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fOUHTEEM MEDFOHD (OBEGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. April 27, 1950 MEDFORDv&TRIBUNE "Everyone m Southern Oregon" Read! The Mall Tribune" Dally bcept Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phona 3-8141 ROBERT W RUHU. Editor ERNEST B- GUiSTRAP Managae KERB GREY. Advertising Mgr. t C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph fcdltot HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mr An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18B7 itorial Correspondence SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mall In Arfv&nca: DaUy and Sunday one year.... 00 Dally and Sunday six months .7 DiiUv and Sunday three mos il.5u Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 By carrier in Aavance meaimo Aihland Central Point Jacksonville Cold H1U. PhaenU. Talent and on mntnr routes: Dally and Sunday one yaar. ai2.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford OlllclAJ faper oi eacasun muov United Press rull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C NCWSMPIR k UBMSHEIS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAl EDITOKIAl COMMUNICATIONS Letter! to the Editor mast bear the name and addresse of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 4no words. D.S.T. Protest To the Editor: Another word of protest about the so-called time change, pleading for it to stay "standard." There has always been plenty of time for all. Now with short er working hours where is the need to change time? Why can't the stores open at 7 or 8 a. m., as they used to? There never was so much dis unity and chaos over such a trifling thing. Working hours have always been adiuxted. according to con ditions; never the clocks. There has been plenty of protest against the change. Doesn't our constitution begin with these words: "We, the peo ple of the U. S.?" Were we asked about D. S. T.I Doesn't our declaration of in dependence read in part: "Life, liberty and pursuit of happi ness?' D.S.T. causes mothers to put In longer hours preparing meals for the family under two differ ent working clocks, so a few may have one hour longer in the evening. Innocent children are disturbed. Is that happiness? If our Golden Rule was re peated and concentrated on, it would eliminate a lot of this selfishness. I think this so-called time change should be abolished once and for all so it would not come up every spring like the sap in a tree. It's too bHd there are not more mayors like the mayor of Madras who knows how to run his own business without being a follow er. We inherited our standard time from our ancestors. Why not stand up and protect It? It's never too late to make things right, Mr. Mayor. Let's continue on standard time with the rest and keep united. Mrs. H. E. Schmidt. D.S.T. Revolt Urged To the Editor: In 18R3 stan dard time was adopted. It seems to have been satisfactory or It would have been changed be fore this. A child that has to catch the bus at 6:30 D.S.T. would have to be up at 9:30 to have Its breakfast and get ready for school. One would need their lights on at 5:30. What's saved? We have associations that advo cate the welfare of our growing children. That early arising wouldn't be one of them. 1 should think D.S.T. could just as well be as school lets out and changed again as school starts In the fall, if we must have such a silly thing. The court house they say is going to operate some on stan dard time and some on D.S.T. Also the postoffice and also pub lic transportation will be divid ed. Such a mess! I would Just like to know who la behind all this confusion. Surely 129 business men in a city against the thousands of people who have protested can not be the answer. There is only one class of business that would gain by a long, long evening with nothing for the young folks to do. That would be those that make it their business to disrate the pub lic. More cigarettes to smoke, more liquor to drink, more de linquent children and youths. But we the people do not have to have daylight saving time if we are against it. It does not mat ter whether It is the business men or the crime promoters that are domineering the people. It isn't war. No one can ar rest you, nor shoot you, nor im- New York City, N. Y., April 24 That $100-a-day weather expert from Harvard is having a hard time. Every time he goes up in tne air to mane rain, ne is lorcea aown Dy low-nanging clouds which are either doing the rain job or getting ready to. Today is an example. A few days ago there was a similar experi ence. The net result is ok and probably worth the price, but we should think the rain-making professor would wonder if he is really justified in banking one hundred bucks per day without at least giving a substantial