Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 19, 1950, Image 18

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfoiumTribune "Cveryone In Southern Oreion" Rudi The MaU Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published br MXOrORO PRJNTtNO 37-39 North Fir St. CO. Phone 3-aU) ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. OILSTRAP Manual mtRR grey. Advertlalna Mir. ft C FERGUSON, alunalini tdltoi eric ALLEN JR . City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Talearepn Editm ITEKRY L GREEN Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MSI An Indapandant Nawapapar Entered aa lecond olaai matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Aot of March . 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mill In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.... 99 00 Dally and Sundayelx montha i.lb Dally and Sunday three moa 1.90 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 oy earner in Advance Meaiuro Ashland Central Point. Jackaonvllle Gold Hill, Phoenix Talent and on motoi routaa: Dally and Sunday one year. 913.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Termi Caib In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of jacusoo county United Praia full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offlcea In New York Chicago Ua troll. San Franclaco Lot Anaelee Seattle. Portland St Loull Atlanta Vancouver. B C NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHER ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight or Time Medford and Jackson Ceunr Hre Mry from the filet ef the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 14 yean (90 8und'yM"ch" 1980iCrossfown Editorial Correspondence by Roland Cos 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 19. 1940 (It Was Tuesday) Union Good Friday services to be held In First Baptist church Friday afternoon. Carl Reich lected president of 4-H Livestock club and Janice Fltti of Room Improvement club In Oak Grove district. Plane owned and operated by John UaUaire Jr. wins i'rop nuts Hying contest. Mutual organization of all tele phone lines in Appleeate valley advised at meeting in Grange hall. Upper Rogue Community club of Bellview district elects Mrs Floyd Samford president. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 19. 1930 (It Was Wednesday) Gene Thorndlke and Clarence Meeker named to fill vacancies on city council. New City ordinance keeps dog: out of business district. LeiiEth of teachers' skirts ar gued in Oak Grove district school dispute. New ordinance SBys all store awnings must be seven feet seven inches from sidewalks. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 19. 1919 (It Was Sunday) Ashland Presbyterian church chorus organized under direction of George Andrews, fticuiora. Harry Murphy placed in charge Bernard. Motor company branch at Ashland. Orchards of all kinds in valley reported In full bloom. Air Show Seeks New Name For St. Helens SI. Helens, Ore. Mar. 18 0J.R Residents In this Columbia river town were n little green today- but not because of St. Patrick's day. A telegram to Mill Campbell manager of the St. Helens sal mon derhv which starts April 1 was received from Ed Bailey. promoter of the Truth or Con aCOlif-nCt1. lrulio fllOW. Bailey offered the townspeo ple two publicity favors In re turn for a little favor. The priies: Broadcast the T&C program from St. Helens April 1 In con nection with the derbv and guarantee of four pages in Life magazine of the salmon derby and the town. The Utile favor: Change the name of St. Helens to Truth or Consequences, Ore Wall Street New York, Mar. IB U.H.) Stocks maintained a firm lone in quiet trading today around their best levels slnee mid-10-10 Leading issues in the Indus trial group registered smibII net gains with auto, sleel and chemi cal stocks best performers. Studrbaker featured the autos by rising to i new high for the year. Sales totaled 810.000 shares, compared with 520,000 last Sat urday. Dow Jones closing slock aver ages: 30 industrials 208 09, up 0.52; 20 rallroad9 55 70, un changed: 15 utilities 43 69. un changed; 65 slocks 75.13, up 0.11. Sacramento had 9,000 resi dents when it became an Incur poralcd city in 1830, New York, N. Y., Mar. 15 The zero hour for income taxes is due at midnight. To escape the statute of limitations Uncle Sam has presented 43 Indictments of evasion to Judge Medina of Communist-trial fame. Comparisons are odious but reading the list of the New York violators sounds rather like a list of Manhattan iellow-travelers or the Notre Dame football team. a What next? Valentin Gubitchev has decided to stay in Jail instead of sailing Monday for Russia as a deportee, and a return to his beloved