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k : 0nC-JMIrO!tD (OREOOW) MAIL TBIBTJWB MedfordUTribune -Ivaryona IB Southern Oron Raada Tha MU Trlbuna" DailJ Eictpl Saturday Publlahed by MIDrORD PR1NTWO CO. .f t. North rir 8L Phon. -! BuK GILSTRAP M.n. HERB ORE. Advartlalnt 1 c FtRGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR . City Editor BARRY CWPMAN. Tlrapn Ed. ol HENRY L GREEN Sund.y Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgl An Indapandent Nawapapar Entered aa aecond clan matter at Medford Oreon under Act ol March I 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Dally and Sunday-one year . 00 Dally and Sunday alx montht J.7B Delly and Sunday-three moa 2.W Dally and Sunday one month I uu By Carrier In Advance Medlord Aahland Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoeni. Talent and on motor routea: .,.,,, Dally and Sunday one year. II i 00 Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terma Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaeksoo County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WXST-HOLLIDAY COMPAffr. INC Offices In New York Chicago Do. trolt San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louie Atlanta Vancouver, p u. NEWSPAMR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford end Jackioa Counry His tory from the (ilea ol the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears ate 10 YEARS AGO TODAY February 28, 1940 (It Was Wednesday) Raging Bear creek causes dam age near Ashland; valley down pour brings worst flood condi tion since 1827. Elwood Hedberg, A i h 1 a n d, elected president of Southern Oregon Bankers' association. Oscar Knox sells service sta tion in Jacksonville to F. A. Henspeter who will take charge March 1. "Skeet" O'Connell resigns as Ashland high school coach. Exalted Ruler Wilson Walt of local Elks announces new candi dates to be initiated at Thursday meeting. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY February 28. 1930 (It Was Friday) Experts produce plans for pro posed parkway along Bear creek. Census shows 9,606 pupils in county public schools. Governor Norblad promises outhern Oregon ill get repre sentative on game commission. Jack Sharkey defeat! Phil Scott, British fighter, in bout called "terrifically miserable." 34 YEARS AGO TODAY February 28, 1916 (It Was Monday) S. Viias Beckwith placed in chnrge of sales campaign by Rogue River Valley Fruit and Produce company. John Hammersley, Claude Bnrden and John McTiinmlns capture live female cougar. The Rev. Robert McLean Jr. unanimously called to local pas torale by Presbyterian church. Talent Talent, Feb. 28 Mrs. Jack I Sucksdorf and daughter Jnnn.j left February 23 to spend a day with her brother, Kenneth Win ston of Myrtle Creek. Boy Scouts troop 110 combin ed with Uellvlew troop and Ash land troop to hold a court of honor at Talent city hall Feb ruary 24. Community club Indies spent February 23 filling 3500 envel opes with Easter seals In prepara tion for the Crippled Children campaign which will start near Easter. Ladles helping to fill the envelopes were Mrs. Chas. Hold ridge, Mrs. Clarence Mathcs. Mrs. Chas. W. Long, Mrs. Harold Strauss, Mrs. Llovd Bunnell, Mrs. l.loyd Wells. Mrs. Vic Ma son, Mrs. J. C. Ottlnger, Mrs. Ileryll Scttlemier and Mrs. Ray Burnette. Crater Lake Campfire Girls took a short hike Saturday, Feb ruary 25 following the road up around Sunerest Orchard and back to the Talent junction. Talent Garden club will meet March 1 at 2 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Tom Bell. Mrs. Herman Cannon will art as co-hostess with Mrs. Bell. Mrs. J. C. Ottin ger as program leader will talk on "Camellias." Mr, und Mrs. Chet Zediker have returned from California, where they had been called by the Illness of Mrs. Zediker's mother, Carol Zediker stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Holdrldge during her parents absence. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lacv Sr. have a granddaughter, twila Laey, born February 17 In Med lord, Crater Lake and Wa tlhlyl Campfire Girls will hold a cere monial at tht Talent city hall ZT Editorial Correspondence New York, N. Y., Feb. 25 As this is written It appears the Socialist government in England has won a majority in the Friday elections, but such a slim one that it is regarded as a moral victory for Mr. Churchill and his Conservative party. This tre mendous loss since Labor took over, taken with the radical defeats in Australia and New Zealand, add up to fairly conclusive evidence that the tide toward the left politically in the English speaking world, has started to ebb. We doubt, however, if this is any justification for the Repub licans in this country staging a Roman holiday and picturing a return to the "good old days" of Coolidge and McKinley. There is an ebb and flow in all the affairs of men, and, particularly in politics. If one cares