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TWELVE MEDFOHD (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. March 17, 1950, MEDFORDvTRJBUNE "Everyone ID Southern Oregon" Reads The Mat) Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRXNTINO CO. 37.29 North Ftr St Phone 14141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST R CILSTRAP Man I el fTRRR nrtEY Advertialna Mir. t c FERGUSON. Managlna Editor wmc ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. CtrouiaUon Mgi An Independent Newipaper Entered ai aecond elan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mail In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.... $9 (HI Dally and Sunday tlx monthl 4.7D Dally and Sunday three moa t iu Dally and Sunday one month 1 00 By carrier in Advance meaiora Ashland Central Point. Jacksonville Gold dill. Phoenix Talent and on motor routea : Dally and Sunday one year. oo Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terms Casb In Advance Official Paper of the City of Med ford Official Paper of jacasuo vouniy United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago Do troll, San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louie Atlanta Vancouver, B C NATIONAL 1 NEWSPAriR k PUBLISHERS --ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL AsTpCpATiolN I? W Flight o' Time MecJforel and Jackson Counry His hwr 'rem Hie files of the Mall Tribune 10. 20 ee,d 14 rears af e Crosstown free men; but the work must go on in the name of humanity. The success of the American 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 17. 1940 (It Was Sunday) L. C. Offenbacher ranch home on Big Applegate road destroyed Dy fire. . Jackson county D. A. V. chap ter elects Carold J. Parker com mander and auxiliary names Mrs. iidward Ncff commander, Medford to receive plaque for having best 1039 traffic safety record for cities 10,000 in pop ulation class. Richard L. Sabln named man ager of Oregon Caves resort. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 17, 1930 (It Was Sunday) City wins superior court de cision in Big Butte springs wa ter dispute. Arthur M. Geary, formerly of Medford and now Portland at torney, asked to oppose Sen. Charles McNary in primary. Fred Colvig reported to have best grades in high school. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 17, 1916 (It Was Friday) C. M, Thomas announces can didacy for representative on re publican ticket. Earl Woodshed and Clarence Lovern negotiate Siskiyous in au tomobile despite ice, snow and mud. Mesdames A. J. Vance, F. W. Thorne, T. W. Williamson and Roger S. Bennett will be host esses for St. Patrick's day dance. Salem Aluminum Firm To Make Fertilizer Salem, Ore., Mar. 17 Three Salem men have taken a lease on the war-born Salem Alumina plant, and indicated todnv they plan to manufacture fertilizer. The men arc Charles Strick faden, head of the Capitol Lum ber company; George A. Rhoten, Snlem attorney and Arch W. Mctzger, who has been identified with the Alumina plant for sev eral years. The government built the plant in World War II at a cost of several million dollars to de velop the manufacture of Alum ina from clay. The process was In an experimental stage when the war ended. Communists Plentiful In Clatsop County Astoria, Ore., Mar. 17 (U.P.I An army reserve intelligence officer said today that Clatsop county had more than five times its share of known communists. Charles Wood, who spoke re cently to the Astoria Lions club, snld that on the national average Clatsop could expect to have only four communists. He said, however, the county had 22 known members of the pnrty di vided into two cells in Astoria. Wood promised that local clubs would be given more In formation on measures to be taken against communists and fellow travelers. Smudging Time Again Spring is in the air, pear buds are burgeoning and most any day now Medford housewives will be forced to start undergoing their trial by fire smudge pot fire, that is as orchardists engage in the annual battle with Jack Frost. TN the citrus growing region of California opposi- tion to the smudge scourge has crystalized into initiative petitions seeking a law to outlaw smudge pots. Householders and store keepers there are torn between regard for the revenue producing fruit grow ers and impatience with the all-pervading softt which damages home furnishings and store merchandise. California municipalities find, however, that they can do little to outlaw or control the nuisance. Ontario, for instance, passed an ordinance banning smudging within the city limits but it was demon strated that smoke once in the air doesn t respect city limits when the breezes are in the right direction. see ASIDE from inconvenience of the heavy, sooty emnVa f Viora !a enma nitndttnn oo tn fVio amrnnt of actual damage done by smudging compared with what fruit or profits from fruit are saved. Growers point out that they have smudged for years and never suffered much home or other damage. They claim, undoubtedly with good reason, that the loss of fruit would be heavy if orchard heating were abandoned. e THAT the practice of smudging is an expensive I R cross is due to its thousands , ' ., v , . , ., i of volunteer workers and the - Dusiness ior tne growers ana one wnicn mey would be glad to discontinue if it were possible, is shown by figures from Los Angeles county, Califor nia, where registration of smudge pots is required and where figures are consequently easy to obtain. About 900,000 pots are used in the county, an esti mated one-third of which are old and in bad condi tion and in need of replacement. Modern pots cost $5 or more each and in the more dangerous frost areas at least one pot to a tree is required. Three to five gallons of oil is burned