native land, a free man. At least tree as far as unitea States federal prison is concerned. We wish we could say the "little man" has decided Jail in the U.S.A. with a good bed and decent food, would be preferable to Soviet Russia as a discredited spy. That may be a factor but the reasons given by Gubitchev's attorney, Abraham Pomeranz, justify a different interpretation. Uncle Sam Insists that if the Russian espionage agent does accept deportation, with his sentence of 15 years in prison sus pended, he forfeits his right of appeal. In other words If the sen tence should be upheld by the appeal court, there would be no way of effecting a judgment with Gubitchev back in Russia. Pomeranz, on the other hand, maintains his client has a right of appeal under the American constitution and refuses to forfeit that right. -a e a There appears to be a rather fine legal point Involved here. Our guess Is not only Pomeranz but Miss Coplon's "smart trio, feel there is good reason to believe an appeal will be granted If the Russian sticks around and not such a good chance if he accepts deportation. So why not remain until this1 issue is decided and if the conviction should be upheld, then apply for deportation? a Whatever the final outcome there is no doubt of this: even as stalwart and uncompromising a Communist as Gubitchev, does not vearn for a return to his native land, as a citizen of any free, demo cratic country would. He might not be liquidated or sent to the Siberian salt mines, and he perhaps handed over vaiuame mior mation to the Politburo, but there is no acceptable alibi for failure in the police state. To get caught, according to the Moscow line, is to fail. Speaking of the "police state" there is one factor In this "cold war " with Soviet Russia not sufficiently empnasizea, nameiy; The ncrcasine hostility to the police state system, not oniy this side of the iron curtain, but the other. We have been readine a recent book by Louis Fischer, who lived 14 years in Russia, spcaKs rtussian nuentiy ana nas a Rus sian wife, entitled: "13 Who Fled." It recounts the experiences and motives of 13 Russians taken at random who risked their lives to escape the tyranny of their native land. They were not "White" Russian! cither, but largely members of the worker class, who started out as enthusiastic communists, but have found existence Intolerable. These case histories are unquestionably authentic and while only 13 are set down in this little book, as the author remarks, there might be 13 million if a careful census could be taken. With such a sDirit of latent revolt the other side of the iron curtain, imagine what would happen if Russia should go to war and put guns in the hands of these malcontents not only guns but a certain freedom of action? wnen timer invaaea nussia nearly a decade ago, literally thousands of Stalin's soldiers went over to the enemy in preference to defending their communist tyranny and had Hitler been anything but a homicidal maniac, he might very well have capitalized this defection to gain an over whelming victory. Don't think for a minute that foxy old "Uncle Joe" doesn't aDDreciate all this. He talks tough, and rattles the old scabbard from time to time, but as time goes on there is more and more reason to believe that at heart the powers-that-be In Moscow don't want war now any more than the leaders of the democracies do. , Times change. Take the tallest office building In the world, for examplo- the Empire State building. We remember only 10 or 15 years ago when that Imposing monument to tho late Al smith was a terrmie headache a white elephant of white elephants. Now it is a gold mine, scarcely a vacant space and they are erecting a new 200 foot tower on top. Why ANOTHER tower? The television com panies want to get up there so they can "shoot the works" NBC, ABC, Columbia all the big boys in this rapidly growing visual entertainment development. We don't know what the broadcast boys are paying for this privilege, but as the saying goes, "it ain'l hay." Imagine the cost of erecting special towers of that height over 1000 feet straight up. Yes. television Is growing by leaps and bounds it is the biri radio development of the future no doubt of that. But to date it Isn t paying. In fact, according to the grapevine, one ot tne largest broadcasting hookups in the country is near the financial break ing point because of its TV over extensions. They spread out too fast in too short a time. The biggest item is the initial cost. Radio development is a penny-ante game compared to television, and while the latter is in creasingly popular, its value as spot advertising is another kettle of fish. One of our older girl friends here In New York