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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDjllWrRIBUNE Tveryone Id Southern Oregon" Budi The Mali TrlbuiM" Dally CKoepI Saturday Published by MXDrORO PRINTING CO. 17-3 North Fir St Phono 2-ili ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP Manila HERB GREY. Advertletng Msr I. C FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Talegrapn Editor HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgl An Independent Newapaper Entered aa lacond clan matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATED By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year .... 00 Dally and Sunday el month! 4.75 Daily and Sunday three mot i.6u Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 By Carrier In Advance - Medtord Aahland, Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. PhoenU Talent and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year, slil.uu Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Ternu Cash In Advance Official Paper ol the City ol Medtord Official Paper of iaekiun County -Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repreientative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Office! In New York Chicago De troit' San Franclaco Lot Angelea Seattle. Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver, B C 0" NEWSPAMI k PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1 Flight o' lime Mtdford and Jackson County His tory from the fiUs of th Mjil Ttibuno 10. 20 and 34 roan ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY April 16. 1940 (It Was Tuesday) Dclroy Rynning, Med ford, pledged to Thcta Delta Phi at Southern Oregon College of Kdu cation. Mrs. Stella Henderson appoint ed matron at Girls Community Club here. Ken Lindlcy fans 19 and al lows one hit as Lincoln school beats Jackson in baseball. C. A. WriRht home near Eagle Point destroyed by fire. Smudge pots lighted in valley orchards for first time this spring. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 16. 1930 (It Was Wednesday) Elimination of parking on East Main street bridge and nearby fuggested as means of eliminat ing traffic bottleneck there. William Warner chosen presi dent of board of Southern Ore gon Dairy and Cheese Coopera tive association. Bee owners urge county court to name bee inspector. Siskiyou heights residential rea sewer at cost of $58,570 okayed by council. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY April 16. 1916 (It Was Sunday) 1 Ashland to be scene of South ern Oregon district federation of Women's clubs convention late this month. Mrs. W. F. Shiclder to preside at meeting of Women's Presby terial society of Southern Ore gon April 19 at Medford. Medtord Ministerial associa tion to sponsor social service ex position at Natalorium. Dead line on Classified Ada: ft-30 pin. for following day: 10 am Monday tor Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. In the Day's News Bv Frank Jenkins At a meeting of the chamber of commerce over in Klmuiith (lie oilier day, Hank Scmnn, Vern Owen and 1 were grousing about the weather, it's too wet to suit us That brought us around to the subject ol other and welter times. liiink dug out of his memory a vear (11)12, he thinks maybe it was) when we hiid SIX INCHES OF RAIN IN JULY, lie says it rained so hard the hay shocks floated off into the low corners of the meadows. (Remember, that was in the Klamath country, which claims to be semi-desert.) Vern and I couldn't beat that one. so we dropped the subject. WE went from there to plow ing, with horses, in the old davs. Hank had a three-horse learn that included one named Old Dan. Old Dan was a smartif. He discovered that when he hung back on the cqualicr he could take the load off his own shoul ders and slnlt it to the other two. So he did just what you'd expect. "I decided to fix the old dev il," Hank said. "1 got me an old belly-band, drove II full of sharp pointed tack and ran a heavy string from one end of it up through a ring and hack to the plow seat so that when I pulled on it the belly-band would flap up against Dan like a cowboy's purs. "The first time the old cuss let back in the harness I yanked the string. The tacks smacked Old Dan where the hair was short. It so took him by surprue Oregonians Thrifty Oregonians are thrifty and exceptionally saving minded judging from the way they are stuffing their money into savings and loan associations of the state. A compendium of savings and loan statistics in the current issue of the Oregon Voter shows the 27 as sociations in Oregon had a total of $116,390,872 in assets at the end of 1949, an increase of 10.06 per cent compared with the 1948 total. e MEMBER savings during the past year, it is shown, have been relatively greater than the asset gains, the total being $98,537,998 for a percentage-wise in crease of 13.99. THE rapid and sustained growth of thrift accounts in Oregon's savings and loan associations is astounding those interested, according to the Voter