EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, F.bruary S. 1950
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Tribun. 10. 20 and 34 years ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY ' '
February 3, 1940
(It Was Saturday)
Howard Jones and Cecil Hunt
Jr., both of Medford, in Univer
sity of Oregon band on concert
tour.
Ray Crosby's one-handed push
shot in overtime gives Tornado
cagers 27 to 25 victory over
Grants Pass,
Modern type gasoline station
at Riverside and Jackson streets
to be managed by Woody Tur
pin, Medford,
Jacksonville reports gold nug
get weighing two and a half
ounces found there.
Lapham Motors, Inc., to lease
building and plant of C, E. Gates
Auto company.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 3, 1930
(It Was Monday)
Medford hanks sixth in bank
deposits among cities in state.
Hopkins ditch bond election
slated February 14.
Council approves survey of
city by a "civic engineer."
Republican leaders warn vot
ers to "beware of promise of
prohibition repeal and- smooth
tongued dreamers."
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 3, 1916
(It Was Thursday)
Portland isolated by worst
snow, sleet, ice and wind storm
on record; wire communications
severed.
George Austin, mail carrier
from Eagle Point to Climax,
finds carriage easier than horse
back with heavy load.
Medford Moose lodge to spon
sor supper and dance for mem
bers and guests.
Legal Gambling
In California Seen
Boost To Nevadans
Reno, Nev., Feb. 3 (U.R)
Nevada gamblers said toclnv a
proposal lo legalize Rambling in
neighboring California might of
fer them a "short cut to becom
ing millionaires."
Among oilier things, the Cali
fornia proposal would have the
voters elect five gambling com
missioners at $10,000 a year
apiece.
Would Pay Stat
"Why I'd pay the state of Cali
fornia $100,000 today if they'd
let me be one of those 'czars', "
said the manager of one of
Reno's biggest gambling casinos.
"And 1 11 bet you 10 to 1 1
could find four other Nevada
gamblers who'd each put up the
same kind of money.'1
Nevada gambler, are known
to be considering opening
branches in California if sam-
bling is made legal in that stale. '
However, they were flabbergast
ed at the commissioner plan.
Regulated By Stat
In Nevada, gambling is regu
lated by the slate tax commis
sion, an agency created 80 years
ago. By law, it must include
spokesmen for banking, mining,
livestock, agriculture and busi
i ness. The chairman of the pub
lic service commission and the
governor are also members. All
serve without pay. Meanwhile,
in Sacramento, Cal., the secre
tary of state's office announced
the gambling proposal has one
third of the necessary signatures
to qualify for the ballot.
Deputy Secretary Charles
Haggerty said the "Pension and
Taxpayers union, Inc., bad filed
New York City, N. Y., Jan. 31 Shame on Boston!
A group from the Japanese Diet, 14 strong, visiting the
U.S.A. to observe "democracy at work ' was barred from the
Boston city council chamber because, to quote one of the council
men: "They are probably here taking photographs of fort
resses and learning all they can about the A-bomb."
This visit was endorsed by General MacArthur, and the group
was chaperoned by officers of the U. S. army.
But this moronic representative of Boston democracy a
democracy that reelected Mayor Curley, a confessed grafter and
convicted swindler said he spoke on behalf of U. S. war veter
ans "the last time the Japs were here they bombed Pearl Harbor
sic) and would probably try to do it again."
"Feed them but don't educate them" was his final plea.
This from the "Athens of America."
Moreover the councilmen voted 11 to 8 to sustain him!
The Boston councilman need not worry about EDUCATING
the Japs he has contributed to their education as to how low
"the land of the free and the home of the brave" can sink! A
lesson in practical democracy they probably won't soon forget,
e e
The visiting Japanese will soon go to Washington, D. C, and
watch congress in action.
Well, with a national election coming up we doubt if what
they observe will prove much more edifying.
It seems to this department that the congress as a whole
regardless of party, resembles as of today the water reservoirs
of New York a record low for all time and disaster ahead if
Mother Nature docs not somehow come to the rescue.
e e
There is a great hue and cry about deficit-spending and
national bankruptcy but when President Truman or anyone else
charts a course whereby the budget COULD be balanced, the
congressmen think only of themselves and reelection and vote for
a reduction in tax revenues rather than an increase. None of them
seem to realize we fought a war only a few years ago the most
costly war in blood and treasure in human history and that war
MUST somehow be PAID for.
It can t be paid for by fancy bookkeeping, By dencit-spena-Ing.
by trying to raise ourselves by the bootstraps, or by ANY-
thing but hard work, increased production, and as a result putting
more money In the U. S. treasury than is taken out. And that
"putting in" can only be accomplished by increasing taxes, in
creasing national income, or by both. But the only vital thing to
congressmen is VOTES!
