SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. May 15. 1950
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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.
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HAT DOES it all mean?
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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.
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Four "Stretcher Patient" Capacity
Blood Plasma Oxygen
MABEL
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CONGER-MORRIS
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
"Preferred By So Many"
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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