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Tartf MEDFORD rOREGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE rridar. Mar M. I9S0 MDFORD)TBISUNE "Eiurool Id Southern Oregon" Rewb The Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North fir St. Phone 2-ll ROBERT W. RUM, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manas iivnn nnrv aHv.rll.in. Mar. a. C. FERGUs6n, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR . City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Ttlegrapn Editor HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor nt.rvr. STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independant Newipapcr Entered aa second claai matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March S, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES w M.ll In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....S.OO Dally and Sunday six months 4.7S Dally and Sunday thrae moa. a.50 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 Bu rarrlr In Advance Medlord, a.hlanri Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent and on Dally and Sunday ane yaar..ia.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terma Caah In Advance Official Paper of the City of Med for Official paper oi acaion .ounj United Preae Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLID A COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicego. De troit, Sao Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B. C. UBIIS Hf RS .-ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medforct end Jackson County Hhv hiry from the files of the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 years ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May JB, 1940 GU Was Sunday) Thirteen cluba entered in two local Softball leagues. Olive Rebekah lodge elects Gertrude Moffett noble grand. Quart mining enjoys revival Sn Forest Creek district, two mills being installed, another planned. Mrs. Sarah A. Warner, long time resident of Central Point, dies at home, Reese Creek school district residents to discuss whether to have bus for transporting students. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar 26, 1930 (It Was Monday) Construction of storage reser voir on Rogue near Kerby and tunnel to Applegate tributary planned by Charles Le and R. W. Meyers. Estimated 3,900 to 4,000 ve hicles dally using Kings high way as detour during construc tion work on highway 99 south of city. Harry Hutton, operator of Medford hotel, announces pur chase of Eugene hotel. Miss Laura Drury, president, honored at luncheon by high school Girls' league. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY May 26. 1916 (It Was Friday) R. P. Little, 823 Taylor street, reports first cherries of season ripening. Fishway at Ament dam ex tended 24 feet into the water; now 14 feet deep. Central Point Memorial day service to hear the Rev. John C. Stille as principal speaker. Butte Falls Seniors Receive Diplomas Butte Fulls, May 26 Gradu ation exercises were held Tues day evening in the high school gymnasium, attended by a large crowd. Seniors graduated in royal blue raps and gowns. The program follows: Processional, Mrs. Alice Harris. Invocation, Rev. John Fuiten. Solo, Mrs. Bill Harris. Our class of 1950, Ailcen Smith. Our schools, Leltha ' Scott, Valedictorian, l.eithn Scott. Salutatarian, Llla Kills (who Is still confined to a Mcdtord hospital. Presentation of awards, Mr. W. L. Perry. Commencement address: "What Are You Beginning?" Arthur Kreisman, assistant pro fessor, S.O.C.E. Awards were presented by Mr. Perry and diplomas passed out by Vv. Hartlerode, Convocation by Rev. Fuiten. Seniors graduating were Lila Ellis, Tommy Harper, Leltha Scott, Aileen Smith, Barbara Geppert, Johnnie Woods, Kugene Irwin, Darwin Moore. Francis Poole and Jeanine Stinson, Six of these ten seniors went through their entire 12 years in the Butte Falls schools. The committee on cosmetics of the American Medical association awards a seal of acceptance for cosmetics only for those products that meet certain standards ot (atcty, usefulness, and integrity In advertising and promotion. Editorial Correspondence Crosstown By. Roland Coe South Amboy, N. J., May 20 Came down here via the Penn. railroad to see the ruins. A beautiful summer day for a change, but with soldiers, marines, state police and motoring sight seen all about it was no easy job to find them. After the newspaper reports we expected something resem bling the ruins or vernun. But aside from ooaraea-up winaows in the railroad station, broken ones along the right-of-way from Perth Amboy and broken glass in the streets and yards, there was no suggestion of the explosion Friday