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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
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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.
CARLOS
WEATHER
By United Prni
Northern California. Mo.tly
cloudy today and tonight with
light rain from San Francisco
and Sacramento north extending
south to Salinas and Stockton
late this afternoon. Partly cloudy
with a few shower. Tuesday.
Cooler northern interior today
and in southern Interior Tuesday.
Southerly wind 15-30 mph from
Point Reyes north today but
southwest to west 12-25 mph
otherwise.
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