to review the world's political history it will be evident that in the march of human progress and social betterment, the ebb has never quite returned to the status quo ante, the net result in the forward and-backward swing always adding up to an advance. The most cheering feature of the English elections, as far as this department is concerned, lies in the fact that it clearly dem onstrated that not only a free democracy is still working smoothly "over there," but that the people of that country have developed a sense of discrimination, as to precisely what constitutes their welfare. It is the familiar race between liberty and security as to how far the latter can go without impairing, or destroying the former. Interviews over the air election day, were particularly significant, a number of manual workers voting "conservative" because they had become convinced the "hand-out" policies had gone far enough, and they believed it was time to call a halt and take bearings. Tlys has reinforced the essential verity and wisdom of Lin coln's well known observation that "you can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time but not ALL the people ALL the time." Speaking of "taking bearings," we think it about time to take them in the matter of "mercy killings." That girl who shot her father to end his sufferings in a Bridgeport hospital a few months ago was acquitted on the ground she was temporarily insane. That is, she was crazy before she pulled the trigger and sane afterward, but not sane when the deed was done. This was ob viously a cock-and-bull story perjury, in fact but the girl was acquitted even though she declared after she killed her father, she knew what she was doing, knew it was technically wrong but she could not bear to sec him suffer further. The same sort of hocus pocus is now being followed In the Dr. Sander trial up in New Hampshire. After Dr. Sander had Injected air Into the blood stream of his patient he dictated to his nurse this Is a matter of record that he had injected "40 cubic centimeters of air into the vein and Mrs. Borroto had died 10 minutes later." The nurse asked the doctor "How was it?" The doctor answered: "It worked very well, she died easily." But now the doctor claims his patient was dead before the injection was ever made, ergo: "he is not guilty of taking a human life, for there was no life to take." a a If this sort of thing is allowed to continue It will not be long before someone guilty of premeditated and cold-blooded murder will maintain the victim was suffering from an insurable and painful malady at the time and all he or she did was to save further suffering, pointing to the Bridgeport and Manchester precedents, as justification. This department believes the time will come when, under proper supervision and restrictions, euthanasia will be legalized. But until that time DOES come, the law declaring the taking of human life a crime, should be enforced, taking the matter of motive and premeditation into consideration, of course, but giving them no more weight In so-called "mercy killings" than in any other type. Charging too much for theater tickets in New York via the speculators Is not the only racket. In the local show business. There is also the matter of quoting thentrical reviews in newspaper advertising and posting same on billboards in front of theater entrances. To Illustrate: Mr. Dramatic Critic may write that "Come Home Little Sheba" Is a terrible bore, loosely constructed, unconvincing, and amteurlsh, but that two of Ihe characterizations are excellent, in fact represent some of the finest acting to be seen in New York. Whereupon the press ngent proceeds to quote "some of the finest acting to be seen In New York" and skips anything else. In fact, in front of the Lyceum theater on West 45th, nearly every dra matic critic of any note in New York is quoted praising the play within called "The Enchanted." although onlv one of them wrote a criticism Hint could, as a whole, be called favorable. None of them on the other hand failed to write something of a praise worthy nature and the press apent simply picked out the few favorable items from their contexts just as easy as that! So. when you come to New York don't believe what you see in the theater advertising line as far as quotations are concerned. The press agents don't misquote, hut they do consistently use stray sentences taken from the reviews which entirely misrepresent the reviewer's verdict and get away with It. Melvin Douglas has just opened a new play called "The Bird Cage," which was universally panned by the critics, Including Barnes of the Herald-Tribune. But Barnes did praise portions of Douglas' characterization with the inevitable result that in today's H-T theatrical "ad" the critics' reaction is represented entirely and exclusively by Barnes, as follows: "A tough and strident melodrama a striking