Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 19, 1950, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. January 1 9. -19S0 MedforiUIM'RIbune "Everyone In Southern Oregon" Rude The Mali Tribune" Delly Except Saturday Published by MitnrnRn PRINTING CO. 37-20 North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP Manager HERB GREY, Advertleinl Mr E. C FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....!9 00 Dally and Sunday elx months 4.78 Daily and Sunday three mos 2.0U Dally and Sunday nne month 1.00 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland, Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year, 12.00 JDaily and Sunday one month 1-00 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Prase Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C. PdiisHlERy44s,imo MATIONAl IOITOIIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the diet at the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY January 19, 1940 (It Was Friday) County Commissioner Ralph Billings and County Assessor J. B. Coleman seek republican nomination for judge. Fern Valley community club elects Miss Anne Kantor secre tary. Fifteen passengers, largest group to leave here at one time by plane, .board United Main liner here. Dick Miller celebrates birth day anniversary at party. Home Garden club, Antelope district, elects Mrs. Luther Haak president. George Heryford. county sani tarian, to speak at public health association meeting nere. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY January 19. 1930 Eugene high basketball team defeats Medford high, 3B to za in rough game. Owen-Oregon mill to go on ix-day week basis as lumber de mand drops. Jacksonville to be terminal point for trucking ore from Blue Ledge mine. Upstate area fears "silver thaw"; rains continue In valley. 39 YEARS AGO TODAY January 19, 1919 (It Was Wednesday) R. A. Johnson, local architect, writes leading article In west coast magazine describing local residence. E. W. Hunter and Roy R Peebles accepting entries in Southern Oregon Poultry associa tion show here. Snow at Crater Lake park re ported at 10 feet 2 Inches, or about 10 feet under usual depth for this season of the year. Father OfUdmits Writing Bad Checks State police yesterady arrested Charles Earl Lane, Butte Falls, and placed him in the county jail on charges of writing no-account checks. In a statement made to city police, Lane said he wanted to pleHd guilty to the c h a r g e and that he would "throw himself on the mercy of the court. ' The 41-ycar old father of four small children admitted writing at least four worthless checks last fall and passing them at Rogue Service and Supply com pany, the Coats Shoe Repair shop, and the Western Auto store. Police here have been looking for him since then. According to his signed state ment. Lane had used the checks to buy necessary staples for his family. Ho said he has been out of work for some time. Each of the bad checks was signed with Lane's correct name and address. Eugene, Ore., Jan. 19 (U.R) Sen. Wayne L. Morse is sched uled to discuss the oleomargarine tax fight in congress at the 56th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's association here, on January 23-25, President Arthur Ireland of Forest Grove an nounced today. Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mill Tribune phone Ml bp fore 6:45 p.m. dally nd 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive! hortly after you call, pi rait notify office, thus ellrulnaUn( special miaentr lervlca. Letter From Applegate Dick Applegate, former Mail Tribune sports edi tor and in more recent years a foreign correspondent for the United Press, spent Christmas day watching the flight oi Chinese nationalist troops across the Indo China-China border. Applegate, in a letter just received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Ap plegate of Medford, tells of a trip which he made from his office at Singapore, across the South China sea to Saigon, French Indo-China, up to Hanoi and thence to the nearby China border. "It rained most of the time," wrote the corre spondent, "and was miserable for the Chinese troops, except that no one was shooting at them, borne ot them were barefoot, poorly clad and miserably housed in grass huts. They were accompanied by little kids as young as four and five years, all refugees from the communists. The moral : Don't lose a war if you can help it." DACK in Saigon, where his letter was written, AnDleerate continues: "On Monday I leave for Tonlee Sap, a wide lake in the Mekong river. So far as I know, no American correspondent has done a story on the lake, which is so full of fish that when the seasonal drop in, the water comes it is underway now the people take the fish out of the shallows with pitchforks. "I am