EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, Much 21. 1930
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Flighf o' Time
Medforr) and Jackson County Hit
tery from the filet of (he Mall
Tribune 10, 20 and 34 yean ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 28, 1040
fit Was Thursdr.y)
Harry D. Force confirmed by
senate as postmaster at Cold
Hill.
Ladies' Civic club. Central
Point, to sponsor play put on by
Lone Pine PTA.
First aid station opened by
Red Cross in Brownsboro store.
Sheriff Syd I. Brown elected
president of Footprintcrs.
Rntnrlnn hear talk bv Dr.
Burt Lagcson on progress of
dentistry over centuries.
Second annual senior confer
ence expected to bring 401) from
throughout county here tomor
row, 20 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 28, 1930
(It Was Friday)
Irrigation districts plan to
hoard present supply of water
for summer use.
C. E. "Pop" Gates re-named
to state highway commission.
Congressional democrat! c
leaders rap President Hoover for
signing tariff bill.
Miss Dorothy Slead elected
queen of junior carnival.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 28, 1918
(It Was Tuesday)
Joan Anderson oppns steno
graphic office in M. F. and H.
building after graduating from
Mcdford college.
Miss Claire Burrls and Hu
bert Allen, both of Mrdford,
married by Dr. J. C. Rollins.
Field work on surveying for
Crater Lake highway to start
April 10 with crew of 12 men on
lob.
Dead, line on Clauined Ada: 8:30
p m. for following day: 10 a m. Mon
day, noon Saturday for Sunday ajn
COMMUNICATIONS
Lettfri to the Editor mint bear
the name and atldreiae of the writer
ellhmigh under certain ctrrum
Unrrt the tine of a pen name or
Initial fur piihltrattnn la permit
tittle. The Mall Tribune reirrvel
tne right to edit all leltert with a
view to clarification and eonrien
ealion. i.ellert tuhmlttrd tor pub
Hrattnn mint not eaceedion worn
For Applaute Meter
To the Editor: I am a student
of Mvdford senior high nnd al
though I am not musically in
clined I was very satisfied at the
way the final winner was chos
en for the Amateur Hour.
In a recent letter to the editor.
Elinor Johnson slates that "the
high school was just all out for
their boy." Now she must surely
realize that all the students of
M.H.S. couldn't possibly get Into
me uratcriun theater along with
all the other people that were
there. I think this seems to indi
cate that a few utlieia were ap
plauding for "our boy."
In answer to her statement
about the applause meter nut be
ing a fair way to settle for a per
son's talent, I know of at least
two major network programs
that use the applause meter to
elect their winners.
I realize the contest was held
In Medford, but I don't agree
that "a Medford boy should be
chosen, whether he had the tal
ent or not" just because he Is
from Medford. I'm sure many of
the people that applnuded for
-our Doy had heard him play at
football games, parades, over the
radio, and many other places. 1
think many of us laymen, at mu
sical genius, recognize good mu
sic when we hear it and that's
why I, along with many others,
in satisfied with the winner.
In closing, I think that if an
other amateur contest is held.
What Is Life Worth?
We learn from the San Francisco Examiner's us
ually r-eliable Herb Caen that a bus passenger who
suffered a head injury in the Bay City was recently
recompensed to the tune of $72,501). Ihe size of the
award by the transportation concern was, undoubt
edly in. line with the practice in such matters in the
California region. What struck us was the difference
between what a head injury is worth in California
and a life is worth in Oregon.
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A few days ago in our own Jackson county circuit
" court damages were awarded in two auto acci
dent death cases one a man aged 69, the head of a
family; the other a young girl of 16. In both cases
the lunes found that there was no contributory neg'
ligence. They had to find thusly for under Oregon
law had they found that there had been contributory
negligence on the part of the accident victim, there
could have been no damage award.
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TT is hard for a layman to understand how a jury
can find that an injured party was not guilty of
contributory negligence in case of an accident, and
vet award that injured party only nominal damages,
Going into the matter of damages a bit further, it
is difficult to follow the reasoning of some juries
that a human life is worth only $2,500, in any event
If the potential earning power, or possible savings
accumulation under commonly accepted longevity
tables are considered, the figure is absurdly low,
e e e e
THE law permits suit for up to $15,000 in the case
of an accident death. Apparently the lawmak
ers place a higher value on life than do the jurors
here for we cannot recall a verdict tor lull damages
ever having been rendered in this county. E. C. r .
