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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. January IS. I9S0 MedfowU&&Tribune "Everyone In Southern Orefon" Read! The Mall Trlbuna" Dally Bacept Saturday Published by unwinn DRINTINO CO. North Kir St Phono a-fllal ntiDDT IV BUHL Editor ERNEST R G1LSTRAP Managai . c FERGUsdN Managln. fdlto. ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph fditol HENRY L GREEN Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgl An Independent Newspaper Entered aa iccond class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1697 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday-one year... K Dally and Sunday elx months J.7 Dally and Sunday-three rnos a .50 Dally and Sunday-one month 1 00 By Carrier - In Advance Mediord Ashland. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. PhoanU. Talenl and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday-one year U .00 Dally and Sunday one month 1 00 All Terms Cash In Advance Ollldal Paper of the City of Medjoid OHIelal Paper of Jackion Comty United Presa Full Leaeed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising RepresentaUve: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INL Offices In New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B C Portland No Bed of Roses MemU 0REC0NLt$Op Pliskejs'44s(Q)itio MATIONAl OITOIIAl Flight o' Time Madferd and Jackson County His. Mry from the (ilea of tha Mall Trlbuna 10. 20 and 14 yarn ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY January 15, 1940 (It Was Monday) F. E. Wahl, former cashier, elected president ol Farmers and Fruitgrowers' bank. Cornelius Collins and Fred Hyde to be initiated into Elks lodge this week. District Attorney Frank J Newman to oppose Circuit Judge H. D. Norton for Judgshlp in Jackson-Josephine county dis trict. John Wells Johnson, local Jeweler for 26 years, dies here. Nearly 700 persons take part in sports events at Crater Lake park yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY January IS. 1930 (It Was Wednesday) General offices of Standard Oil company to open here soon. Bill Morgan, Bill Bowerman and Cliff Garnett, former Med ford basketball standouts, now playing for University of Oregon Frosh. Assessor J. B. Coleman de scribes present snow worse than big fall of 1890. Delegations from valley ap pear before state highway com mission to urge Williams creek cut-off road. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY January 15. 1916 01 Was Saturday) Charles F. Young and Scely Hall, distributors for Chevrolet auto, to open sub-agency in Ash land soon. M. L. Alford, W. I. Vawter and Delroy Getchell elected presi dents of local banks. Elevator in Garnott-Corey building moved to West Main street entrance from side entry. I 1 fVf 0h 'Arm 7nl,nfn. ADMITS LIES Lawrence Ross (above), Memphis, Tenn trade newspaper editor, admitted on the witness stand In Ban Francisco Federal Court at the trial of Harry Bridges that he had lied about his "origin, education, name, father's occupation and hia name." Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune phone t-SKl before f.ii p.m. dslli and 11:10 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives ehortly after you call, please notify fflce, thus ellmlnaUng special messenger service. Portland, city of roses, where life rolls serenely by and where the phlegmatic residents never get very excited even when they wake up enough to find they have elected a Mike Elliott tor shenii, is no Decl 01 roses for those engaged in newspapenng. MOT so very long ago the city's two great news- ' papers, The Oregonian and Journal were laid flat on their respective baens by a pressmen s stnice. v or weeks not a wheel turned and the cash registers gave n 1 1 ; 1 mi.; - . 1 ..1 1 ,1 ... . iorxn nary a jingie. i nis was a pai uuuiai ly uau situa tion coming as it did just after both papers had moved into new and veiy costly quarters. MOW The Oregonian appears to be the target in a cold war launched by one of its largest adver tisers, Meier and Frank department store. The newsnaner. whose somewhat attenuated ap pearance has been noted by readers in recent days, exDlained tiie situation Saturday in a iront page state ment by General Manager M. J. Frey, as follows: So much public discussion has arisen as a result of a combination of events involving The Oregonian and one of its major advertisers some statement on the part of The Ore gonian seems advisable. Last week The Oregonian published an adequate and impartial account of the findings of a National Labor Rela tions Board examiner in a case in which the Meier & Frank . company was charged with unfair labor practices. Immediately Meier & Frank comoany canceled many pages of advertising already set in type in The Oregonian composing room and has, since then, reduced its advertising space to a fraction of the store's former use. Meier & Frank company has not directly informed The Oregonian of the reason for this sudden and drastic curtailment of advertis ing