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Boy Scouts Are OK
The Bov scouts are doing1 all ririit.
Some 350 of them snent Saturrlav rnVhr. nnrl
much of Sunday at Hilltop ranch, near Griffin creek,
this weeK-end. and it was a fine sicht to see that
many youngsters getting training and experience
which will be a strength and asset to them the rest of
ineir lives.
TN SOME ways, this seems to be a "Scout year." First
there was the Scouting exposition at the Medford
armory, which attracted an estimated 3,000 people to
witness the wide variety of displays of Scout fun and
activities." Next, there was this week-end's camp-o-
ree, and later in the summer, a large group of young
men trom this area will make the long trip across the
continent to Valley Forge, Pa., where the national
Boy scout jamboree will be held.
In addition to these, the regular Scout summer
outing at Camp McLoughlin, at Lake 0' Woods, will
be held.
M0RE than one soldier during World War II found
his lot inestimably easier because of the training
which he received as a Boy scout. And the independ
ence of action, the familiarity with the outdoors, the
"know-how" which scouts gain through their training
and activity will always stand manv of them in good
stead if not in the army, then on the innumerable
iishmg and hunting trips which are a part of the
American tradition.
"NE of the fine things about the scout movement is
that it is largely a volunteer organization. Lead
ers are adults who are familiar with the benefits which
the boys receive, and who are willing to give up their
own time in order that the youngsters can gain the
invaluable training which the scouts offer.
In the entire Crater Lake Area council, which in
cludes an area extending from north of Grants Pass,
out to Cave Junction, and south to Yreka, there are
only three full-time, paid scout leaders. Cliff Hanson
is the local executive, and head of the entire area. His
assistants are Jim Harpole, in Grants Pass, and Larry
Lundm.
Crosstown
By Roland Coe
,..
Gee whit, Gramp! After I been tellin' the quvi what phenomlnal
eyesight you got for a man your age. y' oughta TRY t' see how
tneie pilches are goin right over the plater'
Editorial Comment
HAL BOYLE "DISCOVERS" PUTNAM
The following editorial from the Eugene Register Guard
is reprinted here not only as a tribute to a newspaperman,
but because of the interest in the subject due to tha fact that
George Putnam was at one time the editor of The Mail Tribune.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
May 9. 1940
(It Was Thursday)
County political campaign
rated quietest in memory of old
est inhabitant.
Marianne Perl crowned queen
of the May at Jackson school.
Mr. and Mrs. Aris Throck
morton, Ruch, observe 66th wed
ding anniversary.
Prospect grade school to stage
circus tomorrow evening.
Local service clubs to hear
nlans and aspirations of cham
ber of commerce at meetings on
Monday.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
Mar 9. 1930
(It was Friday)
Laundrymen from Washing
ton, Oregon and California open
meetings in Medford.
Revised figures show 13,422
voters in county; 9,509 republi
cans and 3,391 democrats.
Erection of new hotel at Cen
tral Point by Andre Chomel pro
gressing. Softball league to start season
next Monday evening.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
May 9. 1910
(It Was Tuesday)
Bert Anderson, chairman of
republican central committee,
unable to take active part in
campaign due to visit In Cali
fornia. Post office takes over new fed
eral building facilities.
City reservoir cleaning re
veals less extraneous matter
found than usual.
GOP Office Seekers
To Speak Tonight
Republican candidates for state
representatives from Jackson
county, county commissioner,
sheriff, engineer and justice of
the peace will be guests and
speakers (it a meeting at 8 p.m.
today at Medford hotel.
Jackson County Young Repub
lican club is the sponsor. Mem
bers of the county central com
mittee and the Jackson County
Republican Women have been
asked to come and all others in
terested are invited.
Mayor of Madras
Will Resign Office
Madras, Ore., May 9 (U.PJ
Mayor Howard Krlx will sub
mi' his resignation to the city
council here today.
Krix informed councilmen by
letter Monday that he Intended
to resign because city affairs
took too rmieh of his time from
his pharmacy business.
He was clecU'd mayor to fill
the vacancy left by the resigna
tion of Mayor Adrian Smith last
December.
Communicable Disease
Report Down to 23
Communicable disease report
ed to the county health depart
ment laat week dropped to 23,
the department said today.
Mumps, with 13 cases in Med
ford and one In Ashland, led the
list.
Scattered cases of Influenza
(3), chicken pox (2), rheumatic
fever (1), pneumonia (1), measles
(1), and erysipelas (1) were also
reported.
IHEN you consider that more than 2,500 boys par
" 1 take in this program in the area, it is well to re
member that the hundreds of scoutmasters, assistant
scoutmasters, troop, pack and senior unit committee
men, pack leaders and den mothers, and council or
ganizational workers, are all volunteers, working
without pay and without any reward whatsoever, ex
cept the considerable satisfaction they receive from
knowing that their work is worthwhile. E.A.
