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TWO MEDFOHD (OBEGOW) MAIL TBIBUHg MEDFOiu).jtJTRiBUNE -Xvarvone Id Southern OrIn" n.iw Except Saturday PubUariea 07 MIDrOBD PRiNTINO CO--,o 7S,ih Fir St Pho" ' ' " ROBERT W RUHW 1 ERNEST B GIUSTRAP . ...i Mpp GERALD LATHAM, ClrouleUon Mgr An Independent Nawipapar Entered eecond daie 1 "'""' !' Medford. Oreiton. under Act ol March 9. 1807 ilJBSCRIPTlON RATES By Mall In Advance; . Dally and Sndsy-ne yr..; 00 Dally and Sundar-elx month! 4.76 Dally and Sunday-three moe J.50 Dally and Sunday one month IOT By Carrier - In Advance - Medlord Aihlaid, Central Point. J""""" Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on motor routea: iauo Dally and Sunday one 1t.tld.m Dally and Sunday one month I 00 All Terma Cab In Advance Official Paper at the City of Medford OtllcUl Paper ol Jaekion County United Preaa FuU Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertlln Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY. INC Ofllcea In New York Chlcajo D. troit San Francleco Loa Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Louie Atlanta 'ancouver(JCMBM- otigSJ NIWSPAPit UtHISHERi ASSOCIATION NATIONAL I0ITOIIA1 (SbOATtCUl 3 T Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackion Counrr Hie. lory (ram the fllaa ol the Mall Tribune 10, 20 and 34 rearl ago 10 YEABS AGO TODAY February 19, 1940 (It Was Monday) Derby school population in creased with two new pupils, Yvonne and Burt Guernsey. Bill Liltrcll is president of riding club at high school. Calvin Clark residence, 1820 North Riverside avenue, dam aged by flames. F.E.W. Smith, long time resi dent of Jackson county, dies. Charles Cowan, Wagner creek district, celebrates 71st birthday with surprise party at school house. 20 YEABS AGO TODAY Fabruary 19, 1930 (It Was Wednesday) Washington school site, West Main and Oakdnle, selected as site for new courthouse; people to vote on proposnl at primary. Central Point asks land from county for new mill site. Oregon intangible tax law ob ject of many suits in state. City threaten! to raze ruined Page theater unless some action is taken at once by the owners, 34 YEARS AGO TODAY Fabruary 19. 1916 (It Was Friday) Forty dollars per head paid to Mrs. II. D. Kubi. Applegate, for 25 head of cattle. A. S. Roscnbaum marks ninth anniversary as Southern Pacific agent in Medford. Jay Gore and George Gates, both of Medford, to be initiated into fraternities at University of Oregon. NOT AFRAID OF JINX Omaha, Nob. iU.R) Friday the 13th means nothing to Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Olson. They were married on Friday the 13th and then posed for a wedding photo graph standing underneath a lad der further to show their con tempt for any jinx. FLIGHT PBOVES FITNESS Bad Axe, Mich. U.R When Will McGec, 74. visited a doctor for the first time in his life, he was offered an airplane ride. Mc Gee accepted and Dr. W. J. Her rington found him in "tip-top shape." f.icmt Ttterthoto) LOSES FORTUNE - Arthur a. Huey of Minneapolis, a regional engineer for the 0. 8. Pish and Wildlife Service, loat a brief eate containing up to 1500,000 In nego tiable aovemment purchase orders in a hotel lobby tn Knozvllle, Term. Buey said the orders amounted to "a blank check timed by Uncle ' t 61m." Editorial Correspondence New York City, N. Y Feb. 12 We still favor shipping John L. Lewis to the North Pole and forcing him to stay there "or 10 veari at hard labor. He might choose his type of hard labor but his term would be shortened if It consisted of shoveling coal to keep the igloos in the village at an average temperature of 68. e e The best thing about the movie "The Third Man" was the news reel which snowed John L. roaring into a microphone a la the M.G.M. lion while the audience hissed. It was no half-hearted hissing either, but a blast as if from the "snake pit." We are sorry John L. couldn't have been there to hear It. e The next best thing about this three-starred movie which In spite of the undersigned's judgment is still playing to capacity audiences, was the ending. Instead of the moss-covered fade out with the boy and girl clinching, the boy stood relaxed on the side of the road, smoking a cigarette; and the girl with head in air, and eyes straight ahead, stalked by him. That was "the end." e e Continuing the movie theme we have about decided the more stars there are in a movie these days, the worse the story. And vice versa. We were snowed in yesterday