space. As a matter of traditional policy, The Oregonian strives to report the news completely, impartially and without fear or favor. The Oregonian will continue to do so. We invite the patronage of those who approve this policy. ACCORDING to former Governor Charles A. " Sprague, writing in his "It Seems to Me" column in the Salem Oregon Statesman, this is not the first time the wealthy rortland store-owning lamily has attempted to tell The Oregonian what it should or should not print. Sprague contends that the banishment to Wash ington of The Oregonian's political writer, Johnny Kelly, was by way of placating Julius Meier after the newspaper had incurred displeasure by staying with Phil Metschan, republican candidate for governor in 1930 while the Journal deserted the democratic can didate to support Meier. llflUCH as the cold war may hurt The Oregonian, it will undoubtedly hurt Meier and Frank also, and in more places than just the pocketbook. E.C.F. Crosstown by Roland Co "Any priiei or inducement with kids' haircuts in tha joint?" New Oil Recovery Method May Turn Abandoned Fields Info New Bonanzas Tough Peckings The robins and other migratory birds, which stayed on here last winter to their sorrow, apparently took no chances this year but went on south long be fore bad weather set in. People who notice such things say they have seen fewer robins in the Rogue valley this winter than ever before in their memory. DECAUSE of the usually mild winters here a fairly large percentage of the friendly birds stay through out the year. They are able to eke out a living with out too much difficulty on the floor of the valley un less snow covers the ground for a protracted period. It is no wonder the robins gave us the cold shoulder this year, however, for last winter was really rugged for them. Because of the unusual snow, the birds were forced clown from the higher levels of the valley sides into the towns where they foraged for bits of apple, such berries as still clung to vines and were even reduced to taking a disgusted peck at bread crusts and such grains and seeds as kind-hearted humans tossed out for birds in general. Some managed to keep body and feathers to gether by eating berries off the postoffice holly, in fact this was one of the most popular sources of sus tenance, lhe tarnished birds would perch on the shrubs and gorge away while postoffice patrons passed within arm's length. DHEASANT, quail and the other smaller birds which always remain here the year around , had a tougher time. Many died of starvation and only the action of the Izaak Walton league, game wardens. Bov scouts and kind-hearted farmers and ranchers in putting out seed and grain enabled some to survive. Pickings, or maybe we should sav peckings, haven't been quite so bad for the birds' so far this year but rural residents report that China pheasants and quail will be in a bad way again unless warmer weather comes soon to take away the snow. E.C.F. Chicago, Jan. 14 U.R) A new oil recovery method may rev olutionize the industry, turning abandoned fields into new bon anzas and dry holes into gushers, a Chicago firm said today. The Gas Cornoration of Chi cago announced it had acquired exclusive Datent rights to a pro cess which penetrates oil-bearing strata on a horizontal plane in stead of vertically or at an angle, as in conventional methods. To Bring More OH Frank G. Buffum, president of the corporation, predicted that the new process will bring up millions of barrels of oil which might otherwise remain in the earth forever. It also will make available WkJl esse l,ij-..to.aK .,.. 'Arm Trlevhoto, HOME-Ea-'y chairs by the fireside mean home to Consul General and Mrs. Ansur Ward Ir. his brother's nome at Allenan. Mich. The Wards recently utiirned Ironi Vjkdfr. Man i.'irla, where thev were . held virtual prisoners of the Chinese Communists lor 13 months. AFL Farm Labor Union Calls For Aid To Wanderers Fresno, Cal., Jan. 14 (U.R) The 16th annual convention of the AFL Farm Labor union to day called upon the government to aid "millions of wandering farm workers" in their fight to obtain small tracts of land of their own to solve unemploy ment and health hardships. Ernesto Galarza, education di rector, charged land was being held in "large tracts for specula tion purposes,' forcing farm workers to live in "unhealthy dilapidated camps, trailers and shacktowns." He declared federal and state assistance was needed to provide suburban homesteads on unde veloped land, "just as slums are cleared in the cities." To Undermine Wages International President of the NFLU H. L. Mitchell charged "foreign farm labor has been used deliberately to undermine wages and lower working stand ards of American agricultural workers." The convention unanimously adopted a resolution urging President Truman to issue an ex ecutive order abolishing an agreement between the United States and Mexico for the impor tation of 80,000 Mexican na tionals on American farms. . Delegates from 24 states unan imously approved a