IX MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wedne.eUy. March 29. 1930
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County His.
rory from the files of the Mall
Trlbuna 10. 20 and 34 years ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 29. 1940
(It Wns Friday)
Roscoe L. Larson announces
candidacy for county achool su
perintendent post.
."Coffee Pot" drive-in restau
rant to reopen for season Satur
day, Proprietor Carl Wiltcrmood
announces.
Snider Dairy and Produce
company observes 35th anniver
sary of founding with dinner for
30 employees and Mrs. Maude
Snider, president.
Lee Merriman accepts position
Prospect school teacher.
Leighton
ball coach
school.
Blake named
at Ashland
foot-high
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 29. 1930
(It Was Saturday)
Oregon basks in bright sun
shine while winter rages in mid
dle west and east.
About 200 Medford residents
cited by state and city police for
faulty headliRhts on vehicles.
John J. Raskob, democratic
national chairman, sought for
itatement on prohibition.
Elton Watkins, democrat of
Portland, announces candidacy
for governorship.
84 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 29, 1916
(It Was Wednesday)
Prlnevllle votes $100,000 In
bonds to build municipal rail
road to connect town with Hed
mond on Oregon Trunk line.
Howard Hill and John Good
rich are in charge of hike Griz
zlies will take to Table Rock on
Sunday.
Pell Oro plnrer mine on Ap
plegate river sold to C. L. Knlz
and J. M. Pitts.
The Grange
Egle Point Grange
First nnd second decree team
of Eanle Point Grange put on the
work Tuesday evening taking in
seven new members.
Klmer McClurc, overseer of
Oregon State Grange, was a visi
tor; also Brother Ralph James,
master of Sams Valley Grange.
H. E. Chairman report. 'd
$25.50 taken in from the dame
supper which is to go toward
buying the new tablecloths.
Next meeting of 11. E. C. is to
be March "!l at the home of Mrs.
Roy Stanley with Mrs. Redding
co-hostess.
Education Chnirman Mrs. Sinn
ley gave a brief resume of "The
Foreign Policy," taken from Lite
magazine.
Sister Hook. Dr. Hays and
Sain Coy were reported ill.
Lecturer Mrs. Lester Werts
gave a short report on her trip
to lecturers' school at Corvallis.
Brother McClurc spoke on "ag
riculture, the base of democracy."
Third and fourth degree team
will practice Sundav afternoon.
April 2.
All enjoyed refreshments
served by Brother and Sister Ray
Palm and Brother and Sister J.
Whipple.
March 25 a covered dish din
ner was enjoyed by many Grang
ers anil friends, the date being
the 2Mb anniversary of the
Grange here. Charier members
receiving 2!i-year pins were H.
W. Ward. I. R. Kline, Ray B. Hiir
nlsh, LeRoy Smith, Mrs. Ger
trude Hank. Charley Given,
Tommy Given, Edith Weldman
and Mr. and Mrs. Erunk Dil.--worth,
who are now members of
Upper Rogue Grange.
Hells canyon on the Snake
river In Idaho is deeper than the
Grand canyon of the Colorado.
Why Not Vote on DST?
In another column on this paee is a letter from
Mr. R. F. Vinson in opposition to the adoption of day
light saving time and urging that the matter be de
cided by a vote of the people.
e a
MOTHING can be said regarding the annual tinker-
ing with time which will please everyone. While
the major difference in opinion appears to be between
rural dwellers on one hand and city folk on the other,
even these two general groups do not see eye to eye
among themselves. For this reason, Mr. Vinson's
argument for a vote on the matter appears to have
merit.
Decision to institute DST in Medford was reach
ed by the city council only after it was learned that
most of the major population centers of Oregon and
Washington would change over on April 30. and that
the change would be state wide in California and
Nevada. In British Columbia the switch to earner
time will be province wide.
ALTHOUGH the earlier rising hour will work a
ViowlcViin nn enmo an svnii o-rontar numViov
would be under a distinct handicap and confusion if
standard time were retained here while neighboring
ities and indeed all the surrounding states used day
light saving time.
fREGON and other western states have gone
through the daylight time squabble for several
years now and it does seem that the matter should be
settled mice and for all in the nnlv democratic wav
by a vote of all the people. E.C.F.
Home Building Boom
I hose who are contemplating building a new
home, or buying one recently built, will be interested
in the views of spokesmen for some of the larger home
constructing firms of the country.
