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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDIWrEIBUNE "Cvtryon Id Southern Orefea Rudi T1m Mall Tribune" Dally Exec pi Saturday DiiKlfahAj h MIDfORD PRINTING CO IT.JO North fir St Phone J-U1 ROBERT W. RUHU Id I tor ERNEST R. OILS TRAP. MnI HERB GREY, Advarualna Mgr. . c FERGUSON, Mana.lna EdIWf ERIC ALLEN Jrx City Editor BARKY CHIPMAN, Talegrapn Eailot HENRY L. OREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARC1IER Soclaty Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation UP An lndpendnt Nawspapar Entarad aa aeaond clan matter at Mediord. Oregon under Act 01 March 1. 1817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Delly and Sunday one yaarL.. 00 Dally and Sunday elx month! 4.7. Dally and Sunday three mot fu Dally and Sunday one month 1 uo y Carrier In Advance Mediord Aahland, Central Point. Jacksonville Cold Hill. PhocnU. Talent and oo motor routee: .. Dally and Sunday one year.U.OO Dally and Sunday one month IM All Terma Cash In Advanoa Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Presa full Laaiad Wire MEMBER OF AUD11 BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilng Raprwentatlve: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offlcee In New York Chicafo De troit. Sap Franclaco Loa An.ele Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C NEWSrAPit UtUISHItt 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackie Caunry Hit. Wry from the filet at the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 14 rears ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May 1. 1940 (It Was Wednesday) B. F. Irvine, blind editor of Oregon Journal and former Jack son county resident, dies in Port land. Grants Pass population in creases 26 per cent over 1930; now 3,789 people. The Pev. and Mrs. J. L. Min tle, Ashland, observe 50th wed ding anniversary. April building permits in Med ford totaled $18,345, T. E. Sampson company new retail feed and seed store to open here Saturday. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY May 1. 1930 (It Was Thursday) Apple thinning In local or chards expected to need more laborers than usual. April building permits totalled $43,755 with most of it for 10 new buildings. Fire department adding finish ing touches to tennis court in rear of station. Recheck of local census shows more than 11.000 in city. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY May 1. 1918 (It Was Mondnyl Mrs. C. D. Honn, Mediord, elected recording secretary, and Mrs. E. D. Briggs, Ashland, first vice-president of Women's feder ation. Martin J. Reddy offers silver cup to high school tennis player with highest score in current tourney. Holland hotel observes first anniversary. John A. Wester Kind is manager. New Metal Screen Factor of Safety For Jet Aircraft Dayton, O., May 1 (U.R) Officials of the air materiel command nt wright-pntterson field hulay announced develop ment of a metal screen that will prevent objects from being sucked Into jet engines at speeds of B25 miles an hour. Air force engineers said any small object nuked into an axinl-flow turbojet engine at high speeds could completely wreck fighter aircraft. Makes Flying Safer NATIONAL EDITORIAL The grids currently in use are1 .1 able to withstand the impact of : r-ntt-r cruising range. In com-1 small object, only at speed. utilb. r' wold b' lowered 10 4io unit's an nour. tne new grid, developed at the Univer sity of Kentucky, will make Jet flying safer, both on take off and in combat. The newly-developed grid has been effective in preventing .50 caliber cartridge case, from en tering jet engine air intakes at velocities of 625 miles an hour or more. The final grid to br developed under the current project is expected to withstand small particles at speeds of 700 miles an hour. Design Important Engineers said the de.ign of the arid la more important In hailing the partlrles than the metnl from which it i. made. Grid construction in the project permits some particles to glance off specially tilted grid blades. On fighter craft, the new screen grid will be mounted to permit the pilot to retract It aft er take-off In order to gain .