cut to Jupiter Pluvious. e e Some friends here who planned to leave for Ashville, N. C, for a couple of weeks vacation are worried lest there be a railroad strike and they won't be able to get back. According to press reports if the railroad workers do walk out the Southern Railway system will close shop entirely, putting nearly 4n out of work. This system serves Ashville. wnars wrong? Well, its the Diesel locomotive question. e e e Thanks to the superior power of the Diesel and its lower upkeep from the standpoint both of labor and fuel, the railroads have been able to reduce expenses materially in recent years. The time probably is not far distant when the Diesel will replace old fashioned coal burning locomotives entirely. This would mark a long step in transportation progress better service at less cost. But it would also mark a reduction in labor costs a reduced payroll. Organized labor leaders don't like this, so they insist upon adding a third man to the Diesel crew or ELSE ! e e e Organized labor claims this demand is in the Interest of public safety and improved service. But two fact-finding boards appointed by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman decided this claim was entirely "devoid of merit" while the president of the Southern Railway declares Diesels don't need three men in the cab any more than a two-legged man needs tnree snoes. Here is a perfect spot for this department's special "labor court" to steD in. decide which side is right, hand down a decision which would be supported, as criminal and civil court decisions are suported by the police power. This would prevent a strike and the consequent painful sacrifices by labor, capital and the public. But apparently there is about as much chance of special labor courts as of oratorical sanity in an election year. It just can't be done although it should be. Sncakintf of sa'nitv The longer this McCarthy hulabaloo goes on the clearer it becomes that Senator Lodge was right the entire Communist issue should have been taken out of partisan politics at the outset, placed in the hands of a non-political special board, and all charges turned over to the F.B.I, before they were made public, NOT after. The exact reverse course was adopted by the Wisconsin senator. He first made his charges wholesale, inaccurate and irresponsible did irresparable harm to scores of innocent people, and stirred up such a wild-eyed dust storm that at the present writing con fusion worse confounded is the only net result. Everyone wants Communists, or Communist sympathizer driven out of government service AT ONCE. But everyone also wants or SHOULD want the ACT that individuals named are communists or communist sympathizers, established beyond any reasonable doubt FIRST. That could have been and still can be accomplished under the Lodge plan, it CAN'T be accomplished under the McCarthy procedure. We don't often urge the reading of any special magazine. But the April Harpers has so many articles of Interest and value that we wish the magazine's circulation were about 100 times as large as it is. The excellent and convincing article regarding China by Professor Peffer of Columbia University has already been recom mended. There is also "Two Bovs on a Mountain." bv Justice Wm. Douglas which is both entertaining and Instructive, incidentally bringing a fact into sharp relief that all us oldsters appreciate namely: that the years take the dare-devil out of a man so only young men should be fighter pilots. The locale is in the Tieton Basin in the Cascades which gives the article a special appeal for Oregonians. Perhaps the most startling article is entitled "A Cataclysm Threatens California." The author is an engineer named Cooper and If he is correct the Imperial Valley may be wiped out any day by a flood from a back-up oi the Colorado river induced Dy another major earinquaxe. The coacneua vaney lunner norm and reaching nearly to El Centro would also be threatened both involving over 3,000,000 acres of the richest land in California and of course, thousands of lives. One can imagine what the inhabitants of this prosperous and salubrious section of former Calllornia desert must be tninKlng of the article, its author and the magazine. The reaction of the real estate agents would be especially interesting! Yet. if the facts are true, thev should be made public, and a Drogram started at once to save the two valleys from any such catastrophe if that can be done. If the facts are NOT true, of course printing such an article would be inexcusable. It is hard to believe as responsible a maga zine as Harpers would publish such an alarming prediction without first checking and rechecking from a factual standpoint. Harpers costs 50 cents at the news-stands but the April number at least