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High Type of Citizenship Said Needed For Enactment of Commission Reforms Unless the people of the Unit ed States display a higher type of citizenship than is usual in peace time, little lasting good may come of the reorganization f lan for federal government out ined in the Hoover commission report, according to Mrs. Frank Taylor, Portland, who spoke be fore an open meeting at the high school last night. It was spon sored by Medford Business and Professional Women's club. Mrs. Taylor, chairman of the speaker's pool for the Oregon committee for the Hoover re port, said "groups and factions must quit asking for special fa vors for communities or districts and must instead make an over all effort for the good of the country." Quotes Lincoln She quoted Abraham Lincoln's saying, "If we do not make com mon cause to save this ship of state, no one else may ever have a chance to pilot her again," and added that this was as appli cable now as at the time Lin coln said it. The speaker warned that the country should not be interest ed only in the "savings" which might be accomplished through pulting the report into effect, but more in the efficiency which might be promoted, and said that the commission had wisely not stressed the economy side of the picture. Mrs. Taylor outlined the his tory of the commission, pointing out that it was completely bi partisan and that so far activity for it had been kept on a bi partisan level. She explained its major recommendations. She said that much good had already been accomplished, with several rec ommendations already put into effect and others now being con sidered by congress. Urges Reading She added, however, that many of the major, more con troversial measures advocated were still being considered, and she urged all citizens to read at least part of the report and write their congressmen expressing opinions. She listed among the controversial recommendations those concerning the veterans' administration, civil service and establishment of a united med ical administration. She said "mystery" surrounds the postal recommendations, with everyone . from the postmaster general on down declaring they were for postal reform, but nothing being done, she said. Mrs. Taylor said the commis sion task forces surveying fed eral government had not found that all government employees were scamps and incompetents, but that they did find Uncle Sam isn't a good business man and isn't a good housekeeper. She said they found much over-lap-Ding of services and much waste, but that they also found the pub lic was demanding more and more service from government. "We have to pay for it," she said. Copies of the commission's 19 reports are at the city library- Obituary MARY LOUCKS Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Emaline Loucks, 92, Phoenix, who passed away In a local hos pital Monday, will be held in Conger-Morris chapel Friday at 1 p. m with the Rev. E. H. Mc Gee officiating. Committal serv ice will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mrs. Loucks was born in Bal timore. Md., Jan. 19. 1858, and came from Michigan to the Rogue valley to make her home 25 years ago. living with her son, Eugene, at Phoenix. In addition to her son, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Emily Hobbs, Obcrlin, O., and nine grandchildren. TO COVER TRACKS Portland, Ore., Apr. 27 (U.R) Portland's 15.2 miles of exposed streetcar tracks will be paved over by the end of summer. City Commissioner William A. Bowes and Portland Traction Company President Gordon Steele agreed today. Detroit (U.R) Detective W. B. Sterla swore vengeance on the bad-check artist who passed one signed "W. B. Sterla." ZELDA BROWN Zelda Mae Brown, 1018 West Fourth street, passed away at a local hospital Wednesday. She was born at Ordway. Colo., on Aug. 5, 1915, and was aged 34 years. She was a member of the Sa cred Heart Catholic church and had been associated with the Jackson county chapter of Red Cross as a home service assist ant for the past five years. She was a member of the Pocahontas lodge. She is survived by her hus band, George I.: two daughters, Georgia Lee and Marilyn Ruth. and one son. Sydney Thomas, at home; her parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. Z. Smith. Gold Hill; seven sisters, Mrs. Paul Johnston, Med ford: Mrs. Mildred Swindler, Eu gene: Mrs. Harold Wilson, Tal ent; Mrs. John Thomas, Klamath Falls; Mrs. Ray Gamier, Central Point; Mrs. James Keyes and Mrs. Roy Rauh. both of Gold Hill: five brothers, Joseph E. Smith. Medford; Gerald, Eugene: Harry. James and John, all of Gold Hill. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Sacred Heart Catholic church Saturday at 10 a. m., with the Very Rev. Father John Berger officiating. Inter ment will take place in Siskiyou Memorial park. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held at Perl funeral home Friday at 6:30 p. ni. ALLEDA OLIVER Alleda Mildred Oliver passed away at Lakeview. Wednesday. She leaves a sister, Marie Bobett, Medford. Funeral services will be held at Lakeview Saturday morning and interment will take place in the Jacksonville cemetery Satur day at 4 p. m. Perl funeral home is assisting with services here. Malin 'Kooties' Visit Camp White Center Camp White, Apr. 27 From Malin, two of Pup Tent 15's VFW "Cooties," Arnold Kirtley and John W. visited here this week. They brought greetings, cigarettes and candy. For more than 5 hours they toured the center. For both it was the first trip to Camp White. John L. Kelly, chief of special services, conferred with the boys as did "Ty" Teorey of the arts, craft and hobby shop. "We like what we have seen on our first visit. Manager Hat ton, the staff and employed per sonnel are to be congratulated," they said. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Mfdford and vicinity: Cltarins to night with freezing temperature! by early Friday. Sinokey Friday morn Ini. Otherwise lair and slightly warmer. Wei tern Oregon: ConHderablt cloudlneai with occasional showers tonight and Friday. Cooler tonight. Low 32 to 4J. Slightly warmer rrl day. High Friday 30 to 0. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 79: Lowest S. Total monthly precipitation .57 inch. Defciiency for the month .60 inch. Total precipitation since September 1. 1949. 15.18 inches. Excess for the season .90 Inch. Relative humidity 4 30 p m. yester dav SS-V 4:30 am. today 8'V. Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M., 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec. Boise 37 43 T Boston 40 38 .Si Chicago 48 33 .01 Denver 7 31 Eureka - 32 43 Havre 48 27 Klamath Falls 80 40 T Los Angeles 85 57 Medford ........ 3 47 T New York 81 43 .07 Omaha 30 30 Phoenix 92 38 Portland 48 44 .01 Reno 77 49 Eugene S3 43 .10 Salt Lake 81 41 San Francisco 88 48 Seattle 46 40 .21 Spokane 31 33 .M Washington. D. C. 74 49 Yakima . S3 28 Archbishop To Speak At School Fund Meet The Most Rev. Edward D. Howard, archbishop of the arch diocese of Portland in Oregon, will be the principal speaker at a meeting tonight which will open the fund raising campaign to finance construction of a new building for the St. Mary's paro chial school. The meeting, to be at S p.m. in the school gymnasium, is ex pected to attract some 400 or 500 committee workers and their families. Larry Schade, chair man of the campaign, is expect ed to preside. Solicitation from Catholic wage and income earners will begin intensively tomorrow, and all Catholics have been asked to remain at home between 7 and 9 p.m. tomorrow so that commit tee workers may call on them. First reports on the drive will be made at a meeting Sunday. Hunger Forces E$kime To Accept Assistant Ottawa, Apr. 27 (U.R) The last band of Nomad Eskimos sur rendered to civilization today the victims of hunger. Government officials said the band of 30 Eskimos, who previ ously had shunned tradine posts. had "agreed to accept food and! medical supplies after thev ran out of caribou meat. The sup plies will be flown to them by the army medical corps. Thursday. April 27, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) iQJIL Tfrl&MBZ-MtlZ - 8a t -- . i ja iHasiaaasasssssssaBaBMasassBasiaaae- J IsoPURE... ho DEPENDABLE, IT'S ASPIRIN AT ITS BEST I WORLD'S LA It CIST SELLER AT SVC M . ' :.tlY3 fj V Orange flavored Ms &iy ft? mother to live, easy (or child to Uk. Oaly Uc 117 So. Central Telephont 2-6241 WARD WEEK Ends Saturday LAST 2 PAYS WHO CALLS HOOVER A 'YOKEL' and Why! An Open Letter to S. Eugene Allen, Editor of the Oregon Labor Press Dear Genet It is common knowledge that no one in the state of Oregon thinks less of Wayne Morse than you do. Time and again Joe Battalia, Heinie Detloff and the others around the table at Hilaire's have heard you de nounce