House prices, say these authorities, are on their
way up. Some builders have begun to wonder how
much farther costs can increase without arousing
definite buyer resistance.
"NE principal builder in the Pittsburgh area ex-
plains that although he has put up 40 homes so
far tnis year at prices approximating those of places
he built last year, his next group of dwellings will
have to bring more money. Higher materials will
push his costs up about seven per cent, he estimates.
A Los Angeles builder who has been offering
places with 1000 feet of floor space for $9000 is about
to hike the cjuotation by $250, principally because
lumber and steel have moved up.
A Portland builder cites the rapid cost increases
in a couple of items plywood and nails as ex
amples. A year ago the mill juice on three-quarter
inch plywood was $142 per thousand feet while today
it is up to $176.65. Nails which are currently bringing
$9.06 a keg, were selling for $8.75 last spring.
JVOST of those interviewed around the country
point to the current building boom with its
heavy demand for materials and labor as causing the
upturn in costs. Winter construction set a new record,
with some 240,000 units begun in the past three
months.
Demand for new homes is continuing strong and
orders have even increased in recent weeks. As one
construction firm spokesman put it: "Its a definite
sellers' market. The demand is terrific." E.C.F.
Crosstown
by Roland Cos
wAA Wv
frxgX X AAA,
"I'D get a good spanking if you caught ME with that
much mud on my face I"
In the Day's News
pROM Washington:
Editorial Comment
Death of David Holme.
A brief dispatch from Wood
land, Cal., the other day told of,
the death in an automobile acci-
dent of David Holmes of Med-j
ford. The team of "Harry and J
David'' that brought the mail
order and "Book of the Month
club" techniques to the Oregon
fruit Industry, thereby saving
the orchards and the livelihood
of many growers and establish
ing a $5,000,000 annual business,
has been broken.
Harry and David Holmes of
Medford s far-famed Bear Creek
orchards founded their gift-nark-
age business in fine fruits in the
depression thirties. It has devel
oped into a twelve-month opera
tion with a $1,000,000 payroll
which can take care of 25.000
orders for Rogue River valley
pears and other top-grade fruits,
in Christmas and "Fruit of the
Month" packages, in a single
day.
David Holmes was the Idea
man of the team, a thin, alert
and enthusiastic man who be
came an expert on sales and
packaging, while Brother Harry
concentrated on production effi
ciency and searching Oregon and
tne west tor top-grade fruits and
Dernes. ineir vast success at
Bear Creek led many others
into the packaged fruit industry.
and spread the fame of Oregon
fruits throughout the hemi
sphere. The Oregonian.
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The General Sherman tree ln
Sequoia National park is estimat
ed to be 3,500 years old.
DST and Democracy
To the Editor: I hear a lot
about democracy the last few
years, but I fail to see it In action
on some things that belong to the
people. One of them is this day
light saving time. It has been
kicked about ever since the war.
Why are the big shots afraid
to let the people vote whether
we want this so-called saving
of time? It does not hurt the
stores and business over town.
They do not open before 6 a. m.,
but the working men and women
have to get up now at 5:30 a. m.,
in order to get to work. Why
should I have to get up at 4:30
a. m. to satisfy a few people
who seem to have taken this on
themselves?
Have we lost our right to vole
on this, if so where has our
democracy gone to?
I say if some people want to
go to work an hour earlier, let
them do so. but leave the time
alone, for that is my time as
well as others, unless changed
by vole.
After all, what does daylight
saving time save? nothing.
R. F. Vinson.
Letter From Washington
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Member ot Congraia From Oregon
Two weeks after this session
of congress opened, in my week
ly letter for January 18, 1 re
ported the rumor regarding the
new and streamlined way of
handling the annual appropria
tions bills. The rumor speedily
became iact. 1 also pointed out
that the ordinary functioning of
the independent sub-committees
would be watered down by the
final review by an administration-controlled
super "screening''
committee.
Tlie big "one -package" bill
which came out was prepared
with great speed. All hearings
were held behind closed doors.
The deliberations of the sub com
mitters were kept secret irom
the other member, of congress
and the public. The huge bill
containing 431 printed pages re
ceived only a few minutes over
three hours of filial considera
tion by tin1 complete appropria
tions connniUee.
