Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 21, 1950, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tueiday. March 21, 150 MEDFORD JilWTRIBUNE "Everyone ID Southtrn Oregon" Bull The MU Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 87-S9 North Fir St Phone ! ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP Managat HERB GREY, Advertising Mgr E C FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JK. City HARRY CH1PMAN, Talegrapn Ed tol HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Edlim OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Cu-ouUUon May An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Aet 01 March I. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one ': i Si Daily and Sunday alx month! 4.7 Dally and Sunday three mos ao Dally and Sunday one month 100 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routea: .,, Daily and Sunday one year.giaou Dally and Sunday one month I 00 All Terma Caih In Advance Official Paper of the City ot Medlord Official Paper of Jackmo County United Preia full Leaied Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: VVEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit. Sao Francisco Los Angeles Sf.itlle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver, B C NEWSfAPii k PUBLISH!! ASSOCIATION Crosstown Editorial Correspondence NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Caunry Hh rory from the files of rise Mail Tribune 1 0. ' 20 and 34 years ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY -March 21, 1940 (It Was Thursday) Fifteen CCC enrollees Injured In accident on Redwood highway while en route here. About 130,000 boxes of pears remain in storage in Medford. C. K. Gates, Medford, re-elected vice-president of regon Motor association. Pacific Plywood corporation explosion and fire seriously dam age part of plant; one employee injured. Junior high boys to present athletic Jamboree March 28. 20 YEARS AO TODAY March 21, 1930 (It Was Friday) Special prosecutor named In Rogue river fish cases. Al Capone, Chicago gangster, offers to surrender to police if no Jail term imposed. Cloudy weather aids frultmen who have smudgepots out for first expected frost of season; buds developing rapidly. Upstate revolt against Sen. Charles McNary subsides after enate passes tariff on lumber. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 21, 1916 (It Was Tuesday) McCurdy Insurance agency moves from Sparta building to Medford National bay building. Jackson county fair reorgani zation started with proposal to sell 150 shares of stock at $10 i share for refinancing. Misses Rose Wlckman and Lona Dunlap, both of Grants Pass, walk to Medford in 11 hours. Navy Reservists To Meet Here Tomorrow Medford's naval reserve com posite unit 18-11 will meet at I 8 p. m. Werinesdny in the Federal Office building, 33 North Riv erside avenue, according to Lt. R. William Clark, commanding officer. The meeting will be open to all ex-members of the naval service. Lt. Ted Pierce, from 13lh na val district headquarters in Se attle, will attend to discuss re activation of the Medford unit. A film, "Marianas Operation," will be shown. Complete information for re servists who plan a summer cruise this year will he avail able, and a report will be given regarding the future of the na val reserve program. Dominews Observes First Anniversary Camp While, Mar. 21 The Dominews, twlcea-month publi cation of the members of the veterans domiciliary center here, celebrated Its first anniversary of publication last week. The mimeographed newspaper la edited by Franklin Girard, and has subscribers and readers scattered throughout the world. Dead line on Classified Ads: 0:SO p m. for following day; 10 a m. Mon day, noon Saturoay for Sunday a.m New York City, N, Y., Mar. 113 St. Patrick'! day is a great occasion In New York. And properly so, for the Irish really built the place, laid the bricks, put down the cobblestones, dug the subways and the sewers, and for many years kept law and order. Today the mayor is a native-born son of the "auld sod." O'Dwyer by name; the chief of police is none other than John O'Brien; the Catholic bishop of New York is Joseph Donahue (who reviewed the parade from the steps of St. Patrick's cathedral), while the master of ceremonies was none other than John Sheahan. It was, as everyone said, a great day for the Irish! . For a wonder it did not snow. "Old Sol" beamed in a clear blue sky. A wind came up, however, about the time the parade started and the mercury dropped somewhere in the thirties. This made it about right for the marchers, but tough on the spectators. The latter sat on the temporary bleachers lining Fifth avenue, resembled a football crowd wrapped up in muffler and blankets, children in snow suits, pet dogs in their green knitted sweaters, some (not the dogs) eating their box lunches as the parade, which started at noon and did not end until 4:30 p.m. passed by. a When we first came to New York the police force was 100 per cent Irish. Yesterday all the Irishmen on the force were put on the Fifth avenue beat, but there were not enough to go around, there were also Italians, Negroes fine looking ones too, and a sprinkling of muscular