which notes the fact that eight associations registered gains of over 20 per cent last year. - The Portland Fed eral led the parade in this department with 41.22 per cent gain, the Jackson County Federal of Medford be ing second with 30.74 and the First Federal, also of Medford, fifth with 25.45. E.C.F. Really Hails in Oklahoma A friend brings in a copy of the Stillwater Daily News-Press, of Stillwater, Okla., which carries ac counts of the damage done by a recent hail storm, the worst ever to strike the region. v TT IS hard to realize that hail can be so terribly de- structive. In the Stillwater storm the loss is esti mated in the millions of dollars with nearly every building in town damaged as well as several thousand automobiles. Hail stones larger than eggs pelted the region for an hour and to make matters worse, 1.12 inches of all 1 i i t I' ll 1 1 1 rain iouowea, penetrating dled by the hail. Pictures include a huge greenhouse in which every pane of glass had been broken, and a number of n'ine-inches-around hail stones grouped about an egg to show the comparative size of the heavenly ice balls. ALONG about this time of year there is possibility of hail in the Rogue River valley, but such visita tions do not, as a rule, inflict great damage. There is always the chance that pear buds, and later, the newly formed tiny and tender pears may be mauled by the icy pellets with costly results. With anti-hail pilots Harvey Brandau and Eugene Roomer ready to do battle'aloft here with any threat ening hail clouds, fruit growers and others whose crops are in a vulnerable stage feel fairly secure. One wonders what the fliers would be able to do with a storm such as hit Stillwater. E.C.F. Happy Man No. I President Harry Truman ended his fifth year in office last week, in what his friends described as a confident, happy frame of mind. Strangely enough, that happy mood has persisted throughout one of the most violently criticized and otherwise turbulent ad ministrations this country has seen in many years. PICTURES of the president, taken on his recent re- turn from a Florida vacation show him with an even wider smile than usual. Could it be possible that Mr. Truman censors his photographs, as do many of the film stars, permitting publication of only those showing a smile-wreathed countenance. PROBABLY the best explanation of the executive's unruffled outlook comes from one of his friends who declares that problems, regardless of how large they may loom, never get him down. As the friend put it, the election of 1948 did something for Mr. Tru manit gave him a superiority complex which is ex tremely hard to dent. THEajMedford promoters of the "Are You Happy Club" may have already attended to the matter, but if not, they should tender President Truman a special invitation to join. E.C.F. that he literally let go all holds and fell flat ill the furrow. After that all 1 had to do was yell DAN! and the way he'd throw himself into the collar was some thing to see." The picture struck Vern so funny we nearly broke up the meeting laughing. LATER It occurred to me that what Old Dan was doing is precisely the thing that ultimate ly will wreck the Welfare State. He learned that bv hanging back in the collar he could LET THE OTHEH HORSES DO HIS WORK FOR HIM. That's what happens when we moderns go on relief when we really could get out and scratch hard and make ourselves a living. Or when we retire on a politically-provided pension and let somebody else do the work. Or when we const and take it easy while we're living upon our unemployment Insurance when maybe we COULD go out and get another job. Old nan was quickly cured by Hank's tack-studded "per suader." The trouble with the politically promoted Welfare State is that nobody dares tit use a persuader on the hanger-backers. That would be political sui cide. MOSTALG1C thought: 1 wonder how many of the, younger generation ever heard j of belly-band. Not many, I reckon. For their information, j it was t heavy leather strap that went aniund the hole's tummy and held the harness on. 1 Sunday, April It. 1950 roois wnicn nau Deen rid Harness was stuff you put on a horse to do his work in. You put it on after you'd fed him his grain and hay. cleaned out the stall and curried him. (Currying was combing his hair out straight :md nice with a curry-comb and brushing it down with a heavy brush.) You did all this before day light. By the crack of dawn, you were supposed to have your team all hitched to the plow and be lolling over the furrows. Horse nlowing was so slow you had to work from dawn to dark to get the Job done in time to plant your crop. In those days there was no recreation problems for the chil dren. By the time the chores were done (the cows milked, the olgs slopped, etc.) rolling into a nice soft bed was recreation enough for a tired farm kid. WITH that thought in mind. Vern sighed. "Ah me," he said reflectively, "if tractors had just been Invented In time, I'd probably be a farmer vet. Farm ing must be