Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 12, 1950, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordH&Tribune "Ivaryone In Southern Oregoo" Read! Tha Mali Trtbuna" Dally Except Saturday Publlihed br MEDrORD PR1NTINO CO. J7-JS North Fir St Phona a-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST a CILSTRAP Manafae KERB GREY. Aavaruaini ' M. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Tel.grapB EdIMa HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE 8T ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MP An Independent Newepaper Entered aa eecond claaa matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of Marco 1. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATE By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one yaar.je.00 Dally and Sunday al montha 4.7S Dally and Sunday three tnoa JJO Dally and Sunday one month 1-00 my Carrier In Advance Mediord, Aahland. Central Point, Jackaonvtlla Gold Hill. Phoaals. Talent and oo motor router: .. Daily and Sunday one year.JX3.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1-00 All Terror Caab In Advance Official Paper of the City of Madford Official Paper of Jackfoo County United Preaa Full Leaaed Win MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilna Repreeentatlve: WEST-HOLUDAY COMPANY. INC Officer In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Franclaco. Loa Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver. B C. jSNNIWSAPI UBUSHERS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Modford and Jackie County Hh lory from the (ilea of the Milt Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rear! ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY April 12, 1940 (It Wag Friday) Crater Lake park buses to go from Grants Pass; taxis to take people from Medford to lake highway. Capt. Joseph W. Scobey and Capt. Ernest J. Brugger named officera of Rogue River chapter. Reserve Officers' association. Joseph Trefren, resident of Jackson county for 45 years, dies at local hospital. Little Butte and Evans creeks expected to give best results on opening of fishing season to morrow. Woodvilla cemetery associa tion votes purchase of more land. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 12, 1930 (It Was Saturday) Margaret Osenbrugge and Helen Power, both of Medford, among best high school student typists in southern Oregon, test ihows. Hiram Facey reports killing 32 rattlesnakes In Scott valley so far this spring. Local Legionnaires to meet Sunday at Emigrant lake dam to prepare area for speedboat races. Medford Tennis club to face high school racquet wieldcrg in practice match. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY April 12. 1916 (It Was Wednesday) C. W. McDonald elected presi dent and Vernon Vawter cashier of Jackson County bank. Porter J. Neff, Medford, files for presidential elector on demo cratic ticket. More than $200,000 reported paid for Mountain King cinna bar mine near Gold Hill. Postmaster Sought For Camp White Job United States civil service commission has announced an open competitive examination to fill the vacancy In the position of postmaster at Camp White. Applications must be filed my May 4 at the commission offices. Washington 25, D.C. Veteran preference will not be granted unless documentary proof is sub mitted. To be eligible an applicant must be a citizen of or owe alle giance to the United States, must have resided for one year In the delivery area of the post office, must be In good physical condi tion and must be 21 to 62 years of age. In case of veteran prefer ence age requirements will be waived up to 70 years of age. Competition is open to both men and women. George E. Lane, Camp White postmaster since October, died April 7. 'Nearest Exit' Signs Apparently Futile Here Columbus, Ga. fU.Rl Panicky people don't stop to think, fire men here reported after a fire scare in a theater. All the patrons tried to get out In a hurry and not one headed for one of the clearly marked side exits. They all stampeded for the main entrance. Luckily, no one was hurt, and the "fire" turned out to be the flash from a light bulb that bad been aborted out MAIL TRIBUNE The Deadline Because of a reshuffling of precincts which has added 16 new ones, jacKson county voters are in ior a bit or contusion come may i, primary election aay, unless they familiarize themselves with the new set up- TT is psneciallv important to it that they are registered, and registered in their proper precincts, before the registration deadline, April 18. Of the newly created precincts four are in HiT-Jj 1 - A -1.1 1 1 1. 