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Canadian Competition
Oregon and Washington Douglas fir cutters are
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Decoming increasingly aiarmea Dy me noou oi lum
ber entering the United States markets from British
Columbia. American mill operators have not been
particularly worried heretofore as the demand for
lumber, due to the post war building boom has kept
all hands pretty well occupied. But the time may not
be far distant, American interests are now beginning
to fear, when the demand will be less pronounced.
e e e
TT IS foreseen that when the demand does become
less eager, the Canadians who are now selling
their output in the big eastern markets for approxi
mately the same price as the Americans, will be able
to cut the price and make things very bad for their
American cousins.
THE Canadians use foreign tramps ships, thus sav-
' ing about $6 per thousand on freight bills, com
pared with shipments from Northwestern U. S. ports,
in laying their lumber down in Atlantic ports.
An additional shaving of 60 cents on the Canadian
timber price is possible through escaping the three
per cent excise tax which is levied against American
freight bills. Because of the difference in exchange
rates, a whole $5 per thousand is saved.
QF COURSE, there is a little matter of $1 per thous-
and to cover duty and excise taxes to be paid by
the British Columbians, but they are still able to put
their product into eastern American markets $10.60
cheaper than can our own west coast mill operators.
The Canadians have not trimmed their prices so
far, probably fearing that should they do so there
would be an immediate demand upon congress for a
quota basis.
ALTHOUGH no anti-Canadian bills have appeared
Ellsworth and Walter Norblad are reported study
ing legislative tactics which may be undertaken
should more serious developments appear in the U.
S.-Canadian lumber competition.
One possibility for American relief would be for
the congressmen mentioned to seek repeal of the
tranportation excise tax affecting U. S. lumber ship
ments and another would be a subsidy for shipping
lines which transport lumber from United states
northwest ports to the Atlantic coash
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DROBABLY the most important factor in keeping
U. S. mill owners from complaining more loudly
about the Canadian competition is the fact that im
ports from the latter source are as yet not very large,
comparatively speaking. Last year, for instance, Oregon-Washington
fir mills turned out 9,400,000,000
feet while British Columbia's main producing area
was shipping only 672.000,000 feet. E. C. F.
Cross town
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Annual Spring Argument Over
Daylight Saving Time Starts
"That wasn't luch a hot idea, giving Pop a change purse
ior hii birthday."
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See the mountains kits high
h raven
And the waves clasp one another.
No sister flower would be for
given If it disdained Its brother.
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And Ihe moonbeams kisi the sea
tthat are all these hissings worth
11 you kiss not me?
Shelley.
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WAF's Body Returned To Pennsylvania Home
Sail Francisco. Mnr. 2B 0) Rl
The body of Ski. Kniry E. Dock
er. 4,)-ycnr-old WAF who was
strangled to death by an air force
sergeant, was en route back to
her parents' home at York, Pa.,
today.
the winner should again be chos
en by the applause of the whole
county.
Ken Degerness
Error Noted
To the Kditor: In the articles
by Ralph Watson, "Glances at
Highway History." published re
cently in The Mail Tribune, I no
ticed two errors. Samuel Hill was
James J. Hill's son-in-law. not
son. The Hill railroad Is the
Great Northern, not the North
ern Pacific. I think you can find
In your file of 11)11 or earlier,
that Samuel Hill made his first
good roads speech In Medford.
In order to assure an audience,
the prisoners were brought from
the Jail. However, the audience
was there.
Mrs. J. F. Meekly,
324 Medio Drive,
Lot Alleles 4, Cal.
Funeral services for the at
tractive non-com were held yes
terday at Hamilton field air base
where the attack took place Sat
urday morning. Sgt. Decker
taught Sunday school to the chil
dren of soldiers stationed there.
Meanwhile, her confessed slav
er. Sgt. Lyle H. Buswell, 33,
was charged with murder. His
case was put over until April 6
to allow him time to find a law
yer. Herbert Hoover To Get "
Award From Magazine
New York. Mar. 28 (U.R The
Natural History magazine will
present Its golden anniversary
award to former President Her
bert Hoover at ceremonies in the
American Museum of Natural
History Thursday, it was an
nounced today.
The award will be made In
recognition of Mr. Hoover's
achievements as a scholar, states
man and humanitarian during
the past half century, magazine
officials aid.
It has been definitely proven
that tiie hips of the average wom
an are getting larger. That is,
larger than those ot the average
female ')' 20 years ago. Now it is
said w.nen's feet are getting
larger. At the present time there
re more requests by women for
lockings in sizes from 10 to 11
than ever before in the history of
the hosiery industry. And fewer
requests than ever for sizes 8
incl a't. It is said men with big
feet nearly always make good
husbands. 1 have never heard it
stated, however, that women
ith large feet make good wives.
I'll have our Horses & Women
experts check on it.