is cheap at the price. (UNpaid ad.) We see that Wayne Morse's opponent for the senatorial nomina tion asks the GOP electorate to name a "regular Republican," i.e.: himself. We doubt if the Republican rank and file will oblige however, for there would be no more certain way to spoil the GOP record for three decades and return a Democrat to the United States Senate than to defeat Oregon s tumor Kcpublican senator in the primary. That would put the senate seat in the bag check will show that more than one Democrat will register as a Republican in the primary and vote for the "regular" and un known nominee, so as to aid the Democratic cause. Yep, just as simple as that! Later: Another downpour with the reservoirs over 80 per cent full. The Harvard rainmaker didn't even go up this time, but is still drawing his $4 per hour asleep or awake. KWK Crosstown by Roland Co - r fr" t ' Vlt' , W prison you If you refuse to turn your clock up. All together now, on Sunday, April the 30th, leave your clock as it Is. If you haven t democracy or spunk enough to show how you are burned up to be pushed around by such a silly thing then you deserve any Inconveni ence resulting from same. Clarrisa Dobson what they are getting, and that is to be led around by the nose. Mrs. Harry W. Morrow In the Day's News Blames Business Men To the Editor: This confusion about daylight saving time bor ders on the ridiculous if it were not so serious. How a handful of business men can willfully disrupt a whole valley so that they can have an extra hour to spend on the golf course or loaf at the ex pense of the people who do hard physical labor and need that ex tra hour of rest is beyond me. I read that a petition of 100 names was presented favoring the fast time. Just whose names were on that petition and who instigat ed It? Was It those same business men and their employees? 1 notice that the other towns In the valley waited for Medford to decide first. The formers do not want fast time. Central Point Grange went on record as opposing It, but it appears that because they live outside the city they carry no weight In this matter, whv isn I the whole county allowed to set tle this question by vote? Be cause the council knows It would not pass. I understand one of our conn. oilmen refused to vote for the fast time. It was Mr. Runtz. In that case let's make him our next mayor. Although he is also a business man he apparently puts the welfare of the oeoole above i his own Interests. I A people that don't have In-! testinal fortitude to get up on their hind legs and demand proper consideration from their public servant descrvt Just By FRANK JENKINS In Chicago the other night, David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the Redio Corporation of America, was discussing the possibilities of television. Among other things, he told his hearers that TELEVISION MAY DE TERMINE THE NEXT PRESI DENT OF THE UNITED STATES. gAID Sarnolfi When TV spreads from coast to coast and gets the 75 to 80 million viewers it expects to get within the next two and a half years, "the next President will have to be photogenic." He'll have to wear the right necktie. He'll have to smile pleasantly. I don't know what you're so nervous about. BInki. After all. you're Just asking for a raise which I'm going to refuse to give you. Washington Report By Bob Dickey Washington, Apr. 27 The Oregon delegation is hard at work trying to iron out the dis tressing situa tion confront ing the north west wheat growers. There are three basic problems which are ham stringing the region's wheat and flour in dustry. They are: export markets through inability to compete with lower priced Canadian and Australian wheat and flour. 2. Loss of domestic market in California to southern Idaho pro ducers by reason of inequities in Bob Dickey 1. Loss of H M-M-M-M-M-M-M A clothing store dummy can be photogenic. A clothing store dummy can wear the right kind of necktie. 1 can t say that I like the pros pect opened up by Sarnoff's meditations on the future of tele vision. gVER the years of the recent v past, I've often wondered if radio isn't the most dangerous thing that ever came into the world. Gibbon, who was a gloomy cuss anyway, tells us that Cicero was one of the most dangerous of the Romans. Why? Well, Ci cero was an orator, and like most professional orators he tended to be a demagogue. (You may have observed that the more oratorical a man is the more of a demagogue he is apt to be. I won't know why. Someone has said rather well that an orator is inclined to "become exuber ated with his own verbosity." The more exuberated an orator becomes, the more demagogic he is apt to become. There seems to be a connection somewhere.) But what I started out to say Is that Cicero could reach with his oratory only