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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDviltiiTPJBUNE "Svaryone la Bouuiarn Orate" IUd Tha Mall Tribuna" Dally lutpt Saturday Publlahed by MEDFORD PMNTWO CO. tT-10 North rir St- Phona -ltl ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST a GIL6TRAP Manaaaa HERB GREY, Advartlalnl Utt. B, C FERGUSON. Manaflna Editor ERIC ALLEN JR . City Iditor HARRY CBIPMAN. Telegraph Editor HXNRY L GREEN Sunday Editor OLIVE 8TARCHER Society EdIWr GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mr An Indapanoant Newipaper Entered ai tecond clan matter at Madiord Oregon undar Act a March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br MaU In Advance: Dally and Sunday one raar....WOO Dally and Sunday el months .? Dally and Sunday thraa moa i.JO Dally and Sunday ona month 1 .00 y Carrlar - In Advanea - Madiord Aihland. Cantral Point. Jackeonyille Gold Hill. PhoenU Talanl and ao motor routea- .,.,, Dally and Sunday ona yaar.jlj.oo Daily and Sunday ona month I -00 All Tarma Caab la Advanea Otflrlal Paper ot tha City ol Mad ford Official Paper of Jackiun County United Praia full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertlllnl Repreeentatlve: WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY INC Officea In New York Chicaco De troit, San KrancUco Loe Anaelee Seattle. Portland St Louie Atlanta Vancouver, B C PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford aad Jackaea County H la ter? from aha (ilea at Hm Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 14 rear! ee 10 YEARS AGO TODAY April 17. 1940 (It Wat Wednesday) Nearly 250 planea visited Medford airport during March. Miss Alice Hoefs elected chairman of new Pro-America group In Jacksonville. Public library discloses near ly 7,000 persons registered to use 32,633 books. Northwest district convention of 20-30 clubs scheduled here June IS and 18. Medco reports 390 workers on payroll, Including 110 in woods. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 17. 1930 (It Was Thursday) Constitutional amendment to limit fishing in Rogue river to angling to go on November bal lot. Road to Klamath Falls via Crater lake cleared of snow; four to six feet deep on highway. Glenn Slmkins chosen Med ford representative in Edison scholarship test. Phoenix school's first four grades to present operetta. 14 YEARS AGO TODAY April 17, 1916 (It Was Monday) Ground to be broken tomor row for construction of new St. Mark's church at Fifth and Oak dale. Adin Hasellon and Theodore Florey to represent Eagle I'oint school in county spelling bee. County asks bids for repairing Medford-Jacksonvllle road. News of 4-H O CLUBS Central Point 4 H Club The Central Point crop club meeting was held at the Paul Williams place recently. Elec tion of new officer were held with the following results: President. Marvin Hohnert; vice-president, Hobby Williams; secretary. Vernon Gebliard; re porter, Paul Williams Jr.: song leader, rtilly Williams and yell leader, Loren Gebliard. Vice-president Bobby Wil liams brought the meeting to or der. There was no old business, but under new business, It was decided the next meeting would be held the second Tuesday of May, May 9. It was decided that the club would buy some films and as soon as the members had their group worked up they would lake pictures of their seed bed after it Is planted. Paul Williams Jr., Reporter Antelope 4-H Club The Antelope 4-H club held Its monthly meeting April 14 at the Antelone school house. Exhibitors at the Cow palace at San Francisco gave reports on their trip. The exhibitors were Marilvn Hohnert, IJorene Hon nert. Waller Cahail and Bruce Field. A report was also given by Robert Hays on the kinds and types of swine. The next meeting was sched Uled for Antelope's annual box social which will be held at the Antelope school house May 12 The public Is invited. Bruc Field, Reporter MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York City, N. Y., Apr. 14 Well, "Bingo" left Thursday on the Queen Elizabeth, and as a result the hotel and New York are much quieter. We went down to see the Queen Elizabeth but didn't see Bing, so continued on with No. 2 grandson to see the statue of Liberty. No. 2 being a native New Yorker runs true to type and refuses to be impressed by anything although he did agree tnat Bom me giant liner ann nirs. LiDeriy -were Digger man mey looked." He refused to explain In more specific terms, so we de cided he meant that when one got near them, they loomed much larger and more Impressively