night. This blow-up killed over 20 dock workers, injured over 300, and caused property damage estimated all the way from seven to 20 million. (We predict when insurance experts figure up, however, the first total of $7,000,000 will be far closer to the exact amount tnan tne fzu.uuu.uuuj. In short the show, as a show, was disappointing. Onlv at the waterfront was there evidence of the holocaust. wrecked docks, the pulverized skeleton of the American Chemical company plant, the badly damaged Jersey Central Light and Power company building and a greenhouse next to the sewage disposal plant, with every glass in the roof missing. There were armed guards everywhere, soldiers acting as traf fic cops at every street intersection, and the high school and city hall used as overflow for the injured with a Red Cross soup kitchen and first aid unit functioning. (We don't believe there will be any difficulty securing Red Cross donations in South Amboy and vicinity next year!) As stated, it was a beautiful Sunday, services of thanksgiving had been held in the window-and-doorless churches, also on front lawns and even in the streets after which all and sundry returned to the job of repair and cleaning up. The one great demand was for more window glass, truck loads were rushed from nearby towns with glaziers and extra supplies, but after strolling around a bit we decided most of the citizens were doing the work them selves papa, mama and the boys all pitching in. There were no signs of mourning, only four bodies had been recovered and two of them unidentified, it was generally believed the other 20 or more might never be found, having been blown into dust, so to speak. - - - It's an ill wind that blows no one good. We Brant to call such a disaster an "ill wind" is to be guilty of rank understatement. But the town as a whole was enjoying a prominence and prosperity, that was not exactly distasteful, par ticularly to the one drug store that was not incapacitated and the one roadside diner mere Being no oiner piaceg to get reiresn ments and food. We had to wait in line to get a seat in the replica of the railroad dining car. Jammed with Pennsylvania repair work ers, three men ana a coy aisnwasner on auty, so raiiguea iney could hardly navigate. The cash register literally overflowed, the one village bank having been closed by the blast and specially guarded by the alert and smartly attired New Jersey police (dark blue with orange trimmings), so there was no place to put the log jam of bills and currency which had been accumulating ever since the Dlow-up. Incidentally the food proved to be AMAZINGLY good. We or dered our old-time favorite, bacon and eggs (softl everything ex cellent, Just as good as tne Plaza and at about one-fourth the price. "The way I look at it, it's just sort of a loyalty test. It proves we're still loyal to the fourth grade and didn't want to leave it." Anyone doubting the popularity of television and the bril liance of its future, should pay a visit to this damaged, longshore mans' village on the Raritan shore. If there is an attractive and modern residence in the place we did not see it. Yet we would estimate that from the smallest dump to the most commodious "Gay Ninety" dwelling, at least 90 per cent of the roofs displayed one or more TV antennae. Considering the cost of television set here was a graphic demonstration of two things: (1) The popularity of television among the rank and file. (2) The high wage scale prevailing here in the East. see According to report the government sent down a couple of top-ranking psychiatrists from Washington to make a survey as to psychological reactions from the explosion. We would like to get a copy of the report. The few we talked with, mostly young men In their 20's, with patches over their facial scratches, said there was no panic, they were stunned, took some time before they could get their bearings, but most of them thought some munition ship In the bay had blown up. Some suspected earthquake, and a few an atom bomb from Russia, but as a whole there was more curiosity than alarm. One of the young men said he was in the kitchen opening a can of beer, and the next thing he knew he was flat on his face, and the can ot beer nowhere to be found. He first thought he had fainted or suffered a heart attack and was scared, but gradually realized that the rest of the famllv had been knocked out and there was broken glass all over the place, so he got to his feet and looKecl things over. We would say the most striking feature of the disaster was the fortitude and general self-control displayed by the residents of the waterfront village. As a considerable portion are foreign born the general