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TWO MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oreson" Reads The mil Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MZDFORD PrUNTINQ CO. H-W North Fir St. Phono 1-U1 ROBERT W RUHL, editor ERNEST R QlUTRAP. M.n.iw HERB GREY, Advertising Mgr. C FERGUSON, Managlna Edllol ERIC ALLEN JR. City " BARKY CHIPMAN Telegrapn Ed tor HENRY L GREEN, Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor OERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgl An Independent Nowspoper Enured as aecond class matter el Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 2. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanca: Dally and Sunday ona year... 10 00 Dally and Sunday tlx month! 4.70 Daily and Sunday three mot a so Dally and Sunday ona month I 00 By Carrier In Advanca Medlord Ashland. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor roulea: Dally and Sunday ona year.ilioo Dally and Sunday one month 1 00 All Terma Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repreaenutlve: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offlcee In New York Chicago De troit, Sap Franclaco Loa Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Lou la Atlanta Vancouver. B C 0eco(OMsOpei Pmi$HERy44$iimoi NATION At lOITOtlAt Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hit lory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 14 roars ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY January 22, 1940 (It Was Monday) Medford high gridders net $469.63 last season; 20,000 saw six home games. C. J. Hunter elected president of Rogue River Jersey Cattle club which includes Jackson and Josephine counties. More than 300 register for sec ond quarter at Southern Oregon college of Education. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kelly and son Jimmy to leave soon for Alaska to spend six months to a year. Auxiliary to Siskiyou lodge - No. 16, l.O.U.r., installs tmei ' Pease as president, ! 20 YEARS AGO TODAY January 22, 1930 (It Was Wednesday) . City council decides to Install sidewalks and assess costs to property If owners do not make repairs. Snow flurries and mild weath er nit valley; brenk-up of cold . wave In Oregon foreseen with warm wind and rain. Samuel T. Mather, former na tional parks director and well known here, dies. Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon maintains silence when assailed by democrats on dry law enforcement. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY January 22, 1916 (It Was Saturday) C. J. Carstcns purchases inter est of John Sheridan in Nash hotel and will be associated with J. D. Bell in management. Chime clock installed on front of First National bank building at Ashland. Medford high cagcrs nip Eu gene 8 to 2 in game here. Wall Street New York, Jan. 21 (U.R) Prices held steady on the New York stock exchange today in moderately active dealings. The market opened generally lower, but shortly uftcr the end of the first hour of trading, de mand came into the mnrket for high priced issues which helped to bolster the market generally. Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials, 200.97, up 0.84; 20 rails, 55.18, off 0.08; 15 utilities, 41.86, up 0.12; and 65 stocks, 72.08, up 0.19. Volume today receded to 550, 000 shares from 1,180,000 last Saturday. Margaret Truman Files Marriage Intentions Fitchburg, Mass., Jan. 21 (U.R) Margaret Truman has filed mar riage intentions at the city clerk's office here. Miss Truman a 24-year-old secretary from Yonkcrs, N. Y will marry George W. Whitney, Fitchburg contractor. DELAYED REACTION Lewiston, Ida. (U.R) Sundy McDonald, nurse at the North Central Idaho health unit, coin plRincd of headaches for 10 days after she had fallen against a dresser while making a bed. An x-ray examination provided the reason: a fractured skull. Subscribers To report Improptr or non ay It very of tht Mat. Trtbunr phont I-M1 bfor p.m. dally and 10:30 .m. luoday. It rrtultr dHvry arrlvM thnrtly after you call, please not My office, thui eliminating special tnestppier service. The County Fair Proposal Tho r-psnlnr.inn fldonterl last week bv the Ashland Chamber of Commerce board of directors requesting the Jackson County Court to resume this year the holding of Jackson county fairs should be carefully . . . ,i , i 1 . i i i i weighed not only Dy trie court, ana iair Doara dut. Dy every taxpayer of the county. The resolution sets forth that for many years Jack son county held an annual fair, that such affairs "proved of great educational and economic value," and that the need for annual fairs is "now very great because of the heavy increase in population through out southern Oregon and Jackson county in particu lar." a e COUNTY fairs undoubtedly had an important place in the American picture back a couple of decades or so, however, the fact that in later years they have pretty largely disappeared from that picture would seem to prove that the need for or advisability of staging such expositions no Originally the county fair was a time and place for displays of fine livestock and poultry, products of farm, garden ana kitcnen, and incidentally a bit of other forms of diversion not of the year. COMING of the automobile and good roads, devel opment of 4-H shows and other community ef forts has somewnat ciuneci tne attractiveness 01 tne big once-a-year get-together.. What with Grange meetings and other attractions, rural dwellers now see each other almost as otten as do tne urban