a great life in these tractor and gadget days." (Vern grew up in the flat east of Medford, and the stories he tells about the gumbo soil tn what later became the Camp White reservation make your hair stand on ned.) SALE OF FUEL Phone 2-6123 TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY Summit tn4 McAndVawi Crosstown 'You say the vacuum cleaner you don I Know my wite, miiteri sue uses BOTH methods! Babson Discusses Failures New York, Apr. 15 I like to see men and women have a lit tle business of their own. If you can keep out of debt, it gives security and health. You have no fear of being "fired" or laid off on account of mis takes of the management. If your little business turns out not to be good, it then will be your fault and not your employer's fault. You know that some of your competitors always do well. Whether or not this is the time for a young man to leave a good job and go into business for himself, is debatable. The Good Book says there is a time for everything (read Ecclesiastes 3:1 to 8), which includes a time to buy and a time to sell. God gives us a brain to use. Let us not try to buck his law of sup ply and demand. This does not mean that we should not push forward. We all should help the world's great problem of how to provide the needs of all in the midst of plenty. So long as any able per son willing to work is unem ployed while the government is dumping potatoes into the sea, there should be opportunities for shopkeepers and salesmen to bring these loose ends together. This is the kind of "socialism" and "planned economy" in which everyone should believe. New Businessmen Lack One or More Requirements To perform the above service requires character, brains, indus try and some capital. Statistics indicate that a large number of those who have gone into busi ness for themselves since World War II must have lacked one or more of these requirements. I say this because 60,000 fewer firms are operating today than a year ago. It is estimated that today there are ZUU.000 fewer conrens mostly among the small retailers, service operators. etc. than in 1046. That is true. in spite of the increased popula tion and the fact that there is more money about than ever be fore, indicates something is wrong. The above is not only a disap pointment to nearly a million people, including employees but to the owners of a large number of vacant stores, unused plants, ia ic trucKs. an ol wnicn are the result of these failures. Those who have been forced out of business are. moreover, both dis appointed, and perhaps bitter. They claim America should not permit such sad results in the world's best country. Business Failures Significant Barometer Every month my statistical ex perts compile for me compara tive figures on over 30 basic busi ness barometers. In my 40 years of studying business conditions I have always said the most signif ican figure is that for business failures. Heretofore, a very low failure figure has indicated ex cellent present business condi tions, but such figures usually forecast that business troubles are coming. with double the national in come failures have, during the past 10 years, actually been less than before 1R40. But at last we sec a change for the worse. The greatest increase in bankruptcies is in the retail store field where there has been an increase in failures of 12 per cent. In the case of manufacturing this fig ure is 9 4 per cent, while in min ing, farming, etc.. there are S 4 per cent more failures. Although the failures in the retail field show the greatest increase, yet enough new firms come into be ing so that the total is now only 2 per cent less than at the peak More Concerns tn Business Than in 1939 A. a result of all the above 45 Kirk's Cafe In Gold Hill Will Be Open SUNDAYS Beginning April 16 OUR SPECIAL V'l Fried Chicken Alio Stcski and Other Entrees Good Home Made Pici by Roland Co has done away with rug beating? per cent fewer new concerns were incorporated in 1949 than in 1B4B. the number of independ ent concerns is now about 3,900, 000 compared with nearly 4,000,- U00 in 1948. Yet, there now re main about 18 per cent more concerns in business than in 1939. The present failures aver age about 200 a week com pared with 100 a week in 1948. Further details will be sent free ly on request by the world fa mous authorities. Dun & Brad street in New York city. There is one cheering feature to these figures. The bankrupt cies were not all among young uis. in tact, vu per cent of them were of old concerns which had been dying of dry rot for many years, with age comes poor neaan ana a loss of energy. Young men have this energy which we older ones lack. This is worth more than capital or customers. Hence, no young peo ple should be discouraged by the above figures on failures. But I do say that if you now have a good job, hold it and make the most of the opportu nity it gives you to learn. This is not the time to start in busi ness for yourself. The Grange Gold Hill Grange Gold Hill H.E.C. met