Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 17, 1950, Image 12

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Newspaper Page Texti TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedforiUTribuni -Everyone ID Southern Oregon" Read The Mail Tribune" Daily Except Saturtlae Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone J-4141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. OILSTRAP Manager HERB GREY. Advertlelnl Mgr. . C FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CU1PMAN, Telearapn Editor HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Cumulation Mr An Independent Newipaper Entered as eecond elaae matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act at March 1. 1U97 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br MaU In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.... 00 Daily and Sunday el monthe 4.75 Dally and Sunday three rnoe a.ou Daily and 8unday one month 1.00 8y Carrier In Advance Medtord. Aahland, Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday ana yeettia.OO Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Termi Caib In Advance Official Paper of the City ef Medlord Official Paper of eaekson County -full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Va neouver, B C. NEWSPAMR PUBIISHEKS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medferd and Jackson County His tory from Hi files of the MaH Tribune 10, 20 and 34 year at 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar 17. 1940 (It Was Friday) New state police headquarters on highway 99 north formally opened. Fishing season to open at Dia mond lake about May 20. Glen L. Fabrick, Medford, wins trophy at state laundry owners' golf tournament held at Klamath Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben E. Pey ton, 246 South Ivy street, ob serve 40th wedding anniversary. Medford post office employees accept invitation to enter exhib its in national airmail rose show at Portland. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY May 17, 193p (It Was Saturday) Incumbent George Alford wing county commissioner nom ination by 161 votes. James E. Edmiston orchard, Sams Valley, sold to Harry Kir ated for about $40,000. College Women's club elects Mrs, George Canada president. Scottish Rite bodies of slate to open in Medford Monday for three-day session. 14 YEARS AGO TODAY May 17, 1916 (It Was Wednesday) Lucile Fritsche, 15, will be youngest student to graduate from high school at commence ment Friday. The Rev. M. C. Reed to con tinue as pastor of Methodist church at Talent. Lee L. Jacobs may have name written on democratic nomina tion ballot for post of county clerk. Salvation Army Sets Two Events This Week-End Two events of Importance lo Salvation Army members will be held at the local Salvation Army hall Friday and Saturday, it was announced today by MaJ. Jack Little, commanding officer of the Army here. A meeting of Southern Ore gon Young Peoples and Corps Cadet councils will be held Fri day and Saturday, Major Little said. Officers and young people from Kugene. Coos Bay, Rose burg, Klamath Falls and Med ford will attend. Brigadier Frank Wilmer, San Francisco, territorial young peo ples' secretary, and Capt. Ken neth Anderson, Portland, divis ional young peoples' secretary, will ronduet the Corps Cadet councils. Mrs. Anderson also will attend. First session will be 7 p.m. Friday, with Saturday sessions to be at 9:45 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Theme of the councils Is a nauti cal o n e "Youth W hither Bound." Brigadier Wilmer will speak on "Choosing the Course." "Charting the Course," and "The Voyage." Council session are open only lo delegates. Rally Friday The other meeting will be a Boys and Girls rally, to be held here al 415 p.m. Friday, imme diately after school. Young peo ple from the elementary schools of Medford are invited to at tend the hour-long program, which will Include "mystery, magic, movies, prizes, fun and games," according to MaJ. Little. Adinitaeou to th rally will I Wayne The recent series of advertisements in Oregon newspapers sponsored by the "Hoover for Senate Committee" would indicate that a sizable sum of money is being spent, apparently in an effort to create an idea that Senator Morse is guilty of communistic sympathies. NOTHING could be further from the truth! It is unfortunate that Senator Morse and his campaign organization have neither the time, before the primary election, nor the money to adequately answer these accusations through paid advertisements in news papers throughout the state. THE writer has followed Senator Morse's record closely during his service as Oregon's junior sena tor, and has had occasion to investigate his record prior to his election to that office. While not always in agreement with the senator's views, this writer is thoroughly convinced of his honesty, integrity and ability as one of the outstanding members of the United States senate. The attacks made by his opposi tion, while largely by inference, are unethical, abso lutely untrue and apparently designed to cast a seri ous doubt in the minds of the voters as to Senator Morse's loyalty as an American citizen. e LAYING aside all rumors, inferences and