Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 24, 1950, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rrld.y, Much 24. 1958 MEDFORDjfcTRIBUNE -Irjon In Southern Oregon" . Roada Tb Mall Tribune" DeUy Except Saturday PublUhad by urnmnn PRINTtNQ CO. 07M North Iflr St. Pbone a-i41 ROBERT W BUHL, Editor ERNEST R GttSTRAP Manager KERB GREY, Advertising Mgr (, C FERGUSON. Managing Edltm ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegrepn Editor ' HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgl An Independent Newspaper Entarad aa second olaia mattar at Uadiord. Oregon, under Aot oi March S. l7 SUBSCRIPTION RATE 8y Mall In Advance: Oally and Sunday one ear.... uo Dally and Sunday -al months 4.75 Dally and Sunday three mos J.5U Dally and 8unday one month I 00 Uy Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year, sia.uo Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terms Caab in Advance Official Paper ef the City of Madforo OfMelai Paper of Jackson County United Prase full Leased Wire Editorial Correspondence Crosstown by Roland Co MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Renresentatlve: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INL Offices In New York Chicsgo De troit, San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C jgtXHIWIPA"ll rUtUSHIRS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight or Time Medferd aad Jacks. Ceunry Hia nwy tnm the file ef Hie MaH Tribe).. 10, 20 m4 24 yean age 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 24. 1940 (It Was Sunday) Four-room office and probably a six-car garage to be erected at fairgrounds as district Headquar ters for O-C commission. . Martha Rock, 11, saves infant sister, Beverly Ann Rock, as flames destroy home of Mr. and Mrs. Ausie Rock, Jeanette street G. A. "Doc" Gitzen named manager of Medford baseball team in Southern Oregon league, Beagle 4-H Forestry club re elects Dan Morton president. Medford chanter of Interna tional Footprlnters will be organ ized here Wednesday. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 24, 1930 (It Was Sunday) County installs rock crusher so Jacksonville - Ruch and Table Rock secondary roads may be gravelled. Spring weather comes to val ley and hundreds of motorists visit hills and seashore. Los Angeles has heat wave while Chicago freezes. Storage of irrigation water in vallev nredictcd from amount now in storage. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 24, 1919 (It Was Friday) Mrs. Martha E. Rnpp, Tulont, pioneer o this valley, dies. Thermometer drops to 26 A de grees in city and in some or chards reaches 22. G. F. Moore, high school prin cipal, to receive highest salary as teacher with $1,300 annually ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed proposnls will be received by the Oregon Stale Game Commission, 1034 s W. Alder Street, P. O. Box 413B. Portland 8. Oregon until ll:l- A M. Pacific Standard Time. Friday Anrll 31. IMO tor the CONSTRUCTION OF PONDS AND INSTALLATION Or ADDITIONAL WATER SYSTEM. ETC . at the Butte Falls Trout Hatchery near Butte Falls, Oregon for the Ore gon Stale Game Commission and will then and there be opened and publicly read aloud Bids received alter the time tilted for opening the same will not be considered. Plans, specifications, and Forms 01 Contract Documents may be ohtatned in the office of the Oregon State Game Commission at IBJ4 S. W. Alder Street, Portland S, Oregon upon de po.lt or Ten Dollars 110 urn. The full amount of deposit for one nt rinnniet will he returned to each actual bidder within a reasonable j tlmi after receipt of bids. All Contractors shall comply with all state laws pertaining to the qual ifications of bidders, snd particularly Title PS. Chapter 1, Oregon Compiled Laws Annotatrd. Each proposal shall be made out on a bid form contained In the contract flocuments and shall be accompanied ty a certified check or bid bond made payable to the Oregon State Game Commission of the State of Oregon In an amount not less than I0 of the total amount of the proposal. The Oregon State Game Commission reserves the right to reject any and all bids No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening unless seld award Is delayed for a period exceeding 30 davs OREGON STATE GAME COMMISSION By: C. A. I.ockwood, Director Stale Came Commission 11134 8 W. Alder Street P. O. Box 4 1 Da t'ortiann b, urngon Date: March 1, 1030. New York City, N.Y., Mar. 20 When it