reaction gave the writer renewed faith in the country from a melting pot standpoint. The resourcefulness and indus trlousness of the citizenship were most noticeable. It was Sunday, the place was packed with police, .soldiers and sightseers, much to distract and interest young and old, yet In practically every home "the whole damned family" was working to clear things up, make repairs and put the place in normal shape for Monday morning, paying no heed to the circus whirling all about them. In one home two little girls were hanging out some washing on the line, while their mother could be seen in the front room shoveling up plaster no doubt the "old man" was patching up some of the windows in the rear everybody works, INCLUDING father. Shortly after our "dinette" luncheon there were screeching sirens and fire trucks appeared with volunteers shedding civilian caps and hats for helmets as they were driven madly down the street to the waterfront. Only a few people followed and the de partment did not stay long, for it was one of those things that threatened no serious danger, except to those getting too close to the flames. It was a new outbreak In the wrecked chemical plant, a pile of magnesium In flames the flames rose in wicked streaks high in the sky while a thick white smoke poured and billowed over the bay. The crowds were kept at a safe distance for magnesium smoke is nothing to tamper with. Fortunately the wind was off shore in stead of toward the town. When we left, the bay was covered by a perfect smoke screen, a couple of navy dirigibles turned their noses up at an angle of 45 degrees to get out of it. In closing we present the following editorial comment of the New York Herald Tribune on the renomination of Wayne Morse: SENATOR MORSE'S VICTORY Political events in the far state of Oregon have on at least one previous occasion exerted a decisive influence upon national Republican fortunes; and the victory of Sen ator Wayne Morse in the Republican primaries may prove to be another instance of the same kind. Senator Morse fought in a singularly bitter and intense campaign against a candidate who described himself as a "real Republican," suggesting that the Morse brand of lib eralism was a betrayal of the party. Yet Senator Morse was the choice ot Oregon Republicans by a margin of two to one, and the result will almost inevitably be linked, as Senator Morse has already suggested, with the victory of Governor Duff last week in Pennsylvania. It Is frequently asserted that the nomination of a "real Republican" for the Presidency one, that is, who is rooted in opposition to everything that has been conceived or ac complished in the Inst two decades will assure a successful outcome. The evidence presented by Republican voters in states as fur separated as the two extremes of the continent, would Indicate, however, a different conclusion. Senator Morse, it must be said, has been a controversial figure, whose independence has on occasion been deeply disconcerting to his own party, He has sometimes referred to himself as a "maverick": yet on crucial tests of loyalty, and when basic fundamentals of governmental philosophy have been at stake, the Senator has shown himself clearly a Republican. His position during the campaign revealed much. He received liberal and labor support; yet there were severnl groups that withheld their indorsement, on the ground tiiat he was not sufficiently favorable to a Columbia Valley Authority and that he has supported candidates un satisfactory to labor. The upshot of these contradictions may well be a kind of honest independence which the coun try needs. With the primary fight won, there is every reason to believe he will be returned to the Senate in November. That is a prospect to be viewed with satisfaction, and one, we believe, which holds out much good for the Republican party, R.W.R. Cancer Salve Maker Free On $2,000 Bond Portland. Ore., May 26 U.R) Otto Soles. 69-year-old operator of the Keystone laboratory con victed of practicing medicine without a license, was free on J2.000 bond today. An appeal was on file in cir cuit court Soles treated a wom an wHh cancer with a so-called 'cancer salve". The woman now was reported near death in a Portland hospital. Soles was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 Wednesday. Albany, N. Y. fU.P Freder ick Washington arranged and paid for his own funeral. His will noted that he had a "paid in full" receipt for the burial Your Health and Its Care By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. Readers should address Inquiries to: Dr. William Brady, 245 El Camine, Beverly Hills. Calif. ACCORDING TO SAIREY GAMP My obstetrician, writes a de luded woman her delusion will be the subject of a column to follow short- (A the booK you have repeated ly recom mended (Child birth Without Fear, by Grant lv Dick Read, M. D., H a r- Ut. Brady per's) a n d he says part of the procedure is having tne husband present in the labor room, but not in the delivery room. 1 have been particularly inter ested in your campaign to have the husband remain with h i s wife in the delivery room. You have said more than once that there is no law against this pro cedure. But my obstetrician says my husband cannot remain in the delivery room with me, for there is a law against it in Il linois . . . (K. S.) According to Mrs. Gamn's Mrs. 