in person than on the picture post cards. And they do, of course. The excursion, however, was not very successful. We could not get on the Queen Elizabeth because we did not have creden tials, and we could not climb up into the torch of Mrs. Liberty, because we did not have time. There was a family luncheon dead line to meet and the distaff side of the household insisted that deadline had to be met, or ELSE,! (Needless to add it WAS!) No. 4 and No. 3 were also at the luncheon, en route to the pedia trician, the former refusing to eat anything but his ice cream, and he would allow no one to feed him that. He did the Job ok him self. (Don't know where these pendence of spirit but they all fairly ooze with it, each and every one). However, the pediatrician declared No. 4 was ok lunch or no lunch in fact, his reactions, mental and physical, put him defin itely in the "genius class." (We had suspected something of the sort but are glad we don't have to foot the pediatrician's bill for THAT bouquet!) When the doctor finished with him (No. 4) guess what the embryonic Thomas Edison did? He tapped his knee cap for reactions and used his policeman's whistle as a stethescope! WHAT a boy and he is only 22 months old! We don't enw Bine his ocean trip, although of course the Queen Elizabeth is so huge, probably the blizzard that visited the city yesterday and today and we assume the Atlantic ocean did not disturb the super-cunartier what a hideous day. A blizzard on there, we went to a movie through it. a The movie was another blow. Your correspondent has always been a great booster for the Marx brothers and particularly for Groucho, so we were positive their most recent effort after three or four years rest, would be somethina terrific. The distaff side was reluctant and sceptical. Well, all we can say after enduring the movie entitled "Love Happy" there is no "love" in it, no "happiness," not even good slapstick, melodrama, or "horse nor good red herring, in short it DUES! In the newspaper ad it was first Marx movie in three or four years, the only mistake the boys made was not to make it 30 or 40! The real comedian of the group, Groucho, in contrast to his "slap happy" brothers, only had subordinate and a son ot m.c. still has "Bet Your Life." he can make all the money and reputa tion he needs there, all in all the funniest give-away radio pro gram on the air. Once more our favorite golfers the Bauer sisters get their pictures in the local papers but this time the news is not so good. Ol course when Papa and Mama Bauer were in Medford they both said amateur golf was a terrific drain on the rather meagre family pocketbook and they could not afford the luxury for long, the girls would eventually have to turn "pro." We assumed, however, they would wait until one of them at least had won the women's national amateur. But now Papa Bauer mnkes the announcement at a cocktail parly the two girls will start their professional careers at Pebble Beach the last of this month. Well this is nothing reprehensible, there are many fine girls and fine golfers in the women pro ranks. But we would have pre ferred to have the Bauer sisters remain where they Were and play the game for the fun and the sport of it. Playing lor money some how doesn't seem to be like either of them. At long last the effort to make artificial rain via airplane seed ing has been launched. After a week or 10 days of false starts a police plane with two policemen and Dr. Howell the Harvard rain maker flew up above the cumulous clouds and dropped 100 pounds of dry ice. This was yesterday afternoon when your correspondent had to fight a miniature blizzard to get to the Marx movie. Whether it was the result of this seeding or not here are the facts: The family had made preparations for a week end at Lake Mo honk in the Catskills, reservations oked and everything packed, But when we awoke this a.m. the city was blanketed with the heaviest snow of the year, five or six inches in some places, while reports from the lake were roads would not be open until noon. So the excursion had to be called off. It should not be hard to figure out how this snowstorm pleased the lake hotel management and the grandchildren, three of them looking forward for weeks to the trip and with all their fishing tackle in readiness. Dr. Howell is extremely cagey, he makes no claims, he takes responsibility for nothing, but his popularity is declining rapidly and more arid more criticisms of the experiment are appearing in the papers. As stated when the plan was launched, when