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6IX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE . Bundar. Sept. 24. 1944 MEDFORD ,Teibune "Everyone In Southern Orecon Heidi lilt Mali Tribune" Dailr Except Siturdir Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-M North Fir St. Phono 2141. ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. ERNEST R. Gli-STKAP, Meneger. Local Extension Service As far as the local Experiment Stations are con- jcerned, and the work the county agents are doing, we can t here in southern uregon, see tne iorest oecause of the trees. In other words most of us, including the present writer, are so close to the extension work and so accustomed to it, that we fail to realize how important it all is, and how essential to our material well being. It is probably not much of an exaggeration to main- to In tlint VnA tViiao cf'ifinnc nayni Vioon isctnHliQrlPfl ly Carrier In Advance Mcnrora, vciii mo uuu ..... vv.w.," . - u..ooin Hiir?hnu:W.nr.nd ana mis nonicuiturai ana agricultural researcn anu on motor routee: ioYnoHtnonhtinti npvpr hppn flntlP. instead of the IirO- ductS of our soil being worth $20,000,000 the total would not exceed $2,000,000. An Independent Newipeper. fcntered u second elw mitter at Mediord. OreKon, under Act of March 3. 1810. SUBSCRIPTION RATES y Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year ... 7 50 Pally and Sunday elx monthe J 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. 2-10 Dallv and Sunday one month.. .75 Dally and Sunday one year.... 19 00 Daily and Sunday one montn .70 All terms cash In advance. brflrlal Paper of the City of Mediord Official Paper of Jackion County United Preit Full Leaaed Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilnc Reprejentatlve WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offlcee In New York. Chlcao, De. trolt, San FrancUco. Loi Anaelee. so ttle. Portland, St. Loula. Atlanta, VnncmiverIBMMaMt Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry The fisrt Dewey-Bricker cam paign button showed up locally In mid-week. It was on the coat lapel of a 12-Y.I.E.D. (12 years Is enough, democrat.) e e Autumn was ushered In at 8:02 Frl. eve. The name of the- usher was not revealed by the weatherman. e G. Averill, the former B. Falls sea-dog, armed with the trusty sapling, he thinks Is a cane, came in from the suburbs to get his clock. He averred he could make a new one in the time It takes to fix an old one. e e New autos are due next year. They will have a lot of fancy do- dads. Like the pre-war cars, they will pay for themselves iij six months, but never do It. e The government as yet has no plan cooked up for the control of Germany when victory and surrender comes. One way would be to turn the persecuted peo ples of conquered lands, and the kin of massacred thousands loose on the 'sacred soil', and have the MPs look the other way. 4) Though the woods were full of hunters, Including a few from hem, not a movement behind a California bush was shot the first week of the deer season. e The mornings have been quite chilly causing a decided drift of the socklcss feminine set to the sunny side of the street. e The Vice-President, fully re covered from the Chicago con vention, where he was accident ly stabbed In the back, in his first stump speech Thurs. feared a 'Hoover panic'. Others fear all the little pigs will be killed and every third row plowed under. e e Skunks are reported quite plentiful In some rural regions. They are kittenish, gentleman ly, and law-abiding, until men tioned in the same breath with Herr Hitler. It Irks them to have Adolf called a skunk. e e e Grade kids started to school last Mon. One little girl report ed she had not had her fashion able pig-tail hair-do pulled, and was disappointed. Teen-age girls are wearing rolled up over alls, and cowboys shirts with the tall unfurled. Hollywood stuff! e e e Leaves hove started to fall. It will not be long until they clut ter up the lawns faster than the Older Girls can make their men folks rake them up. The pear season Is now at its peak. Not a one of tho dire would happen to them, have things horticulturists TWO weeks ago representatives of the Extension Service at Corvallis, accompanied by members of the Extension committee of the State Board of Higher Education, visited Medford, and spent two days in specting the County Agent's and Experiment station's work in this section of the state. Here is