'arris there is some such law, ordinance or hospital rule somewhere in Illinois I have not been able to earn lust which or where, but give me time and eventually we'll discover the origin of this convenient canard. There Isn t room to repeat the reasons why a real man should stand by at bedside for the miracle. These reasons are given in the booklet Preparing for Ma ternity (twenty-five cents and stamped self-addressed envelope) wnicn every prospective father should read and study with his wife. I have had a score or more let ters from Illinois peoDle who have encountered this same she nanigan when they have sought natural cniidDirtn. Now I repeat and challenge any one with authority to cor rect me if I m wrong there is no law in Illinois or anywhere else in America against the pros pective father remaining with his wife throughout labor and delivery, if the prospective moth er wishes to have him with her. From what I know of politics I cannot give the same assurance lv is enthu- ,n regard to city ordinances. siastic about rom what I know of hos natural child-1 P ' a 1 latter-day "specialists" birth, as ex-'and the petty politics of mem- pounded bv Dr. ! Ders ot nospnai Boards and ad G. D. Read in I ministrations. I'd be astonished to learn mat there are not hos pital "rules" or "regulations" de signed and enforced for the pri mary purpose of concealing the neglect and the malpractke that too frequently occurs5 in he de livery room. That is the primary purpose of such "rules" or "regulations," and any blah-blah about the "danger" that the husband may bring infection into the delivery room or the nurses being to busy looking after mother and infant to bother reviving the husband from fainting spells, is an insule to the intelligence of the pros pective parents. an any one with an I. Q: equivalent to that of a moron imagine the state enacting a law prohibiting a citizen from attend ing the birth of his own child? That might go in a dimwit Soviet republic, but hardly in the U. S. A. Again I assure you that home is the best place to have a baby, provided you have a home fit to live in. If you haven't, maybe one reason is that you squander too much money on trick spe cialists. About half of the peo ple in America do. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Nicotine Can you possibly get nicotine pois oning from smoking cigarettes? Some times when smokina I swallow narti- cles of tobacco, and afterwards I feel weak and have cramps. A. E.) Answer Most pnysicians ncneve you can. I'm not convinced of It I think the oolsonina mav be from carbon monoxide in the smoke, but this is merely my personal opinion. Callus Please, oh. please, reprint that remedy for corns and calluses In I moving we lost our copy of the for mula, but I think the stuff dries up ! In time. It was simply great for re moving corns and calluses from the feet. (Mrs. F C. J.) Answer Paint once a day for a . week or ten days with a solution of 30 grains of salicylic acid in one-half fluidounce flexible collodion. ICopyrtght 1850 by John F. Dllle Co.) COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and addresse of the wrltet although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name ot Initial for publication is permis sible. Th Stall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with s view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub llfstlon mutt not exceed ton words D.S.T. Vote Urged To the editor: We have heen Informed that daylight saving time is to be placed on the ballot to be voted on at the November election. To verify the report we checked with our local legislat ors, and were Informed that it would be, with strings attached, that it was not a vote for the people to decide whether they would like to have it continued or discontinued, but for them to choose whether it should be left with the local officials or our governor s to who should Issue the proclamation. The question was asked our state representative why it was not placed on the ballot", leaving it up to