- , i . MAIL TRIBUNE Nix on One of the economy rated by the Post Office Department will make it in cumbent upon patrons to correctly and adequately address mail if they wish to be assured that it will reach the addresses. No dress: "Joe Doakes, Medford, Ore.," without street address or other helpful cient. THE DEPARTMENT is eliminating the directory service through which inadequately addressed mail has heretofore been processed. In the case of Medford this will mean that 400 to 500 pieces daily which are received without proper address will just not be given the laborious attention that such mail has been receiving. Letters without street wise improperly directed, edly referred to in post office parlance as "nixies." The "nixies" annoy postal workers no end because one such item mav take more time and effort than the delivery of several hundred addressed. THE REDUCTION in earner service here from two deliveries daily to one, will work no particular hardship on patrons, and neither will it bring any substantia) economy as it is estimated that the reduc tion in Medford post office personnel will not total over four at the most. In the national picture, the service curtailments ordered by Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson are expected to be more deeply felt and it seems en tirely probable that the department head planned it so. rONALDSON'S "economy" move has little sem- blance to the action recommended in the Hoover Report. The latter embodied a long list of mechaniza tions of postal operations, accounting changes, organi zational and administrative reforms. The Postmaster General by his abrupt order, ap- arently hopes to jar congress into action on Senate ill S2213 which would take itics once and for all, as recommended by the Hoover Commission. pONGRESS has had the bill for months. The senate subcommittee reported it favorably but the com mittee as a whole has failed to act. President Tinman, Former President Hoover, the bipartisan .Hoover Commission, Postmaster General Donaldson, and the various national associations of postmasters, letter earners and railway mail clerks, all favor the measure. a AS THE Hoover Commission pointed out in its re port to congress: "Ambition is discouraged and efficiency reduced by the political selection of post masters." Moreover, it was felt that the 400,000 hard working postal employees deserve to see a ray of light in the haze of outmoded procedures and policies un der which they have labored for decades. THE POST OFFICE is a big business and as a busi- ness operation it is potentially self-sustaining. It is far from self-sustaining, structure, obsolescent procedures, outmoded equip ment, a maze of laws and regulations fettering the personnel and hampering subsidies and a cumbersome budgeting and account ing system all contribute to the hopeless confusion. 1 he latest audit shows office are $1.3 billions a year. It employs 500,000 per sons, operates 42,000 branches and maintains 24,000 buildings, maintains a fleet of 10,000 vehicles, trans ports and delivers more than annually, conducts 800 million transactions in money orders, collect deli"eries, etc., and runs a "bank" of four billion depositors and billions. THE HOOVER Commission found that about $140 TV,i 1 1ir.no n vaat tmilrl Ka eni-orl hir w rc ovw 17111 nr Mm: IIIIMIUII a .) t.tll VV'llill I' V organization, methods and equipment. Annual losses could be curtailed an additional $114 millions a year by fixing new rates on specialized items. That is a lot of money. h, , ., i, ich the Hoover ing spent needlessly by the whole. DOSTMASTER General Donaldson, a career man himself, having come up through years of post of fice duty, must hope that his recently announced cur tailments of service will cause public outcry loud enough to spur action by congress. Congress should forego its patronage power in postmasterships, it should forget its fear of unfavor able political reaction to postal rate increases and act at once to streamline the service and arrest the con stantly mounting deficit of the department, which now exceeds $555 billion. E.C.F. Into uosilion for maximum en gine protection from cartridge cases, shrapnel and plane parts BALL OF FIRE SEEN Portland. Ore . May 1 lU.P. Mrs. John Nagel said today that she. her husband and several friends saw a "hall of fire" fly ing over Portland's northeast district last night. Mrs. NagelNR cents, compared to 30 cents said the fireball looked about the size of a football Out of the average consumer's dollar, 4 cents goes for medical rare in Ihe United Stales. More than half of this covers the ser vice, of doctors, dentl.li, nurses and others, while the rest goes for drugs, appliance, and hos pitals. The food dustry la Ihe lar gest In the country. Before the war. one out of everv four workers worked In iton the farm., In factories, in .tores. Monday, Mir 1. 