Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 22, 1950, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextpX MEDFORP (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDF0RDtf2$iWrRIBUNE limwini in Snuiharn Oraioo" flaada Tha Mall Trlbuna" Dally Eacapt Saturday PublUhed by MIDI-ORD PK1NTINO CO. .J North rir St Phona a-l ERNEST R OILSTRAP Managar HERB GREY. Advartlflnl Mir t C FERGUSON. Managing f-J'tol ERIC ALLEN JR.. Clly BARRY CHIPMAN, Telagrapn Ed toi SENRY L GREEN Sunday Edlloi OLIVB STARCHER Soclaty ed.wr OERALD LATHAM. Circulation M An ndapendant Nawapapar Entarcd at lacond claw mattar at Madiord. Oreson under Act 01 March 3 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: "'pally and Sunday-one - ,;" Daily and Sunday-three moi i-W Daily and aunny- By carrier In Advance Medlord AJhland. Central Point. Jackionvllle Gold Hill. Phnenla Talenl and on motor routei: Dally and Sunday one year aii UO Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terme Cain In Advance Ofilclal Paper ol the City ot Medford Official Paper ol Jackion County United Praia full Laated Wtra MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertlilni Repreeentatlva; WEST-HULLIDAY COMPANY. INC Ofllcee In New York Chicaio De troit San Franciaco. Loe Angelea Seattle. Portland St Louia Atlanta Vancouver. B C NiWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION JIIIONAL IDITOIIAt Flight o' Time Medford and Jackun County His tory (torn the (llai al the Mail Trlbuna 10. 20 and 14 reata age 10 YEARS AGO TODAY February 22, 1940 (It Was Thursday) Rlggs Optical company offices in Medford building prowled. Jackson county contributed $801 to March of Dimes drive. Fourth annual Catfish derby scheduled May 12 at Elks pic nic grounds. Fifty boys enrolled In physical education at high school to put on show tonight. Mrs. J. C. Carr elected presi dent of Missionary society at Presbyterian church at Phoenix. Dun Moon named scoutmaster 6f Boy scout Troop 14, Talent. 30 YEARS AGO TODAY February 22, 1930 (It was Saturday; Forty-two mile an hour gale weeps over cily and electricity dhut off when limbs of trees Ihort circuit power. Ashland high basketball team cinches southern Oregon title by defeating Grants Pass high 36 to 21. vFour Nebrasknns die when they drink anti-frecze mistaken for wine at party. Ashland groups approve Wash ington school site for new coun ty courthouse. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY February 22, 1916 (It Was Tuesday) George Gates and Jay Gore Join fraternities at the Unlvcr sity of Oregon. Police Chief J. F. Hitlson files fnndidncy for democratic nomi nation as sheriff. "Brown's" up-to-date and san itary soda fountain, opened here by Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. Brown. Portland Council Passes Ordinance On Discrimination Portland, Ore.. Feb. 22 U.R The Portland city council today passed a civil rights ordinance which bans racial discrimination In public places such as hotels and restaurants. The vote was unanimous. The council chamber was packed with spectators and rep resentatives of various groups who appeared before the coun cil to speak for or against the ordinance. In the audience were whites, Negroes, Chinese, Fili pinos, Catholics, protectants and jews. Both the Hotel association of Portland and (he Oregon Res taurant association opposed the the ordinance. Proponents of the ordinance Included several civic groups, churches and Negro and relig ions organizations. Walter Evans Jr. attorney rep resenting the Hotel association, told the council that hotel men were opposed to discrimination but A.'icve ,ne ordinanre was no solurVlii to the problem. Dead line on Clasilfled Adt: S-3U pm for following day; in am. Mon day noon Saturday tor Sunday ajn Subscribers To report Improper er notv delivery of the Mill Tribune phone Z'6!41 before ;& p. m. dally and 10:30 a, m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive! shortly after you rail, pleaie notify offlre, thin eliminating apeclal messenger service. Plane Spotters Again Secretary of Defense activation ot the wartime Oregon, California and considerable rumpus. I he principal criticism is due to belief that the set-up would not be sufficiently efficient, considering the speed of today's planes, to be worth the effort. There is also much wonderment since the powers that be in Washington have di vulged nothing that would indicate need for such action at this time. Governor Douglas McKay has invited the gov ernors of the adjoining states to send their air raid chiefs to a meeting in Portland for discussion of the ground warning program which Secretary Johnson wants in operation by early April. IT WASN'T patriotic to criticize the air raid warn ing system as set up during the war, but there were a number of things connected with that activity which volunteer participants and others viewed with jaun diced eye. A