so dropped into the nearest movie house and for the first time saw an old film called "Champion" the story of a So-and-So prizefighter, his rise to fame and his descent therefrom. Not a star in the cast. But one of the best movies, honest, realistic, convincing, we have seen in years. And our guess is one of the cheapest to produce and therefore one of the most profitable. Hollywood should learn something from this, but we doubt if Hollywood does. The weather here continues "unusual." Sunday we spent in the country with "the family." T. still sore at the weatherman because of no snow and there fore his Christmas skits still in the attic. R. wanting to go barefoot after Sunday school and play "Indian" footprints and all that sort of thing in the bare but water-soaked earth. J. celebrating the sum mery day by dressing up in her Little Bo-Peep costume, including a toy sheep under one arm and "crook" with pink ribbons and paper flowers. "The baby," refusing to wear a sweater and as usual getting his way. (Tremendous will-power, a direct inheritance, of course, from his grandpappy!) Well, anyway, it added up to a sunny "May day in February. The next day, SNOW! Snow and sleet today also! Last evening dined at a friend's house over on the East river very unusual dining out. Alighting from the )axi in the sleet, Grandpappy executed an involuntary "Sonja Heinie" on one leg and landed on loft elbow and his posterior bumper. The taxi man was the only person alarmed by the exhibition, probably because he feared a damage suit, the other members of the party being greatly amused, while the taxi man gave first aid. No bones broken or other injuries as yet apparent, but a sore-ahem! elbow this morning. So there is the persistent weather pattern for this season, summer one day, winter the next, then back to summer again. And still the citv water reservoirs are half empty. As has so often happened before, meeting people for the first time and ones habitat named as "Medford, Oregon," the inevit able comment: "Oh Medford, OREGON, that is where those WONDER FUL Christmas pears come from!" e In spite of the weather. rain, snow and sleet plus a small hurricane. got over to Madison Square Garden without having to issue an S O S. for the coast guard. It was tough going, how ever, and everyone including the bus driver was in bad humor Our objective was to see the small fry exhibit their prize poodles at the annual Westminster Dog Show. We arrived just in time. The boys and girls were in the north ring and the judge who looked rather like an undertaker In con ventional "black" was starting on the first dog, a miniature Pinscher, who refused to stand still and kept jumping at his young master's mid section. This we learned later was as fatal as wear ing a yachting cap at the Horse Show. Dogs must stand at atten tion when being judged or out they go. Out as far as being in the finals, that is. The young owner and handler was not as put out as one might expect but after running the pup up and down in a perfunc tory way, let him jump into his arms for good and fondling him af fectionately took his place at the head of the waiting line, realizing he was out of the contest but not letting the dog down because of that. Judging for adults was going on in the other ring, but the com petition there was nothing compared to that in this adolescent group, here they were playing for blood and for keeps. We won't attempt to name all the breeds, they ranged all the way from an old wheezy English bulldog of the feminine" gender, barely able to toddle, to a large and loose jointed "Pyrenees," a new brepd to this department, they resemble the polar bears over at Central Park an albino type of St. Bernard. This judging must have taken nearly two hours and during all that time every kid was busy, and every little gal also, trying feverishly to get their charges in form for the judicial test. This consisted largely of spreading the pooche's legs at the proper angle, lifting his muzzle in the air, as if he or she smelled a pheasant on the wing, and pulling the tail upright. There was also frenzied combing of coats and "brushes." like a junior high freshman having mama prink him for his first "prom." Now and then when doggie became expccially restive, or kept the proper pose for more than half a minute there was the reward from juniors pocket of a piece of dog-biscuit. The final winner was a 14-ycar-old girl with a brindle Great Dane