nightly in each pot, at a cost of 8 to 10 cents a gallon. When it is considered that to burn all the pots in California for one hour would cost $500,000, to say nothing of expense involved in pot tendings hauling oil and other incidentals, the burden which smudging puts on the growers can be better realized. MUMEROUS inventions have been brought forth in more recent years in efforts to overcome the smoke nuisance attendant upon use of smudge pots but to date nothing has been developed that will do the job as well or as cheaply as the dirty, smelly, but simple and reliable pot. Most recent development in the search for a new method of orchard heating is a turbojet unit which, its makers claim, will also serve to dry rugs and per form other related tasks. TTHE turbojet, invented by 34-year-old Edward West Jr., a graduate Stanford engineer, will rev olutionize current methods of orchard heating, it is asserted, one unit being sufficient to do the work of 500 smudge pots. J? uel oil to operate 500 smudge pots costs around $500 per hour, while the turbojet, fueled with diesel oil costs only $2. One turbojet will heat 10 acres. e MOUNTED on a portable, rubber-tired outfit, the turbojets may be transported into orchards, placed conveniently, started and up to 1000 degrees of heat generated in a matter of only three seconds. The hot air, however, is mixed with cold as it leaves the machine and it would be possible for a person to stand within three feet of the jet's exhaust without being burned, so the invention s backers claim. E.C.F. by Roland Co ill rrmulrrrmi D 1 JT-7-W Review Writ Granted To Safeway Stores Portland, Ore., Mar. 17 lU.Ri Safeway Stores, Inc., today had a writ of review of recent pro ceedings that resulted in the firm being denied an application to sell Portland-processed milk jn its Salem stores. Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford granted the writ, after the firm filed a petition aimed against a ruling by Thomas L. Ohlsen, milk marketing adminis trator. The writ means that the court will review records of Ohlsen's proceedings. Safeway asked for permission last November to sell milk and cream processed and paper-packaged in its Lucerne plant here for sales in Salem stores. The milk and cream would be pur chased from producers already holding a Salem market quota. , Ohlsen ordered a hearing on the request because he consider- j ed it to be an attempt by Safe-1 way to get an extension of the j firm's processor - distributor li cense to cover the Salem sales j area. Treat your oil hfjtlnr unit to u,. best. Let rs five It Hut ,umm,r rlran-up. Next winter uh 1. CALL Medford 2-3853 DEPENDABLE OIL HEATING SERVICE VICTOR Says: My wife, Virginia, our shampoo-tint expert, says that I talk too much anyway, so this week I'll just say, ONE APPOINTMENT WITH US GIVES YOU MORE THAN A THOUSAND WORDS COULD! ' Thanks so much for a very busy past week. CRATERIAN BEAUTY SALON 41 S. Central Ave. Med. 2-4830 "Those are about the last snowballs we'll get until next winter, and I'm 'fraid they're gonna melt before we can use 'em on somebody!" Subscribers To report Imprope-r or lion delivery of the Mall Tribune phone t-U1 before t 41 p. m. dally and lt):30 a. m. Sunday. If regular doll ftr arrives ihnrtl after tuu rail, nleaie notWv office, thut eliminating ipeclal meuenier itnico. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addresse of the writer allhouih undrr certain clrcum slanres the use of a pen name or Initial for ntihltradon Is permis sible. The Mnll Tribune reserves the rliht to edit all letters with s view lo clsrltlrstlon and eondrn sattnn. I.eltrrs submitted for pub llrsllon must not exceed too wnriU I sought a Judas Chambers to explain the downfall of such a shining young man. R.W.R. should know better than to judge character by appearances. Chambers has not gone un punished, as R.W.R. contends, lie has lost his excellent Job with Time, and has suffered the bitterest torments which Hiss' lawyers could devise. His past, admittedly unsavory, has been exposed in minute and often ir relevant detail. The most un kind cut of all was the gratuitous testimony of the psychiatric "ex pert" lluil Chambers had a psy chopathic mind. This "expert" apparently had formed an even greater aversion toward Cham bers than R.W.R. According to the accounts I read, however, the "expert" succeeded only in hurl ing himself fur more than Cham bers. Chambers has erred grievous ly In the past, it's true, but to my mind he has made amends and deserves a vote of thanks. The F.B.I, and the house un-American committee have great confi dence in him. Read the March 13 Newsweek. Almus Pruitt. The Sister Flag To the Editor: America has two flags. One. known to all nations, symbolizes liberty, jus-j ucc, mini, ine oilier syniuomes mercy and humanity, H is the latter we wish to enlarge on. We, the disabled veterans who witnessed the hell of three wars, know Ihe value of peace on earth, good will toward mrn. i hroush tile years overyear The Lett Straw To the Editor: Editor Ruhl's allegation that Chambers "per suaded" Hiss to betray his coun try is the last straw. H.W.R.'s sin gular bias in (avor of Hiss has almost driven me to "take my pen in hand" before. Now 1 must. Having followed this case closely in the press and news magazines, I recall nowhere en countering testimony corrobor ating such an allegation. Nor can I go along with R.W.R. in claiming that Gubitchcv led Coplon to her downfall. These contacts were almost certainly arranged by commie higher-ups. Coplon was ready and willing to do her bit for Russia before she ever saw Gubitchev. Get ting bark to Chambers, I do re call that he testified he begged and pleaded with Hiss to leave the party at the same time Cham bers did. R.W.R.'s