The sharp contrast between the Hiss and the Corjlon trials
continues. Comedy is still tne keynote of trie laiier wun me -111116
giant" Archibald Palmer refusing to drop the role of slap-stick
artist, In spite of Judge Ryan's desperate efforts to raise the pro
ceedings above those of a farce.
Archibald is almost as baffling a character as Alger Hiss,
though on widely different planes, of course.
According to pressroom gossip, Palmer has made a fortune
at the law, being a bankruptcy court specialist, and while ec
centric, those who know him best, deny he is "a mental case"
at times he may appear to be crazy, they say, but really is only
"crazy like a fox.
We have heard that before.
And perhaps the "little man" HAS made a fortune in the
bankruptcy court where the main objective probably is to escape
legitimate financial obligations by claiming to be insolvent.
But if Archibald is only crazy like a fox, if there is method
In his madness if he is anything but a bull in the legal china
shop and a plain damn fool to boot, then we will have to have
more convincing evidence than has been provided to date.
e e e
As we see it and have seen it from the first if Judith
Coplon is acquitted it will not be because of her lawyer's efforts
but In spite of them. It was because the defendant Gubitchev saw
Palmer in preliminary action that he refused to have an American
lawyer when the case started. The dour and diminutive Russian
doesn't look overly smart but he was smart enough for that
better no lawyer than a clown like "Arch." To further reinforce
his position In the face of Palmer's uncontrolled garrulity, Gubit
chev pretended he could not talk English or understand it.
e e e
When this "escape" combined with the claim of diplomatic
Immunity failed to work and Gubitchev had to get a lawyer or
run the risk of disaster, he tried to got as far away from the
Palmer and Miss Coplon set-up physically and legally as circum
stances permitted, choosing one of the best criminal lawyers in
New York a Mr. Pomerantz, who represented the U.S.A. at the
Nuremburg trials and moving to the extreme left of the court
room "ring" while his co-defendant and her counsel occupied the
extreme right.
Since then Archibald has enjoyed himself immensely.
Last Saturday he held a press conference in his office on
lower Broadway, the purpose ostensibly being to have the news
paper men meet Mrs. Coplon, Judith's mother. Mrs. Coplon was
on hand ok, and had her picture taken with her arm around her
daughter. But aside from declaring she would not turn her back
on her own flesh and blood naturally and Judith had told
her all about her romance with Valentin Gubitchev before her
arrest, she had little to offer and finally found the conference
so nervously exhausting that after a few moments the poor woman
broke down and hurriedly left the room in tears.
e e e
This denouement sobered and angered Miss Coplon but nol
her attorney. The latter proceeded to produce a box of ball
point pens and pass them among the newspaper men present,
while Miss C. was asked (with characteristic newspaper callous
ness) what her feelings as of today are regarding Gubitchev. Sht
replied solemnly that whatever they might be they were no longer
feelings of love
This admission shocked the romantic Archibald so severely
that he declared his client now and then was "a damn fool," while
Miss Coplon pleaded to have the remark considered "off the
record." But it was too late for that, so the story was high-lighted
in the Sunday papers with proper illustrations. When the con
ference broke up, there appeared to be about as much love lost
between Judith Coplon and her attorney as between the latter and
Messrs. Gubitchev and Pomerantz.
see
When court opened the following Monday, Archibald was on
hand, as full of vim and vigor as a bantam fighting cock, with
more ballpoint pens (45 cents each, wholesale) to pass around the
press section, as well as his favorite cough drops the bankruptcy
legal expert uses cough drops as a substitute for cigarettes (and
not a bad idea!)
He also packed about 108 pounds of law books for Judge
Ryan, which the Judge wryly declined with thanks, declaring he
had all references needed in his own library. Archibald received
this declination with the same airy nonchalance he receives the
frequent rebuffs and censures from the court, scarcely raising an
eyebrow, as he hustled on to the next point, to convince the jury
his attractive client is the victim of an FBI "frame-up" and a
Soviet "seducer" rather than like Alcer Hiss, voluntary medium
of transmission of secret U. S. government documents to Russia.
How is this case coming out?
It has not developed sufficiently to lustifv anv formal uroi!-
nostication. Hut our guess would he that in spite of Archibald
Palmer's biifooncry and gatichcries, if the FBI doesn't present
more convincing evidence of an actual conspiracy between Miss
Coplon and Gubitchev an actual passing of documents from one
to the other than has been true to date, the Russian "agent" will
surely be acquitted and Miss Coplon who has already been con
victed on one espionage charge will probably be. There is a
marked contrast in the Hiss and Coplon trials between the two
FBI records and personnel tremendously impressive and con
vincing in the former, up to the present neither in the latter.
But, of course, much may happen between now and the end
of the performance.