dwel lers. The town theaters, suburban drive-ins, several carnivals a year and the 'every cross-roads, largely tainment ot tnat nature. IT IS true that a county fair would provide a fine op portunity for showing the world what Jackson county can produce, but there again, a bit of consid eration should convince most that no great influx of outside visitors can be exn'ected. Certainly not enough to warrant the outlay of effort, time and money necessary. And while we are on that last item money it should be thoroughly understood that county fairs are not a financially profitable venture, tar irom it. IT DOES seem that Jackson county might be able to make better use of its fairgrounds than it does at present. The badly run-down buildings and gen eral unattractiveness of the site fronting the south highway is a poor advertisement for this region, but there again the cost tactor has to be considered. 1 ne grounds could be landscaped, trees planted to screen the piled lumber, unsightly and obsolete buildings re moved much could be done if the taxpayers were willing to foot the bill. And the same holds true of resuming county fairs. It's a question of whether the people wish to spend the money for that purpose. E.C.F. Long Range View Disappoints Decision of the civil aeronautics board to hold hearings in Washington, D.C., instead of in the west on petitions concerning proposed air line changes in this area, is a big disappointment to the Jackson Coun ty Court and the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce. CAB, incidentally, has postponed to February 20 the hearing on a request by the two bodies that some air line be permitted to inaugurate service be tween Medford and Klamath Falls. It had been con fidently expected that the hearings would be held somewhere near the points "THER petitions to be considered by CAB on the above date include the proposal to switch Salem from the United Air Lines to West Coast Airlines, a matter which vitally concerns Bellingham, Prineville, Redmond and Bend. These points are reported to be also disappointed in the plan for long distance con sideration of their problems. rHAMBER OF COMMERCE and county court of- ficials point out that it is difficult to find people here and in the other cities interested to make the long and expensive trip back to Washington. These officials also doubt that the CAB can gain a complete understanding of the local air service needs without visiting the scene. E.C.F. III i.lfcaV ii i. VvSai 'GOVERNMENT CASE WEAK'-After the Government ttm and abruptly rested Its case against him. Harry Bridges (center) tells reporter! that thla case la weaker than any of the others In which the Government sounht to deport me." Lonsshore Under nndqes Is on trial Ui San KraucLKo oa perjury ana conspiracy charges. Sunday, January 21. 1950 e longer exists. neecueworK, art worn, eic, horse racing, carnival and available during the rest weekly dances at nearly meet the desire for enter affected. Crosstown DO " "Tht price IS little high but our cars are on hundred per cant uiedl" Editorial Comment No Time For 'Me Too' At long last there is a candi date in the field to joust with Sen. Wayne Morse for the repub lican United States senatorial nomination next May. The candidate is Fred E. Rob son, Medford, clothing mer chant, who Monday filed his of ficial declaration. We do not know Mr. Robin son, but our first impression gained from his ballot slogan, is unfavorable. This gentleman has filed, according to press dis patches, his intention to seen tne nomination under the slogan, "Elect a man who will vote with the rest of our delegation." This is, In our humble estima tion, the same as saying to the voters "I'll let the rest of the Oregon delegation do my think ing for me." We do not want any senator representing Oregon in the na tional congress who is so im bued with the desire for unity that he will vote as do his col leagues, no matter what his own views may be. We' can understand the reason for a candidate announcing such a slogan as Robinson's. Senator Morse has not achieved a repu tation for putting party unity above other things and we ad mire him for it. We believe the senator docs his own thinking, and speaks what is on his mind. He could do worse than adopt for his own slogan "Elect a man who doesn't vote with the rest of our delegation unless he really believes in the delegation's stand." We need more clear. Independ ent thinking these days, instead of more of the rubber stamp type of political activity. hph. coos Bay rimes. Morse's Announced Opposition Oregon s Senator Morse, self- styled "constitutional liberal," now has an announced opponent in the republican party. For months there were under current rumors that certain pro minent individuals in state GOP circles were planning to fight Morse's renomination this spring the rjnmarv. The names of Vice Admiral Tom Catch, Dor nthv McCullough Lee and Bill Walsh were mentioned as pos sible contenders. But, instead of any of those, a men's furnisher from Medford, Fred E. Robin son, files first. In Robinson's stated reason for running, one finds why It will take more than a listing of "political convictions" to beat Mnrso p his own party. Take this excerpt from Robin son's "political convictions": ". . . If ever there wns a time In the history of thla Brent country of ours we needed men of conviction and with conrnpe nnd hnckhone enonch to ;tand un for their convictions regard less of the outcome. It is now . . ." How better could Robinson de scribe Morse? Here's another from Robin son's statement: "We need men thnt helleve in America, thnt helleve In the very rundnmentnl prlnWoles upon which thi- "nunlrv wns 'nunded . . ." Morse's nosilion as n "consti tutional liberal" qualfies him for this description. Morse has reneatedlv stated In Salem his conviction that orooress of the nation mit be based on the prin ciples outlined In the constitu tion. For instance in opposing the fVA hill, Morse said: "I a'" sntisfied that under the . . . bill t'ree men 'as directors) cou'd so nbuse . . . power that, to all In tents and purposes, thev could Five Perish As Blast Sets Fire To Trailer Woodstock. 