mild form of hysteria seemed to prevail, its chief manifestations being the desire on the part of some to tell others what to do regardless of whether the orders made sense or not. Another manifestation was the anxiety of some to follow orders any orders. The air raid warning system was part and parcel of this war-born aberration as was also the order which went forth for a bucket of sand and a stirrup pump for every household. The stirrup pump manufacturers cashed in on the latter brain storm but there its use fulness ended. X7E ALSO call to mind the shipment of "tin hats" to the various municipalities, for fire wardens. This helped the tin hat makers but just what the wardens were supposed to do with the equipment was never fully understood. Certainly they would have been of little protection had a raiding plane or planes visited the valley as the latter would have dumped their, bombs and been gone before the ward ens could have dug their helmets out of the closet, donned them and gone about their work of rousing the populace, putting out fires, etc. Today the warning situation would be even more confused as plane speed has been stepped up and especially if jet planes were used they would be over the target here, for instance, and half way to Tim buktu before any watcher in the valley could draw more than a couple of breaths. Just why an enemy would want to make the long flight to bomb inland points on the coast where there are no strategic installations has never been ex plained. AT LEAST 6,000 volunteers will be required to man the state's air raid warning observation posts, Governor McKay has estimated. Before that many people are again subjected to the dislocations and discomforts of airplane spotting there should be something more than a cryptic directive from Wash ington. E.C.F. The American Seesaw In the United States the economic rise, or fall, of families and individuals conies not so much through inheritance, and royal or political favor as in the old countries, but more through the sagacity of those concerned in managing their fortunes, and the turn of business conditions and events for good or bad. AN EXAMPLE may be seen in the current dismantl ing of the extravagantly lavish Chateau Caro lands, in Hillsborough on the San Francisco penin sula. The 96-room mansion, located in 26 acres of formal French gardens, was built, furnished and landscaped in 1915 at an estimated cost of $3,000,000 by Mrs. Harriet Pullman Carolan, Pullman fortune heiress. The lady had prepared the place to entertain the royalty of Europe expected to visit the Panama Pacific exposition. There were marble baths, three-inch carpets, silver drainboards and the upper floor had rooms for the 40 sonants required to staff the palatial premises. DUT the turn of events, combined with the poor judgment which had conceived the place, left it unoccupied except for caretakers for most of its 35 years. First the coming of World War I dashed hopes for any royal guests. Then came the United States' entry into the conflict and seizure of the railroads with an accompanying crimp in the Pullman fortune. The mansion, closed then for the sake of econ omy, now will give way for more plebian housing, its 1-1-carat gold bathroom fixtures and other items for sale at bargain prices, remnants of a grandeur which took only 35 years to fizzle out. E.C.F. International Pancake Race Title Goes To Lassie In England Liberal. Kims.. Feb. 22 0I.R Olney, England, where Shrove Tuesday pancake racing Is a 500' year-old art, today won the In ternational griddle derbv when the best time in this southeastern Kansas plains town fell 7.6 sec onds behind the Olney mark. Mrs. Dale Warden. 22. bride of a few months, puffed down Liberal s Main street, over the 415-yard course traditional in Olney, in 1 minute 18 seconds. But five hours earlier. In Ol ney, lR year old Florence Callow made the distance flipping her pancane three times while rac ing in 1 minute 10 2 '5 seconds That made Florence the win ner of the first international pan cake race. Dead line Sunday Claullltd ll al Noon Saturdays. Wednesday. February 22, 1950 Johnson's request for re air raid warning system in Washington has kicked up Reg Tag Sale Slated Friday And Saturday Offering many values espec ially purchased for the event. Medford merchants will sponsor another city wide Red Tag sale. Friday and Saturday. Food stores as well as all oth er businesses have been urge! to cooperate In the bargain days according to Robert Agard chairman of the merchants com mittee of the chamber of com merce. Cb?P C.hllrn'i 'nil 0p .....jf.... Aipim . HIASANT TAST1NO . ORANOI FLA VOI ID J. NO NIID TO CUT I ST.JO SEfri J O IRIAK TAIUTS . ACCUIlAn DOSAOI Metheri Are Atkina For I tSFItll I Crossfown y rTaf v.. n "I brought my Boy scout axe. Y'can't cut a cherry traa down with that cardboard axe you gave me!" On the Side- E v Dur' (Distributad