several times as large as she, who quite obviously (we mean the Dane) had been in dog shows before, for he stood at atten tion practically all the time, legs planted firmly, muzzle up, ears tilted, and but for the tail the "Junior Miss'' would have had noth ing to do at all. As it was that tail proved a problem, and also a relief, a medium for keeping the attractive little blonde busy, which was a good thing, for she was as nervous as her charge was self-possessed. In spite of the weather there was a good crowd on hand and naturally many parents were watching from the boxes, quite as naturally furnishing hearty if somewhat isolated applause, when their flesh and blood performed. It all reminded your correspondent somewhat of the 4-H con tests in Medford, the editorial sympathies, as usual, being concen trated on the losers rather than enthusiasm for the winners. in this case literally the under-dogs. The fat little girl with that under-shot and overfed as well as rheumatic and asthmatic bull dog being especially appealing How she did try to get her charge to run instead of stumblc-bum-walk, and keep her head up instead of a few inches off the carpet. And the girl was so patient and kind, and so outclassed. It was hard to figure out how her parents could have let their daughter in for such a humiliating ordeal, but of course, the doc had to have some rating to get into the show, and perhaps the little gal insisted t'pon showing her darling. e Downstairs over 2,500 dogs were tightly chained in open stalls, and bel)- 5 It or not, a majority of them sleeping. (It was mid aflernoin.) So were some of the owners. or handlers. one photogenic blonde, covered by a fur lap-robe was snoring prettily, with a brood of Sealyham puppies cuter than kittens the other side, some doing likewise, others awake and looking somewhat lost nnd perplexed. Only one dog was barking while we were there that was a young Setter who seemed on the verge of a nervous breakdown. R.W.R. Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune phone 2-6141 before i:4S p. m. dally and 10:30 a. m, Sunday. If reatllar delivery arrlvri ahortly after you rill, pirate notify oftlre, thus eliminating ipeclal meiatnttr lervtce. Cave Junction To Have Sfate Bank In 60 Days Cave Junction, Feb. 18 A state bank to be known as the Illinois Valley State bank will be established at Cave Junction within about 60 days, S. Clifford Sparks, who will manage the new Institution, announced. The new bank will have a capital of $40,000, surplus of $5,000 and a guaranty fund of $13,000 subscribed wholly by residents of Illinois Villry. Sunday, February IS, 1950 COMMUNICATIONS Letter! to the Editor muit bear tha name and addresie of the writer although under certain ctrcum tanrrt the uie of a pen name or Initial for publication la permit slble. The Mall Tribune retervet the right to edit all letter! with a view to clarification and condrn tatlon. Lettera tuhmltted for puh llraitnn mnn not exceed ton wnrd Ski Trail Cloies To the Editor: The ski season at Sky Trail has ended until next December. Hundreds of skiers thanked us for the Sky Trail ski condi tion report in your paper this winter. We wish to pass on to you their appreciation plus a sincere thank you of our own. We hope to have a telephone Installed this summer so that snow conditions next winter can be reported much easier to all concerned. Mr. and Mrs. Flovd M. Preslev. Sky Trail. Ashland, fit. Crosstown i 1,' H TiiS "This is nothing! When I was a whole watermelon Your Health and Its Care By DR. WILLIAM BRADY. M.D. Readers should address inquiries to: Dr. William Brady, 265 II Camino. Beverly Hills. Calif. YOUR BREATHING AFFEC In a talk about the diaphragm recently I said the effect of belly breathing on the function oi respiration and o x y g e nation of the body cells and tis tues is only the half of it. I deferred dis cussion of the other half, or maybe I should say the other two-thirds of it to a talk or talks to fol low. This is ox. Brady one of the talks about the effect of natural (belly) breathing on the circulation. I'd call it diaphragmatic breathing were it not that nine out of ten do not know what or where the diaphragm is nor how it works. The other half of the work of the diaphragm is aspiration. The aspiratory action of the dia phragm aids the circulation of lymph and blood by negative pressure or "suction." With each inhalation, contraction and flattening down of the dia phragm, inspiration