111.. Jan. 21 UP A family of five perished on Fri day when an explo?ion blew the roof off their makeshift trail er home and touched off a fire that trapped them in their beds. Coroner Harrv L. Ehorn Iden tified the victims as Ralnh Schmitz. 49: his wife. Inez. 36. and their three small children Jimmy, 7: Laverne. 5, and John ny. 2. MEDFORD NEON CO. OUR NIGHT PATROL SERVICE SAVES Designers and manufacturtn of Quality Neon Ditpljyt 527 Put-man Sr. Phone 2-2276 by Roland Coa administer the law so that the government which would flow from it would be a government of men, not a government of laws." More from Robinson: "We need men of courage that will not take a fatalistic viewpoint that the wave of socialism has sone 80 far that nothing can stop it." In his elaborate statement of position on CVA, Morse allied himself to this description of our state which he represents: "In my section of the country a high degree of individualism and fron tier independence characterizes our people." That is the opposite of socialism. As Robinson will find during the primary campaign, Wayne Morse has developed himself into more than a run-of-corridors sen ator in Washington. Morse has assumed stature an as individual. When Robinson tries to use words like "betrayer of his party" against Morse, such de scriptions are meaningless in Morse's case. They fall flat. Morse is a leader of Oregon background who can be describ ed as an asset to the republican party, both in the state and na tion. His record, although not en tirely pleasing to any one group, does express the outspoken view point of Wayne Morse, the con stitutional liberal. Salem Capital Journal. Medford Officer Tells Of Italian Christmas The thrill of an Italian family in Trieste over a toy climbing tractor from the United States is told in a letter from WO Harley U. Munsel to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Waite, 730 South Holly street. Munsel, son of Mrs. Waite, is serving with the army headquar ters at Trieste where he has been for more than one year. The war rant officer said that he and oth ers got together and ordered the tractor for a boy residing in the villa that they live in. As usual the grown ups had more fun with it than the boy. Munsel, who said he had about 18 or 19 months to serve in Trieste told also of a trip to Venice. His father was killed in the first world war, it was re ported here. 2,000 Sfofe Employees Get Pay Raises Soon Salem, Ore., Jan. 21 OI.R) More than 2,000 state employees will get bigger pay checks at the end of this month. They are earmarked for an nual merit salary increases aver aging about $10 a month, James M. Clinton, acting director of the state civil service commis sion, reported today. STORM WARNINGS UP San Francisco, Jan. 21 (U.R) The weather bureau ordered small craft warnings hoisted, this morning at 8 a.m. for 24 hours along the coast from Cape Blanco to Cape Mendocino. Winds of 20-30 miles per hour were forecast. Repay CASH YOU GET Monthly t $100 $200 $300 15 Mos. $8.38 $16.75 $25.13 20 Mos. 6.12 13.44 20.16 Above payments cover everything! Loam of other amounts, or for other periods, are in proportion. Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie. S-211 M-217 Lumber Industry Problems to Be Meeting Subject What's ahead for southern Ore gon lumber manufacturers in 1950? What are Informed indus try and government leaders pre dicting? Can increased coopera tion and participation by a larg er segment of the west coast lumber industry in nation-wide lumber advertising and promo tion projects help maintain pres ent high levels of sales and em ployment? These and other questions will be discussed when local lumbermen gather in Portland January 26 and 27 with millmen from the entire douglas fir re gion for the annual meeting of stockholders of the West Coast Lumbermen's association. Local Men Going George Flanagan, Medford, asociation director and Elk Lum ber company general manager, will head the Jackson and Jose phine county delegation. B. L. Nutting, Medford corporation general manager, will lead a special car supply committee. Work committees will make plans for promotion and mer chandising. Senator George W. Malone, Nevada, will tell about proposed federal legislation and its effect on lumber and will discuss the government's proposed "free trade" program and its Impact on lumber. Arthur Clifford, Bridgeport, Conn., retail lumberman, will tell the local delegation and oth er lumbermen what they can ex pect in selling and competition ..pina tho pnminff vear. "Lum ber Exports Under ECA" a sore point witn many iochi mms, win be given an airing by another retail lumberman, Martin S. Mc Donnell of Chicago. Bonneville Plan Is For Line to This Area, Mayor Says Ashland, Jan. 21 Mayor Thomas Williams has found an item in President Truman's new budget which he says reveals