1H Dll nnniv iviecuora, iour in Asinanu anu une eacn m x uucuu, Central Point, Perrydale, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Trail Krinrlv C,nvt nnrl Howard. In an effort to help voters identify their precincts I . r 1 m il 111 1. 1 ' . 1- A. d..Jn tne jvian inrjune win puuitsn next, ounuay pictmti. maps of the county, Medford and Ashland. The maps were secured through cooperation of County Clerk George R. Carter's office and the county court. e e e e CONCERTED efforts to foster registration of all eligible voters in the county are being made by the central committees of both political parties, by the Mprlfm-d Lp.ap-ue of Women Voters and bv labor unions and veterans organizations. All of these groups emphasize that they are not so much interest ed in what party a voter may support as in being sure that each eligible citizen protects his voting right. m m m I N addition to the county clerk's office in the court . linnca onA tVio manv ntrior rprrietrntinn nlnnpa rlps- fcmatoA tVirniinrVimit tha will be established at each on Monday and Tuesday venience of tnose in tne respective neignDornooas. "ITIZENS must register hofnvo if t.hov hnvo mnvprl rn a npw nrlnrPSS. mr.V nr tnwn. havp chanced their name throuerh court ac tion or marriage, or have failed to vote at both the primary and general election of the same year. E.C.F. Help Name the Park iT this wilting there appears to be a considerable rlivprrrpripp nf nninion as tn a nroner and fittiner nnmo fnr MpHfnrrl's npw has been conducted through the city's newspapers has brougnt approximately 4U auierent suggestions. THE lack of unanimity in name choice is quite a M. a il 1 - surprise to tnose in cnarge oi tne pun, it naviiig been believed that geographical or memorial consid erations would have the effect of bringing out a large number of duplications. The city park advisory committee urges all resi dents to take the time to inspect the park and to mail in their suggestions either by filling in and clipping the coupon which appears in this edition, or by writ ing a letter to the "Park Name Poll, City Hall, Med ford." Ballots in order to count must be mailed before midnight, today. E.C.F. The Japs Were Poorly Informed In a recent Associated Press dispatch from Tokyo the former captain of a Japanese submarine tells of numerous wartime trips to the American Pacific coast made by his and other Jap submarines for air plane and gun attacks. A MONG the exploits about which the sub skipper " boasted was an attack on Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia river and installations on Vancouver isiana, uanacta, in June, VJiz. Neither of the attacks attracted return fire, the Jananese said. The eommandpr's rpvplntinn tli.it tln Q(foij- nv I ort Stevens was made in the belief that it was a sub marine base, is interesting at this late date after the war, for it shows an almost unbelievable lack of in formation regarding American coastal installations. Fort Stevens had long been more of a summer outing nlaee fnr nnt.iiinal orimrrlamon than a Anton i .....i.n v.iciii ci uvicuav J J V rw tion and it was rumored after the submarine attack mat its cannon were so antiquated as to be practi cally useless. TT was lucky for those manning the fort that the sub- marine's fire power was almost as inadequate as its intelligence reports for the few shells fired merely lobbed into a portion of the sandy shore where thev could do no harm. E.C.F. J Air Force Contracts For Experimental Job Washington, Apr. 12 (U.R) The air force has contracted with the Boeing Airplane company to build an experimental four-engine version of Its sweeping B-47 Jet bomber which would be fast er and loiiRer ranging than pres ent production models. The slx-cngined U-47B. now In production, is the world's fast est bomber, having a speed of well above 800 miles an hour. The experimental model from which it was developed flew across the country last year in 3 hours 48 minutes, averaging 607.8 miles an hour. One of the "B" models will be modified at a cost of $4,122,427, which is about four-fifths the cost of a B-47B itself. The new version, to be called the B-47C, will have four engines reliably reported to be rated at 9.200 pounds of thrust apiece. That would compare with the 5.200 pound rating of the engines now used in production models. Dead Una on Clamntd Ailat 110 pm for fallowing flay, loam Monday for Monday; aooa Saturday lor undajr ia Wednesday. April 12. 