statements of those who have a personal animosity towards the senator, let's look at the record : He has the admiration as Vandenberg, Dewey, Joseph J. Martin Jr., Homer Ferguson and Philip Willkie and, in fact, 18 republi can senators have authorized the use of their names on testimonials in his behalf. Senator Morse appeared as the guest speaker of the 1949 graduating class of the FBI at the invitation of Mr. J. Edgar Hooyer. ON MAY 13, 1950, Senator Morse was invited to represent the republican party as their speaker at the famous Gridiron dinner held in Washington, D.f!. MpmbershiD of the club is limited to 50 top active Washington newspapermen. Recent republican spokesmen have been Vandenberg, Taft, Governor Dewey and Stassen. AS ANOTHER indication of his party standing he iuqo pallor! nnnn Vw trip National Renuhlican com- llda "I . . -j -.v - ' 1 mittee for more speaking engagements than any other party leader during the 1948 presidential campaign. IT APPEARS to this writer that it is time the think ing republicans of Oregon brush away false im pressions and innuendos created by unethical attempts to discredit, and judge the man on his true merits. R.W.R. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beat the name and addresae of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name ol Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not eaceed 40(1 word Morse Type Needed To the Editor: I appreciate very much your publicity in favor of Wayne Morse for United States senator. I consider Senator Morse one of the outstanding leaders In the political life of our nation. I do not always agree with his de cisions and votes. But I am con f I d e n t that he does give thorough study to the issues be fore the congress and country and then acts according to his best Judgment in the light of the facts. He is the type of man we need in our political life today if we are to maintain our free dom and democracy. I hope he will be renominated In the primary and re-elected in the fall. I believe If he should be defeated in the primary, that a democrat will be elected irom Oregon next fall, but if Wayne Morse can be nominated, he will be elected. This statement is my personal opinion as a citizen and does not necessarily reflect the Judg ment of any group of which I am associated. Meredith A. Groves. Pastor First Methodist church, Medford. ... . President. Medford Ministe rial association. President. Oregon Conference Board of Education of the Meth odist Church. Member of the Inter-Board Council of the Oregon Annual Conference of the Methodist Church. Reply To Hoover Leltor To the Editor: In reply to a letter we received from the Hoover For Senator committee will say: Yes, we are one of the Ore gonians who heard Dave Hoov er's broadcast and we noted that his most brilliant promise was to vote exactly us the rest of his republican colleagues voted. Since his first broadcast his strategy committee has had this soft pedaled a bit. Now for those who want a man who is pledged to vote exactly as his party colleamies on all issues Hoover should be their choice. They would hut they wouldn't know how he was going In vote as Dave would have to wait un til the others had voted so as be by tickets, which may be ob tained at the Salvation Army hall here, and will also he avail able at school grounds Thursday and Friday. Brigadier Wilmer and Capt Wednesday. Mir 17. H50 Morse and respect of such men Anderson will conduct the pro- gram. I not to make a mistake. In the interest of economy if I elected Dave might stay on his I farm and have someone in Wash ' inglon make an X for him de nniins that he had voted as the other republicans had. We might vote for him if he agreed to do this. No, we have nothing to con tribute as we like Dave milk cows but from the many decor ated telephone poles, radio broadcasts and volumes of litera ture coming through the mails we believe Dave is doing a far better Job of milking than we were ever able to do. R. E. NEALON. Vote or The Man To the Editor: According to the Dave Hoover ads and some letters in the papers the greatest crime a congressman can com mit Is to fall to vote the party line all the way. He is worse than Judas if he slyly gets elect ed on the republican ticket then dares to think for himself and votes for a measure as he sees it and not as the party leaders do. If to be elected as a member of a party means straight party line voting why waste the money he uses going to and living in Washington? I am registered as a democrat but have always voted for the man I thought best for the Job. If that be wrong I'm sorry, I shall keep on anyway. I wish more of our elected of ficials had the courage to vote according to the will of the peo ple. Then I am sure there would he laws against destroying good food to keep It scarce and high. And at least If the government had to buy it It would b given to school children and all the needy so the scandal of malnu trition and starvation In our land of plenty would never be heard again. No wonder foreign countries can tell us to clean our own house before telling them how lo keep theirs. B. E. JENSEN. CANARY AIMS HIGH Bremerton, Wash. IU.R Mrs. James O. Hawkins' canary seems to he working up to