at the Grange hall April 12 for a cov ered dish dinner with 21 mem bers and eight brothers and friends including Mr. and Mrs. Alva Walker, Gold Hill marshal, and Mildred Wright as guests. Later for the meeting Millie Walker of Live Oak Grange, was present. Table decorations for Easter were by Mary Shaw and Elinor Ganong. H.E.C. Is to put on the pro gram at next Grange meeting, April 20. The club women are enjoying the abundance of hot water since installation of a new water heater. Easter cards and handkerchiefs were exchanged. Flora Friends remembered and cards sent to the sick. Another quilt was finished and one is ready for frames. Plans for H.E.C. giving a dinner in the near future were discussed. Pomona Grange Jackson County Pomona Grange will meet at the Lower Applcgate Grange hall April 22 at 8 p.m. there is important Business to be transacted, and the annual memorial service will be held. All Fourth degree members are welcome. Refreshments will be served by ladies of Applcgate Grange, Midnight Last Evening Income Tax Deadline Portland. Ore., Apr. 15 (U.R) State tax agents said today that and 11-hour rush to file state in come tax returns had failed to materialize but reminded late filers that midnight is the dead line. Mailed returns must be post marked before April 16 to es cape penalties. Gather together all those small bills, get a loan from us, and you'll have only one place to pay! Terms arranged to fit your budget. Friendly, confidential. It's "Yes" to 4 our of 5' S50 to $800. Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie S-211 M-217 Pickin' Pears (The Mill Tribune is glad to introduce to its readers one L. J. "Tick" Malarkey. self styled private N. E. F. C. (not even first class), one of the more recent additions to the membership at the Camp White domiciliary center. "Tick" arrived here recently, as a result of an argument with log which rolled up hill over him. and while enjoying conva lesence in the Rogue valley, he will, from time to time, sub mit a column of folksy chat ter and lid-bits about Camp , White for the approval of The Mail Tribune's readers. He wrote similar column for the Roseburg News Review while at the veterans' hospital In Roseburg. He has picked "Pickin' Pears" for the title of his column. Editor's note.) By L. J. "Tick7 Malarkey Less than a week ago Private Malarkey NEFC meaning not even first class departed the Valley of The Urnpquas. bussed into the Valley of The Rogues, and checked into Camp White. An Industrial accident last July 14 a log rolled up hill instead of down. As a result the VA doc tors at Barnes. Portland. Rose burg and White say that my days as a "timber beast are over ana from now on must take it easy. Too old to log anyway. So if you good people from this part of the state will De pa tient, perhaps a few pieces about the Bamboos, Greybeards and Kids, plus the employed person nel, will perhaps be of some in terest. We are more or less of a little city out here and from ex perience in three other veterans' hospitals the writer finds many little human yarns that he would like to try and spin. "Write about earthy things," is the advice that Ruth S. Bloom, chief nurse, advised when "Tick's" Tips was published by Charlie Stanton's News Review beginning September last. So here goes: Down in the barber shop is one Herman Priem. This tonsorial master of the razor, shears and clippers has been around quite a spell and when asked if he knew the Gates. Garretts, Newburys and Farrells his answer was an em phatic yes. Herman has been in Medford since 1906. He is a proud grand dad nw. and gave me leads that will help as the first steps are taken to write about the Friendly Folks from Over Town who help to make the stay at Camp White more pleasant for the disabled veterans of three wars wars that not one of them asked for but fought just the same. Fred Sears, recreation direct or, is about the first of the em ployed personnel met after ad missions had put this recruit through the mill. Fred is a kid from the air corps, in Argument II, and some "yak yak" about his friends in Roseburg was enjoyed. The lad used to live there and work at that VA. Also is quite croud because he married one of the city's loveliest belles. More about Fred sometime. He was too busy today because the Med ford Legion and its auxiliary is DUtting on an open meeting fol lowed by entertainment and re freshments. Before the rains came, the loggers' habit of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning prompt ed a limp around the barracks. A sun was just peeping over a mountain which the guard on duty at the main gate said was called Pitt. The sight was beau tiful. Kind of reminded me of Mt. Hood when she is in all her glory as the sun rises, viewed from the VA hospital. Sam Jack son Park, Portland. Tony is the guard s name. And he used to be a loeeinB canm cook for the Crown Willamette down Astoria way my home town. Greybeard Kebcr saw it all from '17 to 18. It was good to get some timber down for