TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, January 29, 1950
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Medford and Jackson County His
tory It" the files of the Mall
Tribune 10, 20 and 34 years ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 29, 1940
(It Was Monday)
More than 1,100 persons in
280 cars visit Crater Lake park
for largest Sunday attendance of
winter.
Valley temperature reaches 65
for one of warmest January days
on record.
Louie Thurman elected presl
dent of Order of "M" at high
school.
James C. Collins announces
candidacy for central committee
man on democratic ticket.
Dark Hollow school installs
Walter Medley as president of
student body.
' 20 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 29, 1930
(It Was Thursday)
Fruilmcn ask government to
furnish lawyer to represent them
in fruit spray suit in California.
Petitions are circulated In city
and county for repeal of dry law
Dairymen serving city plan
ngiu against new city miiK law.
New snowplow arrives here
lor clearing snow on Crater Lake
highway this winter.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 29, 1918
(It Was Saturday)
Modoc orchard in Table Rock
district undergoes improvements
under direction of Elmer Hull.
Southern Pacific railroad com
pletes construction of division be
tween Eugene and Coos Bay,
New business building to be
erected at Mai nund Riverside for
Dr. F. C. Page by Frank C.
Clark, architect.
Reapportionment Hot Issue
One of the "hottest" issues in the forthcoming
1951 legislature will be a proposed reapportionment
of legislative representatives and senators.
e e a a a
p ILES FRENCH, Moro editor, publisher and state
representative, and Klamath Falls Senator Philip
S. Hitchcock, are sponsors of a proposal submitted by
up-state legislators which would divide Oregon's rep
resentation on a plan similar to that now in use in
congress with each county having equal represen
tation in the senate, and representation according to
population in the house of representatives.
Another plan, advanced by Sen. Dick Neuberger,
Portland writer, would provide for county represen
tation in both houses on a basis of strict arithmetical
division according to federal census figures.
a e e e
THE acute interest being shown in this issue stems
from two basic reasons the first, that no Oregon
legislature has been willing to follow the constitu
tional mandate with regard to reapportionment for
more than 50 years, and the second, that up-state
counties have an understandable fear that represen
tation based on a strict population basis wcftild permit
Multnomah county, with about one-third of the state's
population, to become the tail that wags the'dog.
Still another reapportionment proposal has been
put forth by a heterogeneous group including the
State Federation of Labor, AFL, the State Industrial
Union council, CIO, the Young Republican Federa
tion of Oregon, the Young Democratic Clubs of Ore
gon, and others. This proposal says, "Representation
shall be determined on the basis of population ex
cepting that no county shall have more than one
third the members of either house. The method of
equal proportions shall be used for such determina
tion. "In case any county shall not have the requisite
population to entitle such county to a member, then
such county shall be attached to or grouped with some
adjoining county or counties tor senatorial or repre
sentative purposes," the suggested amendment con
tinues. IMOST recent plan to be proposed comes via mail
from Rep. Earl E. Fisher, Beaverton, who sub
mits a copy of the "Fisher plan" for legislative reap
portionment. His suggestion is simply for two senators and one
representative at large for each county, plus an ad
ditional representative for each 20,000 persons in the
county.
lusher points out that there are at present 10
counties which have no representation in the house,
and 25 which have no direct and exclusive represen
tation in the senate.
Fisher says :
"... Oregon must readjust her legislative mach
inery to serve the best interests of her fast growing
population of one and a half million people. Experi
ence tells us that six senate committee assignments
or four house committees per legislator are too many
oftentimes hard to have quorum present or run
short-handed. This slows down legislative procedure
as committee work is a big factor in expediting leg
islation. Oregon needs more legislators to handle the
work and adjourn on schedule."
JUST how many more legislators his plan would
provide Mr. Fisher does not say but rule of thumb
arithmetic indicates that there would be about 80 in
the house (60 at present) in addition to 72 senators
(two from each of the '26 counties) compared to the
30 at present. Multnomah county alone would have
some 25 representatives. E.A.
Crosstown
by Roland Co
tag i awme a nlmtimi I 30 faealj
"Gee, Moml That red light bulb makes this the best snowman
I evar made! Don't you want people to admire it?"
Comment On This and That
ur,.l,l(nn Inn OP. (IIP)
Hoses are still red and violets
are still blue, but
If the mod
ern writers of
valentine
verse pulled
out the stops
like the old
timers did, the
courts couldn't
handle the
breach of
promise suits.