or drawing of air into the chest, not only is air "sucked" into the lung;, but lymph is "sucked" into the large lymphatic channels within the thorax from the smaller lymph vessels or spaces outside of the thorax all the lymph ultimately empties from the large lymphatic trunks, the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the jugular veins. Similarly with each Contraction of the diaphragm (inhalation, bulging or expansion of belly) there i.s "suction" upon the veins outside of the thorax or chest cavity which increases flow of blood from the veins back to ward the right side of the heart, which pumps the returning ven ous blood through the pulmon ary arteries directly into the lungs for re-oxygenation. Thus the diaphragm serves as a booster pump. One who breathes naturally therefore has a bet ter circulation than one who tries vainly to "draw in the abdomen" and make like a plebe with the chest. Natural or belly breathing is especially helpful for persons subject to varicose veins wheth er in the legs or elsewhere. Persons whose feet, ankles or legs swell more or less on long standing or sitting benefit con siderably by regular practice of belly breathing as the exercise is described in How to Breathe for the booklet send twenty five cents and stamped, self addressed envelope. Because the- belly breathing exercise does not come in cap sule form and cannot be had in semi-weekly "shots" at the "clinic" of your favorite quack "specialist." most of you poor Tell us how much you need and a few facts about vour credit and job in person or by phone if you'rt husy. Then when approved vou sign without endorsers and get the cash. Proof 4 out of 5 who ask us for a loan, get it! Then repay in monthly installments which you select to fit your purse. STAN STARK, YES MANager Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Cnterian Bldg, 45 S. Central Lie. S-211 M-217 by Roland Coe a kid we used to smuggle into the moviesl" TS YOUR CIRCULATION geeks who need it will forget it after a half-hearted try if in deed you try it at all. The aspiratory action of the diaphragm would have little ef fect on the circulation were it not for the valves in the veins. When the diphragm contracts, flattens down, draws or sucks air into the lungs, it presses downward upon the stomach, liver, spleen, gall-sac, small in testine, colon and all other structures in the abdomen, in cluding the arteries, veins and lymphatic spaces or channels. Valves in the veins of upper and lower extremities, head and neck (there are few or none in the veins in the trunk) prevent backflow of the blood under the increased pressure. Therefore the squeezing of the abdominal contents by the contraction of the diaphragm at each intake of air in natural breathing adds positive pressure in the abdomen to the negative pressure upon the veins within the chest cav ity during inspiration. Among the organs squeezed at each contraction, descent or flattening of the diaphragm in natural (belly) breathing, as al ready mentioned, are the liver and gall-bladder, and of course the entire bile apparatus. People with chronic or recurring chol ecystitis (inflammation of gall bladder), cholangitis (bile duct inflammation) or cholelithiasis (tendency to or presence of bil iary calculi, (gallstones) should devote more time and attention to regular performance of the belly breathing exercise and less to the vain search for magic medicines which "dissolve" gall stones and funny diets which exclude "mucus-forming" foods and purify the "toxic" bile if vou are gullible enough to take the hokum of the charlatans seriously. QUESTIONS k ANSWERS j No Such Thing ! Do vou have fl booklet on nervous exhaustion or weak nerves? (L. H.I Answer There is no such thing Send 25c In coin tosether with stamp ed, self-addressed envelope and ask for booklet: "Nerves and Nutrition." Piles Because of your articles, I had in. jection treatment for piles five years aco with complete success. (Mrs. W. El Answer You and thousand! of oth ers. Treatment ii effective, painless and you may continue with your work while under treatment. It is stupid to suffer from piles. Coffee and Salt Is coffeo fattening and will heavy use of salt cause hardening of trie arteries? (S J. S.) Answer Coffee without sugar or cream is not fattening at least you won't get fat from drinking it. Cause of hardening or tne nrtenes sun un- i der investigation. Case against salt is not very clear, but heavy use of salt! harmful in any case. I Bed-Wetter ' Daughter. 