threw light on this problem the other day. Said she; "I have a television set in my home but seldom use it. why? Well, because I have housework to do in the morning, usually gn out in the afternoon, and at night unless there is something VERY unusual on TV, I prefer solitaire or canasta. I put on the radio because I can listen to that and sweep, or take a shampoo, or even play cards, but if it's a tele vision show, I must attend to that and nothing else." We believe the boys who think television Is going to be the advertising gold mine radio has been, have something to think about here. "Takes him a long time to make up his mind, but that's his MOTHER'S influence." We were all wet In our recent rain prediction. We opined there would be no airplane rain-making with the reservoirs over half full and spring precipitation in the offing. But the New York Doard of Estimates yesterday appropriated $50,000 for "cloud seed ing and radar plane equipment" In start rain making operations within a week. One inch of artificial rain, it is estimated, will bring an added 15,000,000.000 gallons to the city reservoirs over a two-week supply. Well, we shall see what we shall see. We still think there will he complications, politically speaking. Not only from up-state farmers with their hay down, but Hie younger fry who have their hciirts set on a picnic in the country on The week-end the city fathers decide to put on a down pour! It is undoubtedly wise lo defer judgment on this alleged Com munist expose by Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin until his test mony has been completed. But if aforesaid evidence from now on isn't more convincing than what has thus far been presented then there is no douht this table-pnunding freshman solon is cit her having his leg pulled, or is simply a d I perhaps both! R.W.H. P. S. The following from the Wot'ld-Telegram-Sun mav be Interest lug assuming it reaches Medford before the second income lax Installment Is due: It all began Just 36 years ago. In 1R14 the first federal Income lax was collected on single Incomes of $3000 and up and on married incomes of $4000 or better. The rate was a whopping 1 per cent, with crushing surtax of 1 fi per cent on incomes over S'JOO.000. Only 600.000 people filed that year, half of them from New York City. IN 1914 A married man with a $5000 income paid about $50 In Income tax. Tlie same man could buy a custom made suit for $55. He could travel lo Europe first class for $75. He could rent a five-room apartment on the East Side for StJO. He could see a Broadway matinee from the front row for $1.50 and boy gin for the same price. He could get a small car for $750. Naturally, he paid his office bov onlv $5 a week. His stenographer after seven years had risen to $25 a week. iShe began by working her first month free!) IN 1950 A married man making $5000 pavs about $544 In Income tax If he Is extravagant enough to want custom made suits, he pays S125 to Sl'iKl A first class berth to Europe costs him $.165. Ills 3' i room apartment in tjueens il5 minutes from a bus. 40 minutes from a subway i costs him S8R. He might get a matinee ticket for $3 60, and gin it about the same price. He may be able to get a r.ir for as low as $1600. He pays his office boy at least $25 a week. His stenographer after seven months Is demanding $65 a week. And that Is why March 15. 1950, Is one of the blackest days in history almost as black as March 15, 1949 P P S. , ,r' C.ubitchev has now decided lo sail for home on Mon day! Off again, on again Finnegan" (of SOS I now come: tveu, probably it all goes back to where we came uuoltcnev s attorney, after ; H ' ,H'f- "ended Valentin better stick around. But Moscow de idrd differently. And what Mlwhu .mi n .. " to ituy In the party and keep one 9 health: R.W.R. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the editor mim bear the name and addresie of the wrltei although under certain circum stance! the use of a pan name or Initial for publication la permit ilble. The Mall Tribune reiervea the rlht to edit all lettera with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letter! submitted for pub Jlcajlownusl not exceed tno words Morse And The T-H Law To the Editor: Wayne Morsel delivered a broadcast from KYJC Tuesday. I hope for the sake of his campaign for re election and those who support it, not too many registered voters listened. Main point of his broadcast was his placing of the national good above party lines. He viv idly described the manner In which he has taken every bill before the senate, studied It and voted on merit alone. He told how he dashed to the floor when votes were taken and even with republican floor leaders breath ing dowi his neck