Asking
(Queries from clients: Q. Was
h a r 1 i e Howard, California
sportsman and owner of Seabis-
cuit and Noor, a member of Ted-
ay Koosevelt s Hough Rulers? A.
Charlie is a good friend of mine,
but not inclined to reminisce
much. Mever heard him mention
the Hough Riders. He once told
me that in his early youth he
was a professional auto race
driver for a time. Q. Did Hoover,
wnen president, really give voice
to the remark that the country
would soon be so prosperous
that "there would be two chick
ens in every pot and two cars in
every garage"? A. I don't think
so. Some facetious scribe attrib-
ted the remark to Hoover. Hen
ry IV, of France, once said that
he "hoped every peasant would
nave a chicken in the pot on
Sunday." That is the origin of
Ihe remark.
Namei
A subscriber recently sought
the meaning and origin of her
name, which is Nona. I am in
formed by an expert on the sub
ject it Is of Latin origin. It means
the "ninth child." Octavia means
the eighth child. '
Greatest
A Chicagoan says he thinks
the greatest ballplayer of all
time was "Wee Willie" Kecler.
He says Keeler was a past mas
ter in the art of place hitting,
which is a "lost art" today. It
was Keeler who said, when
asked to account for his success
as a batsman. "I try to hit 'em
where they ain't."
Says She
"As lo the advisability of a
girl marrying a man with a lot
of sisters, perhaps I'm entitled to
speaker with some authority,"
writes a Californian. "I married
a man wtih six sisters. Ha was
the only son. Men who have
lived their young lives in a
housa full of women are very
difficult to get along with. Hav
ing six sisters means that the
horn is run by the girls for the
girls, which seems to causa a
sort ef frustration to the male
ego. My husband knows less
about what it takes to make a
woman happy than any man I
know of I strongly advise against
marrying a man with a lot oi
sisters."
Chickens
A subscriber says that chick
ens were being tattooed 20 years
ago in Kansas as a protection
against thievery. He savs his fa
ther had 200 chickens stolen one
winter. The next winter he had
his chickens tatooed and not a
single chicken was stolen.
Passing By
"Pinky" Tomlin. Band leader
and song writer. It was 14 years
ago that "Pinky" first achieved
national recognition by writing
that ditty titled, "The Object of
My Affection."
By United Press
The annual spring argument
over daylight saving time raged
in many communities today as
a number of large cities prepared
to turn the clocks ahead for the
summer and others outlawed any
tampering with time.
On April 30. citizens will lose
an hour of sleep which they
won't Bet back until September
in New York, St. Louis, Pitts-
hnreh. Chicaeo. Peoria. Balti
more, Philade lphia, a majority of
Pacific Northwest cities ana in
several states west of the Miss-
issiDDl
In Seattle, voters left the de
cision up to the city council on
what period to go on daylight
time.
There will be a few holdouts
acain.
The switch to fast time will be
made in most large population
centers of Oregon and Washing
ton including Portland, Tacoma,
Olympia, Everett and Eugene.
Medford To Go
Other northwest communities
committed to daylight saving
time include Longview, Corval
lis, Medford, Klamath Falls,
Roseburg, The Dalles, Oregon
City, Centralia, Woodland, Rich-
lana, seaside, iaKeview, iviu
waukie, Beaverton, and St. Hel
ens. The Astoria city council is ex
pected to decide April 3. Clatsop
county dairymen and fishermen
generally oppose fast time. Orch
ardists and farmers have gone
on record against daylight saving
time in Hood River.
Coos Bay has turned down
daylight saving, but other com
munities in Coos, Curry and
western Douglas counties will
confer on the proposal April 5.
Decisions still are to be made
in Salem, Bend, Tillamook, Red
mond and other Oregon com
munities. Daylight saving time is banned
in Arizona, Wisconsin and Ken
tucky. It just isn't observed in
Iowa, Oklahoma, North Carol
ina, Detroit, Omaha, Lincoln,
A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On This and That
Uarnuo Nichola
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Write
Fairlington, Va., Mar. 28 U.R)
The best-informed authority on
elephants at 3470 S. UtaTi street.
here never had
a leg up on a
pachyderm. In
fact he's afraid
of the brutes
and won't get
any closer to
one than the
guard rtiil at
the zoo.
Our expert
is Frank Hewe
lett, who won a
national head
liners award
for a masterful
iob of renort-
ing on Bataan. got his knowledge
of elephants second-hand from
one Col. (Elephant Bill) Williams
in the China-Burma-India thea
ter when Frank was with the
United Press. Frank has been a
press agent for the last couple of
years but now is happy to report
he again has a pencil behind his
ear and is a working newspaper
man once more. He is about to
become the Washington corre
spondent for the Salt Lake City,
Utah, Tribune and Telegram.