making the tour with one Owen Richards, a eeolorist from Pottsville Penn., whom I hired as a special U.P. photographer. He went with me to the Chinese border. Oddly enough although he was equipped with a Leica, an Argus and a movie camera, I got better pictures with a little old folding German reflex camera, a Pilot, picked up in Malang, Java, some three years ago. Maybe the reason was that I know a news shot when I see it and he tries for the artistic effect. "From Tonlee Sap we go to Ankor Wat. I have been kicking around this area for a long time now and have never seen it. Expect ' to spend several days there, then fly back here to Saigon, and then by sea to .Bangkok and then again by sea back to bingapore. "I've seen a lot of places lately I never heard of before. Flew from here to Hanoi, and then tried to fly to the border at Langson. The field was flooded so went to Haiphong instead, then by French navy launch to a place called Hongay, on the Bai d Along, an incredible bay inclosed by the most peculiar rock structures anyone ever saw. They stick up out of the water by the thousands, looking like steep haystacks. some of them 2000 feet high. It's a favorite hangout for Chinese and lonkinese pirates, altnougn we saw none. The boat we were in mounted two machine guns, though, in case we did. Had gone to Hongay with the intention ot going by road convoy up the line to Muong Djoung, where 23,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were in an in ternment camp. Richards and I were prepared to spend Christmas eve out in the open, or at best in a tent, only to have the French resident, Marcel Senac, meet us at the boat, which beached right in front of his house. He invited us to stay with him and I was in the process of declining with thanks on grounds I wanted to push on to get a Christmas story at the camp, when he told me that 27 (count 'em, twenty seven.) Chinese generals were in a French villa on Vat Chai island, within spitting distance across the bay. He even gave us a jeep, a driver, an interpreter, and the use of the government ferry (which he sum moned from the island with three shots from an army rifle) and within two hours of hitting Hongay I was talking with the generals. Consequently we spent Christmas eve snugly warm in front of a coal tire, and with venison and three kinds of French wines, including champagne, for dinner. I never saw such hospitality. Roughing it, indeed 1 ifrom Hongay we went on up by convoy to the camp, got a lot of pictures, and then back again by convoy to Hongay. That is a big coal region, with the only good coal in southeast Asia, and proved fairly interesting to Richards, who comes from the Ameri can coal belt, albeit it left me fairly cold. My conten tion is that when you've seen one lump of coal, you've seen them all. "Our host, Senac, one of the most inate gentlemen I ever met, volunteered his Citroen sedan from Hon gay back to Haiphong. I drove the car back .the 80 miles, behind a slow-moving convoy. ihey sent out French and Algerian troops to de ploy along the worst parts of the road the Viet Minh nationalists have developed a disconcerting habit of shooting up the French convoys in those parts lately. We were also held up at four ferries. One of the ferries was poled across what seemed to be a lake; by two anemic looking little Tonkinese whom you wouldn't think could pole a canoe, although they had the Citroen, a jeep and a loaded truck aboard. All very interesting, and all very slow. We also drove from Haiphong back to Hanoi, with French outposts every few miles along the road. For miles telephone and power poles were down, dyn amited by the Viet Minh. Looked like something out of Beau Geste, including those French hats that look like they were sawed off of stovepipes. "Flew from Haiphong back to Saigon and have been here several days with me interviewing the local big shots and Richards dashinir niadlv around town on a French bicycle he has bought. Saigon is a much more pleasant place than when I first came here in 1947. Then. I came down with i my first bout of malaria while at the same time en joying a spot of dengue (which has the interesting! and informative name of 'bone break fever' in the West Indies) and the town was being shot up by Viet i Minh practically every night. Then all the jeeps had j wire-cutters mounted in front, and everybody packed ' a gun. Now the wire-cutters are gone and only patrols , go armed, and although a few grenades were tossed i around on New Year's eve there was a 24-hour truce i on Christmas I have heard only a few scattered shots. "baigon is the most westernized of the Far East- Crosstown by Roland Cos "Think that will calm him down sufficiently, or shall we try someimng Heavier. ern cities I have seen, including Manila. The shops