piece of showmanship suspense and lurid theatrical excite ment e e e Douglas is a tower of strength.'1 Such misrepresentations may do some good but not much. As before slated in regard to "Stromboli" the theater-goers in New York are hard to bamboozle. They won't pay out their hard earned money for a slice of cold turkey for long, no matter what the press agents or critics may say. And in some fashion, not en tirely clear, they waste no time in determining the truth. "The Enchanted" is closing tonight, and it is a fairly safe bet "The Bird Cage" won't be open a week or two hence. As for Ingrid Bergman in "Stromboli," in spite of all the fanfare and prelim inary build-up of a somewhat lurid nature, the Broadway per formance only lasted a week and played to poor houses then cording to reports it was different in Los Angeles and Chicago. But as far as that goes, most things are! e A decade or two ago life may have begun at 40 but that is no longer true. Look at Winston Churchill staging such a sensational political comeback at the age of 75. and now George Bernard Shaw, who Is somewhere in the middle 00's is the most popular dramatist in New l ork, with three shows going great guns here. : "Caesar and Cleopatra," the "Devil's Disciple," and "St. Joan." j We wager GBS has a smile a mile wide behind those while lace-; curtain whiskers. Shaw has been a devout Socialist all his life, : with a genuine artist's scorn of the Almighty dollar, but no famous man In medern history has more thoroughly enjoyed ; r:iMng In the shekels, particularly from "vulgar and opulent" I'.S.A. than he. Well, it must be nice to be able to do that when one approaches the Century mark. , , t j Across the river in Jersey it was "Happy Birthday" yester day for papa Chariot Conqueror of Rutgers university. The facultv ! celebrated the occasion hv baking a huge birthday cake, presonl-i ing it In him and ennifrnttilatlng him on being the fattier of 21100 descendants. Chariot Conqueror is only 1ft years old, but that is around lift for a llnlstein Friesinn bull. According to report the old hov sniffed at the rake but did nut partake, going back with relief to his hay! R.W.R. I JOB WAS STEADY Framingham, Mass. (UP1 Harry A. Chandler has what looks to be a steady job. Chand ler, now 90, is still on the job at the Dennison Manufacturing company factory where he went lo work In February, 1874. Cleburne, Tex. (UP.' - Eliza beth Jones, a 4 11 club k i it living near here, gathered 42 pounds of tomatoes off one vine she plant ed in the spring The vine didn't produce normally, but weath ered the hot summer months to bear In December. Wednesday. March 1, at R pm ODO club will meet Friday. March 3. Ladies of Ihe Methodist church will hold an all-day meeting Thursday. March 2. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell Subscribers To rritorl lmpriiir ni twn 4Hrv of lh Mall Trlhiin nhone 2-CI4I befot l it p, m dllly nd ' 10:10 , nv AiinrUy. If rriiir diliTtrr irnv ttinrllv ullrr ymi cult. lraf nniil outre, lhn r M in I ft a l tn g tit Ml fttrttriiiM aenlrt, I Tuaidar- Tabruary it, 1950, News of 4-H CLUBS Beef Club Upper Rogue 4-H Beef club met at the home of Bert Conner. February 14, where they had their regular 4-11 club meeting Club pledge was led by Herby Conner. They are going to start making their haltrr to show for 4-H club week. Next meeting will be at the George Millard home March 14. Eddie Peile will make a demonstration on "Grubs on the 4-H Club Steers." Pig Club After a get-together the pig club members elected Eddie Peile president; Vernon Baldwin, vice-president: secretary, Char leen Peile Next meeting will be at Ed Houston's home. February joining the club should attend the meeting. Dr. L. I, Hill of Montgomery. Alu.. performed the fn'-t success ful Mii(joiy upon the human heart. Crossfown . "I can slip away from my kid brother easy enough In tha sum mertime, but in the winter he's always right behind me I" A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington, Feb. 28 U.R) Maggie O'Brien hasn't been spanked for more than seven years. O u t s i d e of that, she's a normal little girl, just bust ing in as a teen ager and trying to act grown up. Maggie, you know, is Miss M a r g aret O' Brien, the 13-year-old kid ac tress. She was m town to en tertain 10 little UarnuiD Nicfaob iriends. They were finalists in a writing con test for the'Hecht company on the subject "Why I would like to have lunch with Margaret O'Brien." One of the winners was a kid who wrote a two-word letter "I'm hungry." Maggie, wearing pig-tails with white ribbons attached an a pret ty blue dress, admitted that she had less trouble with big .shots than she does with little shots. Made Her Nervous The little shots who got into her pigtails Saturday were high school journalism students who were invited to put her on the pan at a press conference at the Carlton hotel. Petitions