the princi ple that they're cheaper by the dozen. The canary-fancier re ports it laid eight crrs and ap pears to be thinking about more. Four eggs are the most Mrs. Hawkin s canary has laid before. NOT EXACTLY UNWANTED Valparaiso, Ind. (U.R When Mrs. Donald Fitch hung her spring coat and her husband's suit behind a screen door on her porch to be picked up by a cleaning establishment, she didn't know the Salvation Army was having an "unwanted cloth ing drive." Army officials re turned the clothes whrn told of their mistake. Dead line on Clsssined Ads S 30 pm for following clay, to a m tor Sunday im Cross town "Wh ly should you spend your allowance money to see a Western? Make your father buy a television set I" In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On the world news front: Foreign ministers of the 12 Atlantic pact nations are meet ing in London to try to work out ways to build up their defenses against possible communist ag gression "without scuttling their economies." That is to say: Without spending more money on defense measures than they think they can afford. I HATE TO have to say it, but ELEVEN of the twelve appear to be imbued with the idea that the way to accomplish that is to get the United States to do the bulk of the spending. FOR SEVERAL days the for eign ministers of the Big Three western powers (U. S., Britain, France) have been meet ing in London. They are report ed by "informed sources" as agreeing on these points: 1. "Speed up the West Ger man government's control of its foreign affairs by (German) par ticipation in the Council of Europe. 2. Extension of German con trol over German internal legis lation. 3. Give the Germans more lee way in shipbuilding. IpHIS IS what it all means: We and the British and the French are petty well convinced that if we have to go to war with communist Russia we've GOT to have the tough, smart, competent Germans on our side. JSN'T WAR funny? We spend our blood and our treasure to lick the Germans and out of it all comes a mess in which we have to have the Ger mans on our side in order to avoid a worse mess than the last one. LET'S GO back for a moment to that fateful day in 1942 when Hitler unexpectedly at tacked Russia. If you'll search your memory, I'll bet you'll recall that your instinctive feeling was to stand off to one side and let the nazi Germans and the communist Russians fight each other to a standstill. That was the way most of us. on PURE HUNCH, felt about it. But we reasoned ourselves out of it, and what followed, fol lowed. That raises an Interesting question: When . you act on hunch, doesn't It often work out pretty well? And when you GO AGAINST a hunch, don't you often wish you hadn't? OUR HARRY, back in Chicago after his tour of the whistle stops, is bubbling over with en thusiasm and speaks happily about the size and the friendli ness of his audiences. That is as it should be. If the time ever comes in this country when we aren't Interested in our president and friendly toward HEAR WALTER J. PEARSON Democratic Candidate for GOVERNOR answer the question! every voter ii Interested in K M E D TONIGHT 6 P.M. N. political .Wrernsement Peine tor Cover of Comm. I (ins L. Murray, secretary 222 Plttack Block. PerH.ee 1y Roland Coe him when he visits our town, the united states of America will be in a bad, bad way. Besides, the little man from Missour is just the kind of guy to arouse interest and friendship when he goes out barnstorming. He's human and friendly and in terested in people. INCIDENTALLY, he says again and again in Chicago that the trip was all STRICTLY NON POLITICAL. He was just out calling on friends and neighbors. Of course it was non-political. It had to be. The taxpayers were paying for it. If the tour had been political in any sense, the taxpayers might have BALKED at paying for it. NOTHING TO IT ' Allentown, Pa. (U.R) Marty Martzall, Muhlenberg college pitcher, broke his left leg on the mound but came back to pitch again the next day. All he had to do was make a quick trip to nearby Lancaster and buy anoth er wooden leg. BURGLARS RAID JAIL Lewis, Del. (U.R) Police Chief Lynn Ritter called in state police when thieves broke into his locker. Ritter pointed to a smashed lock on one of the jail's three cells and said burglars had carted away five slot machines which liquor commission inspect ors had seized in a raid. Dead line Sunday Clautfled to at Noon Saturday!. Democrat Voters . . Nominal- a Man We Can Elect in November lf HOWARD LATOURETTE HOWARD LATOURETTE U. S. SENATOR Jackson County Lttourttt Ht U. Secretary, Central Point. S, It's Easy To Get A Loan Here If you can repay small monthly install ments which you select to fit your purse you should not hesitate to see us for a loan at once. Come in or telephone. We say YES to 4 out of 5! Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-44)3 Craterian lldg. 43 S. Central Lie. S-211 M-217 Cancer 'Specialist' On Trial in Portland Portland, Ore., May 17 U.R) Otto Soles, Portland laboratory operator who Insisted he had found a "sure cure" for cancer, went on trial here yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Soles was arrested last Febru ary after the district attorney's office and the state medical board charged he had operated on a woman for breast cancer. His attorney told the district court jury that Soles did not practice medicine because he did not prescribe drugs or medicants. The lawyer said the defendant sold a preparation "that would absolutely cure a cancer if di rections were followed." A deputy district attorney said the woman Soles was accused of treating could not legally tes tify because she is in a hospital being treated for cancer. VOTE FOR JOE CAVE Democratic Candidate for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE MEDFORD DISTRICT Notfi inf phonty about Jot No rash promlies to different groups. Will perform tho duties off the office as the statutes direct, seasoned with common senso. (Paid Adv.) LATOURETTE It Native Oregonian who will work for Ore gon, and who will sup port Preiident Truman. LATOURETTE I a former speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. LATOURETTE It a former Democratic National Committeeman. Senator Com mi Hoe. Scott Hamilton, Paid Adv. ; 4 J .'if I , V STAN STARK Yes Mia Why Throw Your Vote Away? That was the question, Mr. Ruhl, that you asked DAVE HOOVER supporters in your editorial ap pearing in this, paper last Friday, May 12, 1950. Would you, Mr. Ruhl, vote for a candidate who has voted in Congress consistently AGAINST YOUR PRINCIPLES just because you thought his opponent, although qualified, couldn't win? We who are DAVE HOOVER supporters have asked the Republican voters not only to look at the qualifications and platform of DAVE HOOVER, but to look at the record compiled by WAYNE MORSE, WHICH WE DON'T LIKE. You, Mr. Ruhl, indicate we should DISRE GARD THE RECORD of WAYNE MORSE and in doing so DISREGARD OUR PRINCIPLES as well, so as to keep in Congress a man under the label of the Republican Party, even though HIS RECORD DOESN'T WARRANT OUR SUPPORT. If voting against the record of WAYNE MORSE is "THROWING AWAY OUR VOTE" then that is just what we and thousands of others intend to do. IS IT WRONG, Mr Ruhl, to oppose and vote against a candidate whose record WE DON'T LIKE? LOOK AT THE RECORD. WAYNE MORSE and CLAUDE PEPPER of Florida have almost identical voting records on critical issues. Did the voters in the Democrat Party of Florida throw away their votes by kicking out CLAUDE PEPPER in their Primary? NO, Mr. Ruhl, they did not.because they nominated A BET TER MAN. REMEMBER that CLAUDE PEPPER and WAYNE MORSE were among the few who fa vored THE CONFIRMATION OF LELAND OLDS. Your editorial, Mr. Ruhl, indicates a fear on your part that TOO MANY REPUBLICANS will "THROW AWAY THEIR VOTES" and DAVE HOOVER WILL BE NOMINATED. We, not only as supporters of DAVE HOOVER but as AMERICANS are most happy that in this country we can still "THROW AWAY OUR VOTE" if we so desire. Do you feel that everyone who votes for a candidate or issue that is defeated has "THROWN AWAY HIS VOTE"? Millions of voters in every national election since the first na tional election have then "THROWN AWAY THEIR VOTES." RUSSIA, Mr. Ruhl, is one place you can't "THROW AWAY YOUR VOTE." In RUSSIA you are not only FORCED TO VOTE but FORCED TO VOTE FOR A WINNER. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? We will vote as our PRINCIPLES DICTATE in this Primary Election, and we intend to vote for DAVE HOOVER, and if that is "THROWING AWAY OUR VOTES" then we THANK GOD that we still have that privilege in America. IS IT WRONG to look at a candidate's past record? IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who stat ed "HARRY BRIDGES IS A BETTER CITIZEN THAN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO DEPORT HIM"? WAYNE MORSE made that statement. IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who sup ported the confirmation of LELAND OLDS along with GLENN TAYLOR and CLAUDE PEPPER? WAYNE MORSE voted for LELAND OLDS. IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who sup ported HENRY WALLACE? WAYNE MORSE did. IT IS WRONG to oppose a candidate who worked for the release of the infamous TOM MOONEY? IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who has accomplished nothing to stop deficite spending? But our conclusions, Mr. Ruhl, to vote for DAVE HOOVER are not based alone on our strong disapproval of the record compiled by WAYNE MORSE, but because DAVE HOOVER is better qualified, and because: DAVE HOOVER stands for individual free dom versus a government controlled economy. DAVE HOOVER has pledged to work for a balanced budget and the retirement of the public debt, and to stop deficite spending. DAVE HOOVER recognizes that the govern ment has nothing to give the people except that which it first takes away from the people. DAVE HOOVER will be guided by the interests of the people of the State of Oregon and the Unit ed States and not be dictated to by pressure groups. DAVE HOOVER favors the protection and preservation of free enterprise and the rights of all workers against the encroachment of any kind of bosses factory, corporation, government or labor bosses. DAVE HOOVER will not be a party to the con firmation of any federal executive who does not have an unblemished personal and political record. VOTE FOR DAVE THE JACKSON COUNTY DAVE HOOVER FOR SENATOR COMMITTEE (Paid Adv.) 10011