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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1946)
FOOT MEDrOHD MAIL THIBUWB Tuesday. Jan. . ! UNITED PRESS TO CUT WIRE SERVICE TO STATE OFFICE Discontinuance Of Service Feb. 16 Part Of Policy for Free Flow Of News. New York. Jan. 20 Un united Press News Services which were delivered an a war measure to the office of war information, the office of inter- American affairs and the state department, will be discontinued Fcbrunry 1H, Hugn uaiiiie. u. P. president, announced today. United Press on January 18 made known its intent to dis continue, but action was sus pended at the request of Wil liam Benton, assistant secretary of state, to allow time for fur ther discussion. Baillie said it was the U. P. program to terminate all ar rangements for use of its news which may have been made as a matter of wartime cooperation with anv government. If upon scrutiny they arc found to be serving government propaganaa purposes.- Wartime Measure In making the announcement. Baillie said, "Of course we do sire to be completely dlsasso- elated from the state depart ment's propaganda program Permission to government agen eles for use of our dispatches aboard was a wartime measure. "The United Press has pio neered In the worldwide distri bution of new since 1907. We have campaigned all over the world for a freer flow of news among nations. We still are very actively engaged In this endea vor. "During all this time the United Press has e o m p e t a d against government - subsidized and1 official news agencies In very part of the world. We have seen It demonstrated that no government, no matter how scrupulously careful It may be, can distribute news and not be suspected of spreading propa ganda. Press Vital Asset "The great strength of the American Press associations al ways has been that they were not Identified, even Indirectly, with government propaganda. Thus, the American Press asso ciations have developed Into vitnl national assets. "If the state department wants to open an official Ameri can agency to distribute news abroad, that will be tho concern of the congress and the Ameri can people. But our participa tion In any such program would be an historic step backward. 'The foreign service of the United Press has grown consist ently for nearly 40 years. Dur ing this time, we have seen many government news agencies come and go. Nearly 1.000 Clients "We now serve almost a thou sand clients abroad. In 00 coun tries and territories. Our serv ice Is available to any newspa per In any country where the newspaper has the freedom to buy the service It wants. "Also, our service Is available In the commercial shortwave broadcasting systems of this country for broadcasting to lis teners abroad. "We understand that other American agencies, too, espec ially since the war, have ex panded their services abroad, so that the distribution of Ameri can news overseas Is now at an absolute peak. "This is a most Important contribution lo the cause of In ternational understanding and peace. In my judgment, it would be adversely affected, lo a most definite and positive degree. If the news of these American j agencies were to be identified abroad with propaganda activi ties of the government." VALLEY GET Amnntf those recentlv di charged from the armed serv ices are SSgt. Ora Guislnger, route 1, Gold Hill: Pfc. Ray Fountain, box 65, Talent; Cpl. Ravmonrf Childress, route 1. box 438, and T3 Lorenzo Johnson, box 186, both of Central Point; Ttr Mnnford Rlehman. Butte Falls; T5 Harry Chaplin, star route, box 61, Eaglo Point: fie. Walter Smith, 43V4 Church ipppt- T5 Lester Mvers. 356 Vista street: William Miller FC 3c, 160 California 6trcet; Wil liam Flagg. metalsmlth 2c, box 571; Rodney Merriman, MoMM 1c, 384 Helman street, and Ros coc Talbott, F 1c, route 2. box 353, all of Ashland; Wilbur Whaley, box 10, Phoenix; and Pvt. Donald Dimick, route 1. box 07, Rogue River. HnrnlH E. Flvnn. Ptr 3e. 748 West Fourth street, Merritt Hit- tie, SK 1c, 112 South Grape street; T5 Andrew Florey, 439 North Front street: Pfc. Jess r,imminaK rnnlp 3. box 263: SSgt. George McCormick, 1318 Rcddy avenue; T5 Cecil Bishop, 824 Beekman street; Sgt. Donald Kendlo, 620 Dakota avenue; Pfc. t.orrv Mnrsh route 1. box 575: MSgt. Roger Westerflcld, route 1, box 576A; T4 Myron Mee han, route 1, box 182; Sgt. Or- vlllc Hill, route 4, box 368: Li. Vrrfnrlpk Mevers. 305 East Jackson street: Ensign McDon m rwronv 1012 East Jackson street: Lt. (j.g.) Richard Schuch- Under New Management! OYSTER LOAF 12S W. Main . John Taylor, Owner Dinners- a la Carta and Short Orders Open 6 am. lo 1 1 pm. L. 0. TAYLOR CO. pays the HIGHEST MARKET PRICES If you have a CAR or TRUCK to sell, we advise telling it now. Call or Phone Dodge-Plymouth Dealer L G. TAYLOR CO. Phone 296S NEW YORK EYED FOR UNO INTERIM SITE New York. Jan. 20 (U.R A subcommittee of the United Na tions headquarters Inspection group toured New York City to day, looking over possible sites for an interim headquarters. The tour was conducted by Grnver Whalen. Another subcommittee left for Kingston and Hyde Park, N. Y., to confer further with local authorities. 