are all French, and on the main boulevards vou ac tually see more French men and women than you do Annamites. The city isn't very big I would place it at under lUU.UUU, although the French say it is 500, 000 but adjoining it is the biggest unknown city I ever heard of, Cholon. Cholon is practically all Chi nese, nearly a million of them. That's where most of the gambling and night spots are, probably because the Chinese pay off to the Viet Minh and are allowed to operate at night, whereas the French do not, and are not. "The food here is wonderful, though expensive. I have been stuffing myself with pate de foi au truffs (goose liver pate with truffles) and camembert and rocquefort cheese, along with an occasional dollop of snails. The snails are magnifique, and not so revolt ing under the name of escargots. They are so drench ed with drawn butter, garlic and other condiments that I haven't the faintest idea of what a naked snail might taste like, and am not so sure that I care." E.C.F. Washington Report By Bob Dickey ' Washington, Jan. IB Ore- to that 148 platform, gon's Senator Wayne Morse has Not Elected turned his verbal guns on the "Furthermore," he added, the newlv - formed republican national comnmire Bob Dickey known, Guy Tali commit tee" and the republican na tional commit tee. He is at tacking them for "assuming authority t o formulate a re statement o f the republican party's policy." As i s well Gabrielson, the ADVICE OFF RECORD Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Louis R. Greenlee was on his way home with a stack of phonograph rec ords when he lost control of his car. Although the car was de molished, Greenlee suffered only slight bruises. Every record was smashed except on titled "I'll Never Slip Around Again." SEARCH SUCCEEDS Boston (U.R) When an elder ly neighbor reported she had just lost $281 in Christmas sav ings, Mrs. James Quinlan assign ed her 14 children to the search. Each child was given a street to search and soon 14-year-old Jo seph recovered the bag, its con tents intact. chairman of the republican na tional committee, recently formed a committee of various republican national committee men to help him formulate a new credo for the republican party. Oregon's reDubiican national committeeman, Ralph Cake of Portland, is among the group. Gabrielson also called on the republican members of the house and senate to form similar com mittees to help in the policy reformulation. The republican members of congress responded and in the senate a committee was formed with Taft at the helm. Sen. Cor don of Oregon was selected as one of the members but the move to get Sen. Morse on the com mittee was aborted by his own dissension. In the house of representa tives, a similar committee was formed. Here again Oregon has representation, for Rep. Harris Ellsworth was tapped as a member. This action by both the na tional committee and the repub lican members of congress was assailed by ben. Morse. He main tained that neither of them has any authority to say what the principles of the republican par ty are or shall be. Convention Sets Policy "It is the delegates of the reg istered republican voters select ed to attend the national con vention, acting through their platform committees, who deter mine the republican policy," Morse declared. In regard to the national com mittee, he tabbed it as "an ar rangement committee," and said, "It never has been, and in my opinion, never should be given the power to declare what the principles of the republican par ty are or should be." According to Morse, "the re publican convention in 148 adopted one of the strongest plat forms that it has had in years and he for one would like to know what is wrong with it." ine Oregon solon said, "I do not think the republican na tional committee or any other group of republicans can right fully assume unto themselves the jurisdiction to reject or add men do not have to meet the test of a statewide election except in a few states such as Oregon. As a consequence, he main tains they have no business de termining the political policies on which republican candidates must run for re-election. Apparently Morse is not alone in this belief. Even Sen. Taft, who is now heading up the sen ate policy re-statement commit tee, refused to go along with the idea at first. Finally, he did con sent, but then only because he felt that there had been so much publicity about the issue that their failure to cooperate would hurt the party. Others supporting the Morse view are Senators Lodge of Mas sachusetts, Milliken of Colo rado, Hickenlooper of Iowa and Aiken of Vermont. It has also leaked out that a anno maioritv of the republican senators, who met In caucus to determine if they should form the Taft committee, were against the idea. But the consensus