comes to war with Russia this department is and always has been, optimistic. We just don't believe that, in the near future at least, there is going to be a Third World War. And the foundation for this belief is a conviction Russia doesn't want an all-out war any more than this country does. When two nations or more don't want war, there is almost always a way to avoid it. The undersigned feels strongly there will be a way found to avoid it in this case. We grant the dangers, the tensions, the difficulties. We grant also the Russian course is unpredictable, But one factor in the Russian policy isn't unpredictable, namely: Russia consistently does whatever appears at the time to be in her own self-interest. Unless Uncle Joe Stalin and his fellow-conspirators are far more stupid than we believe they are, they realize another world war at THIS time or any time in the near future, would not be to their own SELF-interest. This, in spite of the fact they have the atom bomb and probably have or will eventually have the hy drogen bomb. But the more devastating war appears the less likely the Politburo would be to invite war. It isn't the short but the long view that gives the Kremlin pause. It isn't what Russia could do by a sudden surprise attack: it is what the U.S.A. with the assistance of other democratic powers, could and would do in retaliation. Therefore, while we don't like Secretary of Defense Johnson as an individual, he is too much the ward-politician, demagogic type, we do approve of his etlort to unity tne army, navy and air force, and. as far as practical and in harmony with adequate self- protection, reduce the expenses of war preparation. It involves a calculated risk. But what course internationally with the world in its present confusion, doesn't? a On the front page of the Herald-Ttibune this morning there is a picture of a smiling, husky young woman, whose name is some what unpronounceable, Aia Vrzanova. About two weeks ago she again won the title of champion figure skating girl of the world. The occasion for the front page write-up is that Aja after con siderable consideration has decided to remain in England and not return to her home in Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia. She loves her country as it used to be, not as it is today, she would rather be an alien in a foreign land than a "slave" in her own. If Miss Vrzanova were alone in this decision, it would not be so significant. But she is only one of thousands hundreds of thousands in Europe in fact, who feal as our own Patrick Henry felt two centuries ago, when he said "Give me liberty or give me death." Here Is another xeason perhaps the most imnortant of all. why we don't believe the present cold-war with Russia is going to become a hot one. We grant the Kremlin has been able to arouse a fanatical loyalty and a devotion among a small and favored minority. Their propaganda has also made material progress outside of the iron curtain, ana especially wnere tne exact meaning ot tne ponce state, has not been appreciated. But with the masses, the majority, not only outside of the iron curtain but inside, evidence is overw helm ing that communism is losing ground, free domocracy constantly gaining. Again, unless the members of the Soviet Politburo are more stupid than their record indicates, they will look at their hole card very carefully before they plunge a world that is steadily becom ing more and more hostile to their form of government and their type of imperialism, into a Third World War. a a And here is another straw in the wind: During and after the communist trial we saw and heard con siderable from a certain lawyer, O. John Rogge by name, a former assistant United States attorney general who assisted in the de fense of the 11 communists and also aided in preparing their ap peal. He was so far to the left that our old friend "Mac" wanted him shot at sunrise. We, too, were irritated by the extreme radi calism of the man and were not surprised when we learned later he had gone to Russia as a representative of the "World Peace Partisans." becoming one of the few foreigners ever to sneak be fore the Supreme Soviet parliament. But something must have happened to "Fellow Traveler" Rogge in Moscow. At least when he reached Stockholm and could express his thoughts without being jailed he remarked as follows: I am a bit weary of all these denunciations hurled against President Truman and the United States by