EICJHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ' Sunday. Jin; 14. 1948
MEDFORIW-TWBUNE
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ROBERT W BUHL, editor.
S GILSTRA Maneier.
' HIKB OKEV Advertulnl J:
. c FERGUSON ManaSln. Edit"
ARTHUR PERRY . Sunday editor
MRS OLIVE STARCHER. Soc Edl
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Medford Oregon, under Act tf
March S, 187.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Ferry
a nf Arjnlesate cow
men towned Thurs., the excuse
therefor being a wet corral, and
an auction sale north ot town.
The clatter of their high-heel
boots on North Central, remind
ed a lady only recently from the
East of castenets, when handled
by the Boston symphony in a
Spanish piece, she said.
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A Democrat of the old school
called FrI. He longed for the
days of Cal Coolidge when he
was mad at nobody in his own
party, and only Sen. Lodge of
Mass., in the Republican ranks.
Now he is mad at everybody but
Sen. Lodge.
' The law has started rounding
up the still active motorists who
failed to get the new 194S
license stickers, they were
warned to get right after the No
vember votes were counted. .
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The papers predicted last
' week Deanna Durbln, the sweet
singer of the screen, would be
married again, and peace rage
again on earth, early next fall.
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Snow is badly needed in the
hills, and wherever they can get
it, by orchardlsts for next sum
mer's watering.
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Oene Orr writes from the Pa
cific, he was feeling blue Christ
mas Eve, until two packages and
nine letters fell into his lap.
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The stump of the old pin tree
on the Pub. Lib. lawn lingers,
and is not very decorative, lov
ers ot outdoor scenic beauty
claim.
The band of Alaska robins
visiting here passed a resolution
at a mass meeting Wed., wishing
they were back in Alaska, or
even Siberia.
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Quite a number of the young
er married girls have started
rolling their own, due $ the
cigarette shortage. For the most
part, they turned out worse than
their first biscuits.
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H. Flewher, the former demon
baker is now in Italy, also the
race track of Cannonball Jack
son. Dock Durno Is in Luxem
bourg, disgusted with the native
mud and cigars.
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Andrew Jackson Simpson, 73,
the vigorous mountaineer re
ports his home in the Griffin
Creek hills is still calling him.
If it is still yelling at him in the
spring he plans to go back.
. e e e
C. Wing, the apple king, is
back from a brief stay in the
south,
' v..
- Piscatorial enthusiasts have
started varnishing and re-winding
their fishing poles for the
annual all-out drive to catch a
fish. Spade and hoe handles are
never manicured.
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The legislature reports it will
take 60 days to quit, and threat
en a liquor probe, anent the pur
chase ot Kentucky distilleries.
While about it, they might find
out why the state runs out of
American hootch, about the time
a shipment of Demon Porto Rico
rye Is unloaded.
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' Collection ot dog taxes has
started by the county. It is esti
mated there are more than 4000
dogs in this region, most ot
which do their barking at night,
many figure.
The next thing on the tapis Is
Ground Hog Day, Feb. 2. There
will be no formal observance of
the day, as It is not a legal ex
cuse for barber shops to close
and even if gasoline was plenti
ful, it is not time ot the year for
a long auto jaunt.
Cloalng time for Cltuulfled Ada
a. m. Too Let to ClaaaUjr 12:30
UM Mall Tribune. Went Ads
A Desirable Change
The proposal to have two circuit 'judges, one for
TnnlrriAn O 1 "I ATI 0 fnr JnsonMriA rminfv. instead of one
u aCJVOUJi cijtu w wr - -, t
for both, is desirable assuming they are given the
legal duties of the present county judges.
Unless this is done, however, there would not be
iH- wnrlr fnr tha .Tosenhine county iudee.
and the added expense to
justified. .. m
The present plan, nowever, ia io nave una uaiuuei
fmm thft pmintv to the circuit courts;
Ul icgai uutiwu ... w,
so all in all the proposal
should be passed.
TJRNING over probate and juvenile court concerns
to the county judge perhaps had certain justifica
tion in pioneer days, but has none today, and hasn't
had for a Jong time.
TVio enricn soi-nn liAR been illopncal and impracti
cal. Had the character and- quality of county judges
here in Jackson county, not been, with a few excep
rVnhlv hie-h. the results mierht have been
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serious, and so costly and
would long ago nave insisted
THE county judge should be chairman of the county
commission responsible for the administration of
county affairs, an important job but one where special
knowledge of the law and court procedure is not
required.
The circuit judge should be m charge of all court
and legal affairs in the county, probate, juvenile,
civil, criminal and what have you.
Under such a system, two judges in Jackson and
Josephine counties would
The state of course would
so such a change would not
The Reds March On!