of opinion was: Such action will not do any narm Decause an we will do is re-state the party plat form adopted in 148. Morse still refused to have any thine to do with the policy re statement gesture. He sam, r or my part, I am going to run for re-election on my record in the senate and on basic principles of the republican party's platform laid down in the convention in 148." The Grange nulla Falls Granae Master Ted Fredenburg call ed Butte Falls Grange to order January 16 with ten staunch Grangers present who had brav ed the snow and cold. The mem bers voted to donate $10 to the polio fund and $5 to the local church project. John Hoist reported on road conditions. The chaplain report ed that Bessie Heryford is im proving but still unable to re turn to her home. "Get well" cards were sent, and it was stat ed that friends may call or write. The address is 520 Penn sylvania avenue, Medford. Disolav table was arranged by Jean Hoist with Indian baskets, hand-made dolls dressed in Navajo costumes, rugs with sand painting designs and a Chimoyo pocketbook. Lecture was aevotea to rants. by members on by-gone days. Anticioatine the absence of the serving committee due to bad roads, Mrs. Bob Meeman surpris ed those present by serving refreshments. Dead line Sunday Classified Is el Noon Saturdays FRIDAY and SATURDAY ONLYf e-" main and bartlett street phone 2-6428 Red Tag Specials Robes $7.49&$11.49 Cotton House Coats $249 A FEW SUN DRESSES IN THIS GROUP TOO! A SPECIAL RED TAG SPECIAL A Group of Warners and Roths CORSELETTES and GIRDLES $5-99 & $9.99 Values to $18.95 y2 OFF HOSIERY SPECIAL! Broken Sizes and Colon 51-15 FIRST QUALITY Famous Name Brands Values to $1.95 99 c and $1 29 SUITS BROKEN SIZES $2249 $334 $5449 Values to $79.95 On Fur Trimmed COATS ONLY 6 LEFT Untrimmed COATS 1849 $2749 $4749 Values to $79.95 Broken Sizes DRESSES TREMENDOUS VALUES A Size For Everyone $500 - $ 49 $749 Japanese Mine Fire Claims Lives Of Six Sendai, Honshu, Jan. 19 (U.R) Six miners were killed, 21 in jured and one was reported miss ing in a pre-dawn .'ire 148 meters underground in a mine operated by the Matsuo Mining Industry company today. The fire occurred at 3 o'clock in the morning in Iwategun, Iwate prefecture. National rural police said an investigation was underway to determine the cause of the fire. BULLET KILLS TWO Acniirt Wash (U.P) A sillPlft bullet kiiled two hunters during .. , urin: T- tne elK season nere. yiuicum i. Nolan and William E. Hamilton umro cirur-W while stnndine hark to back. James Jones told author- tiies he shot at what he thought was an elk. Los Angeles, Jan. 19 (U.R) A minor earth tremor awakened residents in several suburbs ear ly today but no damage was reported. RED TAG DAYS at Swem !? Just a few suggestions of the many RED TAG DAY BAR CAINS offered. There are many more in every depart ment. Look for the RED TAGS! TABLE SILVERWARE 52 Pc. Set; 8 each of various size knives, forks, spoons, etc. Com plete table service packed in a tarnish proof wooden chest. Was $37.50 HQ Q5 Red Tag Days 9-PIECE CARVING SET Bone handled set with carving knife, fork, sharpening steel and 6 steak knives with stainless steel blades. Reg. $21.00 fQ QC Special 7,7J STERLING SILVER SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS Individual size. Formerly sold at $2.65 a pair. Red Tag Days Only $1 O C Tax additional 25c '' PHOTO ALBUMS Attractive cover of blue, brown, green and burgundy, embossed in gold. Loose leaf style Reg. $3.007x10 size ....$1.49 Reg. $4.9510x12 size ....$2.49 BIRTHDAY BOOKS Bound In red leather with Days To Remember imprinted in gold. These were priced at, $2.50. Buy them on Red Letter AO Days for "Ot WORLD BIBLES Popular Text, Red Letter edition, overlapping Wortex binding, red edges, presentation page and fam ily register. $ 1Q Red Letter Days t SEWING BOXES Simulated leather covered boxes fitted with scissors and sewing ac cessories. Sold - regularly up to $.ou. Your choice on Red Tag Days. CANASTA TABLE COVERS Suede finish in green and tan with all playing information imprinted. Regular $2.25 $1 Red Tag Days Tr MADEMOISELLE'S HOME PLANNING SCRAP BOOK Here is a place to keep all the clippings and ideas for your dream house. Was priced $1 at $3.75 Now Only l'V7 STATIONERY Notes, Correspondence Cards, Pound Papers and Envelopes plain white and colors. Odds and ends of boxed papers that sold up to $1.50. Your choice A while it lasts jfC ROYAL CREST CHINA Regular $10.00 Tea Pots and Sugar and Creamer Sets. Exquis itely decorated. $ M Q fj Specially priced at tiTJ Swenis BOOK & GIFT SHOP 217 E. Main - Medford $2.95 J 17 Powell at Market LOCATED .V THE CEXTER Of SHOPS AND THEATERS r RATES FROM 52.00 RENT A CAR Daily's U-Drive and BODY and PAINT SHOP Southern O tenon's. Oldest and Finest 29 So. Bartlett Medford 1"