings: Alcohol
gives temporary relaxation, but
at a price to the brain, stomach,
liver, and kidneys. This momen
tary relaxation moves along to
stupefication. Example: Tests
show that after only 1 ounce of
whiskey, the driver of a car has
a decrease In efficiency. So, how
about giving the real ways of
relieving tension the old Army
try? The Dept. of Health Ed at
Stanford Univ. asked 826 phy
sicians their favorite Rx for
same. Most recommended plain
"walking it off" (nice and
cheap!). Others advised swim
ming, golf, bowling, gardening
with a bit ot socializing along
the way. So, don't drown in al
cohol, Emil. Jump In the lake
' and cool off.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
California Losing Its Most Precious Possession Land
v By JOHN BARNETT
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Southern
California's sunny Or
ange County used to live up to
its name: the orange and lem
on trees stretched in orderly
rows as far as the eye could
see.
Today, bulldozers are rooting
out the trees at the rate of 3,000
acres a . year, and Orange
County is virtually out of the
running as a citrus producer.
Santa Clara County, a lush
food basket at the southern
edge of San Francisco Bay,
was America's biggest strawberry-producing
county 10 years
ago; it also grew half of the
world's prunes and a giant
share of the nation's pears. But
today, fruit and vegetable trad
ers in Santa Clara County are
talking about importing crops
instead of exporting them.
California is losing foot by
foot, acre by acre one of its
most precious possessions: its
rich, incredibly productive farm
lands.
The land Is not disappearing.
It's still there, and it's just
as fertile as ever. But it's be
ing buried under an avalanche
of freeways, factories, shopping
centers and, most of all, houS'
es.
As California continues It.i
dizzying population climb and
its headlong rush toward ur
banization, (he cities are splash
ing outward into the country
side. They don't grow up the
hillsides and mountains be
cause it's too expensive to level
building sites there; they pour
instead down the fertile valleys
that have helped make Califor
nia the nation's biggest food
producer.
For veara. neoDle have fret
ted over California's growth
over the loss of natural scenery
over the problems of providing
housing and fire departments
and social welfare and trans
portation for the burgeoning
millions.
But now there's a new worry:
Where, with more and more
farmland covered,- win tne
state's food come from?
The California state Depart
ment of Agriculture says that,
of the 100.2 million acres in
California, 16.4 million acres
are suitable for farming and
only half are good to prime
farm land.
Alreadv. urban development
covers about 2.5 million acres
in the state, most of it land
that formerly was used for ag
riculture. By 1975, the depart
ment estimates, cities with ;ov
er 4 million acres.
Big Population
"It is estimated," said the
department "that by 1975 the
population of our state will be
about 25 million persons. That
would be approximately 8 mil
lion more than live in Califor
nia now. We shall need all of
our remaining good soil to grow
the food for our people."
For those who say that tech
nology is the answer that
science will improve land pro
ductivity indefinitely there is
this reply from Dr. Elmer W.
Braun, economic advisor for
the agriculture department:
"At the moment we're bor
rowing from technology. We're
going to wake up and the land
is going to be gone."
Portland Firm Is Low On Freeway Work
mile west of the present high-
The Slate - Hall Construction
Co., Portland, with a bid of
$3,512,034, was the apparent low
bidder Tuesday afternoon , for
grading a section of Interstate
5 from Siskiyou Highway to the
summit, according to United
Press International.
Bids were opened by the State
Highway Department in Salem.
It was one of some 11 highway
projects on which bids were re
ceived. The contracts will be
awarded at the highway com
mission meeting Nov. 22.
The project will include grad
ing to provide four 12-foot lanes
on a new alignment with the
summit approximately one-half
way.
The project will be approxi
mately two miles south of the
Wall Creek section now under
contract. The section to be skip
ped at this time includes a struc
ture for the Southern Pacific
Railroad, and is not expected
to be let for contract until next
year.
STUDIES BOOKS
PORTLAND (UPI) - The
Portland School Board is study
ing new primary, books in which
the characters are primarily
Negro.
Braun said technology sim
ply is not going to be as much
help in the future as it has in
the past. The surpluses of to
day, he said, have obscured
tomorrow's need for farm lands.
"Without technology," accord
ing to Braun, "we would al
ready be deploring our losses."
