Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 08, 1943, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX SBQIKES JUNI COLLIDE TONIGHT WITH GJASS FIVE Game at Medford Senior High Gym Will Open Con ference Scramble. Medford Junior high school basketball team tangles tonight with the Granta Pass junior hitch five at the Medford aenior high school gymnasium in the open ing conference game for the lo cal team. Last year the Medford junior high team took the south ern Oregon conference title In successful season under the tutoring of Norman Worthley, now in training at Norfolk, Va., a chief petty officer in the U.S. nr.vol physical education pro gram. George Harrington, physical education Instructor at junior high school announced this morning the tentative lineup tor tonight's game. At forward po sitions will be Jerry Ross and Aubrey Davis; center, Derrill Riggs; gnnrds, Glen Bostwlck and Bob Watson. Prelim at 7 P. M. The game begins at 8 o'clock and will be preceded by pre liminary at 7 o'clock when the Medford eighth grade team (aces the Grants Pass eighth graders. Officials for the junior high squabble will be Floyd Baker and Walter Kresse. COAST BASEBALL DAMPER FEARED San Francisco, Jan. 8 CU B War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt's statement that base ball players are not essential to the war effort may mean drop- Jiing of the regular Pacific coast eague schedule this season In favor of weekend doublehead- ers, Charles Graham, owner of the San Francisco Seals, said to day. "Coast baseball will not be able to operate si days a week because players in war work will be asked to stay on their jobs," Graham said. , McNutt probably Is preparing 'owners for such a ruling, the Seals' owner added. F TITLE Cleveland, Jan. 8 (U.R) Jim my Bivlns, Cleveland Negro, to day was only a step away from the wartime light-heavyweight championship left behind by Gus Lesnevich when he Joined the coast guard. Blvins ,who will meet Anton Chrlstoforidis, former titlehold er, for the National Boxing asso ciation's "duration" crown, punched his way to a one-sided 10-round victory over Cincin nati's Euard Charles before 10, 33S at the arena last night Cage Scores By United Press Virginia Military Academy 41, William & Mary 38. Virginia 49, Hampden-Sydney 40. Indiana State 57, Valparaiso 40. Washington and Leo 38, Ro anoke 33. Duquvsne 83, Waynrsburg 25. Duke 80, Davidson SO. Utah Aggies 82. Idaho 48. Villanova 41, Geneva 38. Fights Last Night By United Press Cleveland Jimmy Blvtns. 174Vs, Cleveland, outpointed Es- zard Charles. 1S5V. Cincinnati (10); Joe Plrrone, 1281. Cleve land, outpointed Joey Archibald. 1261,4, Pawtucket, R. I. (8). 3 Negro Soldier Die in Gas Room Florence, Ariz, Jan. 8 (UfB Three negro soldier died In Arizona's lethal gas chamber to day for the murder of a cab driver Just a year ago. It was the first triple-execution in state history and the firt time that tht state prison chamber had been used In more than two years. . J. C. Levlce, 22, Charles Sand ers, 22, and Crady B. Cole, 29. died shortly .before dawn for the fatal beating and stabbing of Coy Carroll Quails, Bisbe. Arli., cab driver, one year and tour nours bcior. East Down, LA -' 'Z.-r J !.-. t.-?" i K&Jr,J. If i" - Ean Francisco. Cel. W.shinjton State Halfback Bob Kenne dy (arrow) of the West All-Star team. Is spilled by Columbia's Paul Governall of the East All-Stars, after S-yard gala In San Francisco's Shrine charity football game. Also coming in on the play is Nick Susoaff (right), Washington State end. Governali's passing sparked the East to sensational 13-12 victory over the West. After the War Babson Forecasts New Washington, D. C, Jan. 8 Next to the spiritual condition of the nation the full employment of its people is of primary importance. Under normal conditions about 49,000,000 are gainfully employed. Today this has gone up to about 55,000, 000; while during the depths of the depression of the 1930s there were only 35,000,000 so employed with 10,000,000 un employed walking the streets. Of these, probably 2,500,000 wera unemployable. No Reason for Panle When Wlndup Cornea Without doubt the United States and Canada will be faced with a big unemployment prob after World War II. Not only will 10,000,000 men be returning from the army, navy and air forces to their homes but another 10,000,000 or more now working in war plants, shipyards, etc, temporarily at least, will be thrown out of