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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. May 15. 1950 MEDFORIVltjTRIBUNE Ivanrona la Bout Orf oa" Rtftdl Tha Mill Trlbuna" Dally Exoapt Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-a North Fir St. Phona a-14l ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R GILS TRAP alanagaa HERB GREY. AdvartHlnl r t c FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City BARRY CHIP MAN, TelegrapD Ed JM HENRY U GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Soclaty Editor GERALD LATHAM. ClxculaUQD MP An Indapandatit Nawapaper Entarad aa aacond elaai matter at Madiord. Oragon. undar Act el Marc I. IM7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanca: Dally and Sunday ona yaar....MOO Dally and Sunday at months .J Dally and Sunday thraa moa iM Dally and Sunday ona month 1 uo ay Carrier In Advanca Medford Ashland. CantraJ Point, Jackaonvllla Gold Hill. Pnoanlx Talant and oo motor routae: .,, Dally and Sunday ona yaar. tlj.uo Dally and Sunday ona month l oo All Tarma Caah la Advanca Offlrlal Paper al tha City ol Madford Official Papar of JaeHun Couaty Unlud Praia Full Laaaad Wlra MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Rapraiantatlva: WEST.HOIXIDAY COMPANY INL Otficai In Naw York Chicago Da. trolt. San Franclaco Loa Angelaa Seattle PorUand St Louie Atlanta Vancouvar. B C NIWIPAMt PUIUSHIIS ASSOCIATION NATION1 EDITORIAL U Flight o' Time Madford and Jackie Counnr Mia lory from the filee of the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 14 reara He 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May IS. 1940 (It Was Wednesday) Chamber of commerce office'! west front window taken out to provide more space. Ashland voters to decide Fri day whether city should pur chase golf course. Bill Selkirk, member of Rogue Valley Country club, named golf pro at Grants Pass Country club. Tin mn1nri7rl rnllimni of third division, United StRtes army, to pass through here Fri day on way lo Fort Lewis. Phoenix Thursday club eleclg Mrg. Woodford Turpin president. 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar IS. 1930 (It Was Thursday) Eagle Point PTA installs Mrg. Fuby Bittcrling president. Dale Randies, Medford, wins third prize in American Legion auxiliary poppy poster contest or Oregon. Richard Applegate elected president of student body at high school. Apple thinning started today in Bear Creek orchards. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY May 15, 191S (It Was Monday) Mayor V. T. Emerlrk and Mer ton J. Emerick return from hunt ing trip lo headwaters of Ump qua river. Local women register for Red Cross first aid classes. Lets Count Them All A number of residents of the Medford region have called The Mail Tribune to report that they have nnl koon viafrorl Viw a renins rakpi While it ia linliWpIv that anv onnsiriprnhlp niimhpr ha vp hppn missed it is important for several reasons that every possible . 1 1 1 .1 ll- a C" r 1 a... . ! name De mciuaeu in me ivov city ana county cuuuu 1MANY municipal, Jackson county and business ad vantages which might be determined on popula tion ratios could be lost through failure to list a few hundred in the area. We recall that back in the 1940 census taking Medford was hard put to show an increase over the 1930 count of 11,007. After the 1940 enumeration had been officially concluded the Chamber of Commerce and other interested groups got busy, had the count reopened and managed to find enough "misses" to bring the total to 11,281. " , NOFFICIAL and semi-official estimates of the number of dwellers within the Medford city lim its have ranged recently between 18,000 and 20,000. It is to be hoped that we do not have to face civic cha grin similar to that of the Salemites who learned Sat urday that their guesses of 50,000 population were considerably too high. Preliminary official figures is sued by the district census supervisor in the capital city show 43,064 residents. The 1940 total was 30,908. It is pointed out in Salem, however, that the fringe areas have enjoyed a tremendous growth, the figures for that portion of the neighborhood being ex pected to outstrip in proportion the gains made by Salem itself. MUCH THE same situation as to growth of fringe . non Avioio Viovp Whilp arpaa within thp r-it.v liitt- aica CAiout iiit, .... ... .,... , . ........ -.