Agriculture on a large scale
is already virtually a thing of
the past in Los Angeles and
Orange counties, which once
were the citrus centers of the
West. As the subdivisions move
in, the citrus growers- move
out to Arizona, to the great
Central Valley of California, to
the relatively low - populated
southeast corner of the state.
Santa Clara County, home of
the rapidly growing metropolis
of San Jose, is finding that the
demand for food goes up as the
supply goes down.
L. H. Scaletta has been a
food broker there since 1939.
Ten years ago, he said, his
business was nearly all export
of local products through the
world. Today, about half in
volves importing food for his
own county and he believes
when he will be bidding for
food against areas that used
to be his own best customers.
Dennis the Menace
Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., dean
of agriculture at the University
of California at Berkeley, spoke
not only of California but of
the nation when he discussed
the situation in a speech earlier
this year. r
"While we have been con
quering half a continent," he
said, "we have not always been
mindful that our land, our wa
ters, and our space are the re
sources, the basic ingredient of
this opulence we enjoy ... It
may well be, in this era of the
ranch house, the suburban su-
oermart. the freeway, and the
40-mile commute, that we have
never been more wasteful. . .
"Cities are where they are
largely because a living could
be made where rivers joined or
land was fertile. But farm cen
ters became cities. Now the
same cities are spreading out,
in some cases over nearly all
of the level and rich soils that
created them. We're seeing a
million acres of agricultural
land concreted over each year
(in the nation) for housing
tracts, school grounds, shop
ping centers, airports, and what
we call freeways in California.
Once the concrete is laid down,
a natural resource is gone."
'
There's a new kid in kipderqartsn' with wq
BLACK Vfifs DIM MB WAKfiU Hi
BABY DOCTOR' DEAD
KUALA LUMPUS, Malaysia
: (UPI)-Dr. Lee Keng Soon, 65,
popularly known as the "baby
doctor," died Sunday of a stroke
at hie home in Penang.
; The obstetrician was credited
with delivering more than 50,-
000 babies during 40 years of
service in Singapore and Pen-
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963
Reporter
Ue veals
EDITOR'S NOTE Very
little of America's general af
fluence has rubbed off on Ap
palachla, a six-state moun
talnous strip in the Southeast.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.,
chairman of the President's
Appalachian Regional Com-
mission, recently told Con
gress it is a place of "abys
mal poverty." Following .'is a
report on one of the "have
not" communities in the great
mountains on the Tennessee
Kentucky border.
By RICHARD OLIVER I
. United Press International
CLAIRFIELD, Tenn. (UPD
Junior Hall, 26, was a coal
miner with a wife and four
children before he wound up in
a hospital bed. Doctors say it
will be years before he is able
to work again.
Several weeks ago,' the first
frost of the season came to
Tennessee, and temperatures in
the Appalachian mountains dip
ped to below freezing. The Hall
family lives in a two-room, rot
ted shack on the top of a
"nob." They had run out of fuel
for their ancient rusted stove.
Their charity clothes barely i
covered them.
Hall went out one night to a
truck mine to steal some coal
for their fire, when a ton of
slag . rocklike coal mine
waste crashed down on him.
Although his cries for help were
heard, he lay helpless for sev
eral hours with a shattered pel
vis and a crushed chest. Hall is
a "yellowdog," a member ' of
the Southern Labor Union, the
rival of the United Mine Work
ers in the Tennessee coal coun
try. "I didn't care if he was a
yellerdog or a black man," said
Amy Marlow, a grizzled and
toothless woman in her 60s. "He
said he was stealing coal
to keep his family warm and I
helped him." Amy said a group
of men who heard Hall call for
help refused to aid him because
he is a "yellerdog."
Work Is Scarce
Besides what he can make
from bootlegging mountain
whisky, Carl Miller sometimes
earns $15 a Week cutting the
wooden beams that are used for
support in the truck mines. His
family, a wife and seven chil-
Abysmal
(Poverty
of Appalach
lans
dren, live atop a high mountain
in a broken-down shanty.
Recently, he was fined $9
plus court costs for refusing to
send four of his children to
school, down a dangerous, wind
ing make-shift road covered
with "red dog" slag from
the mines.
"My kids didn't have any
shoes," he said. "Would you
walk down that road without
any shoes on?"