Take this one
I found in the
c o ngressional
library. It was
penned in
1840:
" 'Tis Valentine's day, to the
church let's away;
"No longer I'll wait, let us
marry.
"You promised, dear maid, that
you would be mine,
"If I 'till this day would
tarry."
Compare that the crack a
young man made to a clerk
while buying a valentine in a
store here last February.
I don t want to marry the
girl," he said, "I just want to
say 'hello.'
Br HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Preas '.stun Writer
And take it from Jeavmette
Lee, supervisor of creative art
for the Hallmark Greeting Card
company, the boys of today are
pretty cautious and perhaps have
influenced the "poets" who
write the verses.
Paper Bag Greeting
One of the popular rhymes for,
this year is printed on a plain
paper bag. It doesn't get the
boy in any mess. It says, slm-
Uarmarj Nichols
COMMUNICATIONS
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the mmt and address of the writer
al though under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name 01
Initial for publication Is permis
sible. The Mall Tribune reserves
the rlfht to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and conden
sation, tetters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
In the Day's News
How Bright Are The Stars?
Juniors' Parents Meet f
Next Wednesday
The parents of Bliss Heine's
juniors win hold their monthly
meeting Wednesday, February 1,
at 8 p.m. in the Eagles auxiliary
hall, 217 West Main street. Semi
annual election of officers will
be held.
The Juniors are planning a
March of Dimes show ot their
own which will be held in this
hall, the date to be announced
later. The hall hns been donated
for the occasion. The Juniors will
be assisted by several members
of the local mtiMclnns union.
Eagle Point Teen Age
Club Names Officers
Eagle Point. Jan. 2B Mem
bers of the Eagle Point Teen age
cub named Pat Lucas president
at a recent business meeting,
with Doreen Gibson elected sec
retary and Bill Jackson, treas
urer. Public relations appointees
are Neil Jackson and Leonard
Adamson. Plans were made al
the same meeting for regular
square dancing, ballroom danc
ing, plug pong and game sessions.
Club members enjoyed a
dance-night January 24. when
the Sage Riders furnished music,
donated through the Medford
branch of musicians' union. Stu
dents from other schools were
invited to attend the affair but
due to weather conditions were
unable to do so.
Subscribers
To report Improper nr non
alivenr of the Mall Trlhuns
phone Z-KI41 brfore : p. at dallr
sad 10:10 B.m Sunday.
If rttular drllverv arrive!
shnruy .fur you call, pleats notlly
attire, thus eliminating special
aicsssnser service.
By J. Hugh Pruett
Altronomrr, Kxlrnston Division.
Oregon Higher Education System
When St. Paul 1900 years ago
wrote, "For one star differs from
another star In glory," he was
slating the principle classifying
the stars according to their
brightness. But to the Greek as
tronomers, tllpparcnus laruuuu
150 B. C.) and Ptolemy a.
150) belongs the credit for intro
ducing the present method of
designating the apparent lumin
osity of shirs. Ptolemy cataloged
and graded almost all the naked
eye stars into six magnitudes.
He listed the brightest 20 visible
from Alexandria, Egypt, as first
magnitude. At the other end of
the scale, he rated as sixth mag
nitude the dimmest he could see
on a clear, moonless night. (Let
ns rail these lm and 8m). The
slurs of intermediate brightness
lie mit in 2m. Jm. 4 in and am.
The dimmer, the larger the mag
nitude. The Big Dipper stars arc
mostly 2m.
Fainter Stars Bean
After telescopes came Into use
340 years ago, much fainter stars
broke into view. Since a stand
ard lm star is about 100 times
hriohter than a 6m. It was de
cided to consider each magnitude
bout 2.5 times brighter man
the one next dimmer, for 2.512
mu l n cd together five limes
gives 100. Thus a lm Is 2.5 times
brighter than a am; a am, to
times brighter than a Jin. etc.
Since a few stars are much
brighter than lm. we now have
to go down to 0m and even minus
values. Venus at its best is better
than "minus 4m." The new 200-
luch telescope shows stars (pho
tographically) as dim as plus
23m, or around 8.000,000 times
fainter than the faintest the un
aided eye reveals.
But this system of apparent
magnitudes does not give us any
Idea of the real luminosity of a
star. One might appear dim if It
is intrinsically taint and relative
ly near, or If quite bright but
remote. Our sun. the nearest
known star, ranks "minus 27m"
because it Is so close to us.