the plans of the Bonneville power administration to string a trans mission line through the Rogue river valley. Mayor Williams has reported to the Ashland council on sev eral occasions that Bonneville is looking for a southern Oregon market for its power and he says a $2,000,000 entry in the power administration's budget is evi dence of federal power's inten tion to expand into this area. Loop Said Planned A transmission loop would be extended from present Bonne ville lines at Eugene through a southerly circuit including Rose burg, Grants Pass and Ashland, crossing the mountains to Klam ath Falls and then north through Bend and Redmond, the matter said. The lines would transmit power from McNary dam, he as serted. Williams said he has been told by a Bonneville official that the ohlv bottleneck of public power for southern Oregon is the lack of transmission lines, not lack of power. McNary generators are scheduled to produce their first power in 1953. Southern Oregon's power needs are principally served by the California - Oregon Power company which is now in the middle of a $50,000,000 expan sion program to about double its output. The Ashland council has proposed that representa tives of both Copco and BPA be invited to meet with the council for a discussion of public and private power interests in this area. Deschutes Irrigation Project Earnings List Boise, Ida.. Jan 21 (U.R) Farmers on the north unit of the Deschutes irrigation project in central Oregon earned a gross of $118.39 per acre in 1949, the bureau of reclamation regional office here reported to day. The annual crop census show ed a gross return of $4,944,685 for the 41.767 acres under culti vation. The project gets its wa ter from the Deschutes river through Wickiup reservoir. One Trip Loans Phone th YES MANiger give a few necessary facts then when approv ed come in. In the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS The federal oleomargerine UIACS mi. W.I m.i. gress have Just voted to repeal, l 1 1. U 1QQA were nrsi tevieu ut m uu aA ..nH. .an Thou warn rlpaicned to help the dairy farmer by tax- ing m cumjjemur w mc j farmer. Over the years, repeated ef forts have been made to repeal the oleo taxes, but up to this week they were unsuccessful. THAT raises a quite interesting Question: Why did we finally abandon this effort on the part of the fed eral government to aid the dairy f .. - U . . la.r.rinM rtllnifivA IflV- xBiiiici u " ' - - es on his competitor, the marger- me maker? I don't know, of course, but I ccnant I urn. rippnimp consum ers became irked by high prices 01 PUlter, wnicn resuneu nisi from war conditions and were ma intained after the war by artificial price supports. Turning to margerine as a re lief from high butter prices, th wpr fnrthpr irked bv the fact that margerine prices were kept arbitrarily higher by a dis criminatory tax. pHIS is the point: Consumers are VOTERS, They are very NUMEROUS voters. When any policy of govern ment loses the sympathy and the support of the most numerous class of the electorate, that policy is on its way out. Federal taxation of margerine is OUT now. THAT starts another train of thought: ' What will happen if, as and when consumers become con vinced that our present system of parity supports results in keeping food prices artificially high? HERB is an interesting para graph from an interpretive dispatch on the food situation: "Plagued by mountains of sur plus food, the department of agriculture is opening a big clearance sale. Millions of dol lars worth of government-owned surplus farm products are being tossed ONTO THE EXPORT MARKET at prices below cost. The dispatch continues: "FOR EXAMPLE, UNCLE SAM IS OFFERING 100 POUNDS OF POTATOES (on the export market) FOR ONE CENT." To get the full impact of that item of news, you must keep clear in your mind the fact that these bargains in food that are being offered by our kindly old uncle in Washington are offered TO FOREIGNERS ONLY. The consumer here at home is going right on paying the high prices necessitated by the parity system. It is the foreigner who gets the bargains, pHIS is the $64 question: What will consumers (who are the most numerous class in our population) do when they begin to get irked over this situation as they got irked over the mar gerine situation? THERE are two things they might do: 1. Invite in the Brannan plan which is a straight treasury subsidy with fantastic possibili ties of increased taxation for everybody. 2. KICK OUT THE WHOLE PROGRAM OF FARM SUP PORT. Blaze In Big Inch Line Burns Self Out Caldwell, O., Jan. 21 (U.R) A raging fire in the "Big Inch" natural gas pipeline three miles north of here burned itself out within three hours Friday after destroying a vacant farm house nearby. No one was injured in the spectacular blaze, which was touched off by an explosion. Valves at Summerfield and Somerset, on either side of the point of the explosion, were closed and the fire burned it self out as firemen from Cald well and Cambridge stood by. EARN MONEY By SAVING MONEY Over One Million Satisfied Policyholders Are Earning Money By Saving Money on Their Auto, Truck, and Lia bility Insurance Coverages Through Our Continuing Form Policies COMPARE BEFORE YOU RENEW AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE $5,000-$ 10,000 Bodily Injury $5,000 Property Damage Liability No Age, Mileage, or Business Use Upeharge R. C. BEATTY, Dist. Manager H. W. HAMLIN, Local Agent 204 W. 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