19S0 the Nixies measures recently inaucni' lonerer will the simple ad hint as to location, be suffi or route address, or other are succinctly and disgust which have been properly the post office out ot pol however, for an archaic efficiency, politics, hidden that revenues of the post 37 billion pieces of mail accounts totaling $3.4 vCl C VI jy IIIUVtV.i iiiuiiil, vi It is part of the $.i billion i i . , Commission revealed is be - federal government as . . . AnaoraS Said Needed . 9 . . ,00, For Mohair Production Portlnnd. May 1 The Pacific Wool Growers' marketing agen cy said today that growers of mohair in the Willamette val ley will receive better prices for their product this year. R. A. Ward, general manager of the group, said that prices are now last year. Ward said that angora goats are needed in western Oregon for Ihe production of mohair, an?, that present prices thould stim ulate a revival in the industry. YOU'HE SURE OP Purity WHEN YOU IUY Crosstown iinwclt.fHiiWtiiHwhMW Sp ' Sa5" 'Y' mean I gotta take ANOTHER bath? Gat whiil I just HAD one 'bout an hour agol" In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS The other day Herbert Hoover proposed, in effect, that with United Nations stalemated by Russia, we might as well scrap it and put together a new inter national organization of peoples we can work with 1MUCH as I respect Hoover, I "don't know -that I can go along with that. When some old so-and-so is scheming to do you dirt, you'd better stick close to him and WATCH him. If you shut yourself clear away from him, you 11 have far fewer op portunities to find out what dev iltry he's up to. for example: It's a good idea to belong to the siime service club your com petitor docs. In that way you can watch his curves and get a lot of good ideas on how to handle the old hellion. THE Southern Bell Telephone romnanv Ihparlmtartnrc At lanta) is having trouble with slugs dropped in pay telephones. fnony quarters arc the worst. Last year they took in 53.205 of them, which set the company back $13,300. The loss on nickel and dime slugs was relative in significant. A high-up official says they get more slug trouble in Miami than any other Florida town, which makes sense two ways. Mi ami is bigger than any other Florida city and in addition it attracts more of the kind of people who CHEAT for a living. BY THE way, you'd be surpris ed st '.!'? ".-" by newspapers that leave a pile of papers at corner stands with a receptacle to drop your money in. The system seems to put people on their honor and sel dom indeed do they fail to leave the money. Intricate coin-in-the-slot machines, on -the other hand. CHALLENGE us to beat them if we can. llE JUST got a piece over our " teletype about cutting feder al excise taxes. ("Excise tax" is what the semanticists call a good word. It means exactly the same as "sales tax" but sales tax is a bad word. An excise lax is a sales tax that has gone to charm school and got all prettied up.) The piece tells about a lot of KINDS of excise (axes, and some of them stump me. Did you know there's a 10 per cent tax on BABY BOTTLE WARMERS? I didn't. There is also a federal excise tax on BURGLAR ALARMS. THE nly explanation I can Ihink of is that you never can tell what a lot of politicians will do when they get together In Washington. i renerai excise laxes arc sup- ip0c,'d to be levied on luxuries. or at least things we could do without if we had to. I suppose these mighty brains that make our federal laws figure the ba by's bottle can be warmed in a pan on the back burner of the stove, so nobody NEEDS a spe cial gadget. AND the burglar alarms? Well, nnhnriv FYFR knnu-f hnlv a politician in Washington will reason. POn a long, long time our fatherly government in Wash ington has been slapping a tax of 110 per cent on what we spend in night clubs. The boys with the paring knife are taiking of aTST7 New Appeal In Your FURS Bated on the time-proven furriers' method of pelt manage and fur hair manipulation, our Polarixed Care, while being stored in our underground vault, -TV by Roland Cm News cutting it down to 10 per cent. wny : Again I wouldn't know. Maybe they figure that in these modern days it's the luxuries that we HAVE to have, whereas we can do without the necessities. They wouldn't be so far off. at that. I think we'll all agree it's the luxuries that put the real crimp in the fam-i- budget. . THAT reminds me again of the strip-tease joint where the two Chicago conventioners got into trouble the other night. The strip-tease gals GET MONEY for shucking off their clothes in pub lic. Up in British Columbia, the Doukhobor women are doing it for nothing. They've even invented a new technique. Accordinc to tht tele type they put a drawstring around the necks of the Mother Hubbards they leem to favor as garments. A sudden yank on the