- its have been settling up fast in the past four or five years, there are hundreds and hundreds of new homes "in the rural precincts to attest the fact that growth there has bordered on the phenomenal in recent years. THE MAIL TRIBUNE published Sunday and is re- peating again today a form which may be filled out by any residents of the county who have been missed by the census takers and mailed to the District Supervisor, U. S. Bureau of the Census, Room 205, Armory, Eugene, Oregon. Civic pride, if not self-interest, should bring prompt compliance with the request for this cooperation on the part of our citizens. E.C.F. " Plenty of Strawberry Shortcake There is timely and much needed reassurance in the latest weekly report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economies' estimates of strawberry crop prospects. What with the late spring and heavy frosts, the out look hasn t been too bright. INDICATIONS on May 1 pointed to a 1950 straw berry crop of 1,120,000 36-pound crates, the Bu reau declares hv wav of allavinir fears of strawberry shortcake lovers that there might not be enough of their favorite dish this season. Desnite the earlv slow trrowth of the berry plants and blackening of a large proportion of the blooms and buds by reoccuring April frosts the crop should be only six per cent below last year and it will be 22 per cent above the 10-year averages, says, the bureau. SO BRING on the strawberry shortcake and that rhinlr rrppm Wo mnv nppH flintl a bit of bicai'b after the feast but at any rate we can die happy. E.C.F. In the Day's News Senior class nt Medford high to hear J. A. Churchill, state su perintendent nf public instruc tion, at commencement Friday. COMMUNICATIONS L.tlrri to lh. frill or mint brat the nam. and adrirriM nf lh. trrliri .though iiripr crrtihi rtrcum ilincri th m of a pen turn m tnlila) for ptiiillratton li permit--libit. The Mali Tribune reierv.a tht rirht lo relit all Itmrn with view to clarification anil rondttv .Hon. I.rttrrt tiihmlttfd for pub llrnttnTi mini not ixtrtd ion wnrrti By FRANK JENKINS A straw in the wind: The Western powers (repre sented by their foremn minis ters nt a mot'tintf in London) de- hate the unfreezing of some of their OCCUPA T I O N CON THOl.S on West Germany. . . The American and the British delegations presented proposals for turning over to the Bonn government more control of West Germany's internal and foreign affairs. The general drift of it nil is that we are moving steadily in the direction of turning Ger many back to the Germans. of parliament. Meanwhile, in both New Zea land and Australia, heavy gains were stored bv the conserva tives against the socialist-mind- t ed labor party. j A couple of weeks ago, in I Florida. Senator Pepepr, an AD I VANCKU liberal (and a first ! class demagogue to boot) was de cisively defeated by a younger democrat who describes himself as a "middle-of-the-road" liberal. w HAT DOES it all mean? w HY? Phony Letters To the Editor: In the May 12 Issue you published a letter from a Mrs. F. I, Snow of Albany which reads almost Identically with the smear advertising of that "Real Republican," that "Real American," and creates the thought that perhaps Dead wood Dave is running out of money for the big smear and is now using phony letter to make his points against Senator Morse. It is a sad thing to witness the efforts of Deadwood Dave and his supporters to discredit Wayne Morse. And It would be very sad for Oregon if Deadwood Dave became Dregon'g repre sentative in the U. S. senate. There are too many of his evi dent calibre there now, and his campaign against the best sen ator Oregon ever had merely points up the reason why the republicans for 18 years have been "also rans" in the political scheme of things. C. B. Walker. LINFIELD FIRST McMinnville. Ore., Mav 15 (U.Rl Llnfield college had first plare in the Northwest con ference baseball rare today af ter beating Willamette t to 4 here Saturday night. Daad Una on ClaMlfled Adr S .in P m for following day: Id a m Mon day, soon Saturday for luaday a.av. This Is about it. I In the big ruckus between I communism and non commu nism. WHOEVER GETS GER MANY ON HIS SIDE WII.l. I WIN EUROPE AND MAY HE j THE WORLD. IT'S AS simple as that. The Germans are gadget minded IThev understand production. It ; lakes gadgets, PRODUCED IN I VAST QUANTITIES, to win i wars. No one knows that better than i the Russians, who were saved I from rieteat bv the gadgets with i which we and the British sup I plied them when they were j fighting for their lives against Hitler. H' ERE'S another one from Lon , don: "Winston Churchill's conserv atives scored new gains in Brit Iain's town and city council elec tions as urban dwellers contin I tied their drift away from the ruling labor party." Till, vnte rnimt ian't i-nmulttte las this is written, tint latest re turns from :173 boroughs give the conservative party a net gain of 213 seats most nf them won from the labor party and independent candidates. A YEAR AGO. In these same municipal elections, the drift away from the labor party In Britain was first noted. It was followed bv the British parlia mentary election In February, In which the lahor party canie narrowly dos to losing control I I don't know. Rut it COULD I mean that all over the world the political pendulum, which