-MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday. April St, 1SS0
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ROBERT W RUHL, Editor
ERNEST R. CILSTRAP
HERB CREV. Advertlilne Mar
B. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor
ERIC ALLEN JR., City mnor
BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor
HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor
m.ira btarchkr. Society Editor
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Mediord. Oregon, under Act of
March 3. 1897
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Fire Districts Needed
The recent destruction by fire of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Brown's fine home on the Old Stage road
points again to the crying need for protection through
the formation of rural fire districts in Jackson county.
e e e e e
ALTHOUGH two such districts are presently In
course of formation, one for the Central Point
region and another at Rogue River, others should
be organized, especially where there is a growing
concentration of dwellings, and all should be hurried
along as rapidly as possible for warm weather and
increased fire hazard will soon be upon us.
e e e e e
FORMATION of a fire district is not a highly in-
volved procedure. Although the main difficulty lies
in securing sufficient funds to buy the necessary
equipment this need not be too great an item if
purchases are confined to a light pumper and a tank
car, together with such hose, ladders and protective
clothing as are required.
The cost of equipment sufficient to give at least
a measure of protection should not seem prohibitive
when it is considered that the initial outlay and
subsequent small tax will be offset in the course of
time through reduction of fire insurance rates and
the averting of property losses.
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THROUGH the length and breadth of the valley
new homes are going up, many of them in the
mansion class, but hardly a single one of these places
has any least semblance of fire protection. If they
catch fire, all the owners and willing neighbors can
do is hustle out such furniture as time permits and let
the dwelling burn.
The money lost through one such fire as de
stroyed the Brown home Sunday would purchase all
the equipment needed for two or three fire districts.
hi.U.D.
Crosstown
by Roland Cob
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Father Jailsdfor
Beating of Infant
Vale, Ore., Apr. 28 UJ.PJ Dis
trict Attorney Charles W. Swan
reported today M. C. Zamora Jr.,
26, Ontario, has been arrested
on a charge of mayhem for al
legedly beating and crushing the
skull of his 18-months-old son,
Michael.
The child has been receiving
treatment since Sunday for brain
concussion, multiple bruises and
skull fracture. His condition was
reported "fair."
Authorities said evidence In-1 struck the boy, and battered his
dicated Zamora whipped and I head against a wall.
Baked Ham Benefit Dinner
FOR
BLISS HEINE'S JUNIORS
Saturday, April 29 - 6 to 8 P.M.
F-O.E. AUXILIARY HALL 217 WEST MAIN
ADULTS $1.00 CHILDREN 50c
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County His
tory from the files of the Mall
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 roars ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 28, 1940
(It Was Sunday)
Oreensprings highway near
Klamath Junction blocked by
debris when dynamite blast jars
loose steep rocky mountainside.
Mrs. Evangeline King, Mrs.
Maude E. Grigsby and John S.
Foster, long-time residents of
county, die.
Taxpayers' League of Jackson
county organized with S. G. Nye,
s president.
Willamette highway opening
for through traffic in July.
Mrs. Gladys Heath, postmaster
at Rogue River, elected president
of Jackson and Josepnine L-oumy
Postmasters association..
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 28. 1930
(It Was Monday)
Medford residents view eclipse
ef sun for 45 minutes.
Heavy snowstorm buries
Crater Lake park with 10 to 24
Inches; mora coming.
Renovating and retinting of
walls and ceilings of inner lobby
art Medford hotel underway.
Floyd Loomls and Marvin
Cave suffer injuries in accidents
over week-end.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 28, 1916
(It Was Friday)
Registration for primaries
(hows 4,532 men and 3,118
women voters in county.
W. E. Blake elected captain
of first company at Ashland.
Medford Elks, 300 strong, to
take special train for meeting
t Grants Pass.
One From The Birds
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Here is a highly significant
little titbit in the news from
Washington:
"A 29 billion dollar nppro-
Sriation bill which was to have
een the vehicle for a house of
representatives ECONOMY
DRIVE is slowly but steadily
GETTING BIGGER.
"As the house stHrled today
on its seventh day of considering
the INDIVIDUAL allotments
that make up the huge total, the
bill was $67,300,000 larRer than
when it started out and some
substantial INCREASES are still
in the offing."
H
OW come?
Well, It seems to be this-a-way:
The house of representatives
of the congress of the United
States, a lot of whose members
had been yelling bloody murder
for economy IN THE AB
STRACT, brought up the subject
of local hospitals built with the
aid of federal cash.
When the house got through
with the subject, the Icderul-ind
for-local - hospitnls appropriation
had Been liuusitu oy 73 mil'
lion bucks.
Many difficulties are encountered in producing
a newspaper, most of them due to man's commission
or omission, some due to mechanical failures, some
to the elements and a goodly number seemingly, just
due to the perversity of things in general.
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NE of the most unusual "gremlins" ever to snafu
operations is reported in the latest edition of the
United Press Bulletin, monthly publication issued by
the wire service to its Pacific division newspapers.