Anyway, Frank was so busy
dodging sniper bullets and fight
ing a war with a portable type
writer that he never got around
to telling the people what he
learned about elephants.
It remains for me to report
same third hand.
Here's how Hewelett, who is
getting a little thin at the hair
line and a little thick around the
middle, belatedly quotes Ele
phant Bill as follows:
On First-Nam Terms
The colonel during the war
probably was acquainted with
more elephants than any man in
CBI. He was on first-name terms
with most of the mahouts, or ele
phants boys, and even could ad
dress some of the elephants by
their front names without getting
a trunk over his head.
Most of the myths which have
come down through the ages are
plain bunk.
For instance, the one about an
elephant never forgetting any
thing. Most elephants can't re
member today what they had for
breakfast yesterday.
My reporter friend talked
with the colonel at the head
quarters of the British elephant
corps, where 50 of the big guys
were used to haul in supplies.
Neb.. Columbus, O., and Cm-
cinattl.
Matter Debated
The matter is under debate In
several places. An enabling mea
sure is on the desk of the gov
ernor of Kentucky which would
allow daylight saving time to be
established by individual cities.
Farmers are opposed to the mea
sure, which would not become
effective until June 15, if it were
signed.
Daylight time Is banned in
Indiana under a law passed in
1949. The measure provides for
no penalties for violations, how
ever, and most Indiana cities
ignored it last year.
In West Virginia, Charleston,
the capital, and other major
cities except Wheeling and-Park-ersburg
usually do not observe
daylight time. Small towns hold
an election every year to deter
mine what will be done.
Illinois has local option. Sev
eral cities are voting on the question.
Nevada will go on daylight
time April 30 over the protests
They were dummies all right,
in some respect, but they formed
sort of a pachyderm union.
They'd mire in their tracks and
wouldn't budge if the mahout
tried to overload them or make
them push something heavy
enough to get up a sweat. No
amount of prodding or coaxing
could get them to work.
Animals Not Clean
We have been taught to regard
the animals as very clean. They
are not. The only time a self
respecting elephant will go near
any water is when it wants to
cool off or to trunk-squirt water
at some kid thoughtless enough
to show up without a sack of
peanuts.
In the tropics, elephants come
down with laziness and will
work only in the morning when
it isn't quite so hot. When the
sun gets through their tough
hides, they give up.
And another thing: Elephants.
Colonel Bill said, are not the
strongest beasts of burden in
the animal kingdom. Any two
missouri mules could carry a j
neavier load.
And finally, the legend about
eiepnants being afraid of mice is
pure nonsense. We used to be
told a mouse could worry an
elephant to death by hiding in
the hay and running up its
trunk.
According to Elephant Bill, all
an elephant has to do is to blow
his trumpet and any mouse with
regard for his life gets out of
there.
Gubiichev Shuns
Newsmen In England
Southampton, Eng., Mar. 28
U.R) Valentin Gubitchev, de
ported from the United States
as a Russian spy, locked himself
in his cabin today when the Pol
ish liner Batory anchored off
Southampton.
The ship's purser told news
men who swarmed aboard the
liner that Gubitchev did not want
to see the press.
Moreover, he said, Gubitchev
had spent most of the voyage
from New York seasick in his
cabin.
Gubitchev unlocked his door
here only long enough to admit ;
an official from the Soviet em-,
bassy in London. The official re-!
fused to make a statement aft
erward. I
Eagle Point, March 28 The !
city ordinance which makes it !
unlawful to permit dogs to run
loose from April 1 to June 30 1
will be enforced this year, ac- i
cording to Recorder Sam F. Coy
who stated today that violators
will be fined SI and costs for
the first offense and SI will be
added for each additional of-1
fense. '
nf Beno eamblers who said the
extra hour of daylight hurt their
business because tourists prefer
to gamble after dark.
Proposition Approved
California voters approved a
proposition at the polls last No
vember to use daylight time this
summer after having defeated
similar proposals in two previ
ous years. In the previous bal.
lots theater interests, especially
drive-ins, had been more solidly
lined up against the proposition.
The agricultural areas of east
ern Washington and eastern Ore
goir generally opposed daylight
saving time.
Spokane voted down fast time
two yeacs ago and there was no
indication the city will recon
sider this year.
The change in time during the
summer months is generally pop
ular with Seattle residents. Net
work radio stations, transcon
tinental railroad, airline and bus
companies have urged the coun
cil to go alone with most other
large cities in the nation, ob
serving daylight savings time
from the last Sunday in April to
the last Sunday in September.
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