The Lublin eovernment of Poland has started to
split up the large Polish estates and turn them over
to the peasants. The exiled government of Poland at
London to indulge in extreme understatement,
doesn't like this.
That is just too bad!
The Polish government
consolation there is in the
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
OR:
"Possession is II points in the law."
Either one of which will exnlafn why the likes or
dislikes of the exiled government, as far as Poland
is concerned, is not going to affect the matter one
way or the other.
THE Lublin government is
the London government
not onlv has the moral and
Russia, but if need be the
The combination will
Polish eovernment in exile. or any other govern
ment or any combination of governments for that
matter. The Lublin government is going to do as it,
anduncle'Jo, damn pleases.
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A ND of course the breaking up of large estates and
turning them over to the peasants is one of the
first acts of any orthodox
The turning over of all private property and private
industry, as well as all natural resources to the state,
will eventually follow as a
That is what a government "friendly to Kussia"
means, and will mean in the future all the way from
Chungking, China to the English channel and perhaps
beyond.
There is, as things look now, no way of stopping it
DUT we hope there will be eventually SOME way,
whereby if the people of a country don't WISH to
take orders from Moscow, and don't wish a totali
tarian form of government even as benevolent as the
Kremlin claims, such a people can set up the type of
government they do want
That as we understand
idea, and of course it is unquestionably the right idea,
from every democraticstandnoint
PERHAPS a majority of the people of Poland DO
want communism, or wnai passes as communism
in the former land of the Czars. Perhaps they DO
want to live within the
Ok, let them do so.
But let the fact be known in the only way it can
be known, by an open and
guessed at or arbitrarily
mestic and alien influences
benefitted by it ,
THAT'S all.
Tnv tAAnnlt. tViiriV fV.
..A u jr pen pit Miittn ui
ment is the best form yet
the people, ALL ' the
spheroid of dirt. Well if
stop it
But this department believes, and believes strong
ly, it ISN'T!
However whether it is
in this particular case.
lhe point is simply this:
If this war means anything it means an end to the
practice of any nation forcing any form of govern
ment on any other nation, against its popular will.
It means the right of self-government, the right of
any people to decide what form of government they
want, the decision to be the result not of bullets but
of ballots. i
Such a decision has NOT been made in Lublin,
Poland.
Until it is, England, America, the entire democratic
world should oppose it I ,
the state would not be
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is sound and the measure
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destructive that the people
upon a cnange.
be needed.
bear the added expense,
add to the local tax totals.
.
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of London can find what
well. known adage:
not only IN Poland, while
is NOT; but the former
official support of Soviet
Russian army to call on.
be just too mucn tor tne
communist government.
matter of course. .
it is the Anglo American
Russian zone of influence.
a free plebiscite : not be
imposed, by powerful do
that would be selfishly
T?iico? o n fnrTM rP rrrwravry-.
.vuooiuii iviiu v. s .
devised for the benefit of
people, on this whirling
it is, nothing is going to
or isn t, is beside the point
Nothing To Bank On
It is to be noted General Bradley follows the ex
ample set by one "boss" Secretary of War Stimson
and another boss, General Eisenhower that this re
cent offensive of the Germans in the Ardennes sec
tor, may shorten the war bring Germany's defeat
sooner than had been expected. .
Of course it "MAY." In this war of surprises any
thing can happen.
Bui this cheering interpretation of Marshall von
Rundstedt's unexpected smash is in the humble and
non-military judgment of this department chiefly a
bucket of whitewash. .
And the best evidence of this is that everyone in
Washington who has anything to do with the con
duct of this war, is ACTING on the assumption that
this offensive was not only a definite setback but
will inevitably delay the
not hasten it.
Moreover we have yet to
pert who supports the Bradley-Stimson-Eisenhower
interpretation. Even the optimistic Charles Bolte, the
Charles Bolte the Nation s
Nation's pontif icator, discards it as follows :
The chances of nipping off the salient, destroying a dozen
or so of the best German divisions, and therefore really
shortening the war now seem slim. The terrain is bad, the
lateral communications are worse, the enemy is determined
to hold his gains. His aim of relieving pressure on the
Aachen and Saar fronts has been achieved; plans for our
winter offensive are certainly gone askew. The enemy
has achieved what must have been his primary objective:
to gain time. .
STATE OFFICIALS
IT LIKE BILL
TO INCREASE PAY
Salem, Ore., Jan. 13 U.R)
Salary raises for high Oregon
officials are not necessary for
the public service, at this time,
declared three top-ranking elec
tive officials by 15 per cent.