week end rains or snows which spoil picnics and sports can be blamed on the city administration and not on Nature, the Weather Man or the Almightv, watch out for the political repercussions. Don't try to play "God" If you want VOTES! Not only the family picnic but the long heralded pie-season baseball opener over in Brooklyn, between the Dodgers and the Yankees will suffer for as this is written (11 a.m.) it is still snow ing. Dr. Howell gets S100 a day for his efforts, it is a fairly safe bet that before he gets through he will have earned it! And an other thing. two months ago the reservoirs were only 30 per cent full now they are 76 per cent WITHOUT artificial rain. In this frenzied effort to find a goat for the failure of Amer ican policy in China, we believe the real culprit the real nigger-inthe-woodpile has been completely overlooked namely JAPAN. Not Japan as a defeated nation of course, but Japan as a strong and militaristic one. We have been researching a hit on past history and find that the real turn in the fortunes of Chiang Kai-shek came in 11)37, when the war with Japan stalled. Nominally Ihc Chinese Reds lined up with Chiang to repel the Jnp invaders but actually they conserved their forces, recruited thousands who deserted the Na tionalist cause, and while Chiang was bled white they became stronger and stronger taking over more and more supplies and territory. It seems reasonably clear Ihat if Japan had never declared war on China. Chiang would today be muster of the Chinese em pire and the Chinese communists would be merely a meagre task force marooned somewhere In the far north. But when Japan struck and Chiang refused to grant needed reforms to the Chinese masses confident that with foreign aid the Chinese Old Guard could win. the die was cast. then no aid from the U.S.A. or any other country could have prevented the Red tide from sweeping over China Just as two decades before in spite of allied interven tion, the same tide swept over Russia. True. Chiang even alter Japan attacked COULD have saved the situation but had Japan never attacked there would have been no situation to save Q.E.D. R.W.R. Old Kentucky Home Obtains Face Lifti Bardstown. Ky. OJ.P.i "My Old Kentucky Home." immortal ized by Stephen Foster, is under going a complete facelifting to restore it as a southern mansion of the period of 18.12. The stale accepted the proper ty, once known as the Federal Hill estate, in I!i22. Since then ninny structural defects in the building have developed. The building was closed last January 1 and restoration started. Removal of old plaster re vealed that damage from file which once struck the house was far more extensive that had been thought. The dale of the fire is not known but was believed to be prior to 1852. when Foster visited the place and wrote "My Old Kentucky Home." TWO PERFECT HANDS Alanson. Mich. tU.Ri Most cribbace plavers consider them selves lucky to hold one perfect rribhage hand. Hay Essex can boast of Iwo in a row. which he held in a tournament here. Mondiy, April 17, I960 children get all their ornery Inde s equiiinrnim very mucn. urn the 13th of April! And we were - feathers," it is neither fish, lowl it, oh well you know, ! And proclaimed "Love Happy," is the pari, rve are graietui oroui-fiu Mickey, Minnie Shine As New Star Groups Philadelphia UP The "con stellation'' Pluto and Mickey and Minnie Mouse are appearing lor the first time in the FeU Planetarium's "skies" this! month. Floppy-cared Pluto is substl tuting for the constellation Canisi Major, the Great Dog. Mickey i and Minnie arc filling in for Gemini, the Twins. The planetarium's director. Dr. I M. Levitt, explained that the Wall Disney characters were flashed on the artifical sky to illustrate for visitors how the constellations got their names. It also will prove, he said, that "if the memory of mankind were blotted out tomorrow, wc could step in and supply new names for the constellations at a moment s notice." The Twins and the Great Dog he said, were as well-known to the mythology-loving ancient Greeks .is Pluto and Mickev i I Mouse are to the modern genera- lion of star gazers. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I have an interesting letter; from a Mr. Darrell Wilson, who describes himself as a recent newcomer to southern Oregon. He says he likes my politics, he , likes my style and he enjoys my i writing very much. BUT, he says, spoofing me gently, why pour it onto these murdering gangsters in Kansas City and the Kansas City cops vfho look the other wav, while paying little attention to the il legal gambling that goes on in Oregon while the authorities look the other way? YOU have something there, Mr. Wilson. As I recall it, I got pretty cyn ical the other day about the killing of these big-time hood lums back in Missouri. I even allowed as how. if that's the only way they can be got rid of. it may be Just as well that a couple of them got plugged in a shoot ing spree over the division of the swag. Mr. Wilson agrees as to the probable good accruing from the popping off of the Kansas City gang bosses, but he twits me nicely about being one of these editors who can see a bad situ ation 2.000 miles away but can't see a thing wrong here at home. WELL, lei's come clean. I think. Mr. Wilson, that Oregon's overlooking of the play ing of slot machines and other forms of gambling is just as smelly, in principle, as the alli ances between racketeers and politicians that exist in our big ger cities back east. The differ ence is only a matter of decree. In all these big cities, there are laws against gambling and other forms of wrongdoing, but the laws are more or less ig nored because somebody in au thority gels money for ignoring them Here in Oregon, there are LAWS AGAINST GAMBLING. Gambling is forbidden by our state law. Gambling is forbidden hv ordinance in nearlv all of our cities. GAMBLING IS EVEN SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OREGON. But. as you say, Mr. Wilson, slot machines and other gam bling devices are permitted to operate from time to time more or less all over our stale. It isn't legal. It isn't nice. It isn't honest. I've remarked often in this column thai every time I see a slot machine running (or a nunchboard, or any other gam bling device) I can't help won dering who is GETTING MONEY FOR LETTING IT RUN. That isn't a pleasant situation, because oflen enough over this state of Oregon the men whose duty it is to enforce th law are personal friends of mine. One doesn't like to wonder if friends are getting money for looking the other way while the law is being broken. LET'S be candid about this whole business. Here in Ore gon, slot machines and other gambling devices operate (from time to time, in between spasms of morality) because the public doesn't seem to care much wheth er they operate or not. Has any one ever heard of an Oregon citizen placing himself in front of a slot machine that is open for business and yelling bloody murder until a cop comes and puts a slop to it? I never did. And yet it is each citizen's duty to see to it that the laws are enforced I suspect that if every citizen stopped ev ery time he saw a slot machine in operation and yelled loud and long for a cop and kept yelling till the cop came and did his duty slot machines would soon vanish in Oregon. If every citizen in Kansas City did likewise, the Kansas City rackets would soon be ended. The public just doesn't seem to care much. If laws are to be en forced they must have public backing. ONE other point, while we're on this subject. As yet, here in OreRon, our gambling rackets are small-time stuff. The swag involved hasn't yet got big enough to cause our racketeers to kill each other off over (he division of it. But it's getting closer. There are the Bugsy Seigels. who get notted in Los Angeles. There are the Mickey Cohens who so far have been missed every time they have been shot at. Gam bling profits lie at the root of these shootings. Oregon is growing. We like to noint out that in the past 10 vears our rate of growth has been the highest in the United States. If we eel big enough and careless cnouuh about our re sponsibilities as citizens, the time will come when the profits of our gambling rackets are big enough to cause our racketeers to kill each other over the division of the swag. I'D HATE to see that. I'm proud of the fact that as of now the average sense of public duty in Oregon is probably higher than anywhere else in America. GRANDMA GETS WISH Undue City. Kan lU.R) Mrs. Mary Barton, who longed to be a grandmother, has had her wish fivefold. In the hist, eight months, each of her five children has pnsented her with a grand, child. METERS HIS DOO Battle Creek. Mich. U P Patrolman Donald Knowles watched a pedestrian tie his dog to a parking meter, deposit a nickel and walk away. He said the man came back within the time limit to reclaim the dog. You II tun or Quality wh,n laiimun Him omuiMjr. I a'Saaaaaaaa. I J I I J Vj I ! tUrman Nichols a J il -4' r ... I CHIEF EXECUTIVES President Gabriel Oonzalei Vldela (left) of Chile