Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 13, 1950, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextrOUKTEEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thureday, April IS, I ISO MEDFORDvltTRIBUNE -Irerjrone In Southern Oreiem" Rudi The Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday PubUaher) by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-20 North rir St Phona Mltl ROBERT W ERNEST B- BUHL. Editor GILSTRAP Manager HERB GREY, Advertlalns Mgr . C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR . City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegrepb Editor HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr Ab Independent Newepaper Entered aa aacond claaa matter at Madford. Oregon, under Act of March t. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES M.tlln Advance: Daily and Sunday one yearL.J 00 Dally and Sunday elx montna J.7S DaUy and Sunday three moe J SO Daily and Sunday one month 100 y Carrier in Aavance mbui a.hunri central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent and on Dally and Sunday one year. glJ.OO sally ana ounaay one raroui All Tenna Caah In Advance Editorial Correspondence fflclal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of aacaeon wun United Preu full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advartliing Repreaentatlve: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Officee In New York. Chicago De troit, San Franclaco. Loa Angelea SeatUa. Portland. St Louie AtlanU Vancouver, B C i NEWS PA Pit k PUtlltHIK -ASSOCIATION national editorial ac5tQn Flight o' Time Medferd aod inks Ceeery M ra rer rraa the tike at rh Mad Tribme 10, 20 end 34 run ate New York, N. Y., April 9 Probably the New York Chamber of Commerce will aeny tnn, but it snowed in Mew roric on mis Easter Sunday! The skies have now cleared, the annual Easter Darade is on but there is no suggestion of spring in the atmosphere. In fact it is as cold as January with a bitter wind sweeping through the paved sky-scraper canyons, and the gay taster bonnets witn iioW' ers abloom looking decidedly unseasonable and uncomfortable. But New Yorkers don't nav much attention to the weather, where any cherished traditions are concerned. The Easter parade is a cherished tradition and while the wintry blasts have no doubt reduced the numbers, it did not impair the quality. e e a e e It is a good thing New Yorkers don't pay much attention to the weather. If they did they would be in the same fix as the old chameleon on the Scotch plaid. We have experienced changeable weather before but never anything to approach me isiana oi ivian hattan the past six months. There has been no real Winter, no Spring and perhaps there won't be any summer. (Everyone prays there won't he anv of the latter if it has to be like the tropical summer of '49). What has there been? A grana ana glorious poi nourri. a climatic hash. Winter. Soring, Summer all mixed up, utterly confused, without rhyme, reason or sequence even the "Good Humor Man has lost his good humor ana nis snirt. Per haps things will pick up when the baseball season starts in a week or 10 days. If not, baseball better be called off and ice hockey continued through the summer. The jce t oiues win continue any-wa- Yes, the weather is completely cock-eyed. So is this poor sap from Wisconsin, Senator McCarthy. Some dav his full record will be printed. When it is, it will be as criss-crossed and crooked as the meteorological map, for 1949-50. It is as impossible to predict what the Wisconsin Senator will be saying a week hence, as what the weather will be. Nothine could more clearly reveal the completely ohonv streak in this man than his grandstand play in New Jersey on Saturday last. It was advertised, and announced by McCarthy, that he would come out from under his senatorial immunity, name names, put all his cards on the table and blow Owen Lattimore and his Com munist buddies into the middle of next week. Naturally with such a bellowing blurb, there was a large crowd in Passaic, N. J., and practically all the political reporters in Manhattan as well as the radio boys were on hand, prepared for an explosion and atomic reaction second only to the holocaust at Hiroshima. . 10 YEARS AGO TODAY April 13, 1940 ' (It was Saturday) Medford high students win five first and three second rat ing! in southwestern Oregon band and solo contests. Tornado trackmen capture Hayward relays honors for third straight year. The Rev. Engvald Iverson to round out 40 years in Presby terian church service by filing for moderator of Oregon synod. Mail Tribune starts series of illustrated articles on possible auto trips through Rogue Won derland. Diamond lake highway open from Union creek to lake; 108 inches of snow at Crater lake. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 13. 1930 (It was Sunday) Medford high band finishes third, Ashland high band fifth, in state contest. Expect to ship 5,000 cars of pears from area this year. Gradual decrease In number ef bounty payments by county noted this month. Walter F. Brown and Carroll B. McMath elected elders of Presbyterian church. