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I FOUHTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April , 1950 MedfordTribune "Everyone io Southern Oregon" - Reada The Mall Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. a7-J9 North Fir St Phone S-l ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R GILS TRAP Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Mgr. B. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegrapn Editor HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ma An Independent Newtpaper Entered at aecond claae matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March S. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and 8unday one year. ...WOO Daily and Sunday sin months 4.75 Dally and Sunday three cnoa a 50 Dally and Sunday one month 100 By Carrier In Advance meoiora Ahland Central Point. Jacksonville Cold H1U, Phoenix. Talent and on mnlnr mutes: Dally and Sunday one year. 113.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terms cain in Aovunce Editorial Correspondence -1 OtRclal Paper ol the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackioo County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INL Offices In New York Chicago Ue trolt. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle, Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C jgtfy NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORjAL Flight o' Time Medford snd Jacksea Cewirr His hsry from Hie files or the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 vein see 10 YEARS AGO TODAY April 6. 1940 (It was Saturday Wayside church in 700 block on South Riverside avenue taken over by Foursquare church here. More than 100 fete Tom Rose berry on completion of 20 years In county service. Mrs. Ethel Nielsen opens vocal studio in her home here. Camps near Medford observe open house tomorrow commem oratini seventh anniversary of (JUL. lounaing. Lucille Baxter and Helen Micks announce Five and Ten Cent grill to open Monday. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 9. 1930 (It was Sunday) Floyd Parks is fire chief and John Dickinson his assistant at Lincoln school. Improvement work on Pacific highway from Medford to Talent to start tomorrow. J. J. Ossenbrugge takes over Chrysler car agency here. More than SO prospects turn out for proposed Medford base ball team. 94 YEARS AGO TODAY April 9. 1919 (It was Thursday) College Women club will meet with Mrs. L. E. Williams, 520 South Peach street. Crater Lake park officials motor to Union creek and pro ceed from there to the lake on foot through deep snow. Eagle Point baseball team to be managed this season by Roy Ashpole. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS My pleasant job today is to report that a few minutes after the papers hit the street the other day the little girl who is working her way through col lege got the $30 loan she needs to finish paying her spring term tuition. I kept getting calls for hours, and without exception the lute callers were ACUTELY DISAP POINTED. They WANTED to help. Don't let the cynics fool you This country is full of the right kind of people. DRESIDENT Truman signs the hotly-contested bill that lltjHTfc.NS production and acre age controls for potatoes and MATERIALLY LOOSENS pro duction and acreage controls lor cotton and peanuts. (It UPS tier- mlssible cotton plantings by 1,- zuu.uuu acres and Increases bv 100,000 the acres that can be legally planted to peanuts.) He sends to congress a mes sage In which he explains why ho signed the new votton-uolu- toe-peanut law. He snys he ac cepted it only "because its good features seemed to outweigh the bad." WHAT are those "good" tea- tures of the cotton-peanut bill? I don't know. But I FEAR that these were Included among them: 1- Both cotton and peanuts are grown in the South. 2. If the President had failed to sign the bill, he would have lost, in this critical political year, the votes of Southern senators and representatives which he is going to need badly before this session of congress Is over. jygAYBE that's the way to do It'i certainly Uie political way to do it. . New York City, N. Y., April 3 Still waiting for the Bridges verdict. Here Is one conviction this department would welcome with loud hosannas. For we not only believe the coast labor agitator is guilty as charged, but is an all-around "no-good" from the stand point of desirable labor relations in this country. We grant he is smart and able. But these qualities only make him the more danger ous. A one-way ticket for Harry destination the Antipodes would be just dandy. We were surprised to note a communication to the Mail-Tribune accusing Senator Morse of political expediency. The basis of the charge apparently was his statement over the air that a repeal of the Taft-Hartley measure would make Republican votes or words to that affect. That claim is debatable. We fear it will take more than repeal of the T-H law to put organized labor back of the GOP. But the idea that Wayne Morse ever has been, or ever could be an opportunist, politically