2x4 Wood 300 cu. ft. Leadt 36-hr. Service Day or Night Delivery Semi-Dry Cut Lait August DRY SAWDUST FINE SHAVINGS CENTRAL POINT FUEL Ph. C. P. 573 Mad. 6S41 P.O. Box 302, Central Point CUmIU 4 00 Slurd.y aftarnoon I PIWM reminhr I Interior and Exterior PAINTING PAPER HANGING Work Guaranteed CALL 2419 Younger's Appliance DUTCH BOY PAINTS 31 N. Bartlett WANTED TO BUY DOUGLAS FIR POLES and PILING PUGET TIMBER COMPANY Box S66 Central Point, Ore. art!, 108 Geneva; T5 L. Deber- ry, 522 Crater Lake avenue; T4 Gerald Dontgan, 407 King street; Sgt. Ernest Cox, 336 Mae street; and Darrell Keener, cox, 711 West Second street, all of Mcdford. , T4 Lyle Patten, route 1, box 39, Murphy: Pvt. Earl Bliss, box 56, Prospect; and T4 Ernest Darrow, Lake Creek. THE GRANGE Hogue Hiver Grange Grange met Jan. 21 with Mas ter Carl Christenson In charge. About 70 members were present. More names were presented for membership and 3rd and 4th degrees will be given candidates at the next meeting Feb. 4. All lady members are requested to bring sandwiches for refresh ment for this meeting. After an interesting meeting Grange closed with the commit tee, Mesdames Smith, Ross, John son and Strahan serving. A card party was held Janu ary 19, and everyone had a pleas ant time. On Saturday night, Feb. 2, the usual dance jsrtr will be held. H. E. C. met Jan. 17 at the hall with a covered dish lunch at noon. Plans were made for the new years work by the ladies. The next meeting will be Feb. 21 at 10:30 a. m. AU ladies are' to bring a covered dish for the noon luncheon. Everyone was glad to have the master and lecturer, Brother and Sister Christenson, back again after their month's visit in Montana. Uie Mail Tribune Want Ad.. Southern Pacific is happy to announce that plans are under way for tho $m$m MYU6HTS Two brand new custom-built streamlined trains for daily daylight service; CASCADE will be streamlined! THIS IS IT I This is the announcement we had to postpone through four long years of war. We are happy to tell our friends in Oregon that plans are under way for the first streamliners in Southern Pacific's post war program the Shasta Daylights. We promise you that we will spare no expense to make these the finest and most luxurious streamlined coach trains ever constructed Oregon's Own Trains! Leaving Portland and San Francisco in the morning and arriving in the late evening, the Shasta Daylights will speed daily in each direction over Southern Pacific's Cascade Line. Bus service from Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland will connect at Dunsmuir with the Shasta Daylight to andlfrom San Francisco. (Overnight train service between Ashland and Portland and between Grants Pass and San Francisco will be continued.) Each seat on the Shasta Daylights will have ita own indi vidual window, and these windows will be of unique design much taller than the windows on any other train. Aboard the Shasta Daylights, travelers from all over the world will enjoy a close-up grandstand view of the wonders of Oregon. The trains will, we think, be a fine advertisement for the state. With our companion Daylights between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Shasta Daylights will enable tourists to see almost the entire Pacific Coast in the traditional comfort and luxury of these famous streamliners created by Southern Pacific. Fast, powerful diesel-electric locomotives will smoothly pull the Shasta Daylights. The exteriors will be brilliantly streamlined in red, orange and black. The interior color schemes will be inspired by the soft blues, greens and browns of Oregon's lakes, rivers and forests. The Shasta Daylights will have every modern refinement in comfort and service that we and the builders can conceive. Above alL they will be safe, solidly built and dependable. We have given our ideas to the designers of the car building companies, who are now working out the details and techni cal specifications; As soon as bids are received, we will place orders for actual construction of the Shasta Daylights for de livery, we expect, before the end of the year A faster streamlined CASCADE Our plana include streamlining the Cascade, making it a deluxe overnight sleeping car train between Portland and San Francisco. Based on designs now being worked out, orders will be placed for triple unit articulated cars for the Cascade each unit consisting of a lounge car, a dining car and a kitchen car. (If you have ridden our famous Lark between San Francisco and Los Angeles you know how 'stunningly beautiful these threear units are. The dining car and lounge are one contin uous room 131 feet long, with no partition between the cars. They are the only cars of this kind in America.) As fast es the manufacturer can deliver new streamlined sleeping cars they will be placed in service on the Cascade. This, we hope, will be early in 1947. The Cascade, as well as other trains, will be speeded up as soon as the present heavy traffic load eases, and before we receive the new equipment. The friendly Southern Pacific IUC4