1950 Is April 18 that all elicrible voters see rniintv rpcristvah'nn nlneps of Medford's grade schools from 7 to 9 p.m., for con if they have not registered oitv nark. The Doll which 1.1 11 !l 1 National Guardsmen To Have Range Firing Headquarters, and A and C companies of the 1st battalion, 188th infantry regiment, Oregon national guard, will fire rifles, carbines and machine guns on the Camp White range on Sat urday and Sunday. April 15 and 18, In preparation for firing on combat and transition ranges at Fort Lewis, Wash., In June. The units will bivouac on the range on Saturday night and carry on training in night puirois. i Specialists will also receive I training during the firing pro-! jcci. cooks ana mess personnel will prepare meals, drivers and mechanics will handle trucks, and administrative enlisted men will prepare payrolls, morning reports and other papers. Company C is a Grants Pass unit and the other two compan ies are Medford units. The modern automobile has deprived New Mexico's rond-run-ner bird of its favorite diversion racing horses and horse-drawn vehicles down the straight, flat roads of the state. Crosstown 'Awl Kids don't play with hoops orivon. On the Side-8" v Du" ,n (Distributed by Kit lllltll Illllllllllllll The sun is shining today down here by the sea in Florida but it is still a bit on the chilly side. My girl friend was wearing an overcoat when she took the worlds most remarkable black and white springer spaniel for a walk on the polo fields across the way. The dog is enjoying himself here except that he rarely meets another dog. The people down this way don't seem to go for dogs as pets. They apparently lust like to see tnem at the innumerable greyhound tracks. In New York City, our dog meets from fifteen to twenty-five other dogs every time he goes for a walk. Zippers. My favorite color being blue, I am quite pleased with some new blue sports shirts I have. That is exceDt for one thing: the zippers on these shirts are al ways getting jammed or break ing off. When is the zipper go ing to be perfected? I have nev er had any attire utilizing such a gadget that it didn't give me trouble. The difficulty must be a common one. as I have noted around New York a number of signs on shops reading, "zippers repaired. Briefly. Have been informed by a man who should know that the film star Kirk Douglas has been paid a huge sum by a tie manu facturer for agreeing to wear a bow tie whenever possible for the next four years . . . How long did "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman, run in New York? I forget. But the same musical show starring the American actress Dolores Gray is in the third year of its run in London. Miss Gray, a Pittsburgh girl, in addition to being very talented is very beautiful, but, though she is 25, as yet to be married. I understand right now she loves the Film Actor Michael Wilding but he doesn't love back. Ballyhoo. During the days of the real estate boom of 1924-1928 the Florida boosters really cut loose from some fancy ballyhoo. From the Florida Guide and Frogram of 1926 I quote: The Almighty hai given 10 Florida the inexhaustible sup ply of boom material that never gives out sunshine. We have here in Florida that which evory sensible man or woman wants a climate fit to live In, the best drinking water on earth no matter how bad it smells sometmies, the best bathing beaches and the clearest moonlight in the world." Other Matters. Florida was the twenty-sev enth State admitted to the Union. Tell lis quick as a quar ter of a flash the numoer oi your State, in order of admis sion to the Union, or confess your old history teacher should be ashamed of you . . . ut the many slogans utilized by south eastern Florida I think the best is: "Where summer spends the winter." Wonder who originated it. He should be honored with a statue on Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Sidelights. Lamb chops are priced at $1.49 a pound in Del Ray Beach, Fla. . . . William Jennings Bry an was among the paid operators used to attract and iniluence The Call To Storage ..Can save you $$$ In harm that may befall your fur if they are unportecred during the summer month. Our under ground fur storage vault offer you ovary protection. FREE PICKUP by BONDED DRIVER MEDFORD CLEANERS 22 S. Central by Roland Co anymore unless they're motor features Syndicate, lecJ prospective buyers of real estate during the Miami boom of 1925. . . . The burlesque type of floor snow seems the most popular in Miami. Also very