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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
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HOWARD LATOURETTE
HOWARD LATOURETTE
U. S. SENATOR
Jackson County Lttourttt Ht U.
Secretary, Central Point.
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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.
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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.)
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