and threats of reprisal before him, he raised his hand for justice be it re publican or democrat. That's good stuff. In fact, I had begun to have visions of an Abe Lincoln from Oregon, a man of the people, barefoot in the snow. Then 45 seconds later the moderator asked a question: "Senator Morse, why do you favor repeal of the Taft-Hartley law?" And in defense of his best-known piece of voting the senator answered, substantially, thus: "First tiling, it is absolutely necessary to get the Taft-Hartley law off the books if we're ever going to get the labor vote and we've got to have the labor vote to get a republican administra tion. I voted against the Taft Hartley law. It's bad republican politics." As a republican, I wonder. In Mr. Morse's extensive practice of law he could no doubt quote many precedents where a well aimed prosecution has shattered an admirable defense but I doubt if he could find another instance such as this. A case where the lawyer stood before the jury, opened his mouth, stuck his foot in it and then plugged himself squarely between the eyes. Mrs. -Jack Gillarpie. The farmers have gone to town and found the stores locked until nine o'clock so have wasted an hour of their working day. I'm sure if D.S.T. was put to the vote of the farmers, laborers, etc., of the community it would get a no vote. Most working peo ple find an eight hour day of toil enough. So I'm In favor of the axe or veto action on the daylight sav ing plan. Gladys Hamilton Against D.S.T. Dear Editor: Here is an ooen letter to Honorable Mayor Flvnn and his councilmen. Just why should a petition signed by 40 people disrupt the lives of thou sands of residents of this valley who already work from davlight io ciarn to mane an honest living by their own endeavors? The youngsters in school are already on a schedule which would be disturbed by the day light saving time as planned. The farmers' milking schedule would be changed so the cows wouldn't give their average of milk as it takes many weeks of training to get the cows regu lated. They just get back into routine production when time is changed back, so il is no benefit to the dairymen or farmers In the community. The loss In pro duction will be quite a bit and make his income less and pro duction costs higher. Against Conservation Plan To the Editor: In the last few weeks there has been a great hue and cry about farmers los ing their soil by erosion, and how our good land is being de pleted by the ignorance and ne glect of its owners. All of this, we are told, could be avoided if we organize the county into a district and bring in a half dozen government technicians to show us how to farm. Very interesting, but untrue. I should like to say that this county has the least problem of soil erosion of any in the state, and perhaps in the nation. Rains fall gently In this county. We have none of the torrential dash ing rains like the middle west or southern states. Our streams drain quickly and most of the mountains which surround our valley have heavy adobe land at their base which does not erode easily. I have seen more erosion on one section of land in the Mis souri valley than I have in this whole county. Having lived in this valley for more than forty years I wish to say that the land is better and more productive than it was forty years ago and it has not been depleted, but has been conserved. i The early settlers who farmed this valley were hardy stock They did not ask their govern ment to do things for them which they could do themselves iney could even dig a ditch, or level land without government assistance. They raised legumi nous crops and ranged 50.000 cattel in our forest and win tered them on the valley lands. That was soil conservation. We have a complete soil con servation organization office, county and rural committees, forty members. They are entire ly satisfactory. We do not need highly paid technicians. They neea tne jorj. Recently taxpayers filled the courthouse, saying they couW not live under their taxes now. Now shall we say to the govern ment, spend more of our tax money for things we do not need? You may lose your lands from delinquent taxes, but not soil erosion. Vole "no" on the conservation district. H. E. Conger In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS GOVERNOR McKAY, putting in a plug for national wild life restoration week, tells us in a statement issued in Salem that Oregon's wildlife resources are important economically as well as recreationally. He says: ( "During last year's deer sea son, 170,000 hunters killed 44, 000 deer, with a MEAT VALUE of $4,000,000." I .DON'T DOUBT the truth of the governor's state ment which indicates that about one hunter out of four got