those Romans who were gathered within tne range of his voice. If he had had radio to MULTIPLY THE RANGE of his voice, he would have been, I'm sure, many times more dangerous than he was. WE'VE seen in the years of the not - too - distant nast how radio multiplies the charm of men who are dangerously GIFT ED WITH A VOICE. If in the future, as Sarnoff sketches for us, the right kind of face, the right kind of neck tie and the right kind of smile are to be added to the gifts which a politician must possess in order to be successful, I'm afraid we're moving into a time when we shall be governed ex clusively by actors. When I contemplate that pos sibility, I feel welling up within me the urge to get as far out as I can into one of these "wild erness areas'' the forest service is setting up for us and there build myself a cabin in which I shall dwell dressed in the skins of wild animals and nourished on fruits and nuts and the flesh if such beasts as I can overcome. WITHOUT a radio. And WITHOUT a television set. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads Baker, Ore., Apr. 27 U.rV Baker, an eastern Oregon hold out, finally gave in and joined the ranks of Oregon cities going on daylight saving time this'ket value f the land they re summer, ceive. the support program for the two areas. 3. Loss of eastern markets because of high freight rates which make shipping econom ically unfeasible. By the very nature of these tnree proDiems, the prospects ot any immediate relief are gloomy. nevertheless, certain steps are being taken. To remedy the loss of markets to Canada and Australia, an ex port subsidy plan has been sug gested. Relief from the freight rates wnicn cripple the north west industries as a whole is also under consideration. Since these two issues repre sent overall policy questions, no immediate action can be taken without comDlete consideration by congress. A change in the support pro gram, however, could be effect ed immediately. And currently the Oregon legislators are work ing on this phase. The real objection to the sup port program is that the south ern Idaho area is under a dif ferent classification and as a result can produce wheat at a cheaper price. Thus the southern Idaho wheat and flour people have crowded Oregon and Wash ington producers out of the Cali fornia market. The effect of this inequality in the support program is cogent ly pointed up by the fact that millers in Oregon are operating at 50 per cent of capacity, while the southern Idaho operations are between 90 and 100 per cent of capacity. By contrast, flour mills on a national scale are operating at 75 per cent capac ity. Davidson Means CVA C. Girard Davidson, assistant secretary of interior, has dis covered that his name is synony mous with CVA to some Oregonians. A few weeks ago Davidson attended the Virgin Islands gov ernor installation ceremonies as President Truman's representa tive. During his stay there he was introduced to a vacationing Fortiandite as a fellow Oregon ian. The two chatted for a few minutes then there was a pause, and Davidson's newly made friend said. "Say, are you the CVA Davidson?" Watchdog Mors Sen. Wayne Morse has set him self up as the ex-officio watch dog of all congressional trans fers of federal lands. Since com ing to the senate he has blocked all gratuitous transfers of fed eral lands to state or private groups. He says, "I see no reason why the U. S. taxpayers should make a gift of valuable federal prop erty to any state or private group." Morse's persistent blocking of these transfers has become so notorious that now most senators include the Morse "fair market value" provision in any land transfer bills which they offer. The Oregon senator is adam ant about the subject. He main tains that he has saved the tax payers many millions of dollars by this device. To prove this point. Morse is having one of his assistants prepare a report showing how much money he has saved by his action. Morse's working formula is that the private recipients of the federal lands pay the fair market value and the public recipients pay 50 per cent of the fair mar- WHAT'S COOKIN' UNDER THE BIG TOP NO swingingL trapeze artists! NO i? pink-colton candy! NO Taugh-bappy clowns! attV BUT -THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH Watch This Space STARTS MONDAY On the Side-fly f v Dur,in9 (Distribute! by Kin raaturee Syndicate, lae.) HIHIIHIWIMIIMMHI,,,,,,. Yesterday we breezed down highway 1 to the Gulfstream Park racetrack to see the noble animals perform. The Gulfstream race course is one of the most beautiful horse tracks I have even seen. It is cleverly land scaped. In the infield is a lake on which a couple of small yachts sail about and bathing beauties stage surfboard riding exhibi tions. A very pleasant place