System Devised
Astronomers have devised a
osity. This they call absolute
magnitude. In imagination they
place all stars of which they
know the distance and apparent
brightness at a location 32.6 light-
years (a light-year Is almost six
trillion miles) from us and view
them from there. All at this same
distance, their relative bright
ness would be a correct measure
of their actual luminosity.
At this distance our sun would
fade to a very dim 5m star. Many
of our seemingly dim stars would
be far brighter; others, much
fainter. Old Sol is about midway
in the scale. The dimmest star
known Is one discovered In 1943
in Aqulla with an absolue magni
tude of 19m: the brightest is S
Doradus in the Greater Magel
lanic Cloud, "minus 9m." These
two are actually about 400,000
times dimmer and 400,000 times
brighter than our sun.
SP Orders 3,100 New
Railroad Freight Cars
Robert H. Holmes, district
freight and passenger agent for
the Southern Taclfic railroad
said today that the president of
the SP has announced that or
ders for 3.100 new freight cars
have been placed by the com
pany.
Two thousand 50-ton box cars
will be built by the Pullman
company, according to A. T.
Mereicr, president of SP, and
1,000 50-ton automobile cars
will be built at SP's Sacramento
shops. In addition, 100 70-ton
"drop-end gondolas" will be built
by the Ralston Steel Car
company.
Mercier said that deliveries
are scheduled to begin in the
spring, and be completed by the
end of the year. They will raise
to aj.oju tne total number ol
postwar freight cars acquired by
the railroad, beside half-owner
ship in 8.000 new refrigerator
cars. The SP's total postwar in-
system by which they rate stars j vestment in rolling stock will
accorauig to ineir actual iumui-i men be Hit million.
Reverse Approach
To the Editor: It occurs to me
as 1 think of It that "maybe
machines are smarter than peo
ple." Most all machines produced
recently, and in common use,
run as directed, but in case of a
ball-up you don't have to call
in special mechanical crews and
completely dismantle the mech
anism, nor do you have to call
in a special group to add hun
dreds of parts to the original to
get on with the business, iou
Just reverse the mechanism, cast
out, or withdraw from, the mess
and take off as planned.
It would appear that all of the
fine brains and Judgment of the
United States has been concen
trated on making foolproof me
chanical apparatus and, I think
we will all admit, the result has
been a howling success. Unfor
tunately in polities, we started
with the old Ship of State, which,
again I think you will agree,
was a pretty fair vehicle, and
still is, except for the fact that
instead of adding a few simple
parts, like maybe reverse
gear, every human being aspir
ing to and obtaining public of
fice has felt It his absolute moral
duty to dump a lot of excess
cargo aboard in the form of new
resolutions, bills, and laws. In
cased in terms he himself can't
interpret by the next election, i
How would it be for a candi-'
date to come out with what he j
wasn't in favor of as a platform I
in other words, a reverse ap-.
proach, you might say?
It's mighty bad and embarras
sing to get a ship hung up on a
mud bank. The captain of the I
battleship Missouri would prob-j
ably agree, but at least he Is
worried and trying to get his
ship out. The captain of the ship
I have been discussing shows
neither embarrassment nor
worry. In fact, he says, "every
thing is Just ducky."
Well I'm a democrat but I
believe that most of the other
democratic presidents who have;
served this country would havei
strangled on their breakfast cof
fee, had their eyes fallen on
some of the headlines that con-'
front us these days. '
I've been hoping the republl-1
cans might wake up to a point
where they would furnish thisl
needed reverse action and slide
away from some of this CVA
and socialized farming, business,
medicine, finance, education,
housing, employment, etc. and
leave it behind, even u iney
have to elect a military man to
do it.
Whoever has the intestinal
fortitude to lead off Is going to
let a lot of support 1 believe
enough. Let's get men who can
sort out the good and Keep it
and chuck- the rest overboard.
Johnnie Walker
P. O. Box 72 ;
Shady Cove, Oregon
ly:
"I gotcha a real sweet valentine
But I kept it too darn handy,
"So I sure do hope you like the
sack
"I sure did like the candy!"
But while the verses have
changed, this year's valentines
nark- to the old-fashioned stvles
of the 1800.
They re lacv. strewn with
hearts, some are scented, and
Cupid and love birds are all
over the place. They run from
a nickel to around five dollars.