i has been swinging for a long. : long lime in the direction of ex treme and radical "liberalism" is beginning to swing back in i the other direction. ' That would be important po . litical news. Crosstown By Roland Cos ...AROUND HOLLYWOOD qO? I r "Ii'i a letter of congratulation from the bank I'm not nvrrlfltun thiti mnnih " f; OutoptheITJoods By J'n Zfefens 4 . IET'S PUT it this way: More or less nil over the world, especially since the war. people have been tryinE to get the comforts, the satisfactions and the securities thev crave hv the process of PASSING A LAW'. Maybe thev are coming to the conclusion, based on experience, that vou cant' get these utterly desirable things bv the simple process nf voting for politicians who PROMISE them. That, too, would he important. Pythian Knights and Wives at Grants Pass Several members of the Med ford Knights of Pythias lodge and tlvir wives motored to Grants Pass Saturday evening to attend a pie social and square dance, held in the Knights hall there. 1 Danring started at fl p m., with Jim Havens calling. Pies were auctioned at 11 pin. by Harvey Woods, a Grants Pass auctioneer, who donated his services. Attending from Medford were Mrs Dolly Love. Mrs. Margaret Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bry ant, Mr. and Mrs. George Bry ant. Mr. and Mrs, Roy Hallgren, and Mr. and Mrs. Steven Dodge. Daad Una Sundajr CAaaauiad la at Is'ooa 5a lux dais. I 'Keep Graen' and tha Legion There is need for a history straightener on how the "Keep Green" citizens' forest-fire pre vention movement, now in force in 26 states, came to get its start. Until a more able straight ener of this variety comes along, I expect to work at it some. Whoever the expert historian may be, he will find the sources of Keep Oregon Green and Keep Washington Green Keep Maine Green, too; Keep Florida Green, and all the others in such men as American Legionnaires Babe Munson nf Shelton and Charlie Hanson of Fall City, in Washing ton state. It was Keep Washing ton Green first, beginning in April, 1940, and its strength was built up by Washington Amer ican Legion post forest marshals, with the then and now De partment Adjutant Col. Fred M. Fueckcr promoting the program and appointing a state forest marshal on it me. A broad-beamed ex-top ser geant of artillery. Hols Holbrook. was the first state director of the Keep Washington Green program. He was at it for four years and he and Fred Fuecker kept it up front as a Legion proj ect during the first two. Don't let anyone tell you that Keep Oregon Green was started in 1941. It was in full operation after Julv 1. 1940, and in this drive the Legion also had a place of leadership. What happened? I don't right ly know. The encouraging thing, the great thing in sight now, is that the American Legion in Washington, under the 1950 state commander Herbert L. Davis, is fighting the accursed forest fire again. The 1939 Beginning The American Legion in both Oregon and Washington was well-nigh the whole show in the actual birth and inlant growth of "Keep Green," which was in 1939. The name the movement went under in that year was "The Junior Forest Council." Niel R. Allen of Grants Pass was Oregon state commander of the Leaion that year, and he made the JFC a chief conrcn. Wash ington Commander Arthur J. Hutlnn was also active on the board. The slate foresters of the two states were co-chairmen. The Junior Forest Council was formed and fostered by the West Const Lumbermen's association, which has been the No. 1 sup porter of "Keep Green" all along. The purpose of the 1939 effort was to encourage forestry pro grain protects everywhere with young people through their exist ing organizations. American Le gion leadership in the Junior Forest Council exerted strong influence of the Boy scout troops sponsored by many posU and in the Sons of American L gion squadrons. At the 1939 meeting of the Western Forestry and Conser vation association State Forest ers Goodyear and Fergusoi called a dinner meeting on tht expansion of the Junior forc-i Council. The result was a Feb ruary meeting of industry ami state forestry leaders in the gov ernor's office at Olympia. Then the program was expanded into one ot education on tort-M mi prevention with all or the pub lie. under a "Keep Washington Green committee" a name nrnnnsed hv Koderic Olzendam. Sarge Holbrook was given a Job to do. Then In Oregon Edmund Hayes and John B. Woods Sr. set up "Keep Oregon Green." Again tht Legion Marches At the start of this piece I mentioned two by name Babe Munson and Charlie Hanson. Babe and I are equally at home in a boom pond shack, Charlie and I are old hard-handed green chain lumber-hookers. We are all of the Legion. Babe Munson did a powerful job in his spare time starting what is now the famous Mason county Keep Washington Green committee and its annual