to spend an afternoon. I saw Joe E. Lewis, the whimsical night spot comedian, wandering around the clubhouse terrace. Also saw the ex-jockey, Don Meade. Don pre sented an extremely dapper ap pearance and although he has been barred from riding for some time it is quite evident he is still doing pretty well for himself fi nancially. Billboard The part of highway I we traveled on to Gulfstream Park is certainly all cluttered up with billboards. Never saw so many billboards by the side of the road before. Seems they are about six feet apart. We returned bv wav of a highway along the ocean on wnicn there are no billboards at all. Quite a relief. Unique City We passed through Fort Lau derdale on the way back. This is the most unusual city I have seen in Florida so far. In one way it strongly resembles Venice, hav ing 100 miles of natural and ar tificial waterways within the city limits. It is populated chiefly by yachting and angling enthusi asts. Most of them live in charm ing little houses with beautiful lawns running down to canals. For fishing they usually Eo to sea. But they don't have to. The fishing is good right within the city limits. Artificial Ice It was Dr. John Gorrie of ADa- lachicola. Fla., who first patent ed a process of making ice arti ficially. He used it for air con ditioning the rooms of fever pa tients, that was over 100 years ago. In 1845 to be exact. There has been a monument erected in Apalachicola in the good doctor's honor. Now the next time you think how convenient artificial ice cubes are you will know whom to thank for that conve nience. Miqhty Hunter The mightiest of all Florida s mighty alligator hunters was a fellow known as "Alligator" Pratt. When Pratt saw an alli gator floating by he diver in and tackled the animal, climbed on its back and rode him ashore. I have seen moving pictures of men wrestling with alligators, but Pratt is the only man I ever heard of who dared to dive into the water after an alligator and bring it ashore alive. Postal Colony Ask your postman if he ever heard of Postal Colony, Fla. This community consists of 1000 acres of citrus groves and was estab lished by and for retired postal clerks in 1922. The postal clerk retirement age is t2. An organi zation, named the Postal Colony company, maintains all the nec essary agricultural equipment for citrus growing and this is used jointly b ythe growers. About 100 families spend their winters in Postal Colony and 25 live there all the year around. Please Not The overseas extension of the Florida East Coast railway to Key West, completed by Henry M. Flagler in 1912, cost $50 mil lion and the lives of 700 work ers. Construction was started in 1905 and completed in 1912. In cidentally, Henry Flagler, an as sociate of John D. Rockefeller, was retired and a millionaire many times over when he be came interested in the develop ment of the east coast of Florida. He was 53 years old when he came out of retirement and ipent the rest of his life working harder than ever. He lived to be 83. Real Estate It is not as easy as it used to be to become a real estate salesman in Florida. During the boom days of the 1920s many Deople were victims of swindles by slick, high pressure real es- News of4-H q$ CLUBS Roxy Ann 4 H Club Roxv Ann 4-H Sheep club met at the home of Mr. Whitcher April 22 at 7 p. m. He took them down on the river for a wiener roast. Members discussed getting their lambs for the P.I. fair at Portland this fall. Wilson Moeller, reporter. tate salesmen and this gave the state's real estate industry a bad name. Now to acquire a license to deal in real estate a man must have been a resident of Florida for at least six months. He must also furnish character references and credentials detailing his ac tivities for the preceding 10 years. In addition he must pass a stiff examination on real estate law and finance. 117 South Central Telephone 2-6241 WARD WEEK Ends Saturday LAST AYS From where I sit ...iy Joe Marsh His Punch is His Signature Was on the train np to Central City the other day and when the conductor came around, I asked him why their ticket punches make such odd-shaped holes in the ticket. "Every conductor in the country has a different design for his punch," he tells me. "Some even show .up a fellow's preferences. Now take mine. The hole it makes looks like a beer goblet." Sure enough! Then he went on to say that the punch is just like the conductor's signature. Makes it easy to trace tickets ... to check up If something happens. From where I sit, even though your ticket is punched differently from mine, it still gets you where you're going. Just like people with their opinions. You might like cof fee, another person, tea and HI settle for a temperate glass of beer. 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