According: to the Bulletin the Salt Lake-Provo,
Utah, U.P. teletype press circuit was getting out of
order for five to ten minutes at just about the same
time each day 3:30 p.m. The wire trouble baffled
maintenance men because intervals of interference
were bo brief that by the time crews could arrive at
the spot where instruments seemed to locate the
difficulty, the wires would clear up.
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FINALLY, it was noticed that a methodical dairy-
man drove his herd of milk cows through a field
in the trouble zone at 3 :J0 every day. It was figured
that this procedure must have some connection with
the strangely punctual wire trouble but it was not un
til the plodding milk herd was watched for some time
that cause of the wire interruption was discovered.
In the cows movement through the field
thousands of blackbirds were disturbed. Flying
about for a time, they would light on nearby tele
phone wires for a few minutes before settling once
again to the business of picking up a living in the
field. The combined weight of the blackbirds on a
certain strand of wire caused it to rub against one
adjoining. Result: teletype signals jumbled and
harried newspaper telegraph editors tore their hair.
harbor and flood control proj
ects" (ALL of them to be built
with money from Uncle Sam.)
H
OW about that one?
It will work like this: A lot
of these congressmen come from
districts that want improvement
(with federal money) of their
rivers and harbors. A lot more
of them come from districts
wanting big flood control dams,
with their accompanying big pay
rolls while the dams are being
built.
When a congressman comes
from a district that wants big
wads of federal dough for hos
pitals, or for harbor improve
ment, or for river improvement,
or for flood control dams, he
HAS TO HEDGE ON ECONOMY.
Economy In the abstract is all
right, but when It is applied to
the hospital or the harbor Im
provement project or the river
improvement project or the flood
control project THAT HIS DIS
TRICT WANTS It's a different
matter entirely.
Economy of that sort, vou see.
is FALSE economy.
piIAT is to my:
w
HY?
I don't know. But I suspect
mat a lot or inese congressmen
come from districts that WANT
HOSPITALS BUILT WITH THE
AID OF FEDERAL DOUGH.
THE Washington dispatch goes
on:
"Bigger Increases still (In the
29 billion dollar appropriation
bill) are in the offing. . . Wait
ing to be reached probably next
week are proposals to add sub
tantially to fundi for river and
startling figures. This is the gist
of them:
Of the $414,000,000 taken
OUT of Oregon by the federal
government in taxes in 1949,
ONLY $122,000,000 CAME
BACK TO THE STATE IN THE
FORM OF FEDERAL SPEND
ING IN OREGON.
New Directory
Canvassing Now
Underway Here.
Canvassing is now underway
for a new edition of a city and
county directory by R. L. Polk
and company, publishers, and it
is expected that the directory
will be completed by August, it
was reported today.
A crew of advertising solici
tors were in Medford last fall
to secure advertising copy for
the publication, and the crews
at work here now are collectine
house - by - house information to
be included in the directory.
Carry Identification
Canvassers have the annrovnl
of the Jackson Countv Chamhor
of Commerce in their work, ac
cording to Secretary - Manager
Don Lane. All housp-tn-hntic
works carry identification.
The new directory will be
similar to past editions, with a
residents' section, listins names
addresses, occupations and names
of wives. In other sections will
be a street guide, including in
formation on telephones and
home ownership, a classified ad
vertising directory, and ex
planitory pages about Medford
and Jackson county.
Anomer section will list
county residents by name and
rural routes.
Suit Against Salem
Newspaper Dismissed
Salem, Ore., Apr. 28 (U.R)
Circuit Judge Ralph Hamilton
of Bend dismissed a $20,000 li
bel suit against George Putnam,
publisher of the Capital Journal
here, and Ray M. Moore in a
non-suit ruling.
Robert and John Marr were
plaintiffs in the Marion county
circuit court action. In their
complaint they charged that a
radio repair business they oper
ated was damaged by a story
published in the Salem news
paper. Judge Hamilton made his rul
ing after attorneys for the plain
tiffs had presented their case.
The attorneys for the plaintiffs
said they would appeal the ruling.
ASSOCIATION TO MEET
Rogue River, Apr. 28 The
annual meeting of the board of
directors of the Woodville Ceme
tery association will be held in '
the Civic building here Saturday
at 2 p.m. Association officers
said the meeting will be open to .
puuiiuij' uwiiea ana its upKeep j I
is a common project for Rogue i I
rtiver residents and those in
that vicinity.
PRICES GOOD
April 28 - May 1
WE RESERVE THE
RIGHT TO LIMIT
QUANTITIES
STORE HOURS:
WEEK DAYS
10 a.m. Until Midnite
SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS
9 a.m. Until Midnite
IT'S EASY TO SHOP AT
ANDERSON'S
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ALL
FRUITS IM
SEASON, J?
FRESH AS
DEW -
AND FRUITS
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Choose An Experienced,
Capable
BUSINESS MAN
Who will devote ALL OF HIS
TIME to sound, efficient, business-like
management of Jack
ion County!