the official report of this visit written by Mr. Mack Hoke, of Pendleton, chairman of the com mittee, which we believe will be of genuine interest to the people particularly showing how a student of agricultural problems, from a distant section of the state, views the local work : The Medford Branch Station The committee visited the Medford branch station for several hours September 7 and saw how the problems of the pear growers are being solved there. This station is working on the reduction of cost of production through improved irrigation and fertility practices. It has obtained remarkable results through lighter pruning of 13osc pears, greatly in creasing yields and thus reducing production costs. The pear industry transcends other enterprises in Jack son county, with more than 400 growers engaged in it on some 10,000 acres of orchard. The estimated income this year is from 8 to 10 million dollars, which certainly justifies all the attention being given the industry by the Experiment station and Extension service. Pear growers follow the results at the station closely. Southern Oregon Branch Station at Talent At the Southern Oregon Branch Station which we visited September 8 we found Dr. Keimer working successfully to eliminate pear tree fire blight through the use of Chinese resistant root stocks. He is improving pear color through spraying and eliminating russetling by using a new material, formate, as a scab spray. Dr. Reimcr also appears to have developed a blight resistant tomato which yields excellent fruit for canning at the proper season. This is an outstanding accomplishment following years of research. This station is also conducting field crop research on a new tract nearby, testing different varieties and cultural practices with alfalfa, corn, soy beans and other crops, and trying out fertilizers designed to overcome the effects of excess spray residue in soils. Jackson County Extension Work In Jackson county we had opportunity to see principal phases of tho Emergency Farm Labor program as conducted by tho Extension service for the second season. Service observed included local recruitment and placement, Mexican mobile camps, placement of transient workers, and training pear packers. We were advised that, for the state as a whole, 176,000 placements were made in 1943, and that the numbers placed this year will be much greater. We found enthusiastic acceptance of this Extension activity by the fruit growers, livestock men and farmers generally. In Jackson county we also heard of the excellent work of tho county agent In promoting the dairy Industry which has grown with the introduction of ladino clover as an Irrigated pasture plant. Tho county now has 13,000 dairy cows. Here too, 3000 ocres of Bartlctt pears were pruned by methods determined best by the Medford branch station with an estimated increase in production of 30 per cent. The Extension men also demonstrated better methods of pruning peaches, resulting in an acreage expansion from 300 to 1000 acres returning $000,000 this year. Work I( Appreciated The committee hod an opportunity to meet and converse with farmers and homcmakers In all the counties visited. Their attitude toward the experiment station and Extension activities is highly pleasing. They speak in enthusiastic terms of their local leaders nnd they point to the great accomplishments of greater production at lower costs as Justification for the expenditure being made for all such activities. Staff members are devoting long hours to carry on their normal activities and to make the large contribution to tho emergency war food program. It is estimated that the war emergency programs have added about 35 per cent more work to the county extension staffs. The committee commends highly the fine spirit of help fulness and cooperntlon between those In the field of re search and those In Extension. With the excellent leader ship and cooperation so evident at the college, we feel that the future of these activities is well assured. eSION TO PEACE, WAR'S END HELD MAIN NEED Claims 'Falsehoods' Against Hun Says Dictator's Technique Used. (Continued rrora Page One) Mr. Roosevelt said, "a formal plan for the method of speedy discharge from the army had already been announced by the war department a plan based upon the wishes of the soldiers themselves." The president accused the Re publicans of using "the propa ganda technique invented by the dictators" according to which "you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one." Mr. Roosevelt listed a num ber of tasks facing the country: 1. "There is the task of finish ing victoriously this most ter rible of all wars as speedily as Which Shall It Be? jrtr-.:' CUT OUT AND SIGN THIS STRAW BALLOT AND RETURN IT TO THE MAIL TRIBUNE I Intend to Vote For Governor Dewey President Roosevelt li mm O ff 5 1 V v A. Signed . Address DEWEY EXPECTED TO REPLY TO Fl Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. GOP Nominee Hopeful After Western Tour; Rpi Talks In October. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 24, 1934 (It Was Tuesday) Verne Van Dyke lost on hunt ing trip on Upper Elk Creek Is found by searchers. Sunday was coldest Septem ber day here in history, with a low of 46 degrees. Snow falls In southern Ore gon hills. Grand jury told Bernard R. Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnap suspect, given ransom money. Partly cloudy and cool. High 50, low 46 degrees. sion, but from a Democratic de pression. 2. That the administration mil.... ...a- In Ir-nn inpn in the possible and with the least cost ' army when the war is over be ar "Ves. ' .... ' ., ,,,, K iian The Yellow Streak 2. "And there is the task which we face here at home the task of reconverting our economy from the purposes of war to the purposes of peace." "These peace-building tasks were faced once before, nearly a generation ago," he told the Teamsters and a nation-wide radio audience. "They were botched by a Republican ad-' ministration. This must not hap pen this time. We will not let it hannen this time." Mr. Roosevelt made a strong defence of his wartime eco nomic policy, pointing particu larly to the post-war situation in which he said "the keynote of all that we propose to do in re conversion can be found in the one word 'jobs.' " Mr. Roosevelt assailed as "Ri diculous . . . campaign falsifica tions" on the part of the Repub licans, a charee that "this ad ministration failed to prepare for the war which wa? coming." Mentions Ooebbels "I doubt whether even Goeb bels v.n.. fi-- one." he went on to say, adding a counterfire aainst the -Reoubll-can party, charging that "many cause there might be no civilian jobs for them. In the first place, the president said,' if he were a Republican leader "the last word in the whole dictionary that I think I would use is the word 'depres sion.' " Of the second charge which he called a "callous and brazen falsehood about demobilization" in "an effort to stimulate fear j among American mothers, wives and sweethearts, the president said: "The very day that this fan tastic charge was first made, a formal plan for the method of speedy discharge from the army had already been announced by the war department a plan based upon the wishes of the soldiers themselves." STATE INDUSTRY Salem, Ore., Sept. 23 (U.R) One of the greatest opportunities of the Republican leaders in the ever afforded Oregon industries coneress and outside the con gress tried to thwart and block narlv evcrv attcmnt which this administration made to warn our neople and ot arm this na tion." Republican attacks had des cended to "my little doe. Fala." he continued, accusing "Renub llc.m leaders" of spreading "worm-eatpn . . . malicious fa'-ehnods" about him. "But we all recoon'ie the old techniouc," he said to the nudience of about 900 AFL Teamsters union renrcsentatives at Statler hotel dinner, will be the demands of China for goods after the war is over, a report released today by Gov. Earl Snell's post-war readjust ment commission, indicated to day. Quoting "Chinese sources." the report said that 2.000,000. 000 feet of lumber will be need ed for shelters In China with 100,000 tons of hardwore and an unestlmable amount of cement. China will need 1,200,000 tons of white whea'. flour immedi ately after the war. The report said it cost more to transport wheat from one end of the coun- ROLE OF SOLOMON FACED BY JUDGE '"Hie people of this country trv lo tne other tnan tlld from know the past too well to be de- tne Columbia river to Shanghai. celved into forgetting. Too much is at stake to forget. There are tasks ahead of us which we must now comdete with the same will and skill and intelligence and dnvnt'nn wM-h have already led us so far on the road to victory." Mr. Ronrevelt started in at the outset with an attack on the Republican campaign which had thus far been outlined primarily by Dowcy, remarking that the fact that he was "four years older" seemed "to annoy some peonle." I He said that people who have I deprecated the accomplishments' of labor as "unpatriotic" for! uirec years aim six monuis nave Hollywood, Sept. 23 (U.R) Blonde Tonl St. John tonight made up a shopping list of S100 worth of booties and blankets and other such things for her unborn baby with Cowboy Actor Rod Cameron ordered to foot the bill. Whether Cameron Is the fath- a 1. .. ..... 