by Kino, Taaruraa Syndicate, Inc.) Love tormrnti me once afaln Sueetly-hltler, ladly-drar, Hindi me with a rosy chain Hard 10 break, and hard Lo brar. Arnold. As for astrology, I don't go for it at all myself. However 1 have done some extensive cheeking on the stargazers and so the clientele continue to query me about the subject. If you are in terested in astrology, why not do some checking yourself. For example, take Margaret Truman, the president's daughter, born on February 17 under sign of Aquarius. There are more people in the Hall of Fame born under that sign than any other. I don't think Maggie is going to make the Hall of Fame but she sure is getting a lot of publicity. Mar lene Dietrich is an Aquarian. Do you see any resemblance be tween Miss Truman and Mnr- lene? Aquarius women, say the stargazers, despise housework. I don't know whether this fits Maggie Truman or not. Aqua rian women "dislike poverty." That's what the stargazers say. What woman doesn t; Quaint fellows, those stargazers. The analysis of Miss Truman accord ing to what the astrologers claim will be continued in a later issue. Gat It Right The Boy Scouts of America has officially announced that this years is the organization's 40th anniversary. You would think they would know. However, cer tain residents of Monterey, Cal., say this is the 42nd anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. And what's more they can prove it. They say the first troop of Bov scouts was formed in Mon terey, Cal., in 1HU8 by Gen. R. I. Bullard who had previously met Baden-Powell in England. They also state the country's first scoutmaster was Bill Potlharst of Monterey. Overlooked No winner of the Santa Anita Derby ever won the Kentucky Derby. That's what many sports scribes, including my distin guished colleague Bill Comm. continue to state. The observa tion is intended to convey the thought that the California clas sic is not In the same class as Kentucky's run for the rose. I would like to call something to the attention of the aforemen tioned sporlscribcs. The Ken tucky Derby of 1940 was won by Gallahadion. Well, gentlemen, dallahadion ran in the Santa Anita Derby of 1940 and could not even finish in the money. Advice A girl's best friend may be her mother but she usually gets the best advice from her father. Take Yolanda Donlan, for ex ample. Yolanda was born and reared in Hollywood, Cal. She wanted to be an actress. Her fa ther. Jimmy Donlan, the well known comedian, said 1 0 his (laughter; "If you want to be come a great actress get out of Hollywood." Strange sounding advice, what? But Jimmy rea soned with his daughter that le gitimate stage theaters were Get These Oregon Finance PL USSES! Privacy . . . consideration . . . you select monthly payment date and amount . . . respect for your honesty! Phone or come in today It's "YES" to 4 out of 5 at Ore gon Finance! LOANS $50 TO $800 Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craremn Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie S-211 M-217 by Roland Coe I.IIIIIIIIIIIMI.IUIII. scarce in Hollywood, the chances of good sound training for a young actress' slim. Anyway, Yolanda took her father's ad vice. She got a job as an under study in "Born Yesterday," at tracted the attention of Garson Kanin who recommended her for the featured part in the Lon don production. And so, Miss Donlan, born in Hollywood, first achieved fame in Britain and is now one of London's leading stage and screen actresses, Over There As to what is the most popu lar alcoholic drink in Norway, I have not been definitely, in formed. I believe, however, it is gin. In Norway the liquor indus try is state controlled. Places where strong drink is sold are strictly limited. In fact there are only 52 liquor shops in all Nor way. Also only 64 restaurants in that country where the strong er alcoholic drinks are served. It is also necessary for a Nor wegian citizen to have a drink ing license. That is. a license which permits him or her to buy a drink. It is about five times as hard for a Norwegian woman to get a drinking license as it is a man. New York City certainly has quite a few colleges for dogs. Today I noted at Third avenue and 18th street. Manhattan, a dog school called Canine college. Maybe these dog colleges should meet in some sort of athletic competition. Then the dogs on these teams could wear sweaters or coats bearing their varsity letter. Many Tools, Ingenuity Used In Jail Escape Lebanon, Mo., Feb. 22 (U.R) A Laclede county jail inmate used a stove poker, a can opener, a length of rope and a good deal of ingenuity to escape during the night. Carl Clell Perry, 59, in jail on a theft charge, jabbed a hole in the brick wall and went down a rope from the top floor. Perry was being held for Na tional City. Cat., authorities on a charge of forgery. H. L. Mounteer, a National City police officer, arrived to day