Forest Festival. Charlie inspired and led a KWG committee in the Snoqualmie valley and hn been a member of the KWG state board of trus tees all these years. They went into this work first, and with heart and soul, because it was an American Le gion program. Literally hundreds of others like them in Washing ton and Oregon have done the same. So it has gone in 24 other states. Yet the American Legion claims no credit for the nation wide "Keep Green" forest-fire prevention program. No one else is yielding the Legion prop er credit. Here is a rough try. The Legion is marching on this cause again. Encourage it! Dead line on Classified Ads: 9:30 p.m for following day: 10 a m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a m l VIRGINIA MacPHIMOH Ualf4 Praia Canaiaaaa'aat Hollywood, May 15 U.R Lo cal irls are missing a lot of fun, actor Charlton Heslon said to day. Hollywood kisses are noth in' compared to the s i z z 1 e r s they hand out on Broadwav. I erv: Lincoln School PTA any to raise feminine blood pressures out ie kisses frus-' Five-year-olds who will attend trate him. Lincoln school next year will re- Y o u can't ; ceive medical check-uos at the frustrated about film wooing, Lydia's hard at work in the New York hit "Detective Story" on the receiving end of what Hes ton'd like to be dishing out. "Ralph Bellamy's kissing her every night," he sighed. "Broad way style." Sets Roundup May 17 Virginia, KUcPhertoS complained. "You can't kiss your leading lady on the mouth. It musses her lipstick. You can't nibble on her ear. You can't nuz zle her neck, either." This nibbling and nuzzling, he says, goes over big on the New York stage. Audiences love it. So do the actresses. But the boys who guard movie morals don't. "I spent one whole morning in the still gallery," the handsome Heston says. "I was supposed to make kissing shots with Lizabeth Scott and Viveca Lindfors for Hal Wallis' picture, 'Dark City.' "I never did get to kiss either one. I was never so frustrated in my life." Can Gat Down to Buiinass Now on Broadway, he says with reminiscent fondness, a man can get down to brass tacks. "You can grab a girl and kiss her as long as you want to," Hes ton says. "Nobody's standing around clocking you with a stop watch. And ... if you're not in a kissing mood for a certain per formance . . . you can give her a half-hearted peck and get on with your next line." And there's nobody breathing down your neck but the girl. "Hollywood kisses are so pub lic, rieston signed. At least a fL'.X.?- 11, .?u 1 1 annual "summer roundup" at the vnii ve onl n . .-tiuuui gyiiiiidsiuiii ai a, Wednesday May 17, the school PTA, sponsoring the event, said today. All mothers of children this age have been urged to bring them whether or not they are contacted in advance by the PTA. Any mother in outlying districts needing transportation OREGON LAWYERS CHOICE may call either Mrs. Frank WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair to day, tonight and Tuesday except for coastal fog or low clouds clearing locally In afternoons. Slightly warmer Interior Tues day. Northwest winds 12-25 MPH off coast and locally 30 MPH exposed points. ROBERT r. MA GUI RE Craig, at 3-2506, or Mrs. H. V. Beer, at 2-5802. . Those helping on arrange ments for the roundup are Mrs. Beer, chairman; Mrs. Ben Greas er, publicity, and a committee composed of Mrs. Craig. Mrs. Russell Hogue, transportation; Mrs. Steve Elko, hospitality; Mrs. Roy Jackson, report assistance; Mrs. Russell Wade, registration, and Mrs. W. Brannon, literature. PACIFIC DEFEXfED" Forest Grove. Ore.. May 15 (U.R) College of Idaho handed Pacific university a twin North west conference baseball defeat Saturday, winning 3 to 2 and 9 to 6. Dead line on Claaatned Ada: s3n pro for following day: 10 dozen people are always hanging I iSrlud.T. mn"5r- Ma S"Urd" around gawking at you. It's like I kissing a woman while her hus band watches . . . and her mother 1 and father and brother and sister , and cousins, too." j Can't Blame Him Heston, as you may have gath-, eren. is a man who pays a lot of attention to this smooching busi ness. "It is not the least interesting part of an actor's chores," he grins. All of which makes Hal Wallis a happy man. He's counting on this young gent to be Holly woods hottest hearthrob since Gable started warming 'em up around the world. Heslon's made a good start. We watched him in a sizzling clinch with Miss Scott this morn ing. He really has a way of steaming through a passionate bear-hug. But Ha s Married When he took his hand away the sequins on her dress stuck to it. Heston is six foot two. weighs 210 pounds, and has blue eyes and blond hair. He's about 27 and you needn't bother to get in line. 3als. He's also married to Lydia Clarke, a Broadway actress. And while Heslon's getting for Supreme Court Justice in a recent poll