European com munists. I even disagree with the contentions of my own or ganization the World Peace Partisans (1) maintaining that the cold war was started by the United States and (2) that Pres dent Truman is plotting an attack on Soviet Russia. Neither claim is true. It is rather senseless to try to assess the blame for the cold war. What we all should be doing is making every effort to end It." So O. John Rogge Joins that vast army of United States fellow travelers who have been disillusioned by a visit to Soviet Russia and a closer view of communism as It actually operates. One of the few American fellow travelers who did not have such an experience is Paul Robeson, although it is to be noted that he shows no desire to return to Kussia, although he continued to state that Russia is his spiritual fatherland, and judging by Robe son's actions it is. Sneaking of Paul Robeson. nothing has more forcibly im pressed the present writer since his arrival in the East, than the increasing prominence and popularity of colored people all over the plnce. 1 here was that great Yale athlete and captain of the Eli foot ball team Levi Jackson, who turned down Scroll and Keys, then Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, voted the most valuable player for 1949; a colored boy named Warner, declared most valu able player in collegiate basketball, star in the victory of New York City college Saturday night over Bradley, rave notices for William Wnrficld, a new concert baritone, who sang lost night at Carnegie Hall, nnd enthusiasm for "Lost in the Stars," practically all colored cast and what individual voices as well as chorus! Finally, of course, there is Mr. Bunche of the United Nations, not only a popular man as a man, but a real power in world affairs. One could cite scores of other examples. Marion Anderson is one for example. It all adds up to this: Racial prejudices as far as color is con cerned are getting weaker and weaker, as members of the Negro race take a more and more prominent and praiseworthy part in tile rcnlm of sports, music, the arts and last but far from least, politics. More and more American men and women, are being judged not bv race, color or their religious beliefs, but bv their attainments, abilities and characters. It is a most hopeful sign. It supports a belief frequently ex pressed in this department, that while true and complete racial equality and absence of prejudice has not been attained, there is a steady and most encouraging progress in that direction, not by revolution, but evolution. K.w.K. y ttu t Ct IKttM rs'"1 "I shouldn't have stayed for that third cup of coffee. Fred is waiting for Ihe wrench he was holding the pipes together with hii hands when I left." Dead line on Classified Ads: A'30 p.m for following day: 10 a m Monday for Monday; noun Saturday for Sunday a m Subscribers To report impruper or on d 1 1 very of iht Mall Trtbunj phone 1-fHI ht-fore :0 p. m. dally and 11:10 t. Sunday. If rrrular d 1 1 r ? arrlvn shortly after you rail, pleata notify orflrr, thin fllmlnatlni apodal mfutntar unlet. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mnst best the nstns and address of the writer although tinder certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for pultllrntlon Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the rlsht to edit sll letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub llcatlon must not exceed too words Why Applause Meters? To the Editor: Due to the fact that there has been so much comment on the final winner of the amateur contest recently held, a person that is musically inclined at all cannot help but comment on such a way of choos ing the winner. The amateur program which was held Tuesday night at the Craterian theater was fine group of talented amateurs. Was It the talent that some Medford people were applauding for? Or was it that the high school was Just all out for their boy? Many people arc up in the air about the applause meter. Seems to me some other device could have been used that would have been more fair to all. Usually it is the talent that is wanted, not a special contestant that a par ticular group go all out for. Naturally it was held In Med ford and I suppose a Medford boy should be chtwen, whether he has the best talent or not. All in all it was a fine show and a good group of amateurs chosen from the Rogue River valley. If ever another one comes up. I along with many others hope it is decided