Israelites. According to newspaper re ports there were 100,000 Irishmen in the parade and 2,000,000 spectators packing the curbs from 44th to flOth streets. We would not vouch for the figures but after walking from 44th to 72nd while the parade was on, we agree the crowd was terrific. It was like trying to get through a Saturday basement bargain sale at Kleins. We gave up trying to count the bands, there must have been 100 of them, ranging from prep schools to Fordham's varsity. The most popular of the tunes were "Wearin' o' the Green" and "Finne gan." What appealed to your correspondent most were the local Hibernians In their top hats and long-tailed morning coats with canes and green-and-white sashes draped over their shoulders, talk about your struttin' drum majors, these lads from the Emer old Isle surpassed anything we have ever seen for pure cockiness. Nor have we ever seen so many green tics and red noses, the latter from the cold not pocket flasks, though there were plenty of good-natured drunks along the right of way. An Irishman who doesn t drink a nip on St. Patrick s day just doesn t belong. We did not know before that the Irish wear kilts and play bagpipes. That, we had supposed, was exclusively Scotch. But such a contingent was headed by a brawny lad named O'Reilly and we were informed by an elderly spectator with a huge green rosette In his buttonhole that bagpipes originated in Erin, the Scots are just copy cats at least on St. Patrick s day! a Of course, St. Patrick's day without a fight wouldn't be St. Patrick's day. The one we witnessed from afar was near 44th street when a rosy-cheeked matron came prancing up on a dashing "hunter" with a basket tied to the rear of the saddle in which a dog of uncertain breed reposed nonchalantly in spite of the bounc ing. Another gal on a beautiful chestnut horse, a blonde in a smart habit and derby hat, rode up and told the "mistress of the kennels" to beat it, that no dogs were allowed in the parade, and she did not qualify either. We did not get all the conversation but it was hot and heavy for several minutes until a police captain (mounted) clopped up alongside and calmed the troubled waters in a rich resonant brogue. The middle-aged woman got her way, and made quite a hit in the parade although why she insisted on packing the pup no one seemed to know. a Handbills were distributed along the line of march by young boys wearing green Kilkenny hats and sprigs of shamrock. The handbills announced a mass meeting of protest against "Public Bigot No. I," Sir Basil Brooke, who has suppressed all Catholic freedom in northern Ireland, has "out-Hitlereri Hitler," and is a "bigger 'scoundrel" than Joe Stalin. The meeting will be held March 24 under the auspices of the "American-Irish Minute Men," the chief address to be given by the Honorable United States Con gressman John J. Rooncy, sounds like a nice little PICnIc! a Apparently all the schools let out for the day including the girls' private school "Norfleet" on 67th near Madison. One of the scholars in the group attracted almost as much attention as the Color Guard of the New York fire department. She is known here as Margaret Smith but her real name is Princess Lyngdoh, and she hails from East India where she lives in a maharajah's palace. It was Diner cold in tnc wind out tne princess had a leopard-skin coat and leopard-skin mittens, with a heavy veil wrapped around her head and face, only her eyes and WHAT eyes, showing. She was not marching, she and her class mates were spectators near the famous Seventh regiment war statue: but the bovs in the Darade and the nearby groups-were as fascinated by Her Highness, as she was by the marchers, the flags and the bands. Probably Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin marched in the Washington parade, he loves the limelight. We wager if St. Pat rick could return to earth, however, and secure all the facts about McCarthy and his war on Secretary of State Acheson, he would in vite "Mac" to join the snakes and be driven wherever it was the Cel tic serpents were driven. St. Patrick not only knew snakes, he knew human nature, and the frequent relation between the two. The Pulitzer prizes In drama will be announced in a few weeks. We know the musical we would give first place, no doubt what ever. It is "Lost In the Stars bv Maxwell Anderson basjd on the hook "Cry, the Beloved Country." It is miles ahead of anything else In tewn, dramatically and musically speaking as far ahead as "The Hasty Heart'' is ahead in the line of the Hollywood movies. r. "ii; T. fi.i by Roland Co. VWWUIU iUJIdll On Oil Property In East Of State "Tha data we've set for our fishing trip fortunately is the am one the wife has set down for housccleaningl" Oregon Crops Assisted By Winter's Protective Cover Great Pete! Spring officially begins day after tomorrow. March 20 at 1L30 p.m. Well, it would be Just like the cock-eyed Weather Man to turn on the heat and bring out the blossoms 48 hours hence al though as this is written the wind is howling through the Broad way canyon and the mercury is close to freezing. There was a time when the New Year started on March 25 not so long ago either, If we recall correctly, 200 years or so. We don't know why a change was ever made. There seems much more sense starting the new year when Nature starts, than when old Mother N. holes up for the winter, as January begins. R.W.R. Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Stall Tribune phone 2-SI4I before :45 p. m. dally and 10:30 a. in. Bunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after yon rail, please notify oftlre, thus ellmlnaung special messenger service. Letters to the Editor must bear the name and iddreine of the wrltsl although under certain clrcum stsnrrs the use of a pen nam or Initial for publication is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the r!eht to edit all letters wllh a view to rlarlflrsllnn and conden sation. Letters submitted tor pub Urstlon must not eaceed ton word' I funds, more personnel and more '. sympathetic public support. ! That is what the Easter Seal drive seeks. I hope my fellow ', citizens will help us realize our ! goal. I Hazel K. Swayne Why Easter Seals? To The Editor: I am a volun teer worker in the annual East er Seal campaign being held in our city from March through Easter Sunday, April 9. Many people have asked me the pur pose of Hie drive and some have suggested that I should write a note to the? newspaper stating just why the drive is held. This letter contains a few of the an swers. First of all, there are In our state many crippled persons, among them crippled children, To help them overcome their handicaps and become self-sustaining citizens of our commun ity, we need continuing research, Increasing professional person nel in medical, theapeutic and educational fields, and an en lightened public which will un derstand that the crippled can do constructive work in busi ness, professions and Industry and see that they are given suit able jobs. Obviously all these numerous objectives cannot be obtained without a great concerted effort on the part of all of us not only here In Medford but throughout the United States, We have made tremendous The Gimmy Ailment To the Editor: Referring to H. E. Conger's recent communi cation In the Mail Tribune will say that we too have bet in this valley a long time, in fact we Krew up here, and would say that the acre tonnage of produc tion has Increased in the last fif ty years at least ten fold on all lands and much more on irri gated lands. This is to the credit of our farmers who have done this without help of any engineers from Washington. They tell us that if we don't ask for this help some other place will get It. They might take my share and see what they can do about settl ing the dust in the various dust bowls. The way the conservation law is drawn up, outlet drain ditches may be, and probably would be. put through lands of those who do not need them and then could Portland, Ore., Mar. 21 (U.R) County extension agents in a "first day of spring" report to day said the' winter's heavy snowfall actually helped Oregon crops by providing a protective cover. They said crops planted last spring have come through the winter in surprisingly goo d shape and look better now than they did after last year's severe winter. Some Damage Done Some damage was done this year to certain tree and trailing cane fruits. But Yamhill County Agent Jack Hansell said wheat, oats, barley, Austrian field peas and common and hairy vetch came through the winter in the Willamette valley in far better shape than last year's crops. However, Hansell said the winter showed its effect on some fruit crops, especially peaches and boysenberries. Oregon farmers are happy over the large amount of snow that fell throughout the state this winter because it improves irrigation prospects, the report said. Tremendous quantities of snow are still stored in water sheds. The only weak spot for irrigation noted so far is in Lake county, northeast of Lakeview. Lake and Harney counties are expected to be threatened by grasshoppers this summer, ac cording to Entomologist R. W. Every of the Oregon State col lege extension service. Wheat Killed In Umatilla county, Vic John son said there was some winter killing of winter wheat at the northern end, but he termed sur face moisture prospects good. Wasco County Extension Agent E. M. Nelson said sub-soil mois ture is lacking in his county and in Umatilla county. Nelson thought Wasco county ! farmers would plant 10 to 15 per cent more spring wheat than us ual this year because of dry soil conditions last fall which post poned seeding. Agents indicated that weeds will be more than the usual prob lem in the Columbia basin this spring because the dry fall of 1949 stopped seed germination. On top of that, adequate spring moisture Is proving to be a boon to weeds as well as wheat. Klamath County Extension Agent C. A. Henderson said "fur ther drastic acreage reductions In Klamath county and chaotic marketing conditions have left potato growers in a dilemma." Acreage May Decrease Henderson said Klamath coun ty might have a decrease in po tato acreage and a slight increase in brewing barley. More alfalfa, clover and irrigated pastures are also being planted, Henderson said. Malheur County Agent Harry R. Sandquist said livestoekmen indicated they weregettlng ready to turn