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY April 13, 1918 (It was Thursday) Claude C. Ponting residence tnd contents, Portland avenue, burns to ground. ' J. A. Westerlund and Benton Bowers elected to represent county taxpayers' league at slate conference. Foundations of new business block at Fir and Main streets be ing poured. Dead Una on Claulfled Adat B SO p m for following day. 10 a m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. But as John Peurifoy, deputy under secretary of state, re marked following the "dud" display: "McCarthy roared like a lion when he wore the cloak of senatorial immunity, now he discards his immunity, strikes the pose of a hero and bleats like a lamb!" Many weeks ago McCarthy solemnly declared he would re. sign his Senate seat before he would say ANYthing on the Senate floor he would not say outside. As false In this as In everything: else the Wisconsin mud slinger refused at Passaic, just as he has refused ever since he made the original charges against members of the state depart ment, to repeat a single one of his accusations, outside the senate walls. At Passaic: Not a suggestion of Lattimore being the "top espionage agent" in the state department for Soviet Russia, not a word about Ambassador Jessup'g Communist leanings, or Service's employ ment by the Russian foreign office and his stealing of secret U. S. documents all the meat in what he originally dished out to gain the national limelight, eliminated, and yet there he was posing as the great crusader for righteousness and loyalty in this coun try, as He single-handed waged war upon the traitors and perverts of the Acheson state department! WHAT a hero! e e a a All that McCarthy's latest charges against Lattimore added up to was the latter's belief that it is too late to save Chiang Kai shek in China and restore him to power, and also that it is of doubtful wisdom to make any attempt to hold Korea against the Chinese Reds. In other words, Lattimore believes the battle against the Chinese Communists was irrevocably lost because of Chiang's failure to institute needed reforms, and thus beat out the Com munists for popular support. This result was and is deplorable. But there is, in Lattimore's judgment, no profit in trying to dodge the facts or seeking relief in wishful thinking. If we must fight Russia the place to fight her is in Europe, NOT the Far East. e e e a Now Lattimore's analysis of the situation in China may, or may not be, the correct one. That is not the issue as far as Mc Carthy is concerned. The sole issue is, and from the first has been, whether or not as the Wisconsin senator charged, the State De partment is riddled with treason and espionage, and the leader of it all the one man on whom the entire McCarthy case stands or falls is this man Owen Lattimore. This was once McCarthy's own analysis of his own case. And yet when "called" on his charges, what does he do? He welches. He runs for cover while he pretends to be another Ajax de fying the lightning. He removes everything from his former di atribes that COULD be defined as libelous and then pounding the table and frothing at the mouth, he dares his foes to take libel action. What a four-flusher and double-talker, what a phony and cheapskatel However, the skipper of this department is not as seriously concerned about McCarthy on the long-run View, as some of the pro-administration commentators are. He has done irreparable I harm, and he Is an all-around so-and-so. But we have no more doubt of his ULTIMATE fate than we had of Adolf Hitler's. Or we have of Generalissimo Stalin s for that matter. For such faith in the final showdown, we return to our favor ite quotation: iruth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error wounded writhes in pain. And dies among his worshippers." There seems to be some fundamental moral law at work in this world which gives political "disciples of the devil" initial suc cesses, a brief spasm of glory and power, only to be followed with out fail by final collapse and disaster. Ho we have no more doubt of the ULTIMATE downfall and dis aster of the McCarthys and Stalins in this long suffering cosmos than we have that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning. It may take time, more time and more sacrifice than seem right. But at long last "error" wounded WILL writhe with pain and die among his worshippers. What is true and what is decent and fundamentally right WILL rise again and WIN! R.W.R. Wage Negotiations Dropped by Union Negotiations between three Medford bakeries and their em ployees represented by Local 404, Bakers and Confectionary Workers International union, were broken off at a meeting here last night, it was reported this morning. Union and Indus' try representatives were unable COMMUNICATIONS Leiteri to the Editor mint bear the name and addrcita of the wrltei although under certain ctrcunv runcea the uie of a pen name oi initial for puhllrattcn If permli Ible. The Mall Tribune reiervaf the Hint to nut all leitrri with a vlaw to elaririrallon and condrn latlon. I.ettera ubmltttd for puh llreMmimuil not exceed tnownrrla In Argentina Too To the Editor: Flying disks or saucers are becoming quite an issue. My son Archie received a letter from a friend in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He told Archie the luminous bodies were seen there by thousands of people. The sky was lit up like day time in the Hosarie region. In 1810 we lived in Washing ton and on a fifty acre dairy in April I heard a roaring noise and went out to sec what It was. A large ball of fire was whizzing through the air! It had a long tail of fire, three to five hundred feet long, It came from in the country, passed over the