7. bedwetter. Nothing wrong physically. What can we do j i Mrs. W. M.) ! Answei- Send stamped self-ad-'. dressed envelope and ask for pamph-, let THE BED-WETTING HABIT. (Copyright 1950 by John F. Dille Co. I The Easy Way! In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In the vast National Guard armory In Washington, some what more than 5,000 Demo crats from all over the United States and its territories sat down to a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner that cost ONE HUNDRED dollars'per plate. They listened to the president of the United States outline his plans to keep his party In pow er for another two years. IT ought to be explained that it isn't a Lucullan feast. They ate broiled filed mignon steak. It isn't for the broiled steak that they have come from every state and territory that files the American flag. At any drive-in In their home towns, these leaders of the dem ocratic party could get a better filet mignon than they got in Washington and they would pay not to exceed three bucks for it. It would be better, because it would be individually cooked and served sizzling hot. Those thousands of steaks in Washing ton must have been badly cool ed off by the time the eaters sank teeth into them. It wasn't their appetites for food they were catering to. WHY, then, do they willingly pay 100 smackers for it, plus traveling expenses to Wash ington and back? The answer is simple. Five thousand dinners at $100 per will raise a half million dol lars for the party war chest, and it will be worth $100 per to every person who attends (other than reporters) to keep the party in power. That's the long and the short of it. THERE was a time when re- publican big shots and would- oe pig snots would cheeriuuy have paid $100 per plate for a similar dinner for a similar pur pose. If the republicans had been in power as long as the demo crats have been in power this time, they would be holding dinners like that now. They might even be willing to pay S500 per plate. I wouldn't know. STAYING IN POWER is immensely important to all poli ticians and after all it wouldn't make much difference, consider ing what you had already spent for travel cost and incidentals, whether you paid $100 or $500 per plate. The big thing is to be among those present. w HAT I'm getting at is this: The republicans aren't in power. They arc OUT OF POWER. They got out of power because they lost touch with the people and when they lost touch with the average run of people they were thrown out. They can get back into power only by getting back into touch with the com mon run of people and regaining the confidence of such people. They can't do that now by get ting together at $100-per-plate dinners. IJOW can the republicans get back? Here is my idea of it: They must get back into the mental attitudes, and the men tal philosophies of the men who founded the republican party and they must get back the FIGHTING SINCERITY of the party's founders who put Lin coln into the presidency to end the evil of human slavery. THOSE men back in those grave and critical years of the late 1950's thought of them selves as a part of the common "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: The REVELATION of the HEALING CHRIST" by Dr. Walton Hubbard, C.S.B., of Los Angeles, Calif. MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Monday, Feb. 20, at 8:00 p. m. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, MEDFORD, OREGON All Are Welcome A Nichols Worth of Comment On By HARMAN United reu Washington, Feb. 18 (U.R) In Britain it's against the law to lug a voter to the polls in a motor car on election day. But there is nothing in the books that keeps a ward heeler from carting the f:M hall' K: affv. A r I tandem bicvclt? tion, These facts Uarmao Nlchola were brought to light today in a booklet put out by the British information services. The British are having an election February 23. I asked Charlie Campbell, head of the B. I. S. in Washing ton, about the no-car rule. It's an old one, he said, and goes back to the poor-vs-rich days. It was figured, Charlie said, that the rich man with a car could haul more people to the polls than a man who had only a horse and a buggy. The folks in Washington may sympathize with certain people in Britain, who can't vote, either. No casting of aspersions hereabouts where residents of the district of Columbia are voteless