their cattle and sheep onto range. Potato acre age in Malheur county is ex pected lo be less this year. Curry county's Easter lily crop fared badly in this winter's freezing weather. In Columbia county, W. G. Nibler said 1949's dry summer and severe winter caused hay shortages. O. E. Kimesell of Linn county thought there would be a record breaking harvest of common rye grass this year. L. J. Marks said cattle survived the winter in Wheeler county very well, es pecially because the county had a dry season in 1949. Josephine and Jackson coun ties report fruit and general crops escaped excessive winter damage. Good weather has help ed Josephine farmers to get early spring work underway. Festival Plans Talked By Board Ashland, Mar. 21 Ideas for the promotion of Ashland's Shakespearean festival's 10th annual presentation this summer were discussed at a meeting of the association's board of direc tors over the, week-end. Gene Malecki, Salem, who has re tained as promotional represen tative, attended the session. Plans include sending personal invitations to the nation's lead ing Shakespearean actors, dis tribution of brochures, an en larged printed program this year, and other publicizing schemes including an opening day pro gram and parade. Ashland Soroptimists said they would call attention to the festival when they attended the national convention of their group in Seattle July 2 to 8. The board of directors will meet Monday in Medford. pect to get a number of federal engineers to map out projects and tell farmers which way the water should run. Most farmers have the old fashioned idea that it would run down hill. Then the AAA will pay for dirt moved and tile used and another feder al agency will buy the surplus spuds, pears and other crops grown. We suggest that before they seek more members for the U.S. H.C. tUncle Sam's Handout club) they look for a cure for the "(jimmy ailment." It may be lat er than they think. We are not snvine that these be abandoned and the land own ! things are all bad and may not er on the lower end left to hold tne sack. We have that situation right at home, open drain ditches were put through our fields by other land owners who later sold out with no stipulation made about these to the new owners. So It is up to us to maintain these or let them grow up with willows and trash, and all it has be necessary. But we do wish that some people we know would either quit asking for more gov ernment money or quit griping all the time about high taxes and federal spending. R. E. Nealon progress In the past 25 years or; done for us Is to lower the water so and 1 think no one will dial lenge my statement that the Ore gon Society for Cripple Children and Adults. Inc., and the Na tional Society for Crippled Chil dren and AilulLi with which it Is affiliated have been leaders In this progress. Hut to keep on making prcgrew we need mora table on some of our best land making It necessary to pump water and Irrigate many crops we used to grow without water. From the heavy barrage of publicity going on now for month, some people must want tliis pretty bad. W hear that the sponsor j x- Eagle Point Students In News Competition Forest Grove. Ore., Mar. 21 Eagle Point high school is among the first registered for Pacific university's fifth annual north west high school journalism com petition, to be held here Satur day, March 25. Students from Eagle Point en tered in the competition are Pa tricia Lucas, senior, news writ ing; Ralph Humphrey, senior, speech reporting: Virginia Flee man, junior, editorial writing, and Lois Nelson, senior, sports reporting. Last year 120 students from 34 high schools in Oregon and Wash ington competed for first place trophies awarded by the Hills boro Argus for news writing. Forest Grove News-Times for news-feature writing. Oregon Journal for sports reporting. Van couver Columbian for speech re porting, and The Orcgonian for editorial writing. GROUP INVITED Minneapolis, Mar. 21 fU.Rl A spokesman for the Youth for Christ movement says Gen. Douglas MacArthur has invited Ihe grouo to curry its evangelis tic work to Japan. wells had been drilled in struc tural lows while oil flows in structural highs. Three highs were found in the study, accord ing to reports. I. W. Love Drilling company, Shreveport, La., was to resume oil drilling operations today on the 12.000-acre Vogler lease about 15 miles southeast of Burns, Love reported here yes terday during a conference with officers of the United Company of Oregon. Accompanying L,ove nere was , an associate, Zeke Lohman, rep-1 resentative of the Hurley Oil company, Shreveport. Last fall Love, a contractor, brought in about $135,000 worth of equipment to the Harney ba sin. He was halted by cold weather after reaching a depth of 515 feet. Company Cooperates i United company, which has drilled two wells in the basin i without getting flows, is cooper ating with Love in every way, according to J. Verne Shangle, first vice-president. United has ; leases on about 65,000 acres and ! is waiting now to see what j comes of Love's drilling opera-; tions. If Love should happen to get t a gusher. United would go to 1 work, it was said. 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