This bill provides for the ex
penditure o( a total of 27 and
one-quarter billions of dollars,
but only a handful of experts
nnd the executive agencies con
cerned know very much about
what is in it. In my opinion, this
is no way to legislate on spend
ing money when our government
is In such desperately bad fi
nancial condition. Next year it
will be necessary to appropriate
nn additional S 1 Sit, 011(1. 1100 labout
Miiimhhi prr day! just to pay the
interest on the deficit created
tins year!
The administration members
have done some bragging (know
ing public desire for economy)
about cutting more Hum a billion
off the budget retpiest but
there is a big catch in that econ
omy claim. Economy should be
made in government operation
The hill makes insignificant cuts
in administrative and operating
departments but extremely
heavy ent.s on items involving
permanent investment on ini-1
provement projects now under
construction. Here Is the record:
t uts In eight of the regular de
partments average around five
per cent. The cut of the budget i
for river and harbor and flood
control work was 25 per rent
The economy budget slashing
claim is a complete phony and
the last two sentences prove it.
THE CHARGES made by Sen
ator McCarthy that communist
sympathizers are employed in
the Li. S. State department, some
of them in high places, caused
great excitement here.
So far as 1 am concerned I
would like to believe that the
slate department is practically
pure and that the charges consti
tute merely a partisan outburst
without much basis in fact. Un
fortunately, the attitude of the
president and state department
officials has convinced me that
there must be a great deal of
very damaging truth in what
Senator McCarthy has said. If
there is nothing to hide, if there
is nothing to be ashamed of, or
if there is nothing dangerous
to our security in the records of
anybody employed by our gov
ernment, let the president and
the department come clean on
the whole thing and allow the
senate committee to have access
to all information on this sub
ject. As this is written they are
looking as guilty as the boy with
his lace covered with jam. I
e
WHICH REMINDS me to re-i
late the little yam that people
are laughing over around here,
now. It goes something like this:)
A motorist in downtown Wash-1
ingten stopped a pcdcsliirin and'
asked this question: "How do
you get to the state department" " j
The pedestrian replied "You I
go to Harvard law school, then
turn left." ,
By FRANK JENKINS
Izvestia, the ,kept newspaper
of the communist Soviet govern
ment, commenting on the U. S.
senate subcommittee investiga
tion of Senator McCarthy's
charges that the state depart
ment is infested by communists,
says:
"Clowns from the senate are
making themselves the laughing
stock of the world ... the in
vestigation is a cross between a
group performance by circus
clowns and amateur nigni in an
insane asylum"
I'M afraid that for once in its
career as a journalistic kept
woman Izvestia is about half
right The McCarthy ruckus isn't
an edifying one
"N the other hand, Izvestia's
-J poisonous side-swipe at Sen
ator McCarthy makes us wonder.
Afte rail, being attacked by a
communist newspaper is a high
honor.
It's a screwball world, mates.
The government's director of
civilian mobilization, Dr. Paul
J. Larsen, says:
"Ten years and 300 BILLION
DOLLARS would probably be
needed to make the United
States as nearly safe as possible
from atomic attack."
He adds:
"And in the end we5d wind up
with a GARRISON state."
D
ISPATCH from Hong Kong:
"Hunger - mad peasants in
China's great famine area (now
bossed by the communists) are
resorting to cannibalism, recent
arrivals in Hong Kong asserted
today . . . Starving peasant bands
in North Central China are re
ported luring children into the
hills to be eaten."
D
0 you believe it?
Probably not. Personally, I
think it is possible but doubt if
it is actually happening. There's
SO MUCH propaganda in this
world.
THAT brings us something
else:
How much of the political
stuff we get from Washington
every day do you believe?
Again. I imagine, the answer
is "not much."
times as critical as these, we
ought to be able to believe ev
erything our leaders tell us. At
the very least, we ought to be
able to believe thev are SIN
CERE in what thev tell us.
I7RANCE turned to that kind
1 of thinking before the last
war and bled herself white with
taxes to build the fantastic un
derground Maginot line. When
the pinch came, the Maginot
line bothered the invading Ger-j
mans about as much as one
fly bothers an elephant. J
ONE scheme that has been pro-'
posed is to move the federal
government into Mammoth cave,
in Kentucky, and put most of ;
our war industries underground.
As for me. if trouble comes, 1
don't think I wan to hole up in
a damp and gloomy cave for the
rest of my life. After all, one can
die only once.
GIRL GETS HAND
Boston IU.R) Gladys Denny
Schultz whose book "our Baby"
has sold nearly 1,000,000 copies,
considers the modern girl "the i
best mother America has yet ,
produced." 1
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