In A Nutshell
Perhaps the simplest way to describe the condi
tions of Oregon's finances is to say that this biennium
we are spending $25 million more than we will take
in ; that in three years, if no new taxes are levied, we
will be broke, lhat if the basic school increase, the
bonus and additional welfare costs are voted we will
be broke sooner. That when the state is broke property
owners will get the bills.
(State Representative Giles French, writine in his Sherman
County Journal, as quoted in The Oregon Voter.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Off for a two-day meeting in
the city. I wonder what mod
ern business men would do with
out this "meeting'1 system. I'm
atraia we a oe up a stump.
Really, though, you can learn
a lot at these meetings that
present-day business sets so
much store by if you keep your
ears open and listen. You're al
most sure to meet somebody
who knows more than you do.
After all, listening to somebody
who knows more than you do
is the best possible way to gain
knowledge.
IN THE eight miles between Mt.
Shasta City and Dunsmuir
there is at least a month's dif
ference in season. In Mt. Shasta,
the trees are Just nicely budded
out. In Dunsmuir, they're prac
tically in full leaf. Elevation
makes a lot of difference.
manzanita Is usually in full
manzanit Is usually in full
bloom long before this. From a
swiftly moving car, at least, no
blooms are visible now.
Also, no California poppies
are to be seen yet north of Red
Bluff. This Is a late spring.
SPEAKING of flowers, Union
Square is aflame now with
Its annual spring rhndodondon
show. They're planted in tubs,
and I presume they're brought
In from the city's park gardens.
Anyway, they've been to college
and have learned how to grow
masses of bloom and relatively
little foliage. With the bright
spring sunshine fulling on them,
they're a sight for sore eyes.
ORLAND years ago went In
for citrus fruit in a big way.
These fr.r north oranges didn't
turn out too well, and the Or
land country changed over heav
ily to dairying. The irrigated
pastures are full of Jersey,
Guernsey and Holstein cows,
knee-deep in luxuriant clover.
I know of no sight more peace
ful and pleasant than a pasture
full of sows that are full of
clover and contentment.
BY THE way. how long has it
been since you've had a big
pitcher of cream on your table
that you've felt free to use as
recklessly as everybody always
WANTS to use cream?
If you are in normal circum
stances, i ll guess it has been
quite a while. The chances are
you use half-and-half, or this
modern 10 per cent stuff in
stead. Whipping cream is Just
too rich for modern world's
blood.
AS FOR spread for your bread
well, on that subject I'm
going to tread, with caution. In
a great dairy state (such as Ore
gon is supposed to be but really
isn't; we just don't like to milk
cows) it's dangerous to suggest
that ANYBODY might EVER
use a little margerine now and
then.
But I see by the market re
ports that margerine sales are
growing steadily, whereas per
capita consumption of butter is
trending downward. Margerine,
you know, is QUITE a little
cheaper, and after all it doesn't
taste too bad.
The truth that I'm sidling up
to with so much circumlocution,
so as not to make anybody mad,
is that butterfat (whether in the
form of cream or in the form of
butter) is in all probability be
ginning to price itself out of the
market.
IF PEOPLE aren't eating it as
heavily as they used to, where
is all the butterfat going? That's
another subject you can get
scalped for mentioning in the
wrong company, and I'm anx
ious to save all the hair I have
left.
But if you'll read the storage
reports, you'll learn that a whale
of a lot of butter Is going into
federal storage.
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Most of us in the newspaper business in Oregon have been
George Putnam fans ever since we can remember, but it has re
mained for Hal Boyle, the touring columnist of Associated Press,
to "discover" Mr. Putnam and introduce him to the nation's read
ers with appropriate flourishes. All of us in Oregon have known
tne vigor of Air. futnam s utterances and sometimes we have tell
his blows, but Mr. Boyle, visiting Salem last week, brought out a
few facts concernine this veteran which most of us did not know
before:
"Nobody likes to end up his day's work by getting a fist
ful of brass knueks in his face. As a young newspaper editor
George Putnam found that this was occasionally the price
he had to pay for using his freedom of the press to criticize
public officials. After he was attacked for the third time, he
put a public notice in his paper:
"A closed season on editors is established as of now.
Violators will be killed on sight."
Putnam then got himself a pistol permit, and kept a
loaded gun in his desk. After that the threats still came
but no brass knueks.
At 78, looking back on more than 50 turbulent years of
newspaper work, Putnam today can't think of a better phi
losophy than the one he coined in the early years of the
century:
"The paper that has no enemies has no friends."
Mr. Putnam is one of the all-too-few surviving specimens of
the race of self-made editor-publishers which has almost vanished.