of members of the Oregon Stale Bar. Maguire received more first choice votes than both hi? opponents combined. His fellow lawyers recog nize bis ability. APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT in 1947 as one of four judges from the West lo try Nazi war criminals at Nurenberg. Germany. His nation rec ognizes Maguire's outstanding ability. Ambulance Service The "Black and White" Ambulances E & J Resuscitator Four "Stretcher Patient" Capacity Blood Plasma Oxygen MABEL CARLOS CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS "Preferred By So Many" 5th and Weil Main Phone 3-1051 JOE DUNNE Former Republican Nominee for Governor in a Mlk entitled "THE OLD AGE PEOPLE KNOW THEIR FRIENDS" KM ED Tonight 7:45 P. M. P.d Adv. OU Atj Pent o n Commit. Jonjif Arti S.e.ftifY, D26 $ W. Uth Portltflt.. Ort, The Real Secret of Communist Strength in the U.S.A. Is Revealed bv FBI Director-Edgar Hoover fit :-s? JffcISrt DAVE HOOVER DAVE HOOVER is a ' red-blooded. Brass roots American A veteran of World War I (his opponent lias never been in uniform) Hoover can he counted on to fight for the freedom of the America we know and love. HOOVER'S leal training and his law en forcement background will enable him to cope successfully in the U. S. Senate with the Communist menace to the U. S. A. HOOVER'S stand on Communists and fellow-travelers is clearlv outlined in hii statement in the Oiiicial Voter's Pamphlet. HOOVER has picked to KI.IMIN TE CO M M U X I STS AND SOCIALISTS FROM PUBLIC POSITIONS. HOOVER has plrdscd to STOP QL' WD ING AMERICAN HOLLARS ON SOC IALISTIC FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. HOOVER is opposed to the importation of foreign isms" under any name and from any source. HOOVER is againat the further extension 01 Federal Rutraucracy with its dictatorial powers over the live of the pevple. HOOVER recognizes that government has nothing to giva lo tha peopla except that which it has first taken away from tha peopla. HOOVER favors the protection and pres ervation of free enterprise because only through free enterprise will the people re main free. HOOVER is a REAL REPUBLICAN and A REAL AMERICAN. The Communists possess a well-knit, closely disciplined destructive force of approximately 55.000 members in the United States. In actual numbers, their membership may not be large, nor have the Communists at any time polled a large number of votes in an election. This has been cited by the ignorant and the apologists and appeascrs of Con-munism in our country as minimizing the dangers of these suhversives in our midst. ' But behind this force of traitorous Communists, constantly gnawing away like termites at the very' foundations of American society, stand half a million fellow travelers and sympathizers ready to do the Com munist bidding. They practice their double-dealing, double-minded, dnuble-ton(ued and double-faced tactics on all fronts of our American life, whether it be in politics, in labor, in the press, in radio, in motion pictures, in the schools or even in some of our churches. If every American faced the reality of what the fulfillment of the Communist objective- would mean to him he would be inspired lo work harder to protect and preserve the individual liberty and free dom which is part and parcel of our American way of life. How Does Morse's Record Check With Your Ideas of Americanism? Don't be fooled by what J.. Edgar Hoover calls "double-dealing, double-minded, double-tongued and double-faced tactics." The facts of Morse's life-long record of "libcralism"infc not been de nied. They cannot be denied. These facts are reprinted here as a public service to help you decide how to cast your vote for l). S. Senator on May 19. MORSE helped secure a pardon for Tom Muoney, the radical who had been given a life sentence for his part in the 1016 Prepar edness Day bombing in San Francisco. MORSE said: "Harry Bridges is a better citizen than the people who are trying to deport him." MORSE voted in the U. S. Senate for such "liberals" and leftists" as Henry Wallace, Aubrey Williams, Raymond McKeogh ar I.cland Olds. MORSE urged the U. S. to give the secrets of the atom hon atomic energy to the world, including the Russians, in -in the U. S. Senate, October 22, 1945. ' MORSE 'has been denounced by the Department' Veterans of Foreign Wars, as a "sponsor of Scnntr Resolution No. 56 which seeks to develop the Unit' a world government that would supersede the Co United States." MORSE followed the "party line" of the left i the ADA, along with Pepper, Taylor and La the ADA World, October 28, 19-49. MORSE is listed in the CIO News of .lanuars "Republican" Senator with a perfect record sponsored measures. i . . . ELECT A. REAL REPUBLICAN-.-! REAL AV DAVE HOOVER FOR U.S. SE HOOVF.K FOR U. S. SENATOR Comntee, Tim Wood Campaign Manager 208 Broadway. Oak Bui