"It breaks the promise and
faith upon which the officials
were elected," State Treasurer
Leslie M. Scott said. He com
pared the proposed increases to
the "bundles for congress move
ment of the last congress in
Washington, and added that any
increases should be reserved for
the "lower places."
Gov. Earl Snell said that many
elected officials are not getting
enough. "However," he added,
"I have always maintained that
salaries of elected officials
should not be changed during the
term of office for which such an
official was elected."
Secretary ot State Robert S.
Farrell, Jr., commented. "I knew
what the salary was when I ran
for this job, and I am satisfied
with it."
Under the new proposal, the
governor would receive $12,000
Instead of his present $7,800 a
year and other salaries would be
proportionately increased.
worried
Portland, Ore., Jan. 13 U.R)
Portland draft boards have been
besieged by worried 4-F's, ac
cording to Earl Goodwin, clerk
of Board No. 1, who said today
that evert some on crutches had
asked for information on the re
cent selective service pronounce
ments. ,
The army recruiting office is
telling applicants to visit their
draft boards, while draft board
officials are advising 4-F's to
stick to their jobs until further
notice.
Unshaven Workers
Fight Absenteeism
Los Angeles, Jan. 12. (U.R)
Unshaven since the year began,
Goodrich Rubber Company's
swingshifters are keeping a
hands-off-razors policy begun to
fight absenteeism.
After the War Department's
appeal for tire-makers to work
120 days without a day off, the
workmen set up a $5-per-man
pool in which every man who
keeps a perfect attendance and
no-shaving record the first 120
days of 1943 will share.
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end of the war in Europe
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discover a single war ex
pontif icator who predicted
JET
AIDS IN RESCUE
OF PLANE'S CREW
. San Diego, Jan. 13 (U.B Jet
propulsion played its first major
role of mercy on the west coast
recently when it was disclosed
by the navy today that a jet
fitted coast guard plane figured
in . the rescue of an eight-man
crew of a wrecked navy Liber
ator and their puppy mascot
from choppy seas 500 miles off
the southern California coast.
The rescue plane, a twin-engine
seaplane equipped for
rocket-jet assisted take-offs, was
one of a group of navy and coast
guard patrol planes which yes
terday found the eight-man crew
and their six-months-old mascot,
Turbo, after the men had spent
nine hours in unusual choppy
seas .when their bomber crashed
after developing engine trouble.
Comdr. Donald B. MacDiar-
mld, commanding officer of the
San Diego coast guard air sta
tion, Who piloted the jet rescue
plane, said that landing the
plane was a "ticklish job" but
without jet assistance the sea
plane would probably have
never leit tne water.
He explained that without the
sudden burst of speed which the
jet propulsion gave the plane for
Its take-off, the plane' would
have been smashed to pieces in
the heavy ocean swells which
were encountered during the
rescue.
E
AND COAT THIEF
Portland, Ore., Jan. 13 (U.R)
The man who stole a Portland
police patrol car couldn't resist
the bright brass buttons and
trim cut of a policeman's coat,
and so he was arrested to day
and charged with larceny.
Police Patrolmen Graves and
Fisher left their prowl car park
ed while they went into a store
to get some flashlight batteries.
Returning a moment or so
later, they found the car gone.
Shortly afterward they spied Ted
Bennett, 31-year-old transient,
walking along in Patrolman
Graves' brass-buttoned overcoat.
Qennett was booked for larceny.
The prowl car was recovered
later.
AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Washington, Jan. 14 4U.PJ
The war department today an
nounced the awards ot the
bronze star medal to personnel
of Infantry units, all northern
Californlans.
J
NVENTOR PLANS
EXHIBITION FEB. 1
Greenish Fluid - and Com
pressed Air Used Public
and Kaiser Interested.
Los Angeles, Jan. 13. U.R)
Frank R. Perry, inventor of. a
gasless automobile which "A"
motorists hope is the answer to
their prayers,' announced to
night her will put his revolu
tionary "Perry mobile" on ex
hibition starting Feb. 1.
The graying, cherubic invent
or will give "the public a break"
by also selling blue prints of
his ration-proof car, which is
powered with . compressed air
and a mysterious greenish fuid.
When Perry first announced
news last November of his car
that he claims can be built from
materials obtained from most
any junk yard for $400, he was
deluged with SOO letters daily
asking for details. ,
His car interested more than
just the average John Q. citi
zen. One visitor to his shop was
Henry J. Kaiser, who right now
is busy making ships for Uncle
Sam, hut is on the outlook for
any postwar possibilities. Perry
said he and Kaiser weren't able
to get together on an. option
for postwar manufacture at Per
ry's gasless gocart, but the big
industrialist is still interested
in the project. '
Perry has assigned a part in
terest in his car to A. J. Brauer,
retired St. Louis shoe manufac
turer. Brauer will aid in ar
ranging exhibition of the car
and dealing with those who
would like to build their own
Perrymobiles.