poplar are con tests featuring amateur strip tease dancers. Cats. "Quite a few people who are fond of cats write to ask why you don't mention the felines more, writes a Bostonian. ask one of these cat admirers why a cat tortures a mouse before killing it. How can an animal who acts that way be sty.V?d as lovable? Vegetarians. Even though I am a steak and roast beef enthusiast I do not wish to deprive the vegetar ian diet any credit due It. There fore please be informed that the great British vegetarian and enemy of meat eating, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, recently celebrated his 97th birthday and is feeling fine. Seasickness. The liner Queen Elizabeth re cently experienced one of the roughest transatlantic crossings in its career. Yet practically no body on the ship was seasick. Credit for that is given for the advice to passengers and crew by Principal Medical Officer Dr. S. M. Rust to use the drug called dramamine. This drug, which seems a surefire preventative against seasickness, mougn noi originally intended for that pur pose, was discovered by Dr. Les lie Gay and Dr. Paul Carliner of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti more. Birthday of Bard To Be Observed Ashland, Apr. 12 Sunday, April 23, is the 386th anniver sary of the birth of William Shakespeare and the event will be appropriately observed here this year because this is also the 10th year of Oregon Shakes pearean festival productions. Though an exact time schedule lias not vet been set. a reception honoring the memory of the great bard has been piannea to De 101 lowed by a special showing of Laurence Oliver's cinema pro duction of "Hamlet" at the Var sity theater. A congratulatory letter from Oliver and other im portant communications will be read to the invited guests at the reception and radio station KW1N will broadcast an account of the ceremonies both at the re ception and from the street in front of the Varsity. Roy Sullivan, manager of the theater, said a special matinee for school children has been ar ranged for April 24 while the orints of the famed British film are still in this area. Fremonf Forest To Get 1 13,000 Seedling Trees Lakeview, Ore., Apr. 12 (U.R) The forest service will plant 113,000 seedling trees in 240 acres of the Fremont national forest this spring. Supervisor John E. McDonald said here to day. Seven-thousand of the young trees will go into a 25-acre sec tion burned out in the fall of 1946 by a blaze that spread from a hunters campfire. 2-6500 or 2-6696 34 N. Holly In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This comes from Kansas City: "Today they came to bury Charles Binaggio, himself a pall bearer 17 years ago for another Kansas City northside political boss wiped out by gangland gun fire. ... "Flowers banked the casket of Binnagio, who with his top henchman Charles Gargotta was shot down in their democratic ward club rooms here last Thurs day . . . more than 500 floral pieces were in the little funeral home chapel where the bodies lay awaiting funeral services." SO MUCH for the pretty flow ers. Now get this one: "SCORES OF THE POLICE'S PLAIN CLOTHES MEN MIN GLED WITH THE CROWD GATHERED TO BID FARE WELL TO THE TWO MEN, both of whom were pall bearers 17 years ago for John Larzia, WHOSE POLITICAL THRONE BINAGGIO INHERITED." THIS whole KC gangster busi ness, which is getting such a play in the news, leaves me cold. It's utterly disgusting. There is no more need for these political gangster mobs to run our big cities than for me to walk on my hands instead of my feet. If these Big Town cops, who apparently have been looking the other way for the past 17 years, had been doing their duty in the sincere spirit of the aver age country town marshal or chief of police they would have had these unsavory characters behind bars long ago.. Instead, they wait for some new and up coming gangster to pop the old time bosses off, and then "min gle with the crowds" at the en suing flossy funerals. SINCE so many of the big city cops seem to look the other way while gangster - politicians carry on their business, I'd say that the more of these Binaggios and Gargottas and similar ilk meet up with bullets and come out at second best in the encoun ter the better off the general run of us average citizens will be Out here in the west, we pay a bounty on cougars, which prey on our livestock wealth. What are these city bosses, with their gangs of armed henchmen who roam the streets of places like Kansas . City, but two-legged predators that prey