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PEARL HARBOR
Papaya Juice
No. 2
CANS
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2 No. 2 yir&-
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1 I Orange Juice
Hl as a
lB ' w KRISPY
f47 CRACKERS
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II Stor
Bananas YEtr lb. 17c
Papayas HAWTAoM'roTuREATeae 65c
Grapefruit viTAM?NPACKea, 5c
WatermelonSbuSdlb. 13c
Cantaloupes
Apples
good
treat ea. 29c
LOCAL
DELICIOUS
3 lbs. 29c
Lemons FANCY JUICY dz. 29c
Avocado Lar9e'RXeell0W 2 for
29c
NOMINATE
L. G. "LEW"
GRAVES
REPUBLICAN FOR
COUNTY
COMMISSIONER
BETTER representation for ALL
THE PEOPLE of Jackson Coun
ty on a FULL TIME basis.
Primary Election May 19, 1950
Paid Adv.
JOHNSON'S
BABY POWDER 4 oz. 25c
JOHNSON'S
f BABY OIL 5 oz. 49c
" ' j. t JOHNSON'S
BABY SOAP
V. J:T J Doeskin Tissues YtI'Br SL 25c
x KLEENEX TISSUES s 27c
l I TRUSH AY hanVlotion 25c and 49c
If the particular appropriation
that Is tinder consideration is
for SOMETHING THE OTHER
FELLOW WANTS, then it's bad
business and bonndoeiMlns ant!
in the Interest of nalionnl solv
ency it ought to be resoundingly
voted down.
But If It's for something WE
WANT, that is another matter
entirely and it woulH he i.k
and short-sighted economy to fail i
to spend the money. j
I THINK you will recoRnize that
as long as this kind of thinking
continues we will go on spend
ing our way happily down the
primrose path at whose end lies
national bankruptcy.
JUST a word in closing:
The other dav at a meetlne i
Redmond, Senator Belton of the
Oregon legislative interim com
mittee on taxation, quoted ioma
IF THOSE figures are correct
(and I have considerable re
spect for Senator Belton) they
mean that for every dollar we
get from Uncle Sam the old boy
TAKES THREE DOLLARS
AWAY FROM US and squan
ders It somewhere else.
Personally, I think we'd be
better off to spend our money
OURSELVES, thus getting all of
it, instead of sending it to Wash
ington first and getting back
only a LITTLE of It.
Local DeMolay Leader
Named to State Office
Jim Ward, master councilor of
Medford DeMolay chapter, was
appointed state chaplain at the
recent stBte conclave of the or
der held in Corvallis. Announce
ment of Ward's appointment was
made at the meeting of the Med
ford chapter April 26, and con- j
clave reports were made. !
Robert L. Flsner, Lee KU- j
bourn. Jack Vance, Don Page, i
Harold Vrooman and Jay Dow
were given the initiatory degree.
Movies of the USS f ranklin
were shown following the meet-
Ing by Bob Leavttt.
Planting Time!
BEDDING PLANTS
VEGETABLE PLANTS
POTTED PLANTS
Hoppe's Greenhouse
30S Loiier Lane
V4 , :v,f
now at
half
pricel
TUSSY
CREAM DEODORANT
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tM Of OOOMNt
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This delightful deodorant keeps you dainty and sweet
at once I Banishea perspiration odor, checks perspira
tion moisture. Gives longer lasting protection, is extra
gentle to skin and clothing. Deliciously fragrant stays
creamy-smooth down to the bottom of the jar. Get jars
and jar of Tussy Cream Deodorant at half-price-nowl
TELEPHONE ORDERS
Wainscott's Pharmacy
400 EAST MAIN
PHONE 2-6440
i.
PINT
39c
DURKEE'S MAYONNAISE
MADE WITH FRESH EGGS
32c
POUND
Color Ease
DUAKEE'S (A A) MARGARINE
BARTLETT
PEARS
Pedigree Halves
c2In 29c
M BLACK -GREEN
oM6 19C
ssM1 TRY THE NEW TEA 8ACS
Save Green Discount Stamps.
Savings Are a GIFT
From Anderson's THRIFT
31'
Meat Balls
and
Gravy
Haley's gffg
Carnation
MILK
Our Largest
Sellin Milk
Cans
Case $5.59
PEAS
MECO
BRAND
No. 2
Can
10'
TIIMA Pacific Rose, Chunk 1 flc
lUllA Slvle- V. flat tin IV
W I esi
OCCIDENT FLOUR 10 ib. Bag 93c
Popular Brands
COFFEE
2 TIN leS3
Medford's Finest Meats
SWIFT'S SLICED
SWIFT'S DIXIE
BACON . . Ib. 39c BACON 5WZSM 29c
SWIFT'S NO-JAX
LITTLE-PIG LINK
WIENERS.Ib. 39c SAUSAGES lb. 39c
Swift's Brookfield CHEESE .... lb. 39c
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