speaking, is Just too fantastic. We have followed his course with considerable care before and since his election, and the one outstanding criticism we have heard all that time has been our Junior senator s reiusai to piay uuu, to obediently follow the party line. He has, we believe, placed principal above party more vigorously and consistently than any pnnmBnnfativA ovr upnt frnm Oreeon to either the lower or upper house or congress. He can be accused of many things undoubtedly and will be but certainly MUl sacrmcing any oi nig rem tuuvic- tions to get votes. Voetorrlnv rTtalm filinrlnvl wns fiunnv Bnd Warm. twit atmii rinun Pnrir Hvpmip the first alfresco exercise in 10 days or more. Most of the pedestrians carrying sprigs of palm, indicating tney nad auenaea cnurcn wnicn we mg nui. n.u the highly-bred poodles out in force, most of them minus their knitted sweaters and rejoicing in the fact. After a bit of "brunch took in a travel movie (amateur) showing life in the South Seas and among the head hunters of Formosa. After dinner were per suaded to take in me new lorn i-ity upera uickiiuuvu ui Prokoficff's "The Love of Three Oranges" at the New York City Centre on West 55th. The latter has received rave notices in the Times and Is no doubt something extra-special in the realm of mod ernistic opera, but too far above your correspondent's musical and cultural level to furnish any enjoyment. The packed house and a temperature around 00 degrees did not help any. Only one feature really interesting that was the striking similarity between the Russian operatic dancing and music, and that of the aborigines of the Far East. They were equally devoid of grace, melody, sense and charm! . . . T Mncsre lWi-Purthv nnH Trirleos keen un their present mad dash for notoriety and political advancement, it won't be long be fore they come up againsi an American ciuien n win ue uuinuu even for them to smear, namely former Secretary of State and U. S. Chief of Staff George Marshall. For in their claim that either Owen Lattimore or some other Russian "master spy" was responsible for the American Chinese policy and the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek, they must sooner or later reveal the truth, which is this: It was Secretary of State Marshall's decision, after a years investigation of the situation in China, and following Genera! Wedemeyer'g recommendation that Chiang had so lost confidence of the Chinese people that nothing but all-out American armed intervention could prevent victory of the Chinese Reds, that re sulted in the downfall of Chiang and the Kuomintang. That decision was contained in Secretary Marshall s report to the House Foreign Affairs committee in February, 1948, and in brief was this: "The costs of trying to save Chiang are too exorbitant, and the risks too incalcuable to justify ony such action at the present time. Whether that decision was wise or unwise, desirable or the reverse, it was made by no top-Russian spy, or fellow-traveler in the state department; but by a man whose high reputation for un selfish patriotism, integrity and deep knowledge of military sci ence, we doubt if even the "Wild Irishman" from Racine, Wiscon sin, would ever dare challenge! If the news reels showing Generalissimo Stalin at the celebra tion of his 70th birthday have not yet been shown in Medford they probably have been we would advise a very close and care ful inspection of same. Through the years your correspondent has been rather skeptical of the reports ot Stalin's failing health sounded like a lot of wishful thinking in view of the glimpses pro vided by the movies of this hardy old Georgian a breed noted for rugged health and longevity. But no longer! In this newsreel the Generalissimo was a changed mon. He not only looked much older, grayer, more feeble, but he looked and acted SICK. Unless It was an off-day for the Soviet "All Highest," we should say the days of the head of the Russian slate are really numbered at least as far as the effective boss of Russia's national affairs, is concerned. There has been a debate over the air here on the subject of Universal Military Training led by Tex McCrarey and his wife, Jinx Falkenhcrg, special feature writers (and very good ones) for the Herald-Tribune. "Tex" has been "pro" and Jinx "con" the latter having the better of the agrumcnt as far as the facts are concerned, but not their presentation. At least in the view of this department, not universal but se lective training ON A LARGE SCALE is what modern cold-war conditions demand. There has been considerable sneering about push-button war, but, as we see it, the next war will be just that. As things are going today in fact, it won't be long before there won't be fighting airplane PILOTS AND CREWS; but merely air planes, being directed by human beings from the ground. In other words aviation power and speed will soon pass if it has not already done so human endurance and capability to fly. As in the air, so also on the ground and at sea. Men will, of course, be needed to take