The time has gone by when "a wandering printer with a satchel of
type" could barge into a town and start a paper of his own. As
newspaper publishing has developed into a highly technical and
costly enterprise, it has tended to become more and more an im
personal business afflicted with most of the ills which attend big
business. In the Hutchins' report a few years ago there was an
interesting and subtle comment upon the effect which these changes
have had upon newspaper content:
"Information tends to be replaced by 'news.' That is to
say, by 'stories' which may have very great reader interest
but very little importance for the information of the public.
Information as a public service tends to be crowded out by
the 'entertainment' features of the newspaper."
It could also be charged that the editorial pages have deter
iorated. In many places the editorial page has ceased to be the
editor's sharp-edged weapon in the effort to become "judicial and
impartial." It has achieved only a sterile and vacuous neutrality.
None of these complaints could be lodged against Mr. Putnam or
his Salem Capital-Journal. Boyle relates:
"Editor Putnam, a slim, blue-eyed, white-haired man of gentle
appearance, has never backed away from a fight.
"We've had more libel suits filed against us we've
been boycotted more often than any paper in Oregon. I've
won every libel suit against me so far as court decisions
go. And I ve been boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan, the Pro
hibitionists (I always ran a wet paper iji a Methodist town),
labor unions, the Townsend movement, and the gambling
interests."
How much has it cost him over the years to fight for what
he believed in?
When I came here in 1919, the paper had a circulation
of less than 5,000 daily. Now it is over 18.000. Anytime you
give the public the truth as you see it well, it pays. Any
time you put the truth up to them, and explain it so they
can understand it, they'll support you so long as they feel
you really stand for better government. You don't have
to worry about boycotts or libel suits."
To sav that Mr. Putnam has been a power for decency and
truth in his home town and in his state would be a great under
statement. His colleagues in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association have not got around to awarding him the Voorhies
prize for public service mainly because he does not mingle very
much and because he is not the Kind ot person who worKs for
prizes and awards, but they all read his paper every day and wait
to see what he is going to say next. A Pulitzer committee will not
be needed to say that George Putnam has given Salem one of the
hst newspapers in Oregon and one of the very best in the United
States.
Legal Action Resumes In Roseburg Milk War
Roscburg, Ore., May 9 (U.R)
Legal action in the Roseburg
milk war went into its second
dav todav before Circuit Judge
Carl E. Wimberly.
Attorneys for the plaintiff, the
Umpqua Dairy Products com
pany, concluded their opening
argument and Introduction of
testimony Monday.
The company's suit is for an
Injunction to prevent picketing
of the dairy.
Defendants are 16 members of
the Uumqua Valley Milk Produc
ers association and the local AFL
Teamsters union.
Paul Geddis, Roseburg, and
William Riddlesbarger, Eugene,
arc counsels for the company.
Defense attorneys are Daniel
Dimmick, Roseburg. and Donald
B. Richardson, Portland.
New York. May 9 U.R) Po
lice said Horace Pedro Gallndez,
22, a seaman, set 14 fires, five in ,
his own apartment building, and I
went to bed and to sleep. All
fires were quickly extinguished.
Police booked Galindez for arson.
Well, what I really started out
to say here is that it seems sort I
of a pity that all these beautiful 1
Orland cows should be eating
all this beautiful Orland clover i
and be milked (presumably) by
beautiful Orland milkmaids and
their butterfat should be made
into butter (thus cutting down
on the cream) and the govern
ment should go Into the market
and buy it TO KF.EP THE
PRICE HIGHER THAN CON
SUMERS ARE WILLING TO
PAY so that in the end the but
ter can be stashed away in cold
storage warehouses while more
and more of the people eat mar
gerine. Oil fiddlesticksl Now I've gone
and put my foot In it again
and my name will be mud with
all my good friends who are in
the dairy business and think it's
wonderful for the government
to buy up the butter and stash
It away to keep the price up.
But It docs seem like kind of
a pity for all these beautiful
cows to be wearing their lives
away Just to fill the warehouses
up with l utter while people go
on eating margerine. j
John & Frank Perl
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
40 Years of Continuous Service
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for impressive final rites. That is but a part of
Perl's complete facilities which, coupled with
long years of understanding, kindly capable
service, mean the finest of service at consistent
ly low cost.
Rogue River Valley's Oldest
AMBULANCE SERVICE
Always At Your SerOice
PERL FUNERAL HOME
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Letter From Washington
y HARRIS ILLSWORTH
Member ef Congress From Oregon
The omnibus rivers and har
bors and flood control authori
zation bill, which has just been
cleared by congress, carries im
portant additional authorization
for the Willamette valley flood
control project. Increased costs
since the original project was
authorized plus some additions
caused by revised plans, made a
larger authorization I i g u r e
necessary.