work. To the av erase statistician the situation looks dark and unsolvable. Yet there is no reason for getting panicky. To begin with there will be a tremendous "consumer de mand" after the war. People will stampede for new automo biles, new refrigerators, new ra dios and new appliances of all kinds from kitchen utensils to farm Implements. Moreover, the people will have the money and bonds to pay for these things. Merchants will again stock up with goods which means that manufacturers must quickly "convert" and re-employ millions of people. Capitalism to Face Self-Governlng Test During the years directly fol lowing peace, employers should forget themselves in order to save themselves. Many millions will be tired and sick of ration ing, price-fixing and government Inefficiency. The businessmen will then have a real chance to throw off the "ball and chains" which the New Deal has put upon them. To do this, however, we employers must assume more responsibility and must make a greater effort to give employ ment than we ever have in the past. Unless businessmen do then wake up and assume leadership, the free-enterprise system may get a severe beating. These re turning soldiers will be In no mood to see factories needlessly shut down. Then the Commun ist and other radicals will come forward with crazy plans which will make the New Dralers look like hard-shelled Republicans Ves, the unemployment problem must then fearlessly be met and solved, or elsel Need No New Plans To Prevent Trouble No new committees need be formed nor new reports need be Issued. The files of the Depart ment of Labor contain volumin ous studies on how unemnlov ment can be reduced during a de pression. These plana range from raising the school age and art ting women back Into the homes, to the quota systems In which I waa so much Interested ten years ago. We will not need new pians lor worn, out ralrier we will need merely to work the plans we have. Here at Washington I have heard of plans to turn some of the great government buildings, now full of clerks. Into a mam moth National University for re turning soldiers. These plans also include branches of this treat university in different sections of the country using empty mu nition planU for school rooms ana laboratories: while the stu dents can live In the new houses now occupied by war workers j It is estimated that this new Na ! MEDFORD MAIL West 13-12 - i Employment Technical Colleges tlonal University may have an enrolment of 1,000,000 students! What About Our Ivy Colleges? Of course, such a plan will be fought bitterly both by the old line endowed colleges like Har vard, Yale, Princeton, etc., and also by the state universities which have great political lnflu ence. On the other hand, the thousands of college professors now working for the government are behind the plan. My own guess is that the decisions will be made, not by those who now have desk jobs of any kind, but by those who are now risking their lives for us in, the four quarters of the globe. Vocational Education Vs. the Cultural Certainly, after World War II, college education will be revolu tionized. Its cost will be greatly reduced; Its "high hat" attitude wll be crushed; and the courses will be too much "mora prac tical." Personally, I am rather sorry about the latter. A cul tural education Is like the foun dation of a house. A family which Is building a home should not spend all its money on the foundation; but It certainly should not build without a foun dation and this should be a good foundation. With the surplus of empty buildings and idle ma chine tools after World War II. there, however, will be a great temptation to use many of them for teaching trades, vocations and so-called practical subjects. Boy Slayer Faints When Threat Told Chinook, Mont., Jan. 8 (U.B Leslie Scifers, 17, preserved an air of nonchalant composure tor tnree weeks after he con fessed killing his high school sweetheart, then fainted in court when a witness testified he once said he planned to kill his mother. The witness was Evelyn Nel son, telephone operator at Har lem, who appeared yesterday at Leslie's sanity hearing. The youth s attorneys are attempt ing to prove he was Insane when he shot Elaine Allen. 