over territory that has been conquered, but the conquering if any will unquestionably be done by machines. Therefore, the great need will not be mass manpower, but highly technical and specialized manpower. Ergo not universal and haphazard, but highly specialized and highly technical training will be the need of the future hour. To return to news reels for a moment. The "Oscar" awards were a great disappointment, as far as the showing over at the 68th street theater were concerned. Practically all the recipients were either stage struck or mike shy and the entire proceedings so hurried one could get no clear idea of just what was going on. And then Jimmy Stewart, one of our prime favorites, was such a disappointment! Why doesn't his new wife get his hair cut? He looked like an overfed cinnamon bear and when he turned his back to the audience well it was simply "HAM." We received a note the other dnv viffnrnnslv nnnniini, mir ntH. tude toward the hydrogen bomb. As so often happens we were Mint-n io ins lor sonieining we never said. We never hold, for example, that the hydrogen bomb was "a phoney build up" to scare people into vnting themselves bankrupt to please the "munitions makers." We did deplore and still do the somewhat hysterical reaction of certain people and certain newspapers, maintaining that we better hold our horses until at least the bomb had been perfected. thi. Wu!.H''e nl,'nscd ' hay some distinguished support for r!u, J 7P "V PTfnPV Rol"'rt Mi'likx". former head of the Col forma Institute of Technology and Nobel Prize winner, who J '"Jir" ,heA!f ?"V.i,K-e(? ,1,e hv1roR,n bomb can be made," and Heet Admiral Nimitz who maintains that there is no excuse for the prevailing worry mongering and hysteria over a weapon TAhUlU y.''1 "i?vt'd T ,can Prot,. but if anyone can make it the prospects ot It ever being used as a threat or in conflict will be reduced If we possess it." Pretty strong evidence, when one considers the source! R.W.R. Cross town by Roland Co .-- 'This one will do. I'd like my friends to think I'm losing weight." Washington Report By Bob Dickey rim J Bob Dicker But, speaking for mvself alone, I don't believe the solu- iitin of our farm support prob lem lies in the direction of in creasing the Bcrcaue of crotis affecting large and strategic bod ies of voters and oecreasmc the acreage of rrops In which MUCH hMAl.LhH bud les of voters are concerned. Foots Creek Foots Creek, Apr. 6 Tom White and daimhter. Pattv of San Jose. Cal., came March 31, and returned April 2, accompan ied by Mrs. White and their daughter, Evelyn. They have rented their nrouerlv here to Mr and Mrs. P. Douga, and will make their home at San Jose. Mr. and Mrs. John Barnes of Central Point called on friends here April 3. Mr. and Mrs. Snum. d,,h .moll daughter, have rented their prop erly on the left fork of the creek :hp fnrmir Inhn ll,,r.. for Mojave, Cal., their former uomr, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Thompson and daughters, Potty and Foye, left April 2 for C'urtin. Ore . to spend several days with Mrs. Thompson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sowles. Jack Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. A .O. Stewart, underwent an emergency appendectomy at a Medford hospital recently. Foots Creek Home Extension unit will meet April 21, at the Community hall. Miss Eula Win termote, home demonstration agent, will be present and elec tion of officers will be held. Expectation for lift of an American at 65 now It 13 23 years. You m sum o' J Quality ex V too aur Washington, Apr. 6 Accord ing to the grapevine here on Capitol Hill, a group of leading nepuD iicans are rallying behind Sen Wayne Morse in his coming primary fight this soring. Apparen 1 1 y the support Morse cam paign" is al ready launch ed. It has been reliably report ed that a considerable number of the GOP leaders have prepar ed statements emphasizing Morse's contribution to the Grand Old Party. And further more, these statements are sup posed to contain positive dec larations that the republican party needs Wayne Morse in the senate. The clincher to this yarn is the rumor that Joe Martin, the republican leader of the house for representatives, is numbered among the endorsers. If Martin gets on the Morse band wagon, this will be the first time in his distinguished career that the Massachusetts republican has ever endorsed a fellow party member in a primary campaign. It Is rumored that Martin has decided to actively back Morse because he thought it was un fair for some of the republican congressmen to endorse one of Morse's opponents. Martin alleg edly feels that it is his duty io make it clear to the republicans of Oregon that the party needs Wayne Morse. When asked to confirm the re ports that the republican leaders in congress are preparing en dorsing statements for him, Sen. Morse refused to comment. But it is this reporter's firm convic tion thot the junior senator from Oregon will be able to produce, as part of his campaign litera ture, ample evidence that most of the GOP leaders