in time to join the search for Perry. Neil Brown, Laclede county sheriff, said he didn't know how Perry obtained the rope. Perry was the only prisoner in the jail. Medford Union Man Named To Council Portland, Feb. 22 Don Stan sell, Medford, secretary of local No. 962, teamsters, chauffeurs and helpers union, was elected trustee of the joint council of teamsters here recently Phil Brady, long-time team ster leader and state legislator, was reelected president of the council. STAN STARK Yai Man In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A dispatch from Washington this week says there is "increas Ino tallr in congress that the gov ernment may have to seize the mines in a new etiort to ena ine coal strike." n ehnuM v,a nHHpH that there has been considerable talk from the miners side that it tne gov ernment seizes the mines it must h a COMPLETE seizure that im...jfiTv,rrt man muct mn them and the government must keep any proms arising out m men operation, I THINK this is the time for us us to remember that if, as and socialism comes to our country that is how it will come. Our politicians will bungle along with some situation like the coal strike until it becomes EXPLO SIVE as the coal strike already is. Eventually things will get so bad that seizure of the affected industry by the government will be the easiest way out. ALREADY we have established a pattern of government seiz ure in such cases. The govern ment takes over in a crisis. It leaves management of the seized industry in the owners' hands. The government merely uses its temporary "ownership" as a de vice to end the strike that caused the crisis. When the crisis ends and the strikers go back to work, the industry is handed back to its owners. Labor is coming to regard that pattern as a GYP. Hence the talk from labor's side that THIS TIME it must be a complete seizure and that the government must keep the profits, if any, arising out of operation. FROM that, it is only a step to RETAINING the seized in dustry as a government-owned monopoly. Whenever that pro cess begins, socialism will be here. THERE is increasing talk in congress those davs about WHAT TO DO TO HELP SMALL BUSINESS. One senator says: "Everybody wants to help the little business man, but we can't seem to agree on how to do it." AS ONE small business, that that kind of talk scares me. If the politicians ever get their clutches on small business, it will be just too bad for small business men. Look at the poor devils of potato farmers the country over. They got into the clutches of the politicians. The ensuing mess is something fear ful to contemplate. I find an increasing number of potato farmers coming to the grim con clusion that the only way to save their industry, to which most of them have devoted the bulk of their working lives, is to get it out of the hands of the politicians and hoe their own row from "here on out no mat ter what it costs in the way of loss of "parities" and subsidies. IF SMALL business ever gets to feeling sorrv for itself and starts running to the government for "help." the day of successful small business will have come to an end. The heln that Doliticians give to business in such cases is the KISS OF DEATH. The Grange Central Point Grangt Central Point John Day showed pictures of a trip to Yu kon to a large crowd of Grang ers and friends, on February 17. Regular business meeting fol lowed the pictures. The men had a real display of guns and am munition. The ladies also had a display of ammunition used to get a man, which consisted of powder, lipstick, rouge and a rolling pin. It was decided to have a pot- luck dinner preceding the spe cial meeting on March 7. when a large class will be initiated in first and second degrees. Special guests for the evening were Mas ter Paul Force of Eagle Point and State Deputy Wm. Howes and Mrs. Howes of Medford. Re freshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Birdseye and committee. Dead line on Classified Ads: S:30 pm for following day. 10 a m Monday lor Monday; noon saiuraay for Sunday a.m. BEFORE YOU RENEW INVESTIGATE FARMERS MONEY SAVING PLAN Over 00,000 satisfied policyholders . . . twenty years of service and stability . . . National Standard, Non Assessable Policy with no mileage reitrietions. Compare this rote with your present cost. Bod.ly lnury V I I V ,,, Nm $5,000 Property Recurring. Policy Fee Damage Liability "J"" 20 DISCOUNT TO RANCHERS & FARMERS Coll, Write or Come in for Kates j 'AtMED! TVsK A. JiNsutuacf 3v Editorial Comment WHO WOULD RESTORE ITf If the beauty and recreational utility of the Rogue are destroy ed by the ill-advised Rogue riv er project, beaucratic in concept and alike economically and ethi cally unjustifiable, who will re store that which shall have been destroyed b&yond restoration? The present will stand con demned in a court of future opinion of illogic and waste. Such reflections