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(HE MEANT WELL
L.. D.f.-J r ' Jefferson City, Tenn. (U.R)
DV KOiana tO : policeman Fate Willard's well-
meaning friends rushed to his aid
during a struggle between the
officer and a suspected robber.
A. D. Shand, a garage owner,
grabbed a pick handle and
brought it down with terrific
force right on Willard's head.
"Get, Pop you're just In time to help me make a snowman!"
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Crash Story Questioned
To the Editor:
I wish to correct the erron
eous impression left with the
public as a result of the news
article published in the Medford
Mail Tribune in the Monday,
January 30 issue, concerning the
crash of an airplane in Sams
Valley resulting in the death of
John C. Bieghler, my brother-in-law.
This article alleges that I re
ported to the state police that
"John Bieghler was flying at an
altitude of about 500 feet, and
that he was putting on a show
for friends and relatives."
The above statement is not as
reported to the state police by
me. I advised the state police
that John appeared to be flying
at an altitude of 800 to 1,000 feet
just preceding the stall. He had
circled over the farm twice and
had apparently banked around
to make a third flight over the
farm, was climbing when hir
plane apparently went into a
stall, slipped backward, and then
came down In a spin, crashing
on the highway.
Simply as a news item, I be
lieve his many friends and the
public generally, are entitled to
a correct statement of my report
of the incident.
B. M. Burreson
! on an equal status with these
; other cities without being forced.
Our pedestrians would help
i the drivers, and the drivers
j should therefore reciprocate by
being more courteous to pedes
j trians in their designated zones.
We all could help by using
our horns less, our patience
more, and learning the results
of anti-noise campaigns in other
cities where they have been suc
cessfully conducted.
If we try to the best of our
ability to obey the basic rule,
we can be courteous and strive
to avert accidents and tragedy.
Also setting an example for our
younger generation, thus proving
Prices Good
February 3 to 6
WE RESERVE THE
RIGHT TO LIMIT
QUANTITIES
STORE HOURS:
WEEK DAYS
10 A.M. Until Midnite
SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS
9 A.M. Until Midnit
ourjelves to be intelligent driv
ers and citizens.
Cleone Flesher.
.LAW GETS IN WAY ,
I Chicago U.R) The Jaw gave
a two-fold beating to the mar
riage of Parker nugues, .
Parker told a judge his wife de
serted him to devote full time to
her legal studies. The judge
granted him a divorce.
To handle air express ship
ments through the country,
1,100 passenger danes operate
every day over 80,000 miles of
scheduled certified airline
routes.
New York, Feb. 8 U.B
Margaret Truman will begin
making recordings lor RCA-Vic-tor
next fall.
Use Mall Tribune Want Ads
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Steel Filing Cabinets
$39.50
YOUR OFFICE BOY
115 Wast Main Sr.
Poor Losers
To the Editor; I believe it was
in 1888 when I was permitted to
"carry a torch" in the parade of
a democratic rally and have
been watching election returns
ever since but have never seen
such poor losers as 1948 pro-j
duced. I wish they could be a ;
little better sports and quit
harping on it over the radio. 1
Also, if truth was compulsive,
think how few commercials now
heard would be on the air for
another broadcast.
Like the bomb scare. Did you
know it would require 300.000
bombs to cover the United
States alone, allowing for no
overlaps? Which I say is a pretty
big order. Then why should it '
be permitted when many people '
take it to heart causing suicide. 1
nervous breakdown, or even just
plain scared with little just
cause. I
H. H. Rodgers,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Snow Planes Protested
To the Editor: We protest the
activities of the airplanes that
are making snow over our coun
ty. It seems they are doing a
good job of it.
We understand that they were
hired to make snow, and wc
believe that they have done a
good job of it. We think that
they should be paid a bonus and
laid off for the balance of the
season.
We are sure that the average
resident of our county would ap
preciate it if they would hire a
couple of airplanes to make some
sunshine.
C. W. Powell.
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Medford" Leading Appliance Dealer for the Past 18 Years
309 E. MAIN PHONE 2-4427
Business License Hurts
To the Editor: Is there a way
to have a referendum on a city
ordinance?
The present businesi liceiiFC
fee of $20 yearly seems unjust.
A graduated fee surely could be
used without too great expense.
As it is, the little fellows pay a
large part of the fee that should
be paid by the larger employers.
Also it is particularly objec
tionable to me because only a
minimum part of my supply
business comes from Medford.
It is scattered over a dozen or
so towns and many service sta
tions on the highways in no
town. The fee is too high a per
centage of my profit obtained in
Medford, and there is no assur
ance at all that all the other
towns and also the state may
not clap on a similar tax.
If that should happen, I would
expect to close out the business.
Medford needs the "golden
eggs." but I would like to see
it be just to us, the little "geese."
Horace W. Thompson.