15 to death with a rifle at the Har lem home of his parents two days before Christmas. TEA BALLS STANDARD w ashlngton. Jan. 8 (U.R) The War Production board to day standardized tea-halls in two sizes of ZOO or 250 balls a pound. t.nminatlon of about 12 sizes will spread the tea supply more effectively and ease the nrnhlem of setting price ceilings, it was saia. ''"""'""'"aaaBBBBaaaBBBBBajaBBBBBBBB SLICED DRIED WL 00.. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. HALF HOLIDAY FOR MOST TIN CANS IN Students Promised Time Off For Largest Pile of Sal vaged Containers. "Hello, Mrs. Housewife. I go to Junior high school. Do you h ive any tin cans for the na tional salvage drive?" That will be the most popular talk In Medford next week as Medford's part in the national tin can campaign which opens ' "onday and will continue for a week. Prizes are to be awarded to the home room and instructor that brings in the largest amount of tin cans prepared properly. The prize will be a half holi day on a Friday, E. H. Hedrick stated today. And that is some thing every school student in Medford will be working for during the coming week. He em phasized, however, that cans not properly prepared will be re jected from the contest and will not count for the room. How to Prepare Housewives were instructed again today in the proper meth od of preparing tin cans for the campaign. First remove the la bel from the can and wash can thoroughly. Then cut each end from the can, flatten the can and insert the ends in the can and lay aside in a box for collec tion. When cans are prepared in this manner they take little stor age space. Everyone In the city is expect ed to be "all-out" in this latest nation-wide campaign for criti cal materials. The cans will be gathered from the schoolhouses and sent to centers throughout the nation where critical materi als will be taken from the cans to keep the factories and defense plants in running oruer. TORCH DEATH TRY TO Fresno, Cal., Jan. 8 (U.F9 Bail of $50,000 was set today for John T. S. 'Clark, SO, Sanger. Cal., civic leader, and former city councilman, arrested yes terday on charges of attempted murder of his wife and arson. Clark is accused of throwing gasoline through a window on a burning heater in the bath room of his home where his wife was taking a shower bath, last Saturday. Mrs. Clark was burn ed on her arms, legs and feet. District Attorney James Theu sen said "although he denies any connection, all clues and evi dence indicate that Clark actual ly attempted the murder. He will be arrlgned in Sanger on Saturday." Mrs. Clark, 50, a church lead er, is in a Sanger hospital. GARDENTOlLS IN LIMITED STYLES Washington, Jan. 8 (U.R) You'll be able to get a new hoe or rake to do your gardening next spring, but the selection to choose from will be limited. The War Production board Is sued an order today eliminating approximately 700 separate items among the various sizes and styles of hand tools. The V-'PB said that after May 8 the tools must be fabricated from carbon steel, .ather than alloy steel. The estimated steel sav ing will be from 800 to 1,000 tons annually. Today's order covered rakes, hoes, forks, hand cultivators, and numerous other hand gar dening Implements. Shovels, spades, axes, hatchets, hammers, siws, sledges, and picks were Included under previous simpli fication orders. ELEVEN EXECUTED FOR BLACK MARKET, SPYING London, Jan. 8 (U.R) Radio Berne, reporting from Prague. said today that 11 persons were executed after having been sen tenced by a special court on charges of black market offenses and espionage, according to an exchange telegram agency dlt- patcn. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945 News Behind The News by Paul Mallon ( Continued (rata Pa. Oua) die classes of this middle-class country. I think it is the result or inc oersonal experience of the vast; masses with government in this war. Multitudinous regulations and taxes of centralized Wash-j ington government, which for-; merly hit the rich or business,1 have, for the past year, been hitting every individual. j Each man has found a new political doctrine from this per sonal experience. He has not merely developed Irritations, but he has come in contact with cen-! tralized controls, reforms, "new ways," and he has developed a revulsion against centralized government as an efficient way of running his democracy. He has learned the inefficiencies and inequalities first hand. ... THE administration has indl-j cated 26,000 speakers may be sent out to explain away this trend. It will do no good. You cannot explain away by words something a man already has de cided from