1. .1.:.. j i :.., suddenly discovered now that Lt , latt.r date hBowevcrt ,lldge "they really love labor and are eager to protect It from Its old friends." Gets Laugh "I got quite a laugh," the president snid. over a plank In tho Republican platform ac- Th( bullv always has a vcllow streak or he wouldn't fe.r.d he a bu v. For a bullv is one who hurts or browbeats i "KV" lament. wnM h.nn.n i h.m r..v i . .". . . i . -n. """" muur rciauons aci. me ik'. -.smaucr ann weaner peonie, out never mixes wun come to pass. . i. . .! ' iii inose oi nis own size, u u can ue neijieu. When it can't be helped, and the bully is forced to tackle someone his own size he invariably quits and squawks, he can dish it out, he can't take it Goodwin J. Knight ruled. "I'd have to- be another King Solomon to decide this case," Judge Knight said after hearing testimony that many male vis itors were seen In Miss St John's exclusive Sunset Towers apart- E. Kubll of the Applegate towned In mid-week. Ho had a great hustle and bustle on practically all hustle. The B. Tornado scrunrhed Weed Fri. eve In the first tussle of the season, and noble. Unsightly woodpiles adorn the residential areas. Many are faced with the war time problem of getting the fuel Into the wood ihed. H. Dunn, the former qb. and as. no wof Central PA. finished harvesting his onions last week, and had a good crop. He hears there is a shortage of same. st grid! THE essential spirit of both tho Nazi and Nippon ail did! armies has been this bullv spirit. Against weaker or even defenseless foes, as during the first invasion of France and the conquest of the Philippines, the soldiers of Hitler and llirohito were very brave and tough. Rut now that the tide has turned, there are innumerable reports of varied and assorted yellow streaks developing. In Europe it is reliably reported Nazis are surren dering voluntarily at the rate of 2000 a day. In the South Pacific, the Japs still prefer suicide to surren der, but the hardv, fearless, conquering spirit of the This week John Mann has' early days of Hataan, is said to be declining steadily, and in some of the smaller engagements has been completely absent. been at his store 34 years. When he opened up tho Nash Grill orchestra played from S to 8. Salinas, Cal . Sept. 23 U.R) Testimony in the murder trial of Mrs Frances Andrews. Car mcl societv matron charged with laying 10-year-old farmboy Joy Lovett, will begin Monday a the prosecution presents Its case In n attempt to prove that the de- fu . , f-nrlani mhnl nH killM Ik. hnv I till I till ILI LEADER OF CALIFORNIA, DEAD Los Angeles, Sept. 23 (U.R) Harry Chandler, former pub lisher of the Los Angeles Times and for half a century a leader in Southern California civic de velopment, died today, a week after he suffered a heart attack while walking ir his beloved Los Feliz hills. Death came quietly at his room in the Good Samaritan hospital, where he was rushed after his attack. He remained conscious until early this morn ing, when he lapsed into a sleep from which he never awoke. His wife, Marian Otis Chandler, and several of his seven chil dren were en route to the hos pital when he died. For five decades Chandler was a forceful factor in the com munity. The Times remained his first and greatest interest, but he had a wide reputation as a patron of the arts, a pro moter of education and culture, a banker, stockraiser, real es tate developer, and director of some 35 California corporations. Following in the footsteps of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, found er of the Times, Chandler vig orously championed the princi ple of "true industrial freedom", with furtherance of industrial peace and stability through the open shop. The Los Angeles Civic Cen ter and the Union railroad sta tion originated as ideas of Chandler and the Times. Chandler also was the father of the Los Angeles aqueduct by which domestic water supply for the metropolis is carried 250 miles from the Owens Valley. He sponsored irrigation devel opment of the Imperial Valley and urged control of the tur bulent Colorado river waters. Chandler was born Mav 17, 1864, at Landaff, N. H. While studying at Dartmouth College he dived into a starch vat cov ered with ice and suffered a subsequent illness that threat ened tuberculosis. This cut short his college education and sent him to California 61 years ago. Sturdy tomato plant will be produced here, following studies by Prof. Reimer. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 24, 1924 (It Was Wednesday) Fans of land excited by close races in both the American and National leagues, with both New York teams battling it out with Brooklyn and Cleveland for the honors. ' Aboard Dewey Special Cam paign Train, Sept. 23 U.PJ iGov. Thomas E. Dewey sped east tonight after a whirlwind campaign through 11 politically important states whose com bined electoral votes will be a major factor In his bid for the . presidency. 1 As the GOP nominee boarded his special train for the return trip home from Los Angeles, he appeared confident of victory in November and was reported "more than optimistic" at re sults of his drive through the western and Pacific Coast states. Dewey will deliver only one j major speech on the trip east in Oklahoma City Monday night but his associates say it will oe "tun of Jigiu. no way iaKe i EIectric power breaks down the opportunity to reply to Pres-1 and MaU Tribune is late Ident Roosevelt, who formally opens his campaign tonight, i Unsettled, probable rain. The New York governor spent High 69, low 38 degrees. 22 days consulting 'with repub-1 , lican leaders and representa-1 fal.em, hlt bv cloudburst rivp nf lahnp. farmprs rnltlp-. oiuim. jmen and businessmen in Penn I sylvania, Kentucky, Michigan, I Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Mon- tana, Idaho, Washington, Ore gon and California. His purpose was to organize the groups be-' hired. hind his campaign and at the same time gather material for future speeches. The states have a total of 131 electoral votes and many are considered "doubtful". Dewey's major argument in six nationwide speeches and nu merous back platform appear ances have been "it's time for a change". He argued the ! Roosevelt administration had j failed to solve the nation's prob lems despite more power and I more money than any previous l administration in history. Scarlet fever now prevalent in county. Attendance as senior hieh school gains, and new teacher Emigrant Dam now ready for the winter rains. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY September 24, 1910 (It Was Sunday) Pioneers of county hold re union at Jacksonville and C. C. Beekman, banker, gave the ad dress of welcome. Fifty per cent of vote In Jack son . county is cast at primary election Friday. Cong. Hawley defeats Attv. At Philadelphia the novernorl3' F' Mulk?y .of Medford for charged the democratic adminis- grf- eMulk Twas en" tration planned to keep men in by .Sen' Bob LaFollette I the army because they had no of Wlsconslnj program for providing postwar Gasoline famine In city end I jobs. He discussed foreign pol- when carload arrive, frnm Port. icy at Louisville, labor at Se- land attie, challenged the "indispen sable man" issue at Portland, discussed the relationship be tween the government and the people at San Francisco and. Large crowd sees Buffalo Bill Wild West show yesterday. BIG BRUSH FIRE Ventura. Cal., Sept. 23 (U.R) last night, at Los Angeles he ! vemura Lal-. Sept. 23-flJ.R) offered a five point social W i A" uncontrolled brush fire to- gram ",Bnl naa rjurnea moo acres in Dewey's associates said he lhewFSt;rhPark ara "lne mi!fs has been saving more potent ar- Puh. f.Jhee ,and temporarily iguments for Octnhor ...m nomes at uasita I throw evprvthirxr k. i i Springs. & ilc un9 III1U I me campaign. While he intends to wage a bitter campaign, he says it will in no way interfere with the war effort but will serve notice on Germany and Japan that "readily free men can fight even harder." ALL 3 FICHINER SONS IN SERVICE CASH in a FLASH FOR YOUR CAR Save Time, Cash & Gas Call AUTOMOBILE MARKET 6th and Bartlett Sti. Phone 3919 No Red Tape When You Sell to Us TTHE end of the war is still far in the distance. But j nature I this lack of spiritual stamina in the enemv forces, j creditv which is really a product of the complete absence of moral stamina, is cheering in one direction: when the final break does come the end will follow soon wage