entirely by the vote of the whole county. Elinor Johnson, Shady Cove, Oregon. Pen Escapee Awaits Sentence In Portland Portland. Ore., Mar. 24 OJ.R) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The United States court of ap peals upholds the constitution ality of the government's em ployee loyalty program. The de cision concerns a woman em ploy of the federal security agency who was suspended from her job in November, 1948, on grounds that her loyalty was questionable. She sued for reinstatement, contending among other things that the whole loyalty program is unconstitutional. The court of appeals says it IS constitutional. The final authority, of course, is the su preme court of the United States. I'M deeply disgusted with the way in which loyalty is being made a political issue. But I feel better because the court of appeals has upheld the right of our government to fire employ ees whom it suspects of disloy alty and I'll feel better still if the supreme court backs up the appeals court. I can think of nothing worse than stripping our government of the power to fire employees whom it has reason to suspect of treachery. THE point is that traitors we might need to fear are com munists. Communist Russia hopes to destroy us by boring from within. The way to bore from within would be to get as many communists as possible into our government. That's what makes it bad. THESE communists are a queer breed of cats. For example: A young member of the Soviet communist youth organization Komsomol fell in love with a non-Komsomol girl. They be came engaged. She wanted to be married in a church. He had an idea that wouldn't be popular with his communist bosses, so he wrote a letter to the juvenile edition of Pravda, the communist party newspaper. In his letter, he said: I intend to marry a girl who is not a member of the Komso mols. She wants us to marry in church. Please tell me whether I can marry in church." i'ravda answered that a church marriage would be a direct viola tion of Komsomol statutes and would be an unprincipled step according to communist morals. It added: "It is clear that religious be liefs are DEEPLY ALIEN TO OUR CONVICTIONS AND BA SICALLY OPPOSED TO THE TASKS OF COMMUNIST EDUCATION." State Dept. Says McCarthy's 'Boss' Gone Five Years Washington, Mar. 24 U.R The state department insisted to day that the man whom Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy terms the "boss" of a Russian spy ring has not been connected with the de partment for the past five years. The Wisconsin republican re plied that this statement is "com pletely untrue." He said the in dividual, until a few weeks ago, was a far eastern consultant with access to diplomatic secrets and a desk in the state department. Could Indict Self "If they bring this man be fore the (senate foreign relations) sub-committee and I can exam ine him he will either indict him self or will perjure himself," Mc Carthy told reporters. He has identified this person in secret testimony before the sub-committee. A large number of people in official Washing ton know his name but nobody has named him yet on the senate floor or at an on-the-record com mittee session. The department, through sub committee Chairman Millard E. Tydings (D., Md.), said yester day that the man was employed or connected" with state only once on a four-month mission abroad some five years ago. Winter Employment Eyed By Committee Salem, Ore.. Mar. 24 (U.R The problem of apportioning employment to relieve the usual winter curtailment of jobs was studied by the governor's advis ory committee on natural re sources here. Gov. Douglas McKay suggest ed that committee members at tempt to determine what work usually done in the summer could be accomplished in the fall and winter months. Charles Lockwood. director of the state game commission, said his department is planning an in tensified building program ex pected to run well into next win ter. He said several contracts may be up for consideration at the next meeting of the game commission. He said about $180, 000 has been allocated for fish- ways and screens. WHY is that so significant? " Well, morals are deeply grounded in religious faith. If you are flatly opposed to reli gious laith, the chances are that you will have no morals. Because Russia has no reli gious faith upon which to build a code of morals, we can't believe anything she says. Because we feel that we can't believe any thing Russia says, we can't work with her toward world peace. mat Is what makes the present situation so serious. FILLER Michigan Cltv. Ind.. Mar. 24 Ralnh Vernon r.nmUvin i...r- U.R D. C. Stephenson, one-time old escapee from the Washing- n-t)ondcd ruler of the Indiana I 9 till rvlllv Klnn Sl'na free InHav i ton state penitentiary, awaited sentencing today on hit convic tion for an attempted holdup he said was to obtain funds for can-1 cer treatments for a friend, i A jury of eight women and j four men found Goodwin guilty , qf assault with intent to rob in connection with the holdup at- -tempt at a grocery store January 14. Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dun son srt Tuesday as a tentative time for sentencing. Goodwin had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. His attor ney stressed throughout the case that Goodwin committed the holdup and jeverol others to net money for cancer-sufferer Mrs. Clara Armstrong, a landlady who had befriended him. after 25 years in prison. Due to density of population and the importance of marine products in the Japanese diet, coastal fishing off Japan is the most intensified in the world. Rummage SALE IN THE EAGLES BUILDING Sponsored by Women ef tht Moot Monday MARCH 271 Day Only 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. 7IL You get 1 J laMehs WVM4f MORE for 10c. too for etc Yji ACCEPT Than the name"!. ffflPyiESS Joeeph-rtarent was I ..I-IH I. IIMM " PARTY FOODS AND SPECIAL TREATS FOR SPECIAL DINNERS SrT.WiD FRENCH BREAD Mads in Sin Franciico Largo Selection ot WINES and MIXERS BEER Any Kind By tht case or bottle PHONE 2-4625 for Frtt Dtlirtry ot Beer, and Mixer. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT Bell's Beverage Shop 124 South Central Murray Bell, Owner "1 G-Men, Police Hunt Suspected King-Pin Jewel Theft Ring Chicago, Mar. 24 (U.R) G-men and police today trailed a suspected kingpin in a Jewel theft ring, operating from coast to coast, with an annual profit estimated at more than $500,000. Members of the Chicago police pawnshop detail have been in vestigating the syndicate for months. One police source said investigators, including private detectives, are familiar with the general activities of the thieves but haven't been able to obtain evidence for convicO"Vis. Jewelry detail officers here joined G-men in a search for the suspected kingpin on the basis of information from Dallas, scene of a $40,000 jewel robbery last month. Oddly enough, an informed source said, police know all about the kingpin, where his Chicago office is located and how he op erates. "But we haven't been able to get the goods on him." WEATHER By United Press Northern California Clearing tonight. Fair Saturday. Cooler over area tonight. Southwest to west wind 15-25 MPH off coast, becoming northwesterly Saturday. FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES Crater Lake Aerie 2093 BENEFIT DINNER Memorial Foundation Fund EAGLES HALL 217 W. MAIN ST. MAR. 26 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Public Invited Adults $1.00 Children 50c (jwejrJsBHBBnUsBsaW (323B03I B(2D BUSH PRICES GOOD March 24 to 27 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES STORE HOURS: WEEK DAYS 10 a.m. Until Midnite SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS 9 a.m. Until Midnite IT'S EASY TO SHOP AT ANDERSON'S EAT WORE VEGETABLES. YOU KNOW. TO GIVE YOUR. CHEEKS THAT MEALTHY -r GLOW.' BORENE SOAP POWDER GIANT PACKAGE 73c DOG FOOD MORE 4Ca"53c PLEASE 6 Can' 59C Medford's FINEST PRODUCE APPLES LOCAL RED DELICIOUS lb. 10c FROST FREE JUMBO ARTICHOKES .. ea. 10c CREAMY WHITE CAULIFLOWER lb. 10c King of Salad Fruits RIPE TASTY CALAVOS ea. 15c SPRING SALAD TOMATOES ...2 lbs. 29c l . BFEr i HI . 69c NALLEY'S BEEF STEW 30 OZ. .i, NOW GROW RARE EXOTIC m ADruinc jB3j W ls eW esv fjX' EACH BULB Sff only Ov Guaranteed with on bo k top or bog bet . Si.., torn (rem Albert Ftopioch Mix. TO DlOOl 929-T, Son FronciKO, Colli. IndOOrS Of QUI 28 oz. M.J.B. BROWN RICE 2 lb. Box 29c t Devil's Fudgt Whit Spice Golden CAKE MIX ADD ONLY WATER 37c. Brown Rice has been found to be an Exceptional Source of Essential Vitamins and Minerals. SUNSHINE KRISPY CRACKERS ...2 lb. 49c SUNSHINE HI HO iSK! lb. 30c DURKEE'S Salad DRESSING p. 29c Medford's Finest Meats SWIFT'S SLICED BACON sugar cured pound 39c SWIFT'S DIXIE BACON SQUARES pound 29c SWIFT'S READY-TO-EAT PICNIC HAMS GMNEirLEH pound 49c LITTLE PIG LINK SAUSAGES assr IB 49C IffiTOgTTOs oralis mtifemr, mra