arise when one considers the case of D. H. Barber of Trail, president of the Preserve the Rogue association, recently made for an unshackled river before the Portland chap ter of the Izaak Walton league. He set forth that contemplated dams would decrease the pres ent income from sports fishing by $809,000 a year, representing a capitalization at 3 per cent of $20,966.000 and this in an era when there is neither shortage of power nor of agricultura products. He cited the doubtful benefits of flood control, and the disadvantageous ratio of Irri gation returns. "All this is for 1000 new farms," he said, "to raise pears that already are a burden on the taxpayer, or other crops to com pete with other farms on a rapid ly lowering farm market. Are we going to continue to be fools enough to pay too much to irri gate new land, and then pay out more for subsidies on the addi; tional crops the land produces? An attempt has been made, by those who wish to shackle the Rogue, to represent that all who oppose the dams arc unprogres sivc. But if that which the pro ponents intend is progress, then with alacrity we shall accept the contrary epithet and wear it with pride. This newspaper rejoices that many residents of the Rogue river vallev have banded togeth er to defend their invaluable God-given inheritance, but it wishes that Oregon residents elsewhere would enlist more actively in the cause. It is their river, too, for it belongs to the people. And once destroyed, as a free river, it could not be re stored, though penitence and regret would be certain to fol low. The Oregonian. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addreste of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub licatlon must not exceed 400 words Brotherhood Week To the Editor: Each year, for several years, in February, it has been the custom to celebrate Brotherhood Week. Certain men of vision planned a week during which time Americans would strive to work together for the common good. ' The Jew, the Protestant and the Catholic were to form a nuc leus of brotherly conduct, with feeling, thought and action, com bined to foster understanding and good will. If we are to have a United Nations, living in the harmony of a united world, we must pre pare in just such ways as this to make the ideal a living thing in all we think and say and do. The United Nations must rep resent united races, united creeds, united arts and sciences. The separate and independent segments must yield to a great and perfect whole; a whole to which each part contributes wisely, not losing identity, but relating to a concept larger than that of the private home, the community, the state, or even the nation. Each who celebrates Brother hood Week, whatever the time or the season adds by so much to the fulfillment of an eternal and worthy dream: the dream of peace. One spirit animates all re ligions, though the truth is ex pressed in many ways. So men too. though of many races are united in the human race. They are inter-related by the creed of love. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is one of the most important commandments ever given. The world is a family; humanity is one; and each who lives can draw from the richness of the whole. Mrs. Lillian Kendall, President Medford Theosophical Society R. C. Bearty, Dist. Agent Hugh Hamlin, Local Agent 204 W. Main Phone 2-7157 WEATHER By United Press Northern California Fair to day, tonight and Thursday. Slightly warmer today except on north coast. Northwest winds 10-20 mph off coast, except southerly Eureka northward. OUCHI Hollywood, Feb. 22 (U.R) Actress Arlene Dahl was recov ering today after the removal of 40 cactus needles. Miss Dahl accidentally sat on a cactus bed when she was thrown by a horse near Palm Springs, Cal. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. - 10 30 P.M. For Complete Prescription Service DAY and Night Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medtord's Own Modern Pharmacy LOANS Start the New Year with a clean slate. Pay those Holi day bills with cash. Loans on your salary, furniture or automobile. With payments to fit your income. 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THANK HEAVENS1 Most attacks are Just acid Indigestion. When tt strikes, take Bcll-ans tablets. They contain the fastest-acting heartburn, gas and similar distress. 25. PiLES HEMORRHOIDS and fllh.i R.ctal Dilord.n COLON ..STOMACH RUPTURE (Htrnio) TmM Witkeit Hesiitat Oil nth i lOtM until 5 00 Man IK.an.l. P.l Until ;00 o m Mon.Wd Frl. CJ.Ora.HH free Ksrar ssss THE DEAN CLINIC IN OUR 40th YIAR N.I. Corner I. Burmid on4 Grand A. TtLphon CAit 3918 Portland 14, Or. Fiery, Smarting Itch of Common Skin Rashes Don't stand such torment another hour I Just smooth Resinol Ointment on your irritated akin at once See how quickly its medically proven injtreHtenta in lan olin bring biissiul, long-lasting relief- i