a few moments with him. A block or two away lights were on in the White City cafe. A cup of coffee would go good. eacx oi ine counter was one Ed Hudson, proprietor, who has been around the Rogue for bet ter than 20 years. Spent 10 years with the forestry department as a cook out of this district. Had a long hitch in both the army and the seabees during our more recent adventure beyond two oceans. About six weeks ago Ed and wife Mildred opened up the White City cafe and a better restaurant would be hard We Like To Dig In Our Sock to find. There is seating capacity tn an nrcnn and it is beauti fully decorated with knotty pine as a background. Might add and this is not a plug their hnme-made Dies are really out of this world. In fact everything about White City cafe is good, particularly Ed and Mildred. A word about Mona Brewer, secretary. She is just as charming as her poems. For months past on the exchange desk of Umpqua News would be the Dominews, Camp White's publication. In every issue would be verse by Mona. Always enjoyed reading every line, and often wondered what the author was like. Know now. Am going to like it down this way. Admit homesickness is one hell of a disease. The lower Columbit, where it is eight miles wide as it weds the Pa cific, is home, Astoria the town. Can't help but have a yearning. Medford is all right. A sister, Genevieve, who was stationed here with her husband Ray, just wrote me from Fort Ord, where they are now doing a tour of duty, that they liked Camp White and the Medford people better than any other post and town that they had been in dur ing the major's 20 years of army duty. Want to meet Jack Morris. In this writer s book he was an all American back the night that we saw him run and pass to four or five touchdowns against Rose- ourg an evening last fall. About all we won up that way that night was the band champion ship when Jack and. the Black Tornado had quit blowing. Some even disputed that Roseburg won mis event. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor muat beat the name and addreaie of the wrltei although under certain clrcum atances the uae of a pen name Of Initial for publication la permis sible. The Mail Tribune reaerves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden aatlon. Letters aubmltted for pub Hratlon must not exceed 400 words Things Need Attention To the Editor: Have just read Mr. Guches' complaint against Mr. Goodman thinking that Front street could be cleaned up by our officers. Of course, Mr. Guches makes his living from the ones who frequent Front street, Mr. Goodman makes his from men and women who must have a place to park and don't care to walk two or three blocks out of their way to avoid this street, and most women do just that. Maybe Mr. Guches can close his eyes for the sake of his profit, but I doubt if it's pride in our officials or our city that he aeicnas. But why stop at Front serect? Our future robbers are now in our Junior high and high schools. Most of the youngsters at these schools are honest, but the few who are not are doine a wonder ful business. I know articles valued at $50 or more were stolen in the past 10 days from these two schools. I think a great deal of this could be controlled if more interest were taken, not only by the parents, but by the teacners and our police force. The children who have things stolen are always guilty of care lessness because they don't carry locks and chains to protect their property. Eeyond that we cannot go. it seems. SERVICE! You hear "Service" shouted 'most everywhere . . . We believe it means: Filling your Prescription Prompt ly with the very highest quality ingredients it is possible to ob tain. Delivering it when you desire. Qu'ick, courteous attention to telephone orders. D L U S A definite personal interest in your welfare. SERVICE! From Your Exclusive Prescription Pharmacy Wm clav off Front street but our children must go to school at the risk of coming t hike, wallet. IIUiuc imi.ua - , "7 ' pens, watches, money, anything .' ;,J J r.ttinn . fa, not nanea uown. uiuns culprits at the schools might eliminate some of our future crimes. .... , . I have lived in Medford for 20 years and would like to con tinue my pleasant life here but I think there are some things that neea attention. Mrs. u. tl. senraaer. SEWER WORK PLANNED Forest Grove, Ore., Apr. 15 (U.R) Construction of an inter cepter sewer, a major improve ment in Forest Grove's sewage disposal system, will begin May 1. KEEPS HEAT IN! rtUS kgrW-CWL OMtai OJd Ml WtKTtWt Strtp era tw utwd h ported fmOm on on ol doot r window ntbw tjoabt dune Of trotting EASIEST STRIP III THE WORLI TO PIT OR! AnyoiM a.ardlm itpsnonco can ta AMU Nu-Way WmtUmi Strip with pert iwsulm You can quicUy. m tMaivory wothaK -otrip T own two. Ciiiini wtHpWtj with noib and MI ir-t-t- Medford Millwork Company 1 105 COURT at MANZANITA Phone 2-5231 Pay those bills with cash. Loans on your salary, furni ture or automobile. 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