Miller's son, Henry, 13, is a
frail boy with the physique of a
nine-year-old. He lay feverish
with a torn baseball cap on his
head. The room in the clap-
Court Records
CIRCUIT COURT
Erneit M. Mlngua vs. Vivlenne
H. Mingus. divorce complaint. ,
Maxlne Mee vs. Frank J. MM.
divorce decree.
Mike M. Tepovac va. Minnie Ola
Tepovac, divorce decree.
Dorothy M. Dobson vs. William
L- Dobson, divorce decree.
Ruby M. Watson vb. Glen O.
Watson, divorce decree.
Sharee Lue Bross va. Ralph Ger
ald Bross, divorce complaint.
Kenneth Howard Luney vs. Ge
neva Juanita Luney, divorce de
cree. Judith Kathleen Gayer vs. Wil
Ham Arthur Geyer. divorce decree.
Diane Frazier va. Robert Wes
ley Frailer, divorce decree.
Nina .Lorene Gregory vs. Harold
James Gregory, divorce decree.
Beverly L. Saltmarsh vs. Melvin
L, Saltmarsh, divorce decree.
Mary Ann Haleck vs. Ernest R.
Haleck, divorce decree.
Ada Parke vs. Fvancis Wayne
Parke, divorce decree.
Fred J. Boice vs. Marjorle Boice,
divorce complaint.
Robert Timothy Daily VI. Jean
Daily, divorce complaint.
Mildred M. Jewett vs. WUbert F.
Jewett, divorce complaint.
Lorrain Backus Hutchinson vs.
James E. Hutchinson, divorce
complaint.
Grace Eudell Rodgers vs. Ed
ward Henry Rodgers, divorce com
plaint. Billy Joe Cave va. Lillian P.
Cave, divorce complaint.
Mary Ruth Mcelroy va. Wayne
Wiltsey McElroy, divorce com
plaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS : '
Lee Goddard, Route 1. Box 521,
Talent, and Jonette Lynn Tibbetts,
Bandon.
' LeRoy Ray Stubbletleld, 330 Van
Ness St.. Ashland, and Barbara
Rankin Martin, 111 S. Laurel St.,
Ashland.
Verlyn Gene King, General De
livery, Central Point, and Jacque
line Ann McCollom. Portland.
James Jon Susee, 324 Liberty
St., Ashland, and Ellen Marie
Ward, 655 Frances Lane, Ashland.
board shack was cold. His sick
bed was fashioned out of wood
en crates. His mother was nurs
ing a five-week-old baby in the
next room. .
Henry was seriously ill. Be
sides a fever, he had a pain in
his chest and complained that
he had difficulty breathing.
There would be no doctor.
There wasn't even an aspirin.
, Forgotten Land .
Junior Hall, Carl Miller and
young Henry are a few of the
4,000 inhabitants of Clear Fork
Valley, an almost forgotten
strip of land comprising the
once-abundant , towns of Fonde,
Pruden, Valley Creek, Clair
field, Eagan, Anthras and Mor
ley lying on Tennessee Highway
90 just south of the Kentucky
state line.
Fifteen years ago, before the
great labor battles in the Ten
nessee coal fields, the valley
prospered in the post-war indus
trial boom. About 3,000 men
worked some of the richest coal
mines in the Southeast. The
coal is still in abundance today,
but the valley is decayed and
dying.
Just ten years ago, a tobacco
chewing oldtimer testified, an
unwed mother and her child
would have been run out of the
valley on the next Southern
Railways train passing through
Clairfield. Today, promiscuity
is quietly condoned and lorae
times encouraged to bring
checks that will buy food.
The state of Tennessee pays
$50 for the first child, and up
to $99 for subsequent produc
tion, in monthly welfare checks
as long as the unwed mother
cannot, or does not, identify
the father.
Try To Help
"We don't have much in this
valley in the way of money,"
said Baitor Davis, a big man
with huge hands and feet who
mines in the valley when there
is work. -"We got plenty of love,
though, andwe all try to help
everybody out."
Davis and his wife, Frankie,
have 13 children.. When he 'is
able to work, he usually makes
$4 a day. His family survives
the winter huddling around a
coal stove on an almost -solid
diet of bread and beans, plus
what their 10 school-age chil
dren can bring home from their
free lunches.