resolution urging state and federal legisla tion making it unlawful to hire wetbacks (Mexican nationals) and other "imported foreign la bor." Missing Pennsylvania Girl Found Murdered Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 14 (U.R) The battered body of pretty Marian Baker, 21, her head crushed in with an iron pipe, was found tonight in a heavily wooded section two miles south of here. Police said she was murdered. The body was buried under a i pile of roof sheathing in xne rear of a summer cottage near Mill creek, Just off heavily-traveled U. S. highway 222. Detective Capt. John Kirchner said it was not determined im mediately whether the dark hnired Franklin and Marshall college secretary, who disap peared last Tuesday, had been raped nor how long she had been dead. He said a blood-stained iron pipe, believed to have been the weapon used by her murderer, was found at the scene. He be lieved, however, that the girl was killed elsewhere and her body brought to the scene in an automobile. Bloody clothes found bv a person walking through' the woods led police to the spot where the body was buried. Kirchner said. known, pools trapped beneath mountains, cities or bodies of water, he said. Buffuin said the process even tually should permit the "last drop" of oil to be "wrung from the earth. He said the process will be used on a ' large scale for the first time in Canada, where the gas corporation recently closed a deal for development and op eration of several hundred leases covering more than 100,000 acres of oil-bearing land. Under conventional drilling methods, Buffum said, wells penetrate oil-bearing rock struc tures only in "spots." Frequently they miss oil concentrations en tirely. The new horizontal penetra tion process utilizes conventional vertical wells. A tube is inserted into the well and cemented so it will support high pressure. Serves As Vent The tube serves as a vent for oil produced, as a pneumatic hvdraulic ram and seal and tor the jet-propulsion of chemicals which send a DUlsatine pressure radiating horizontally in all di rections from the wen. This tremendous pressure, ac cording to Buffum, fractures rock and burrows through sand, creating channels through which oil may flow to the well and be pumped to tne surtace. Military Justice To Be Meeting Subject Maj. Gene L. Brown and Capt. Raymond C. Coulter, Grants Pass attorneys, will con duct a conference on military justice at the regular training meeting of the 6310th logistical division in the upper council room of the city hall, Monday at 7:au p.m. Captain Coulter, Grants Pass municipal judge and a member of the Oregon state legislature, will cover the changes made in the army courts martial manual by the 80th congress. Major Brown will cover the actual close similarity of the army sys tem of jurisprudence to long established standards of civil justice. The meeting is open to any persons interested in the laws governing members of the armed forces. In the Day's News SWEDEN APPROVES Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 14 (U.R) Sweden recognized the Chinese communist government today and prepared to take up diplomatic relations imme diately. Key West, Florida, originally was called Cayo Hueso, or Bone Key. by the Spaniards because of the large number of Indian skeletons they found there. Early English sailors habitually mis pronounced the two Spanish words "Key West" until that name stuck. International education to pre vent war was crushed in the Sev enteenth Century. By FRANK JENKINS More about the Flying Arrow: It was hit the other day by 40-odd shells fired bv a Chinese Nationalist gunboat. The shells set fires in the hold. Water was nnured in to out out the fires, The cargo consists largely of jute and baled cotton (along with some caustic soda) and the water is causing the jute and the cotton to swell up. It looks now like the ship might burst at any moment like an nver-riDe melon or a pres sure cooker loaded wnn too manv drv beans. The danger is so pressing that her captain has given up trying to get into snangnai ana says u is going to head tor xsingtao. ET'S interject a word here -j about TsmBtao. It. lies nn the Yellow Sea from Shnnehni and across the Yellow Sea from Korea. Back in the days when we were talking cag ily about protecting the liberties of the South Koreans against communist aggressions, our navy built un a bie base mere. There was a lot of talk about what our navy might do II we commies stormed Tsingtao some cold raw day. There was specula tion that in such an event we might fight. Well, we didn't fight. We eot out. Probably we were wise to get out while the getting urns sood.. Anvwav. the reds hold Tsingtao and that it where the Flying Arrow is headed for at the moment to discharge her car go. TWO American destroyers are hovering in the Flying Ar row's vicinity, with orders to help if she blows up or sinks or something out to Ufci uui ut HER VICINITY as soon as she is seaworthy. A Nationalist Chinese gunboat is lurking in the offing ready