string leaves them in their birth day clothes with the cops who are try ing to cover them up with blankets blushing furiously. I IFE in this modern world is ' a strange and wonderful ex pcrience. I wouldn't miss it for ANYTHING. Counting Noses By Mail May Set Pattern for 1960 Detroit, May 1 (U.R) Count ing noses in the 1960 census may be a lot different than it was this year, a census supervisor said today. Edwin P. Slabaugh. who di rected the count in Michigan and Ohio, said the census bureau's count by mail in two Michigan counties and one Ohio county "worked out wonderfully and may set the pattern for 1960." Residents in Ingham and Liv ingston counties, Mich., and Franklin county. O.. participated in the self-enumeration plan. They were the only two areas in the nation using the test pro gram. Forms Not Filled Census takers, officially called "listers." delivered forms to each home but did not fill them out. Instead, they asked the house holder to fill it out himself and mail it to the census bureau. The "testers" made the rounds of homes in their area several days before the official April 1 open ing of the census. "We received more than 100, 000 returns in Columbus in the first three days of the census," Slabaugh said. Slabaugh said the plan showed "real possibilities" and "will be considered for use in .the 1960 census." He said, however, that it would be "five or six years" be fore any d.cision is made on how the 1960 census will be taken. Census blanks given residents in test areas contained the same questions asked all other Amer icans. The forms differed In ap pea. however. Returns Checked Testers checked the returns for mistakes. Mary minor er rors were corrected by tele phone. Slabaugh said that the bureau could not determine at the pres ent time the percentage of re turns received "hut it was very high." Tester, went bark to the homes of those who failed to mail the form In and asked the 2-6500 or 2-6696 contribute, to long life and na tural appearance. FREE PICKUP by BONDED DRIVER Medford Geaners 22 S. Central 34 N. Holly Harlam Homing , , . Social dynamite ha. been .puttering on the fuse for too many years in the world', worst slum districts, the big-town areas in the East where citizens of Afro-American descent make their home.. In July, 1933, I came back to the Northwest aft' er living too close for comfort to tnese explosive centers in Ue- troit. Gery and Chicago. And I had een Harlem, the shame of iv ew York city. I still think it's our business out here. Anyhow, it i. lumber business, for the heart and cea ter of that slum problem is housing. In 1933 I was upset to see all hands in this region clam oring for dam-building on tne Columbia River as the answer to unemployment in Washington and Oregon, when It was so obvious that mass clearance of the pest houses, rat nests, dis ease incubator and worse in such miserable human hives as Harlem make by far the most jobs for this lumber-producing section of the country. But all I got was hoots. Every body was dam-crazy. Neverthe less, it iook a new wono war to Drovirie real justification for Grand Coulee. And meanwhile the slum, have rotted on in the hie towns. For all the windy talk of public housing, the Fed eral Government nas aone practically nothing about slums. The proposed subsidy housing measures are for tory housing that competes with private business. THE FORLORN HOPE The only place that slum rec lamation has been achies'ed is in Baltimore. There, strictly on a private enterprise plan, close to 500 blocks of hellholes have been taken apart, cleaned up, modernized, made lit for hu man being to live in and rear families and at no drastic in crease in rents. Now, three or four years lat er, a similar move is on for Har lem housing. A series of articles in the New York Sunday Times lights a forlorn hope for it. The basic problem is money. The Times explains that Harlem building stalemate with a low rent paivate housing project by Metropolitan Life as the only important 'exception this way: "Lack of adequate financing for realtv investors, builders and owners . . .' Institutional money has shunned more of the district since the period of dis tress foreclosures in the Nine- questions on the spot. "A lot of people have asked whether the government would get the truth from everyone if this method were used," Sit baugh said. "Thev tell us it would be a temptation to give incorrect answers. Actually, we haven t any more guarantee we'll get the truth when an enumerator asks the questions verbally. A census taker has no way of determining who is falsifying information and who isn't. "If anything, it