The authorization bill referred
to has been widely criticized as
a "pork" bill meaning an op
portunity lor memoers oi con
gress to grab juicy slices for
their districts. I cannot see much
justification for this criticism.
The bill does two things, it aa
justs previously made cost esti
mates of projects now under con
struction. It represents final ap
proval for new propects which
mav or may not be constructed
in the long future. That bill does
not appropriate or spend any
money. Similar authorization
bills in the past have piled up a
back-log of approved plans total
ling more than 700 projects, but
only some 70 projects are now
under construction and appro
priations for starting new pro
jects are not being allowed this
year.
I think some of the scream
ing about the rivers and harbors
and flood control bill has been
in the nature of a smoke screen
for the purpose of distracting at
tention from the deficit-spending
appropriations bill now under
consideration.
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NEW JERSEY republicans
have formulated a party plat
form with only 28 words in it
which, to my way of thinking,
is the best statement of republi
can philosophy, aims, and objec
tives I have ever seen. Here it is:
"America can be saved from
communism and bankruptcy.
"America's problems can be
met by her great people without
loss of their liberties.
"We dedicate ourselves to this
undertaking."
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FOR THE FOURTH consecu
tive time there is serious war
talk while congress has an ap
propriations bill under consider
ation. The intensity of the war
scare usually seems to be in pro
portion to the size of the appro
priation being considered for the
armed services. This time the
bill calls for the largest amount
ever appropriated for the armed
forces in peacetime. Due to the
present very serious tension the
amount will be increased.
. At first I was inclined to be
lieve these crisis were home
made. It seemed the war talk
might be drummed up by the
administration and the defense
denartment for the purpose of
scaring congress into appropriat
ing more money. A cnecK or tne
facts disDroves this idea. The
war threats have actually been
generated by the Russians. They
caused us to start the famous
air-lift while an appropriations
bill was under consideration.
Even though the president did
not announce the fact until the
house-senate conference was en
deavoring to decide on the
amount of arms aid to Europe,
Russia did explode an atomic
bomb while that bill was under
consideration. Lately the Rus
sians shot down an airplane. The
repercussions of that act con
tinue to cause tension. Very
serious developments may yet
result from the murderous Rus
sian action.
The conclusion I am compel
led to reach is that the Russian
government is very anxious to
have us continue our ruinous ad
ministration policy of deficit
spending.
As gold has been banned by
the federal government for coin
age, it is now used principally in
jewelry and dentistry.
Oakridge Slaying
Trial Continues
Eugene, Ore., May 9 (U.R)
The trial of 24-year-old James
Lloyd Thompson, Oakridfe,
Ore., charged with the fatal
shooting of Police Chief Clyde
Dubell March 19, continued to
day with opening statements by
the defense and prosecution.
Monday a jury of 11 women
and one man was chosen
Police said Thompson fired
two shots that killed Dubell as
the police chief tried to arrest
him for disorderly conduct.
Thompson surrendered meekly
the same day after an intense
manhunt over the hills sur
rounding Oakridee.
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Prominent Civic and Republican Leader
"Why Senator Wayne Morse
Should Be Re-elected"
Learn about hit constructive programs for tax and debt
reductions, his fight against Federal bureauracy and his
standing with fellow S ators and National Republican
leaders urging his re-election.
JACKSON COUNTY COMMITTEE FOR
WAYNE MORSE FOR SENATOR
ASHLAND
Lowell I. Agar
G. Homer Btllingi
Wm. M. Briggt
Henry G. Enden
Henry C. Galey
Fred C. Homes
Ben T. Lombard
C. A. Pint
Walter Radford
Donald M. Spencer
Phil H. Stanibury
Thornton S. Wiley
MEDFORD
Mr.. A. W. Aya
Mn. C. Reaie Braley
Howard E. Both
A. S. Cummini
J. L DeArmond
Mn. O. A. Iden
Frank P. Farrell
Mark A. Goldy
Donald E. Herried
Walter H. Lereretto
Mn. Stephen G. Nye
Dr. R. W. Sleeter
Eugene E. Thomdike
Mn. Shelby M. Turtle
Frank J. Van Dyke
CASCADE GORGE
Harry H. Hart
CENTRAL POINT
Arnold Bohnort
EAGLE POINT
W. He Yowif
JACKSONVILLE
Otto Heckert
OLD STAGE ROAD
A. S. V. Carpenter
PERRYDALE
Dr. Geo. B. Dtin
PHOENIX'
Bert Stancliffe
Mn. Thomit V. William.
PROSPECT
E. A. Skeeten
ROSS LANE
Rom Klin
SPRING STREET
Otto J. Frohnmayer
TALENT
Alton Hart
VALLEY VIEW
Rodney Keating
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