to smack the Flying Arrow with more shells in case she does get seaworthy and doesn't blow up from internal pressure of her wet cargo or some other reason. To add to the general mess, the commander of the U. S. seventh naval task force, which is cruis ing around in the general vicin ity of the ruckus, has ordered American ships PROTECTED from Nationalist gunboats WHILE ON THE HIGH SEAS. But . . . The orders from Washington are for U. S. naval craft to stay out of Chinese territorial waters which are the waters inside the three-mile limit. OUR navy, of course, could blow all gunboats and other vessels of the Nationalist Chinese navy out of the water in about seven minutes after the order to do so was given. But . . . That might start a ruckus that would drag the Russians in, and nobody wants that. The idea is to let sleeping dogs lie as long as they are willing to lie. Meanwhile we mutter in our beards about Indignities to Amer ican ships engaged in commerce on the high seas just as other nations have been muttering in their beards for centuries under similar circumstances. Muttering in your beard costs nothing and seldom stirs anybody up to the shooting point. WHY are we getting the news about the Flying Arrow so promptly? The answer to that Is easy. Wayne Richardson, 50-year-old correspondent of the Associated Press, went aboard her at Hong Kong just to be there in case any news happened. He is still on board, dodging shells, keeping a wary eye on the swelling cotton and jute that might crack the ship open at any moment and in between these activities he is sending out his dispatches for us to read. That's the way with these cor respondents. The only rule they know is that the show must go on and the news must be told. Gemini, Classical Twins Br J. Hugh Prualt Astronomer, Extension Division, Orefoa rllber Education System In the long ago, so we are sometimes told, there uvea twin brothers whose mighty deeds be came so famous that at last they were changed into bright stars and daced side by side in the blue night heavens. After ages of time tney are sun mere, ana can easily be seen tonight and during the next few months whenever the sky is clear. Around 7 p. m., face almost due east and look quite high in the sky. There they are, two prominent stars, fairly close to gether and one almost above the other. The upper one, the whiter in color, is Castor. His brother Pollux is slightly brighter and to normal eyes is decidedly or ange. This indicates a lower temperature than that of Castor. Both are exceedingly far from the earth, Castor being the more distant. Group of Stars The twins, or Gemini, really constitute a considerable group of stars, with Castor and Pollux marking only the faces of the brothers. At our observing hour at this time of year, they are reclining with their feet toward the south. It is easy to trace their outlines. Starting with castor, we find an irregular line of faint er stars extending toward tne right and finally curving gently upward into the foot of this brother. Then tracing in the same direction from Pollux we find a similar1 line almost parallel to the first. The foot of Pollux, how ever, turns sharply downward with his heel at the square cor ner. When pictured, the twins are shown very close together. Late in the spring, they will be standing upright in the western evening sky. The Uemlni, the sons of Ju piter, are often mentioned in classical literature. Many were the exploits ascribed to them in ancient stories. The Romans were accustomed to decorate the prows of their shins with images of these great "Twin Brethren," who were thought to prevent wrecks in violent storms. The sailors often prayed to them for protection. It was said that as soon as they appeared on the tips of the masts likely the electrical effect known as St. Elmo's fire the violence of the storm abated. St. Paul sailed on ship "whose sign was Castor and Pollux." Castor a Doubla Good telescopes break Castor into two stars, a double. At a considerable distance from the double there is a fainter star which seems to belong to the same system. The spectroscope indicates that every one of the three is also a double, but too close to be separated visually by any telescope. Whenever the light profanity of "by Jiminy" escapes your lips, you are actually swearing by the sons of the great Jupiter, although your pronunciation may be quite faulty. This ex pression, so glibly used by many today, is a survival of the com mon oath of the Romans, "By Gemini," BIRTHS DODGE To Mr. and Mrs. Steven J., 12 Rose avenue, Jan. 14, 1050, a girl, 7 pounds, at Community hospital. Weddings in Afghanistan often are held at 5 a. m. and always be fore noon. Guests are required to sit up the night before the cere mony, usually being entertained by concert music. Earn Up To $500 A Month Spare Time On $1200 Investment Popular, all-year food product dis tributed nationally by reputable or ganization. No house-to-house or direct selling. 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