but in Britain the only people who can't cast a ballot are peers, lunatics or except in Scotland convicted felons. Takes Explaining That takes a bit or explain ing, particularly about the peers. A peer can't vote while he's a peer. His son, if he's 21, can vote until the old man dies. Then, the son can't, if he's the eldest, be cause he himself beepmes a peer. In Washington, if we maintain legal residence elsewhere, we can cast absentee ballots, but we can't vote by proxy. In Bri tain a body can. Charlie explained it like this Say a man expects to be out of his voting territory on elec tion day, or takes down sick, he can deputize an uncle or a cous in to vote for him. He writes to the registrar, who sends him a bunch of papers to be signed and notorized. It's all very legal. Votes Not Labeled A candidate in Britain, Char lie iBiiijueu mj-s, never nuuwa exactly how he won or lost. He can't even tell how he did in his own precinct. run of the people of that day. The common run of people then wanted to end slavery. They thought of themselves as under-docs. It seemed to them that ALL THE POWER was back of the institution of human slavery. They were out to put a stop to that or die in the attempt. Feeling that way, they WON. AS for me, personally, I think the dangers of big govern ment, kept in power too long, willing to bankrupt the nation, if need be, in order to STAY IN POWER, are as great a threat to the liberties of the common peo ple, over the long years, as was human slavery back in the 1850's. All down through history, the liberties of the common people have been endangered whenever too much power has been held in too few hands too long. So I'm going to stay a repub lican, because that is the only way in which I can effectively express by opposition to our present tendencies in government. rv r. j i JaV':Ml FREE LECTURE Entitled This and That W. NICHOLS feature Writer The way they do it over thera is to take the votes from a whole district and dump them all on to a table mixed up. The bal lots aren't labeled as to precinct. Here, a candidate can look back over his precinct or district votes and find out where he was weak or strong in the last one. There are other differences, too. In America, a candidate says right on paper that he is a re publican or democrat. Must Describe Self In Britain, one who wants to be a candidate must describe himself "but must not refer to his political activities." Time was when it was pos sible for a British citizen to vote at least three times in Britain, but time marches on, Only one vote now. This, in fact, will be the first election where a voter will httc but a single vote, p Up to now, it wa possible for a person to vote where he lived. If he owned a business properly he could vote again. And if he happened to be a graduate of a university he could cast a third ballot. OSC Alumni Dinner Slated Wednesday Paul M. Dunn, dean of forestry , at Oregon State college, will be the principal speaker Wednes day when the Jackson county chapter of the OSC Alumni asso ciation meets for a dinner at the Medford hotel. There will also be a luncheon Wednesday for members of the "30 Staters club." Dunn and Roy S. "Spec" Keene. director of ath letics at OSC, will speak at both meetings. Besides his oosition on the fac ulty at Corvallis, Dunn is chair man of the executive committee of the Keep Oregon Green asso ciation, member of the state board of forestry, and chairman of the board's research advisory committee, members of the 6 and C lands advisory committee, member of the Willamette val ley tree farms advisory commit tee, and director of the Corval lis Chamber of Commerce. Dunn took his bachelors de- from Inwa Statff rnllooo in J'" from the same school in 1933. He was associated with the Utah State Agricultural college before coming to Oregon State in 1942. Keene was graduated from OSC in 1921 and is a former star Beaver baseball player. He has had coaching experience at Corvallis high school and at Willamette university in addi tion to his directorship of the athletic department at Oregon State. White Sands. N.M., Feb. 18 (U.R) A V-2 rocket reached a speed of 3300 miles an hour and a height of 92 miles here. FOR SALE On account of going back to selling for Tropical Paint' and Oil Co., I will sell my complete stock of RED COMET AUTOMA TIC FIRE EXTINGUISH ERS AT COST. L. R. Andrews 344 N. Central Ph. 2-9780 Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. 4 1