approve of his brand of republicanism COPCO For Tie-Up According to sources here in Washington, the California Ore gon Power company is now pushing the Bonneville Power administration's southern Ore gon loop proposal. The BPA proposal is to extend its lines doWn to Klamath Falls on the east side of the Cascades, then acress to Medford and back up the valley to Eugene. At pres ent its lines are only down to Maupin on the east and Eugene on the west. When the proposal was first announced, COPCO actively op posed the extension. But early this year they withdrew their opposition. Now the word is that COPCO is unofficially pushing the proposal. The remaining opposition to the loop Is from the Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce. It is their position that the BPA tie-up will be costly to the Klam ath area in tax money and still not materially aid power needs of the area. They point out that both Portland and Klamath Falls are deficit power areas and since Portland is larger than Klamath Falls, they would lose out on a "greatest good to the greatest number" theory. , Meanwhile the Roseburg area is actively supporting the pro posal and is now clamoring for immediate action in finishing the loop tie-up. Under this year's budget re quest. Bonneville asked for only enough money to extend the lines to Klamath on the east and to Goshen on the west- This means that Roseburg would be left out of the picture for at least this year. So some of the people of that area are heartily protest ing that the Bonneville request was insufficient. Visiting Firemen Visiting firemen season has rolled around again and the peo ple are flocking back to the na tion's capital by the score. Ore gonians here on business or pleasure last week included E. C. Sammons, president of the Unit ed States National Bank of Port land, who was here for a savings bond conference, and Monroe Sweetland, democrat national committeeman from Oregon, who was here in Washington to aitanti tha Ampriran.i For Dem ocratic Action convention. Mr. and Mrs. A. w. iMorDiaa ui Astoria also stopped in Washing ton lost week to visit their son, Congressman Walter Norblad. The A. W. INorDiocis are uuumi for Europe where they plan to take a Meaiierannean ciuioc. Tk. uaci Pnnci Airlines cer tificate renewal case hearings held here in Washington before . r" & n Avotvtinnr nlsn hroilEht back several Oi egonians. Rob ert Jones, assistant huuhbhc. t,a Union, I Unlin I .ItlUIIldl. waa .Ann tUa haarinps to reo- resent the Salem people. And Charles K. Slant, manager in ure Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, attended the hear ings as the Klamath Falls area spokesman. TELEPHONE MOBILE Cleveland lU.K) a teiepnone that looks like a trolley has been devised here for men who like to talk on the move. The cord of the telephone goes to a track i it-a ..oiino nf hnmp or office. where it is free to travel with a fastener. PENNY SAVES DAY Chicago (U.R) A penny goi into a jam and saved money for Mrs. Elizabeth Kier. The cash foaietnT in hpr fnnri shOD StUCk when a robber ordered her to open it. He got nervous and fled. L,ater sne tounn mat a pen ny had jammed the register drawer. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press feerare Writes Harms n Niebola Subscribers To report Improper or noti dfllvery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-H141 before 8:411 p. m. daily and 10:30 a. m. Sunday. If regular d 1 1 t t r y arrives thortly after you rail, please notify office, thus eliminating ipecUl messenger service. C HOLDS 389 POUNDS Or FROZEN FOODS e Always! wide variety of frozen foods right in your own home! lust the thing for farms, large familieal And it's powered by the famous O-E Refrigerating unit! ONLY $' II i I II -UIL iff ..laaaaaal ata4el FA-11 345 A WEEK GENEMtO HOMI FRIIZERS You Can Put Your Confidence in GENERAL ELECTRIC and Hit HOME APPLIANCE CO IIS E. MAIN PHONE 2-458S Washington. Apr. 8 (U.PJ f anny B. Dosher. a pretty lit tle brunette, is a song-writer; an unusual one. She doesn't own a piano and she doesn't know h o w to put one little note after an- other and make them add up to har- m o n y- She works It like this: First she gets an idea for a title Then she sits down and thinks up the words for a couple or three verses and a snappy chorus. Then she starts humming to herself until sne nas a tune to fit the words "I roll round in mv head." -she said, "until I'm sure I won't lorget it. After that I call mv friend, Beach Johnson, who has a quartet at one of the Wash ington cafes, and sing him my new -song. He writes the music down for me, and that s all there is to it except to sell the thing Junes man i sen Until Mrs- Dosher got estab- nsneci sne wrote a lot of tunes that didn't sell. The music peo ple are tough some of them. Many's the song which came back by return mail, unopened. Mrs. Uosher, who comes from musical family, studied piano when she was young but doesn't play any more. She wrote her first song when she was 17. I was just fingering around on the keys one day," she said, "when a