personal experience. The weight of the press, the radio and the movies can have; but little effect one way or an-: other. If all were abolished to day, or had been abolished since the start of the war, the dissatis faction would be much more widespread than It is. Such new political sentiments always seek a dramatized, outlet of expressions such as the racial : problem in the South (it takes other forms in the East or West) or jokes about Mrs. Roosevelt and such comparatively less con sequential forms. True, the race problem is crit ical. A spark may touch it off. The South is prepared and will handle the problem in its own way, regardless of advice or in terference from other sections, although the results may be la mentable for all concerned. But my point is that even this problem is based upon personal experience with domestic help, high wages, liquor, and, there fore, beyond argument. It seems to me the only way the government can reach and During the month of December 1942 this bank bought for its own and its lV customers' accounts. U.S. War Bonds totaling $41,968,990 .54 Condensed Statement of Head Office and 41 Branches Resources t dec.31.1941 dec. 31,1942 CashonHandandDuefromBanks $45,606,821.10 - $72,555,015.02 United States Bonds 51.988,045.17 133,966,311.07 Bonds of U. S. Gov't Agencies and Instrumentalities 2,427.193.87 877 624 47 $100,022,060.14 ' $207,398,950.16 Municipal Bonds and Warrants 7.303,950.01 5 041 024 69 Other Bonds 470.387.49 IMfiSSM Loans and Discounts-MNEY IT WORK IN OREGON 62,714.982.16 54.030,792.70 Stock in Federal Reserve "ank 240.000.00 SOOOOoioO Bank Premises, Furniture and Fixtures 2,754,805.77 2710 360 87 Other Real Estate i.00 ' ' ." Customers Liability on Acceptances '. 21.067.35 16 214 24 Interest Earned 370,286.32 666921 99 Other Resources.'. 79,159.69 156,Wo3 Tof a; Resources $173,976,699.93 $270 717 286 4a Liabilities wq.&6m CaP',tal $3,000,000.00 $4,500,000 00 SurPlus 5.000,000.00 5,500,000 00 Undivided Profits 1.840,447.58 1,604,730.28 Reserves for Contingencies 1.920.840.28 l!223 102 94 $ 11,761,287.86 "" ! : $ 12 827 83)77 Reserves Allocated for Taxes. Interest, Etc.. 431.742.18 8,o; Acceptances t...t 22.1225 7,947.76 Interest Collected in Advance . . S22!o53.49 J? Other Liabilities M.746.49 Ueposits .f .11 mipr.K.1 b... 4-4.1,.)...,.. 161,170,747.76 257 09905 1 23 TottllMMties $173,976,699.93 'WO.llUKAS thtrt rw tfjtt Mtptalwt ktuks k Orqui ilrtttly 9Hirntt4 with this kink, with 9 fttfitptslt votmt M eWttW, 3t, mi, f $12,621,909,55 first mmmi mmi OF PORTLAND. OREGON MM.. ,,D.Al .P,,0,,T cure this, as well as tha deeper problem, is by careiiu govern ment reorganization and a Wash ington reformation. . OUR main troubles certainty will ba ameliorated if changes 'n the cabinet and in administration bureaus bring a more- benevolent and efficient direction in regulating, ration ing, drafting, taxing. First, there must coma a First Mortgage Loans on Passbooks and Certificates.. Properties Sold on Contract Real Estate Owned n Investments and Members' Share Undistributed Dividends Loans In Process Specific Reserves General Reserves Undivided Profits 27 North Holly Street eh.nia of attitude. The problem it well illustrated by Leon Hen derson's Sunday night statement, still maintaining that the peo ple had not felt the "real pinch of war, "had felt no pain," "had more money," etc. In this, he assumed, as always, that the gov ernment was doing its part, but the people were having it easy The people do not look at it that way, and no amount of speeches or organized publicity STATEMENT of CONDITION AS OP DECEMBER 31, 1942 ASSETS Loans- Securities.. Cash on Hand and in Banks . . Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment, less Depreciation Total Assets , LIABILITIES Accounts. Total Liabilities . FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDFORD INH.ANC, C0.,0RAT,0N will make them abandon a eos viction founded on thoir persona experience of direct contact with centralized government Unless mutual condition of confidence between government and people is established by tht government taking the first step now (the appointment of Hen derson's successor U an excellent opportunity), the mutually unsat Isfactory condition will continue into serious consequence. $280,470.12 215.34 8.970.28 1.271.89 43,300.00 77.453.89 324.17 ..$412,005.34 ..$387,828.24 . 8.114.34 . 1.278.11 4,313.48 5,664.19 8,810.00 ..1412,005.34 Telephone 4940