A talkie movie will show the
car in action. Popular demand
may give the show a six months'
run in Los Angeles, and then
he may exhibit his car in other
cities, the inventor said.
In the film. Perry will ex
plain that a flame-'kindled by
butane, kerosene, distillate, die
sel oil or anything else that
burns will vaporize a myster
ious, greenish fluid that he has
concocted. This vapor, com
bined with compressed air,
drives the four-cylinder car for
ward at speeds up to 70 miles
an hour. Movement of the car
operates a pump which keeps
the compressed air tank full.
Such things as sparkplugs, trans
missions and other parts of the
conventional car will be elimi
nated. Some spokesmen in the auto
motive industry question
whether Perry's stripped down
engine will be adequate to cope
with steep hills; that the con
stant air pressure will create
mechanical troubles; and the
heat boiler may constitute a fire
hazard. .
Tomorrow... YOITLL SEE
STARLIGHT IN HER EYES
7 year old Sharyn ... as the
lonely, bewildered child of
forgetful parents ... pouring
' all her love and affection into
the heart of a homeless dogl
SHARYN MOFFETT
Jill Esmond - Una O'Connor - Geo. Cleveland
and
Sharyn'i Pal
P.DCY
Welle I
Flight o' Time
Mediord and Jackson Co His
tory ftom the files oi the Msii
Tribune 10. 10. and 34 rears
ago. ' '
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 14. 1935
(It Was Monday) ,
Surprise witness testifies she
saw Bruno Hauptmann watching
Jafsie" on night Lindbergh ran
som money was paid.
. Income of nation shows de
cline. . .
Saar plebsicite won by Nazis.
Gov. Martin in inaugural ad
dress urges tax reduction and ef
ficiency. Great Britain favors freeing
Germany from military clauses
of Versailles treaty.
Prospects of irirgatlon water
coming year, due to . snows in
hills, will be good. : . . .
Congress eager to hear Roose
velt s views on Townsend plan.
. Snow nr rain, anrl warmer.
high 37, low 30 degrees.
TWENTY' YEARS AGO TODAY
January 14, 192S
(It Was Wednesday)
Secretary of Commerce Hoov
er favors scientific elimination
of waste oetween farmer and
consumer to solve farm problem.
Portland clubwomen to appear
Deiore legislature to air views
on child labor law.
San -' Francisco police seek
missing "jazz mad" girl as slay
er of her mother.
German reparations agreement
signed. U. S. envoy and Winston
Churchill of Great Britain
praised for efforts. . . -
Rain, high 45, low 38 degrees.
Precipitation .28 of an inch. '
Crater Lake rim has 135 inches
of snow.
County to try and get new
bridge over Rogue at Gold Hill.
Bunco men fleece Ashland
merchants.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
January 14. 1911
Ot Was Friday)
Census gives Ashland 5020
population.
Storm cuts off communication
with outside world by wire.'
' "Queen of the Moulin Rouge"
at Medford Theater attracts big
Eat Turkey Dinner
SUNDAY
Elsie and
Hiway 99
C 11 AMU'
WlinUVII of
Strongheart
crowd. Everybody went and no
body blushed, review states.
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Portland, Ore.,- Jan. 13. (UJ5
Lumber and loggjng workers
ana iscir employers were
praised today for doing an out
standing, job in delivering mil
lions of feet of lumber for mili
tary truck bodie s ahead ot
schedule by Fred H. Brundage,
western log and lumber ad
ministrator. The west coast lumber in
dustry was asked to produce
millions of feet of lumber for
military truck needs two months
ago, when the hardwood indus
try was unable to supply" the
demand, Brundage ' said. He
commended the industry for ac
cepting the large volume of
boards and dimension lumber
at the last CPA auction in Port
land. Unit To Meet Central Point
Extension unit will meet at the
home of Mrs. Myrle Patterson
Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 10 a. m.
Project for the meeting will be
"Buffet Meals In War Time." A
small, charge will be made for
the luncheon meal and everyone
is asked to bring service.
Clotlns time for Classified Ada a
m Too Lata to Classify 12 JO
NOW OPEN!
TAKE -IT -EASY
LODGE
Dine and Dance
Open Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
One-Halt Mile Up
' Savage Creek
Phone
2119
For Towing or
Wrecker Service
Anywhere Anytime
Lewis Super Service
AT.
Barney's
Central Point
Ends Tonightt
GINGER ROGERS
"Lady in The Dark"
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