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
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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. Mty, Co-Publisher Oregon City Enterpriss-Couritr
Take the State of Oregon Away From the Federal Government Give It Back to the
People. ELECT X REAL REPUBLICAN A RE A L AMERICAN . . .
DAVE HOOVER FOR U. S. SENATOR
HOOVER for U. S. SENATOR Committee, Jamri A. Rodman, General Chairman, 208 Broadway-Oak Building, Portland S, Orccoa
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