tune hit me. I played it over and over again until I was familiar with it. She never sold that one. In fact, her first sale didn't come for six more years. Had Good Title She got the idea for her latest song, a hillbilly number called 1 m On Pins and Needles. while she was waiting to learn the verdict on another- The brunette kept telling her self over and over again that she was on pins and needles. f inally she decided she had a good title and it turned out she did. It sold. Mrs. Dosher gets her ideas at almost any moment. Once she was getting dressed up to rush down town and shop for a baby shower. A notion hit her. She was afraid she'd forget it so she hummed the tune all the way down town on the bus and while she was looking at the latest crop of diapers. It s a wonder I didn t buy the poor kid a full dress suit," she said. Another time she and her hus band were driving to New York to attend the wedding of a relative- They went past a row of wiiiows. Kignt oft she tnougnt of a title, "Beneath the Willow Tree." Ceremony Ignored Her husband had the radio on, listening to a baseball game. She composed the words and then began thinking up a tune be tween strikes and balls, errors, and base hits. She had it pretty well in mind by the time they got to the church, but admits that she didn't pay much atten tion to the ceremony. The Doshers live only a few CHISELING CHECKED Duluth, Minn. (U.R) Leo Salo, 59, was sentenced to 85 days on the work farm because he got $1,713 in relief while receiving unreported income. County of ficials said he had an income of some S600 monthly $1,117.65 of his own for the year and the remainder from two sons. blocks from Georgetown univer sity where the big clock on the campus chimes off the quarter hours. One night Mrs. D. could'nt get to sleep, then suddenly de cided she had better things to do- She went into the living room and, while her husband slept, wrote and manufactured the tune for University Clock. She sang it to her husband at the breakfast table. Reserve Member Ban Reduce Investments Washington, Apr. 6 (U.R) Regular weekly reporting mem ber banks of the federal reserve system reduced their total loans and investments in the week ended March 29 by $443 million to a total of $66,563,000,000, the federal reserve board said today. However, the latest total of loans and investments was $5, 392,000,000 higher than a year tgo. Loans to brokers in the latest week were up $224 million to SI, 670, 000, 000, and the total was $122 million higher than on the corresponding 1949 date. The banks real estate loans, whicH have been risingvecently, increased $4 milion to $4,465, 000,000 on March 29 and the to tal was $382 million higher than last year. Business loans were 513,790,000,000, down $53 mil lion from the level of the pre ceding week and $1,114,000,000 lower than a year ago. Bank holdings of U. S. govern ment bonds were $36,118,000, 000 on March 29. off $584 mil lion on the week, but $4,368,000 000 higher than a year ago. Medford Student on Honor Roll at SOC Ashland, Apr. 6 The honor list for the winter quarter has been released by Mrs. Mabel Winston, Southern Oregon col lege registrar. Four students re ceived perfect grades during the winter quarter. They were: Den nis R. Hassell, Ashland: Nancy J. Hunter, Central Point: Mel- vin C. Smith, Redmond; and Vir gil Wolff, Medford. There were 38 students who were on the high honor list with grade averages between 3.5 and 4.0. The highest possible grade is 4.0. The number of students re ceiving honorable mention, those with a grade average of B or bet ter, was 111. The Mississippi river has add ed 50 square miles to the area of Louisiana in the past century. GIRLS TRY GREEN HAIR Zanesville. O. (U.R) High school girls startled the teachers when they turned up for classes with green hair. Several girls took a dare and applied green ink to their cqrls and now are toying with the idea of seeing how they appear with red and blue on top. Of the 91,000,000 acres mak ing up Japan, 17,000,000 or only 19 per cent is agricultural land. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE WAY OF FREEDOM li the subject of a Christian Science Lecture to be given SUNDAY April 9, at 3:00 p.m. by ArthurPerrow.C.S. of CHICAGO, ILL. Member of the Board of Lecture ship of The Mother Church, The Firit Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston. Massachusetts. Medford Senior High School Auditorium FIRST CHURCH of CHRIST, SCIENTIST Medford, Oregon ' All Are Cordially Invited aVJ,,.,Jjli 1l zsSkst V 25c IDING DIJ 1 AMD DIU 4We by Jh$ Maken l Polar fami M HADING OtPAtrMCNt? OROCIIT AND OIUO ITOIEL il'.l'HHilb OUCQJr 8 TUBEROUS S-i BEGONIAS X Exotic tmportsd double Comslie typ., In brilliant colon; RED, SCARLET, PINK, ROSE, WHITE. YELLOW, SALMON and COPPER. Sent Pott Paid. 8 Double Begonia bulbs, worth up to $3. . .only $1.00 24 Bulbs, of quality worth up to $9 only $2.50 FREE! A beautiful PEONY with each $2.50 order. Postpaid MT. BAKER BULB CO. Dept. 549 1109 POST ST. 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