Circulated Asking Assistance For Television Station Portland, Ore., Feb. 28 (U.R) Petitions to Oregon's congres sional delegation were circulated today in northern Willamette valley and southwest Washing ton cities asking help with the federal communications commis sion to permit at least one Port land television station as soon as possible. A group composed of equip ment dealers and, unofficially. Portland radio stations said the petitions would be circulated in an effort to obtain 150,000 sig natures. The group argued that permis sion was being held up because of a prolonged technical argu ment about color television chan nels which the Portlanders be lieved was a problem at least five years distant. unutitwrnitna Mtti The regular business meeting i of the Rogue Valley Life Under-1 writers association was held at the Medford hotel Monday noon with President William Law rence presiding. Plans were dis cussed to send representatives to the Oregon Sales congress in Portland April 17. M. C. Wright announced that March 1 is the last day members may file for the national quality award, pre sented each year to life under writers who have met required standards of quality underwrit ing service over atwo-year pe riod. Last year four members of the local association received the award. CELEBRATED IN STORY Boston iU.P During the past century, 250 novels have been written about Boston. John and Frank Perl FUNERAL DIRECTORS 40 Years of Continuous Service Costs No More . . . . . to avail yourself of the complete, up-to-the-minute facilities at PERL'S, and the exper ienced, capable, kindly service extended to those in sorrow. You are relieved of every little detail. Rogue River Valley's Oldest AMBULANCE SERVICE Always At Your Service PERL FUNERAL HOME 624 West Sixth Street Telephone Day or Night 2-6675 John A. Perl - Frank Perl by Roland Coe ze.so xg This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Writer "They made me a little nerv ous," she said, "with questions like 'How old are you? and When did you get your last spanking?" Older reporters don't bother me. I can handle them." Maggie, to be sure, has had little trouble with big shots. She claims to be the only actress to be kissed by two presidents. One was the late F.D.R., who gave her a wet buss and then took her onto his lap to help him with a cross-word puzzle. The other was, of course, H.S.T. "Mr. Roosevelt," she said, "was wonderful, but Mr. Tru man was better. We both play the piano, you know." Met Duke . Before she came to Washing ton, the girl actress visited New Orleans. There she met the duke of Windsor. He gave her a kiss, "natch," and they exchanged au tographs. Maggie, as a matter of fact has been kissed more than any young lady in the world. There was Lio nel Barrymore, the late Babe Ruth, Eamon De Valera, and even Sherman Billingslcy, who runs a little supper club in New York. You meet an amazing child like this and you wonder if she is a spoiled one. Maggie isn't. She has the poise of an adult. 1 asked her mommy about her. "It's hard to believe," said Mrs. Gladys O'Brien, "but I have nev er seen her in an angry mood. Otherwise, she is like any other child. She still plays with dolls and has to be scolded about not picking up her clothes. I haven't had to spank her since she was about five'and I gave her a dan dy that time. Maybe she remem bers it." Goes To School In Hollywood and when she's on the road Maggie goes to school three hours a day. She has a tutor. She works in the afternoons when she is making a picture and the directors are easy on her. Never more than 20 minutes at a time under the lights. "We bring her home from the studio," Mrs. O'Brien said, "and she has a quick meal and gets into bed. Generally around sev en. Even though she is a work ing girl, she probably gets more sleep than most kids." Maggie is the darling of the lots around movieland, but her mother says that everybody tries hard not to spoil her. She is treat ed like an adult and takes her lumps along with the rest. "Don't print this, though," mommy said. "She can read, you know." Monuments GRAVE MARKERS Granite - Marble Mirrolite ORDER NOW for LESS Ike Coffman Jacksonville, Ore, J Box 495 Phone 262 "tT 1 Letter From By HARRIS Member of Ceng There is a publication Issued daily during each session of con gress and sent to each house member. It is known as the cal endar of the house of represen tatives. It lists the bills reported by committees and tells the his tory and status of each. The back page of the calendar each day reports the "Status of Major Bills Second Session." Up to now it is a blank page with one minor exception. The house did on Feb ruary B pass an urgent deficien cy appropriation bill. Other wise no major bills have been reported and no major bills have been acted upon by the house with the session near ly one-third gone. The other evening 1 heard the