his deer. But I can't help wondering what the out-of-pocket cost of the meat was. I've always estimated that mine cost me around $5 a pound, at the very least. SPEAKING of food, this one has Just clicked off the tele type: (It comes from the town of Poole, in England.) "A baronet's wife has just started a roadside snack bar to help pay for upkeep of the 2,-500-acre family estate, which is hard hit by high taxes. She is Lady Lees, wife of Col. Sir John Lees, and she will put In her week-ends selling cold sausages, pork pies, jellies and soft drinks to motorists from a roadside stand outside their 45 -room house, Lytchett Manor. "She'll do some of the cook ing herself. A relative and an Estonian cook will help." T0 YOU reckon it's the real thing? Or is she doing it for a stunt? I wouldn t Know, of course. but even if she is doing it as a stunt it's a more useful one than this Larrv Hightower s. of El- lensburg, up in the state of Washington. He's pushing a wheelbarrow over the United States, and has just tooled the thing up to the 14,110 foot sum mit of Pike's peak. It took him five days to make the ascent, and he figures he'll come down in two. It certainly takes all kinds of i people to make a world. DROBABLY the day's grim- mest Joke is the New York taxpayer who listed his slate senator and nis u. &. uuin- GRESSMAN as dependents on his income tax return, explain ing: My taxes support them. That's too true to be even funny. (His claim, by the way, was disallowed by the income tax people.) IN NEW YORK, the biggest in- come tax payment received on Wednesday (the fatal Ides of March) was a check from a corporation for 36 million. It was tne ursl quarterly payment, nd tne district collector says the firm's tax for the whole year was $144 MILLION! WHEN YOU think of that as a tax PAYMENT earned bv the sweat of workers' brows and the toil of managers' brains, it sounds simply staggering. But our national administra tion proposes and our congress appropriates tidy little items of I 5144 million as casually as you and I put a penny In a parking meter. THAT, by the way, is one of the rime reasons why prices stay high. Taxes, whether we be lieve it or not, are Included in the cost of everything we pay money for and so HAVE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PRICE. If taxes were lower, prices would be lower. TYPEWRITER BITES COP Miami, Fla. (U.R) Husky patrolman L. F. Gracey Jr., who weathered many a tough beat, required hospital attention after tangling a finger in the keys of a typewriter. Mountainous Japan has 17 million acres of agriculture land out of a total of 91 million acres. DREAM TOO VIVID Roseville, Mich. OJ.PJ unaries Cheek dreamed hi house was on fire, jumped out of bed and smashed a window with his fists. He was hospitalized with a badly cut right arm. hi CHINESE NOODLES Luncheons and $hort Orders Order to Take Out SUKI YAKI CHOP SUEY CHOW MEIN Phone 3-90 H J. N. CAFE Across from S. P. Freight Depot 229 South Front I - 1 Tien! II kave tlie wt fjm tfp quukec wken hhw 4( . n yen buy net aa . . . fflwl mm t t. i u ! SUNDSTRAND W;V WM THAT ADDS . SUBTRACTS ' rtt.il m AND MULTIPLIES. m 111 Hnn TVl W II Jl20 jflfeli I It ZL i&S&lR 1 H ffe, Repair fM ill AH Makes! ifj tftf CH IfClVC CWH WCftk. a e e Ul(Ht l EQUIPMENT CO. W j HiV.I rP '"one --nuu K'jr3 Subscribers To rtport imDfoDfr or not. deliver of the Mail Trlbun phonr ai-nm Orion b:o p. m. auy ana 10:30 . m. Sunday. If rtfulir d 1 1 1 t a r j arrivm ihortly aftir you call, pleas notify office, (hiii rHmlnatlng special mesicnger service. How To Reduce Your Payments By "lumping" all your bills or credit accounts into one place, you can usually cut way down the total of your monthly payments. We do this for our customers every day. We'll be glad to tell you, too, just how much we may cut your payments. Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie S-211 M-217 HOW WELL YOU KNOW THIS "HELPING HAND" Under Socialized Medicine what MUST happen HERE (as it has where tried previously). Over-worked by hours given to "all comers" even if many are not ill. Red tape, Forms, Reports, In structions, Orders. Small wonder YOUR doctor can never render the close personal attention your illness truly de mands. "Freedom goes when dictatorship steps in." Federally planned, it will not be possible to give specific service when and IF Socialized Medicine comes. Your Family Doctor The ONE person who knows what to do . . , and takes the time to do it . . . your friend . . . interested in you and in the well being of your family ... a fellow townsman . . . up-to-the-minute in his profession and constantly interested in research and study in order to serve you better , CET THE FACTS ALL OF THEM, NOW!