and President Truman wave to welcoming crowd during cere monies honoring the Chilean chief executive on his arrival In Wash ington. President Vldela is in ihe O. 8. for a three-week goodwill visit. On the Side"8" v Dur' in9 (Distributed be King faarurai Syndicate, lac) HM.MMMIHI.IHIIl The sun is shining today down here in Florida, the Sunshine State. The ocean bathers are out in full force. The shuffle board players are coalless again. The well streamlined females are pa rading the downtown streets wearing shorts. There are some good looking bathing beauties in this part of the country, but 1 still am of the opinion that when it comes to beautiful beach si rens, Santa Monica, Cal., tops the country. Aga Khan The Aga Khan. Rita Hay worth's father - in-law. now weighs 224 pounds. In 1955 his followers will present him with his weight in platinum. Incident ally, among these followers are the Hunzas, the healthiest and longest lived people on earth. The average Hunza keeps on playing nolo when 85 years old. There has been a book written on the Hunza diet. Better look it up if you want some advice on how to live long. Very Unusual The other day a girl swimming in the Indian river near Fort Pierce. Fla.. was bitten bv an alligator. Local authorities stated it was the first time in 43 years that anybody swimming in that oart of the Indian river had been bitten by an alligator. Neverthe less. I am going to do all my swimming in swimming pools down here. Yes, sir! Over There It is said the biggest spenders, the best caviar and champagne customers at the Swiss winter resorts this season were Ger mans. It is therefore quite nat ural that British tourists, on lim ited travel incomes, bitterly asked "Who won the war?" Please Note The Elks will hold their na tional convention this year in July in Miami. That's quite an expression of confidence in Florida's summer climate. Ask Crosstown 'I could hardly wait for th seaion .these good Ambulance Service The "Black & White" Ambulances E & J Rciujcitator Blood Plasm Oxygen MABEL CARLOS CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS "Preferred by to many" We it Main ar 6th Phont 3-1051 Offic of the County Corontr XA " A. (Aemt Ttlenhoto) the nearest Elk how the "Hello Bill" greeting of his organiza tion originated. If he can tell you quick as a quarter of a flash he doesn't have to send me a stogie. Asidts Do you remember Toby Wing, cinema cutie of the yesteryear? ihe lives in Miami now. Toby is married to the celebrated air pilot, Dick Merrill. . . . Now I have a reader in Poy Sippi, Wis. Must ask her how her home town acquired such a quaint name. . . . Have Just heard of a Milwaukee youngster, three years old. who has been fitted with a full set of false teeth. That's probably a world's record. Brides What music did your bride se lect to be played at your wed ding? If that happy event has not token place yet has the girl you are engaged to marry any .cieas on the subject? Anyway, a minister of long experience says he has noticed that young women who ask that the song, "My Hero," be played at the wedding are usually around in 12 months or less complaining about the man they married and are soon est to seek divorce. Briefly Ever know anybody who had feet of different sizes? I am in formed there is a surprising num ber of such people. They must either have their shoes made to order or buy two pairs of shoes of different sizes. . . . The meat shortage must be getting really acute in Merrie Old England. Some of the London newspapers' domestic science editors are reg ularly printing recipes of which horse meat is the major feature. A strange state of affairs in a country in which the national snort is horse racing. Friend of Dogs Dogs ride free on buses and metropolitan railways in Paris. That is due to some vigorous campaigning on the part of Gen. by Roland Cos to open so I could hear some of stories!" A Nichols' Worth oF Comment On By KARMAN United Sraaa Washii.i, : :. Apr. 17 ;U.R The census saKers, currently en- 11 uaa-vuuiiu ji iiues count, are rurrH mng into an odd assort ment of towns. And don't '.nigh. The cross roads are the places which made America great. But some of the i a m e s don't fit the pattern. For instance, take Double Springs. Ala. There isn't a bed factory in sight, the census folks report. The little community turns out plenty of products from saw mills and cotton gins, but no bed springs. There is Smackover, Ark. It's not a ball park with a short right field fence like you'd ex pect. The town is rich in oil fields, timberland, and fertile loam. Ballclub, Minn., is a little jealous. It doesn't have a ball club in any organized league. Buttons, bows, and brrck bats come out of a town called Loogootec, Ind., where one cen sus taker was bitten by one small dog and one small boy. Three "Polis" Towns There are three seldom heard of "polis" towns. One is Media polis, la., a farming commun ity. And Illiopolis. 