on our econ omy? The only difference I can see is that the cougar gets his only protection out of his own skill and cunning whereas these big city predators are PROTECTED BY THE POLITICIANS THAT BACK THEM AND USE THEM. A NY WAY, I think it is scanda; lous, and when I read these tales that embroider the news I want to hold my nose. ALSO the to-do that is being raised over this business of "mercy" killings leaves me un moved. Personally, I want to die whenever I begin to lose my ca pacity to get around and do things. BUT I DON'T WANT SOMEBODY TO HOLD THE LEGAL POWER TO DECIDE WHEN IT IS TIME FOR ME TO QUIT LIVING. He might pick a time when I wasn't ready to go yet. LET'S close on a few shorties from the news: Spanish Dictator Franco's daughter marries (with a big splurge) a Spanish aristocrat WtlU WUKKS AND TAKES MONEY FOR IT (he's a doctor). Aristocracy is far gone in decay. its basic idea was that nobody who worked for a living could be an aristocrat. . . . . . . The United States supreme court refuses to interfere with the right of congressional com mittees to require persons to say whether or not they are commu nists . . . that sounds like good doctrine . . . me, I'd be proud of tvtKi opportunity to proclaim that I'm not a communist. . . . . . . Premier Nehru of India and Premier Liaquat Ali of Pak istan have just concluded a per sonal conference at which it looks like they may have stopped an impending war. . . . Y'know. it kinda half looks like those two men MIGHT BE SINCERE LEADERS, intent on the welfare of their peoples rather than on INCREASING THEIR OWN PERSONAL POWER. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10:30 PM For Complete Prescription Service 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free) Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford' Own Modern Pharmacy DAY HTVh Nigh and xSmJrl Ca" A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN UmhU Press Washington, Apr. 12 U.PJ Groundhogs have been acting up in an unusual manner this year, wot ac cording to tra dition. The tradition is that if the little guys come out on groundhog day and see their shadows, they'll hit for cover and you can expect six more weeks of winter. This year, Human Nichols the sun came out some places; some places it didn't. Groundhogs all over de fied the rules. They came out when they weren't expected to and holed in when they were supposed to stay out. Near Natural Bridge, Va., James N. Hunter, the head man of the town, ordered an "investi gation." He was worried about reports that some of the local groundhogs were showing moth- eaten hides and had become bald in spots. Hunter didn't get any place until old Joseph David Mitchell came forward. Mitchell, who will be 79 come July 12, is the gardener at the Natural Bridge hotel. Calls Self Expert He has been studying. the hab its oi tne nora and the fauna thereabouts for night onto 70 years, he says, and calls himself an expert on the lowly wood chuck. Mitchell has the situation all figured out like this. And follow it closely. It has been a tough year on foxes, which has something to do with the groundhog's unusual behavior. Up north, the water shortage caused some of the foxes to get hydrophobia, and they went around like crazy biting people. Down near Natural Bridge the warm weather gave the fox es fleas at the wrong time of year. This sounds a little silly hut we're still quoting old man Mitchell, who said he didn't mind being quoted. The foxes resorted to an anc ient method of getting rid of fleas. Mr. Fox would leg it through the brush and woodlands where sheep had been pastured. He would gather up little bits of wool the woolly .creatures had shed onto burrs, brambles and other things sheep lose wool on. When the fox had all the wool he considered necessary for his own relief, he would duck down to Cedar creek, which runs un der Natural Bridge, keeping a ball of wool in his mouth. There, he would wade into the cool spring water, and as he did Hundreds of technicians ...and over $10,000,000 in research and develop ment of equipment and controls ...assure Calvert's finer taste! ANOTHER. 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The fox would swim for shore, leaving the fleas and the wool ball to drift downstream. MODERN NOVEL Available in two editions: Clothbound 33.50. Readers' Edition Jl.00 Both editions complete and unabridged s BOOK & GIFT SHOP 217 E. Main Medford Phone 2-9331 Reserve Your Copy dm J OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH STAN STARK Vai Mt