president refer to the 80th (republican controlled) congress as a do nothing congress. So long as his own 81st congress has such an amazingly poor record literal ly no record at all as compared with the constructive record of the 80th I should think he would talk about something else, a a a THANKS TO THE generos ity of H. B. Murphy of the Pin nacle Packing company of Med ford, many members of the house of representatives now know of the surpassing excellence cf Rogue River valley pears. Du Cornice pears were distributed to members attending a dinner combining the 78, 79, 80 and 81 clubs and their guests recently. a The explanation of the other wise mysterious number designa tion of the groups is that mem bers elected to congress for the first time generally band to gether in an organization which meets for dinner occasionally. The groups take as their names, the numbers of the congresses in which they came in as new members. These are essentially social groups but serve a very useful purpose in getting mem bers better acquainted with one another. It is customary to have speakers of outstanding impor tance at these dinner meetings, with questions of an "off the record" basis following the speech. I have found attendance at 78-club meetings to be very beneficial to my work at a con gressman. a a APPARENTLY what big-government addicts seem to con sider a minor item of $90,000, 000 has been misplaced by the commodity credit corporation. It You make the miles melt away. ..you cheer the hearts of those you love... when you use Long Distance. For the sound of your voice so warm and friendly and personal can turn a lonesome evening away from home into a joyful family reunion. With rates so low, you can call Long Dir tance often. If you plan each conversation in advance, you can say as much in three minutes as in a regular letter... and get the answer to important questions right away. You'll be pleased with today's fast service. Your calls often speed through in only thirty seconds ... if you give the operator the number you want instead of just the name, city and street address. Use Jjong Distance so personal, so fast, so inexpensive The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Washington ELLSWORTH ran From Oregon was publicly stated recently by general accounting office offi cials that the CCC is not actual ly "short" some $366,000,000 (more than a third of a billion) as intimated by Senator Williams of Delaware last year. No, it turns out that only $90,000,000 was written off by CCC as "in terdepartmental bookkeeping!" FOR THE BENEFIT of those who worried because some of us voted to do away with the phony "21-day rule" a few weeks ago and charged us with being "re actionary," "anti-liberal," etc. I take pleasure in pointing out that the so-called 21-day rule which so many people were de ceived into believing was a means of breaking a rules com mittee bottleneck, was proven on the record to be a meaning less failure for that purpose. On the other hand, the regular cal endar Wednesday rule which was adopted nearly 40 years ago for the same purpose, and which really works, was used to smash the rules committee block against FEPC legislation. The bill came to the floor under cal endar Wednesday proceedings and was passed. Safety Commission Organized At Salem Salem, Ore., Feb. 28 (U.R) The city council Monday night established a Salem traffic safe ty council and a safety commis sion. The safety council will be a citizens' group appointed by the mayor to lead a program of pub lic education for safety. The safe ty commission will be a city of ficials' group to study traffic legislation and otherwise advise the city council. Dead line Sunday Classified la al Noon Saturdays. VICTOR Says:' "Not long ago a lady, who was in the shop for the first time, came from under the dryer to be combed out and said. "O-o-o-oh, am I glad I came here today.' I said, 'Now just a min ute, what gives here; people coming from under n warm dryer don't usually feel so hilarious; what's happened lo you?' Her answer was. quote, -I have just finished getting' the best manicure I have ever had. -You know most of the operators I've been to don't like to give manicures and the others don't know how. So ljust never ask for one but am I glad I tried Virginia!' unquote." CRATERIAN BEAUTY SHOP 41 S. CENTRAL CALL 2-4830 we ?50 Ca PLUS TAX Corvallis Quartet Champion Singers Forest Grove, Ore., Feb. 28 !U.R) The Agony Four of Cor vallis was the champion quartet of the Pacific northwest today after winning the northwest bar bershop ballad contest here dur ing the week-end. The Agony Four last year placed second and the previous year third. Second place this time was awarded the House brothers of Bonanza, Ore., and third to the Korn-Aires of Seattle. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10:30 P.M. 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