Public Needs It Too
To the Editor: In view of the
announcement of a series of po
lice officers classes, to be con
ducted in Medford and other
sections of the state. 1 believe
this would be the people's time
to bring to mind of the general
public, that to have an efficient
police force we must also show
public cooperation.
By this cooperation, I mean
observance to our laws, and
obedience of them. Traffic laws
are the ones taken most lightly.
and jay-walking is one of the
most serious, yet most ignored.
"Jaywalk, and you might
never walk." might be an ex
cellent traffic slogan. If people
would stop to think of the pos
sible tragedy in being sirucK
down and perhaps run over and
maimed for life wlien tney con
stantly step out in traffic lanes
A couple of our youngest grandchildren dropped In unex !from behind parked cars in the
pectedly yesterday and were taken over to Central Park zoo to middle of the block, in zoneo
see the animals. The black bears are havina a terrible time, one nd regulated traffic lanes, they
day start to hibernate, with the merrurv near zero, and the next ' could and would avert a great
nay with the mercury at 70 above, thev decide it is spring
R.W.R.
Senator Favors Gobaf
Spending In Return For
World Atomic Control
Washington, Feb. 3 IU.RI
Sen. Brien McMahan, (D., Conn.)
proposed today that the United
states offer a S50. 000.000. 000
global Marshall Plan in return
for "true" world control of atom
ic and other weapons.
The chairman of the Joint con
gressional atomic committee
made his recommendations for
coping with the H-bomb shortly
after President Truman In effect
rejected another senatorial atom
ic control suggestion.
65,000 of the needed 204,672 sig
natures with his office. About
35,000 of the signatures came
from the Los Angeles area.
deal of tragedy and heartache.
We have cross walks and
pedestrian lanes, and time is
not important, if shortcuts can
be compared to hospital beds,
broken bones, life disablement
and possible death.
Let us air our safety campaign
Co. Elmer V. Wooten
Said Seriously III
Salem. Ore., Feb. 3 (U.R)
Sale-m friends received word to- ifey cloinsj away with jay walking
day that Col. Elmer V. Wooten. ij" Citations and a stiff
who served in World War II as in mpM o( OrPR0n Jc,'tii and
administrator of selective serv-1 prove that we. too can eliminate
ice in Oregon, has been seriouslv a very obnoxious habit, and be
ill In Maryland
Colonel Woolen has hepn Mv.
mg at Mt. Rainier. Md., since his
transfer to the national council
for duty under General Hershey :
in ine selective service office
Mrs. Wooten wrote Salem friends
that Colonel Wooten suffered an
attack of pneumonia after suf
fering a serious heart condition.
About 20 per cent of the
world's table grapes and 40 per
cent of the world's raisins are
produced In California.
BOTH ARE ASPIRIN AT ITS BEST
Favotltc of millions
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pur. Its the worlds
Uroei taller at 10c
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We are slightly torn up but complete
varieties are on sale and we are open
from 10 A.M. until midnite every day.
Save at these prices and many more
too numerous to mention!
PEAS
MAPLE
FLAVORED
MECO
LARGE i TIN
PURE
TOMATO
MECO QUALITY
DC AC TENDER, LARGE
LUMBERJACK
SYRUP
SHREDDED
TUNA
GARDEN BRAND
CATSUP
CHEF BOY-AR-DEE
SPAGHETTI
EVERBEST TOMATO
PRESERVES
BEST EVER
II A C LI TASTY
riOrl CORNED BEEF
SUNSHINE KRISPY
CRACKERS
SUNSHINE
GRAHAMS
NO. 2
Cans
C LB
29c
TO-
TIN 7C
29c
2 Regular Aft
Bottles X7C
With Meat
Balls
14 OZ.
JAR
No. 1
Tin
Only
NO. 1
CAN
I LB.
CADDY
12c
19c
19c
49c
Medford's Finer Produce
, CRISP TENDER
CELERY JES bun. 13c
SNOBOY DELICIOUS
APPLES
TENDER GREEN
EXTRA FANCY
HALF BOX
1.89
BROCCOLI suSch o19c
MUSSEL
SPROUTS Tcil.La pkg?h 29c
NO. 1 KLAMATH
POTATOES 10. 59c
FIRM RIPE
BANANAS, 2 lbs. 29c
AMERICA'S
FAVORITE
lb. 29c
PLENTY OF PARKING
It Is Easy to Shop at Anderson's
MEDFORD'S FINEST - PRICES GOOD FRIDAY - SATURDAY
SWIFT'S SLICED
BACON lb. 39c
2 POUND LIMIT
BY THE PIECE
BACON lb. 37c
HALF OR WHOLE SLAB
FINE PORK
ROAST lb. 29c
0 JAX
WIENERS - 35c
TENDER TASTY LB.