town, crossed the railroad, went across the end of the 50 acre dairy, turned near the river and went below the tree tops and the length of the fifty acre place. It looked like a big ball of fire with a long tail roaring along. People got scared and said the world was coming to an end. This was real, not Imaginary. Lilian M. Bayer Talent, Oregon Is This America? To the Editor: Is this America, or just a disgrace to America? The other day my partner and I, who are two local businessmen and who grew up in this town, witnessed a scene that made us ashamed of our town in no un certain terms, to-wlt; One blind man and his blind wife playing musical instru ments, picked up by one of our well known local law enforce ment officers and taken away in a police car that we all help pay for. Today we witnessed a young chap parading up and down Main street advertising a "fly ing saucer'' show for one of the local theaters. This young man had two good eyes and seemed quite ablt'bodied. Does any of our local law enforcement offic ers attempt to stop him with a silly law? We are ashamed to the hilt of our town this day. George Cook Ted Woods 'Editor's note: Police records show the itinerant couple was asked by the officer if they knew that those playing musical Instruments on the street for the purpose of soliciting money Bre required to secure a license. The couple said they did not know of this requirement here but had found it to be the case in manv other cities. The officer offered to take the couple to the city hall where they could secure a license upon payment of the $10 fee. This offer they declined but asked if the officer would take them to their hotel. The officer, with commendable kindness, did so. The license ordinance, No. 4189, which is of long stnnding, does not apply in the case of the youth advertising the show as the theater pays $50 annually which entitles use of such adver tising method if desired). In a Glass Houte To the Editor: I believe a per son living in sin not throw stones. 1 am referring to a person In our peaceful city that has taken it upon himself to belittle our officials and make public untruths that are a dis grace to our city's reputation. Being in business here myself, I am like an intelligent business that would say a good word fur our city and officials, or keep my mouth closed. We have one of the best-thought-of police forces in the state. Our chief of police has the record of being chief longer than any chief in the United States, without a black mark against him or his men. I think that is a pretty good record for a police officer. It is truly a shame we have somebody around to make a tur-1 moil for their own selfish polltl-j cal interests. This same person's livelihood! is on a street which he contends Is a mess and this mess he speaks of keeps him in business. If it didn't he wouldn't continue in. that location year after year. Why your paper gave liim so much publicity I don't know, but I I think it was a mistake in doing so. I hope the railroad company will please take note. , Merle Cliches j Soil erosion ruins about 500, 000 acres a year for immediate ' nractiral cultivation, the equiva- lent of about 2,500 average-sized i American farms of 195 acres each. I everybody LOVES jTry (mo r.Jy Huge Tax Levy Set For Portland Ballot Portland. Ore.. Anr. 13 (U.R) A multi-million dollar tav lew win oe on me May IB primary election ballot for Multnomah county voters to approve or reject. The special levy of $2,443,000 compares with the $1,175,000 passed by voters last year. Prin cipal increases in the 1950-51 fis cal year budget are $383,247 for public assistance, $248,814 for county hospital, and smaller sums for the public library, in digent soldiers' fund, and the county school fund. Repeal of Excise Auto Taxes Sought Portland. Ore.. Apr. 13 (U.R) Directors of the Oregon State Motor association said today they had wired the state's con gressional delegation this week asking for repeal of excise auto motive taxes because the motor ist gained no benefit from them. The house ways and means committee is considering the repeal of some excise taxes, and tile association wants the aver age tax of $100 on new cars put on the proposed list the commit tee is drawing up. to agree on proposed wage increases. The meeting was the most re- ceiii in a series ui eigni wniun have been held on the wage problem. To Ask NLRB Charles Maldovan, president of the local union, and Cecil Martin, business agent, said to day they are requesting the na tional labor relations board to send a mediator to Medford in an attempt to bring the parties in the discussions together. Eugene Farrell, manager of Fluhrer's bakery, who has been representing the industry in the meetings, said the group may also request NLRB assistance. He said the union's first wage request was for a 15 per cent increase, and that it had now been lowered to 10 per cent. This increase is still too great for industry representatives to meet, he said. Involved in the negotiations have been Model, Beck and Fluhrer's bakeries. No interrup tion in work has been created. Portland Mayor To Miss Hearing on Gambling Portland. Ore.. ADr. 13 (U.R) Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee said today she could not aitena the U. S. senate committee hear ing April 21 on a bill that would stoo interstate transmis sion of gambling information. 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