and hour act and the social security act. He went on to characterize Re publican opposition to these statutes as "a fair example of their Insincerity and of their in consistency." He derided the Republican party for attempting to "per suade" the American people that the Democratic party wos re sponsible for the li)2!) depression and that "the Republican party was responsible for all social progress under the New Deal." "Imitation may be the sincer est form of flattery but I am afraid that in this case it Is the most obvious common or garden variety form of fraud." the presi dent observed. Mr. Roosevelt accused his "opposition" of having "Import ed Intu the campaign the propa ganda technique Invented bv the dictMnrs abroad. j bright, but Is plainly visible and "You should never use a small i Is flame color, falsehood." he said in describ- Also the great planet Saturn Ing that technique, "always a i Is now plainly visible as Morn- big one, for its very fantastic Ing Stor in the east, and quite will make It mure bright. In six or eight weeks it will get around to be Evening Star. And at that time the "Big God'' of the Ancients will be Morning Star again. The ancient Creeks called Jupiter the "Big; Communications Mercury, Saturn and Juplttr To the Editor: In regard to the planets that the astronomer tells us will be' near together now, I do not think Mercury can be seen from this valley, when Morning Star, at any time, as it is beyond the mountains. But as Evening Star, Mercury can be seen most any time when the almanac says Mercury Is "full" at dusk In the evening. Over along the east edge of the valley, east of Medford, at the east end of Spring street and the "Red Top" school north and south from there Mercury can be .een most any time when It is "full." As Mercury "sets" before the "dark" does, it Is not very CRITICAL LABOR AREA Portland, Ore., Sept. 23 U.R) Oregon Manpower Director L. C. Stoll today declared the Portland-Vancouver area to be the most critical labor-short war production center on the Pacific coast. SAFETY MEET ASSURED Salem, Ore., Sept. 23 (U.R) All sections of the state will be represented at the first annual Oregon Industry safety confer ence, which opens here Monday, according to advance registra tion notices. All three sons of Carl Ficht ncr of 613 South Holly street are now in the armed forces, the last to enter the service being Earl, a 1939 graduate of Med ford high who was inducted Into the army on August 15. He had been employed in the Swan Is- iaiia snipyaras in Portland. , T-4 Warren Fichtncr is in the armv and stationer In tho Smith : west Pacific, and Clyde Fichtner, ! e,-. ...- a iimic mill! 1'lttSS, IS Sia- tioned at Treasure Island whura ! he is an instructor in chemical i warfare. OPERATE TILL 1946 Portland, Ore., Sept. 23 U.B Receipt of a contract that will insure operation of its Portland plant at peak production until 1946. today was announced by Columbia Aircraft Industries. OBITUARY CHASE YOUNG Chase Young passed away at his residence on South Howard avenue Saturday night. A resi dent of Medford fot 20 vears. he was 83 years old. Perl s Funeral Home Is in charge and an obit uary will be published later. Dm Mali TTlbunt Vnt nai. -S'jl.'.?:.' WANTED 50 USED GARS Medford's Larger Buyer Pays Highest Cash Price No Delays. "Ask the man who sold one" HUMPHREY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Dial 4980 STA-0FF) because of Jealousy. le if only you keep re peating it over and over again." "Hitler Patttrn" He attributed to the Republi cans two propaganda lines dem onstrating the HitK-r pattern: 1. That the nation was saved I .When the going gets tOUgh the bully quits quick! Inot from a' Republican drprevi Edwin Shipley, Sardine Creek. i CORN REMOVER Cli tamnf tl!t (rem pio And Mt tiTlr ffmoni h4rd ccrnt. toft rorni pipUlsma. dak Milt. H MttUtai Nf tl dk(1ril Ut lfel often. Itcni ftnd tfo Bi catiw tit trriuitoa w 4 itm cM mistur. Wha u tarn U9 Ui)xt trr uut IoM Exclutivtly at WESTERN THRIFT Want To Earn Some Easy Money? WE ARE PAYING i2-CENT EACH FOR SMALL FIR CONES OW can use any quantity of these small cones.-bur they must be this year's crop. Now is the time to gather them while it's dry. These small cones are worth li tent each cash. Come in and let us show you a sample of the type of fir cone in which we are interested. BLUE GOOSE GIFT PACKAGE DEPARTMENT AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, Inc. NEW FIR STREET PLANT