111., birth place of a new synthetic perma $7 Billion in Coins Minted by Country , New York (U.R) From 1792 until the end of December. 1949. Uncle Sam minted more than $7 billion in gold, silver and minor coinage, with a total of 319.502, 294 pounds. The first coins in the United States mint were struck on Oct 9. 1792, in the presence of George and Martha Washington, the Alexander Hamiltons and Thomas Jefferson, according to an article in Steelways Maga zine. The first coins were less than a half-inch in diameter and each was known as "half a dime." One side showed a woman, sym bolic of Liberty and probably a likeness of Martha Washington. On the other side was an eagle on wing with the legend "Uni. Stales of America." Some Silver Shortage The presses and steel dies had arrived from France shortly be fore. At first there was a consid erable silver shortage which necessitated General Washing ton's contribution of $100 worth of silver plate from Mount Ver non. The plate was melted into bars, rolled out into thin strips and cut in blank disks. All told. 31.141.346.843 pieces with a total value of $7,131,813 414.41 in U. S. coinage has been struck off in the past 157 vears. Maurice Mancelle (ret.) of Paris, who devotes much of his time to making France a better place for dogs to live in. During World War I the general's life was aved by a dog on the battle fields of Flanders. The general, seriously wounded, was lying helpless on the battlefield when a dog came along, licked the UI..U ins lace ann DarKed 1 continuously until he attracted I the attention of some stretcher bearers. Since that time General Mancelle has conducted innu merable campaigns in the in terests of dogs. Now you can ind furniture your homf work 15 f- ff f aom' . r.4 "t a" ?3 II X II M mm fnturei of tht commercial mMfli at a pnre you can t afford. A a.ood production tool for carpenter, too (or hm butt, inaide trim, and many mi 11 work operation. MARIS All THISI CUM. ..AND MOM' SEE THE AMAZING NEW GUILD ROUTER ON DISPLAY HERI HUBBARD BROS., Inc. MAIN at RIVERSIDE This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Writer starch, which home economists boast is the first "major change in starching technique in 2,000 years lasts through eight to 15 washings, etc." And Kanna polis, N.C., which runs off mil lions of towels, dish clothes, sheets, and pillowcases a year. Bemidji. Minn., is the so-called birthplace of the legendary Paul Bunyan. But there isn't a Bunyan in the Bemidji tele, phone directory, Paul and his big blue ox re main nothing but legends. No Gat Now Gas City, Ind., takes its name from natural gas that abounded there a couple of generations ago. There is no gas there now. These days, the hoosier city goes in for glassware production, concrete vaults, cement tile, and barrels. Another community heard from by the census people has a misleading title Lapel, Ind. No suits are produced there. Noth ing but bottles, jars, and can ned goods. Sleepy Eye, Minn., is a wide awake town and there is noth ing much to cheer about in What Cheer, la., and speaking of Iowa, there is nothing forlorn about Lost Nation. Ia. It does a brisk business in chicken hatch eries, grist mills, and agricul ture. Protection In Kansas On the plains of Kansas is k town called Protection, which shjps wheat and stock, has a gas works. Plain Dealing, La., does not even pretend to invent new political terminology. It's con tent to keep up producing feed, operate lumber mills and oil wells. A memo from the census man at Sparks, Nev., hints that the town derives its name not from telephone equipment, but most likely from the gleams sent out by its gold and silver mines. At Jet. Okla.. there isn't a plane in sight and in Noone, N. H.. it's still 12 o'clock every time the clock strikes 12. But the census people, in giv ing out the report, missed a good one. My home town Farmer City, 111. They still have farmers and a lot of them out that way. 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't Own Modern Pharmacy tool wood like the bii millworV ihopt makrri . , . iivt that profrtttonal Aflnh to ihop prefect f. 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