education on the de vious doing of communism, while advancing, is still far from com plete. It began with the softness characteristic of the Roosevelt era the attitude that commun ism is Jusl a cute phase of grow ing up, the radical phase, dar ins and rather sinnrl. Mnnv youngsters have been gulled into iBMrt at home, wherever we found generosity of the American peo ple. Among these workers are found the Gray Ladies of the American Red Cross. Their in numerable kindnesses impel us to feel the greatness ol the coun try it was our privilege to serve in time ot war. We, the disabled veterans, re spect those gray unilorms as we respect our Flag and tne uni forms of the young comrades who have taken over the defense of our country an honor that was once ours. The great responsibility of the American Flag is supported by us, the people. Its sister flag is supported by its thousands of volunteer workers and the great heartedness of the American public. To the veteran, the red cross, whenever it is found, symbolizes the hearts of our comrades who gave their all that America might live. The white back ground of that flag symbolizes humanity and mercy. May we. the people of Amer ica, count our blessings and keep our flag of humanity flying proudly in its proper place at the side of Old Glory. And may this Red Cross drive be dedicated to the memory of those little white crosses scatter ed throughout the world. They mark the resting places of our comrades, who gave their all that Old Glory and its sister flag might continue flying over a great and good-hearted nation. bpeaking on behall of my com rades. God bless the volunteer workers of America for their devotion and loyalty to the cause of the American Red Cross ana humanity. RICHARD RfcEVES Los Angeles. To the Editor: March is Aquarium month. Children ex plore roadside ponds, creeks. The net brings up watertigers, backswimmers, whirligig beetles. dragonfly larvae. These water creatures may be easily raised indoors. I hey are as interesting as a three-ringed circus. There are tragedies, too, especially when a hungry watcrtiger makes a meal, overnight, on the others of the aquarium happy family. An aquarium Is easily made. A fru-t lar will answer as a con tainer, although one of colorless glass is to be preferred. There should be sand at the bottom. Water should be clear to see what is happening. Duckweed and spirogira are necessary to give the vegetable balance. Snails should be obtained for scavenger work. Either the round-shelled or the taper-shelled species are to be had in almost any creek, often even in an old horsetrough. Books with information about making an aquarium may be had from most countv libraries. C. M. Goethe, Sacramento, Cal. McMinnville. Ore.. Mar. 17 (U.Ri Clarence Delp. 67. Belle vue, died in the McMinnville hos pital today of injuries suffered when he was struck by an auto mobile on highway No. 18. San Bernardino. Cal.. Mar. 17 (UP) Physical Culturist Ber- narr nlacradden has bought the "operating rights" lo the swank Arrowhead Springs hotel here. Accidents In Woods Subject Of Warning Salem, Mar. 17 A warning concerning winter damage to forests causing overhead hazards in the woods, has been issued by the accident prevention division of the state industrial accident commission to all persons em ployed in the forests of Oregon. Men who work in the woods timber cruisers, road construc tion crews, fallers, buckers and those who have responsibility for assignment of men to woods work areas, were specifically warned to examine every tree under which they work or pass, especially in areas where there is evidence of damage. Limbs and tops of trees, whether deciduous or coniferous, were badly dam aged or broken by the 1950 "sil ver thaw, sub-zero weather, and heavy snows. Despite all the protection which hard hats afford, the pre caution of specific observation and general awareness must be added to secure safety, the de partment said. A hard hat is without question the greatest protection to the woodsmen ever devised, but like other protec tive devises, its protection is limited. Astoria Man Unaware Of Son's Fatality Astoria. Ore., Mar. 17 (U.R) News of his son's death is being kept from Thomas Hopkins Sr., because the father is spending a bright St. Patrick's day some where between Southampton, England, and Ireland. The rural postmaster from As toria planned for years to make the trip to his parents' native land. Yesterday he debarked from the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton. At about the same lime, his son, Thomas Hopkins Jr., 32, was killed when a log fell onto his back while he was working as a "choker' setter" In a lumber camp, WILLAMETTE TEACHER Salem, Ore., Mar. 17 (U.R) John A. Meyers Jr., now com pleting his doctorate at Univer sity of Iowa has been named as sociate professor of psychology at Willamette university beginning next fall, President G. Herbert Smith announced today. Dead line Sunday Classified la ai Nr i Saturdays. Ben-Hur pur vonillo gh ih IW bou quet and delicate aroma from an expert blend of Mexfcon and Madagascar vanilla beam . . . highest quality grown. 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This is a troubled world of con fusion and unrest. Its weary peoples are haunted by the con stant threat of war The responsibilities and needs 1 u mi urn Lross organizations are er guilt became more and more! greater than ever, for the threat " cvr ' n.w.rt . nc re-1 of the atomic lutiaiiuy censured Hiss; but bombs is and hydrogen challenge to Ihosc The Dardanelle Dinners Oppoiift Gold Hill on the Old Stage Road "FRIED CHICKEN YOU WILL ENJOY" Closed Mondiri. Open Sundirl and Holidays at 1 p.m. Often Week Oars at 4 a m. 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