Trying to exist from day to
day amidst sickness and disease
is a fact of life in Clear Fork
Valley. Recently at least 50 per
sons were stricken with deadly
hepatitis in the valley. A few
died and many will never be
fully cured. Its source has not
been found. Social diseases are
rampant, as are other forms of
human sickness and suffering.
The people of this valley feel
orphaned by their county, their
state and their country.
"The only time we get to see
one of those county politicians"
said one man "is around elec
tion time." Very few of the
valley people have heard of
none remember ever seeing
their congressman, Rep. James
(Jimmie) H. Quillen, R-Tenn.
Land Is Leased .
Most of the land in the valley
is owned by the British - held
company, American Land, Ltd.,
which leases to residents and
to small coal entrepreneurs.
The inhabitants of the valley
lease the land for about $20 a
year and build their shacks
from the surrounding woodlands
During the times of steady
paychecks, there were four
churches in the valley and their
poorboxes were full. There was
little need for cnarlty clothes
and welfare checks to buy food.
But then when the great labor
troubles came, the valley's econ
omy soared in a downward
spiral.
Now, there is very little work
in the valley. Company after
company comes in and digs out
the coalfields with their own
men. Miners are without jobs,
and families are without food.
And recently, the minister of
the local Baptist church said he
was leaving the valley. There is
a padlock on the church's door.
Increasing Flow of
Tourists Noted in
Panama Canal Zone
By MURRAY J. BROWN
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPD-See the
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car in an hour-and-a-half.
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than in any other Latin Ameri
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work started on the Panama
Canal. But most were members
of the armed forces or employ
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increasing flow of tourists in re
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Arango, director of the Panama
Government Tourist Bureau.
She attributes this to several
factors more Americans stop
ping over en rouie 10 soutn
America by plane, more cruise
ships making calls, and the
new Pan American Highway.
"There's a new look to tour
ism in Panama," said Miss Ar
ango. "Visitors will discover a
combination of old attractions,
new exotic destinations and the
best hotel accommodations, res
taurants and sanitary facilities
in Central America. Tourists
can enjoy what we describe as
the unusual, the unique and the
impossible as compared with
any other resort area in ' the
world.'' ;
Reversed Sun-rises '.
The VimDossible" haooens
during the 50-mile trip across
tne continent via the fully-paved
Boyd - Roosevelt Highway. The
Isthmus curves so that the Pa
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the Atlantic coast. So the tour
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over the Pacific and go down
over the Atlantic.
It takes only 90 minutes to
drive from ocean to ocean.
After you've seen the impos
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try the unusual and the unique.
"Marvel at tne miracle ot the
Panama Canal"' where huge lin
ers are luted as nigh as 85 feet
above sea level as they cross
the isthmus, she said.
"See the romantic, ruins of
the oldest cities on the Ameri
can mainland. Or go on safari
to the unexplored Darlen jungle
still unchartered and with many
regions where no civilized man
has yet set foot. Visit the un
spoiled San Bias Islands in the
Caribbean where 'Indian women
still wear gold nose-rings."
Miss Arango said there are
countless other attractions
such as the Summitt Gardens,
a 300-acre picnic ground and
botanical park in the Canal
Zone with more than 15,000
different species of tropical
trees and plants, or the honey
moon haven of Boquete in. the
mountains amid a profusion of
tropical and temperate flowers.
Or you can take a "railroad"
trip through' the giant Chiriqui
land banana plantation, one ot
the world's largest. Your
coach" will be an iron-wheeled
gas - engine truck which will
have to compete with cars com
ing from the other direction on
the single track as well as with
chickens, mules, horses . and
plantation workers.
" ' Jungle Trips
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trips aboard piraguas, large
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Americans will have no diffi
culty with either language or
money. Most Panamanians
speak English and the Balboa,
Panama's largest unit of cur
rency, is always on par with
the U.S. dollar. :
Waldo Lake Road
Contract To Be Let
PORTLAND (UPI) A con
tract will be let next spring for
development of an access road
into scenic Waldo Lake In the
Cascades, t h e Association of
OiC Counties was told Tuesday.
Thomas E. Utterback, chief of
the road section in the Forest
Service's division of engineering
gave the association a report on
plans for the lake area. Waldo
lake is southwest of Bend on
the Cascade crest at the 6,000
foot level, and is Oregon's sec
ond largest lake.