could lead to a more accurate census because a lot of people who are a little afraid to tell someone their per sonal business to their face would do it if they filled out the form themselves," Slabaur.h said. News o4-H O CLUBS Wagntr Creak 4 H Club The April 18 meeting of the Wagner Creek club was called to order by President Donald Brabbin, and the minutes were read by Betty Hopper. Verlee MacDowell was elected treasur er for the remainder of the year to replace former treasurer Lois Bradbury. On the entertainment committee were Donald Brabbin and Betty Hopper. Refreshments were served by Verlee MacDow ell and Harold Hopper. Nora Bailey, Reporter Upptr Rogua 4-H Pig Club The meeting was called to or der by the president. Eddie Peile. Vernon Baldwin made a demonstration on "Diseases of Pigs." Charleen Peile will make a demonstration on feeding of MABEL CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS "A Finer Memorial Service Distinctive But Not Expensive" AMBULANCE SERVICE Office of the County Coroner Medford Phone 3-1051 UTOPTHClVCODS teen Thirties . . . Some realty expert, are .ugge.ting that the bank, meet the challenge by pooling funds to carry out a large-scale development pro gram. Such a plan would distrib ute the risk ... It might Involve rehabilitation of entire block, of slums which are found to be .tructurally .ound or the con struction of new buildings. On the following Sunday Times headlines reported thai "Reality Interests Favor Bank Pool for Harlem .Work. Brokers Agree New Financing Policy Is Essential to Help Rebuild Slums." And so the first ray of hope shines for Harlem, on the Balti more private business plan. II the promise is realized, we may well expect similar efforts to be started in Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D. C, and other slum-scabbed cities. Lumbar'. Siaka . . . Lumber is a key reason why the Baltimore private building industry plan has done a real job for the poorest people. . These older slum buildings are lumber framed, for the most part, and the frames are perfect ly fit for the patterns of modern ization into attractive apart ments for low-cost rentals. Where new construction is in order on the low-cost private building and financing plan, lumber remains a basic building material. Modernization of old residences is a type of business that will grow in importance through this year and the next, becoming really big in 1952, the experts agree. I still claim this Harlem deal should have started in 1933. Better late than never, though, and it is going ahead in the way of the American system. Self-Financing Support Program Seen Budget Aid Washington. May 1 ? Rep. Harold O. Lovre (R.. S. D.l said today that adoption of a self financing farm price support program would help congress to balance the budget. Lovre said he is prepared to introduce such legislation next week. He declared the savings of a self-financing agriculture program would "completely re move the need for deficit financ ing." More Requested The South Dakotan said the commodity credit corporation has close to $5 billion now invest ed in farm surpluses or in crop loans to farmers. He said it re cently requested Si billion more to carry on its price support pro gram. "Chance the program to a self- supporting one, Lovre sain, "and you have eliminated all need for this money. A saving of $7 billion would more than bal ance the budget." Lovre said records show that "every man. woman and child in this country now has S30 invest ed in some phase of the present farm storage program." Two-Price System Lovre's farm plan would pro vide for a two-price system. One would guarantee farmers par ity, so-called "fair" prices for products sold to meet domestic consumption demands; the oth er would provide for sale of sur pius commodities on the open market for whatever they might bring. The program would be fi nanced through a "processing" tax which farmers would pay on sales of their produce In excess of their marketing quotas. If a farmer wanted to sell more than his marketing quota, he would have to pay a tax set at a level to enable the government to sell the surplus abroad without' losing any money. wheat to pigs at the next meet ing. The next meeting will be held at Alfred Peile'. home, May 23. at 7:30 p.m. ! Those present were: Eddie J Peile. Vernon Baldwin. Char leen Peile. Jeffery Billlngslcy, and Bud Gelespie. Americans nowadays are eat ing less meat than their grand fathers did. Per caolta meat con sumption in the United States now stands at about 157 nounri. compared to 152 pounds in 1900. 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