A hundred years ago you could
spend as much as 30 bucks on a
valentine.
First One In 1850
According to the best informa
tion in the files, the first valen
tine came out in 1650. It was a
sketch of Cupid shooting a dart
into the heart of a medieval
knight whilst his swooning lady
looked on.
But the historians believe that
the romantic customs attached
to Valentine's day dated back
even before the Christian era to
the days of old Rome.- However,
popular customs connected with
all-lovers day doubtless had
their origin in France and Eng
land during the middle ages.
Nature lovers noticed that the
birds began to hide behind the
leaves and bill and coo during
the second month of the year.
February 14 seemed to be a logi
cal day for young human lovers
to up and choose a mate also.
Geoffrey Chaucer gave some
recognition of Valentine's day
in his "Parliament of Foules.
He wrote:
"For this was on Seynt Valen
tine's day
"When every foul Cometh ther
to choose his mate."
By FRANK JENKINS
The Flying Arrow iwell-pub-licised
American blockade run
ner) gets back to Kobe, Japan.
Among others, she carries a Carl
U ...,Unn.. ,kn uiaa nhlmt Of
nawuiviiiD, witi, a - - -
the new-closed American consu
late at Tsingtao. He tells report
ers at Kobe:
"Food has become a pressing
nrnblem for the big Chinese pop-
f.iBinn Millions are doing
to die of 'starvation before the
next harvest in August . . . y-
,: .1 ara rtlccntigf led
with communist rule, but can do
nothing aDout u ism
TIGHT CONTROLS."
TIGHT controls? What are
they? ,
Well, the most effective of
them are policemen, both uni
i j i ..-rat There are
thtm Thpv have guns.
alalia v ..-. - j , .
The poor devils they are bossing
have none,
r, - , It Hnecn'r. do tne
people who are being bowed
much good to get dissatisfied.
About ail mey can uo ;
it as it comes. If they starve, ;
they just starve.
IN Formosa, where the Nation-;
alist government is making Its '
last stand, there is a story to;
the effect mat two t-nina war
lords who deserted to the com
munists in December have
come back to the Chiang fold.
They are quoted as saying
ii.a., 4mtrA fnnHtttnns under the
communists intolerable FAR
DIFFERENT FROM WHAT Ktu
PROPAGANDA HAD i-nvm-
ISED.
THE troubles of these off-ag in
on-ag'ln war lords leave me
cold. Anybody who . believes
a mv kind of nrooaeanda dfr
scivca m 1 1 u ...... . o
The purpose of all propaganda
is to mjul, rturi,r
rNFTTinr: hack to this starva
VI tion business, millions of
Russian peasants starved when
the communist system of state
jinaraiiiu" farms wa forced
onto them. They wanted to keep
their lands, ine pomouru aam
"NO, we don't plan it that way."
Under communism, the state is
everything. The individual Is
nothing. You do as the state says
or you die of hunger if you
don't die of bullets against a
wall.
THE trouble with communism
is that it puts too much pow
er in too few hands. Wherever
and whenever that happens, the
rignis oi tne cuniinun ma, ev
pn-n-n-n-i!
JET'S not fool ourselves.
Communism is growing.
In 1945, the communist Rus
sia government controlled 190
million people.
Bv 1948. Russian communist
rule had been extended to in
clude 450 million people.
With the fall of China, the So
viet communist government now
rules 850 million people.
H
OW did it happen?-
Well, in an amazing number
of Instances these people got to
fussing among themselves and
couldn't seem to quit and the
communists eventually moved in
and took 'em over.
SUIT SETTLEMENT MADE
Miami, Fla Jan. 28 (U.R)
An out of court settlement had
been reached today in the $125,
000 suit brought by Sportsman
Gar Wood against Mrs. Violet
Sanderson Bellous, his former
secretary.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 28 (U.P.)
Barge and log raft traffic on the
Columbia river again has been
Interrupted by Ice floes.
Cooking, Freezing
School Set Monday
Miss Jean Wiegand, home
economist for the Crosley com
pany, will conduct a cooking and
home freezing demonstration at
the Medford YMCA at 2 p.m.
Monday, the four sponsoring
stores reminded housewives
Saturday.
Acme and Crane-Mohr hard
ware stores. Rogue Service and
Supply company, and the Radio
Repair company of Phoenix, are
sponsoring the event. There will
be no admission charge.
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