Morse as "commie" sympathizer and political racketeer. Why, then, have you used the old, familiar, "commie" smear technique in the last two issues of the Oregon Labor Press, calling Dave Hoover an illiterate and unintelligent "yokel?" You know better, Gene. You know that Hoover has had three years of law training and is well informed on world and domestic problems. He takes short-hand fluently and is an expert typist. We know why the Labor Press called Hoover a "yokel," Gene. Because, like most of the rest of us, you have to work for living. Your bosses at the Labor Temple have had their orders from the big labor bosses in the East. When our advertising man tried to buy apace in the Labor Press to answer the scurrilous and unfounded at tacks on Hoover, you told him "nothing doing." You had your orders on that, too. What about Freedom of the Press, Gene? And what about Freedom itself? Will America continue to be free when the labor bosses and bureau, crats take over? Right now the labor bosses are tapping the rank and file of union labor $2 per head nationally to put up a slush fund for their pals like Morse en estimated 15 million dollars. We never heard of the membership of a union being given a chance to vote on such things. The labor bosses pick to whom they want to throw their support and the membership's money. Do they regard their own Union members as "yokels?" Are you calling Hoover a "yokel" in the Labor Press, Gene, because he owns and works a 400-acre farm in Lane county? According to "Who's Who." Jim Marr, execu. five-secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, "began as a farm laborer." From the same source we learn, Gene, that your first job out of college was with a farm implement concern. Kelley Loe, political "brain" at the labor temple, was born on a farm. Charles L. McNary and Abraham Lincoln were also bom on the farm. Would you say they were "yokels?" Have you forgotten, Gene, that America was built by men like Dave Hoover who were not afraid to go out into the country and work with their hands? Those pioneers who came to Oregon in covered wagons carried an axe in one hand and a Bible in the other, and they didn't need anybody with foreign "isms" to tell them how to lead their lives from the cradle to the grave. Were they "yokels," Gene? Maybe there's a reason why the boys on the big city dailies are poking fun at "Deadwood Dave." They all be long to the Newspaper Guild which is affiliated with the CIO. Have you seen the issue of the CIO News for Jan uary 2, 1950, which lists Wayne Morse as the only "Repub lican" senator with a perfect record of voting for CIO sponsored measures? Gene, we know you take your orders from the labor bosses. Is that where Morse gets his orders? Well, Gene, we know the spot you are in. Oregon is on the spot, too. It will be six years before the people of Oregon will get another chance to vote on the office Morse now occupies in the U. S. Senate. Maybe this is the last chance the rest of us "yokels" will have to wake up before the labor bosses and the bur eaucrats put a yoke around our necks for good! After all, if only a pinko college professor who has never had to meet payroll, who has never worn his coun try's uniform in time of war and who has fed at the public trough since he got his college diploma in Wisconsin is the only type of man qualified to hold public office in this country, all we can say is GOD HELP AMERICA! DAVE HOOVER: Born in 1898 on a farm in Wayne County, Indiana, of Quaker parentage. After leaving the "little red schoolhouse," attended Richmond, Indiana, high school. Immediately following graduation, enlisted in the U. S. Army on May 6, 1917. Following war service, was employed by cotton exporting firm at Ardmore, Oklahoma. Moved to Los Angeles in 1923. Employed in law enforce ment by Los Angeles county. Attended Southwestern Uni versity Law School 1930-1932. Resigned from his Los Angeles County law enforcement position in 1942 after making outstanding record and returned to farming at Deadwood, Lane county, Oregon. Member Dairy Herd Improvement association and deeply interested in the ad vancement of agriculture and the dairy industry. Long a student and supporter of good government. 7" f XT T7 T C 5 Mr. snd Mrs. Dire Hooer stteni) s I W IV JC j kj t Clackamas Republican Rally accompan ied by Walter R. 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