the people to say if it should be continued or discon tinued? His answer was the peo ple did not have the intelligence to vote properly, that they had proven that in the past. Manv iieonle. we find would like a voice In this matter as it affects everyone's everyday life. The only democratic way to han dle the issue is for the people to express their will at an elec tion. If interested in this matter drop a card to 20S Laurel St., Medford. If a sufficient number are interested petitions will be circulated and an effort will be made to put It on the ballot. C. J. Haas, Frank Howell. Butte Falls Thanked To the editor; Sometimes In one s life there comes a time when help is needed quick. The writer had tttis occasion happen and for my good fortune it hap pened in Butte Falls. My son. three years old, strayed away from me during a fishing trip in that area. After a ciuick search bv mv- self I drove 14 miles into Hutie Falls about noon Suni'ir' r. id in a few minutes almost t v. .y avail able citizen was happy and anx ious to help. At about 2 p.m., he was found. The writer appreciates the op portunity to express his heartfelt gratitude for the help extended. Lynn Hueners. Who Is An American? To the Editor: I saw. either in a magazine or in a newspaper article, that there is an effort on foot to adopt as a slogan "I, also, am an American"; but the use of the term is not of recent genesis. In Daniel Webster's address at the completion of the Bunker Hill monument in 1843 he used these words: "And then, when honored and decrepid age shall lean against the base of this monu ment, and troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one shall speak to the other of its ob jects, the purposes of its con struction, and the great and glorious events with which it is connected there shall rise, from every youthful breast, the ejaculation "thank God, I I also am an American. And there arises a question in my mind as to whether or not the rising group of "ingenuous youth" really appreciate the fact that they are Americans. When we contemplate the fact that many of the older generation are contemptuous of our form of government and wish to sup plant it with something else, we wonder whether they, too, are proud to proclaim that they "also are Americans" GUS NEWBURY. THIEF KNOWS HOW Fort Worth. Tex. tU.R) Lee Henry couldn't get his car start ed and went to call a garage. Re turning, he found the stalled car had been started by a thief. Subscribers To rtpurt Improper or non-dtMlvpi-T of th Mat! Trlbnnt pbon I-dUl btfor 45 p. m. dally ini 10 1 a. m. Sunday. If riiiiar dillTtr arnvti shortly after you rail, p ) noiifT or Mr, thin tlimtnauni apcciaj mrttenr tcrrlc. 91 Attend Lutheran Institute This Week ! A total of 91 persons attend ed the Family-Church institute conducted at the Zion Lutheran church last Sunday, Monday and : Tuesday, the Rev. O. W. Ebright, j pastor, reported today. The Rev. Harner Middles-! warth, of the United Lutheran Parish and Church School Board of Philadelphia, conducted the institute. It consisted of two hours of lecture and discussion each evening on questions per- ttatnlng to home life and the Christian training of children. The DARDENELLES O Opposite Cold Hill on the Old Stage Road Closed Mondays, Open Sundays and Holidays at 1 p.m. Open Week Days at 4 p.m. Pogue Room - Enjoy Our Fine Foods For Reservations - Phone Cold Hill 490 RUBY QUAKENBUSH, Proprietor GGEB (13 3S) Q2J? mSmD (1 PRICES GOOD May 26 - 29 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES STORE HOURS: WEEK DAYS 10 a.m. Until Midnight SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS 9 a.m. Until Midnite IT'S EASY TO SHOP AT ANDERSON'S DURKEE'S COLOR EASE MARGARINE lb. 32c DURKEE'S Mayonnaise Pint Quart 42c 75c KLEENEX v300 SHEET SIZE 27c (VP 12-OZ. PKG. Pictsweet PEAS 27c 12-OZ. PKG. STRAWBERRIES 45c 33c Stringless BEANS.. 29c 10-OZ. PKG. GOLDEN CORN 12-OZ. PKG. VAN CAMPS Pork & Beans NO. 1 CAN 3 for 29c y OSCAR MAYER WIENtRS TALL CAN 47c i 7 Produce Values WINESAPS DELICIOUS APPLES 3 lbs. NALLEY'S POTATO CHIPS 35c PICNIC SIZE NALLEY'S POTATO CHIPS 25c Sixe 2 for 45c RED RIPE WATERMELON lb. 6l2c FOR SALAD BAKING POTATOES 10 NBoSi39c YELLOW BANTAM CORN 6 EArfs 39c CRISP, GREEN CELERY lb. 8c ROYAL CLUB Irish Potatoes TRUPAK GOLDEN YAMS TAYLOR MAID PICKLES TAYLOR MAID SWEETS LARGE RIPE OLIVES 'ffiST 2 for 39c NO. 2 CAN NO. 2 CAN . 12-OZ. DILLS FINER PICKLES 12-OZ. 13c 29c 23c 33c PLANTER'S PEANUTS 8-OZ. TIN 29c CANDY FEATURES 29c TASTY MIX 12-OZ, IMPORTED LICORICE COCOANUT BON-BONS ?kgz 29c AFTER DINNER DAINTY-MINTS 19c POUND Medford's Finest Meats cwicrc ci irpn RArnki your choice kl H II I saf W . r av-wvai BROOKFIELD CHEESE TATY BOLOGNA LIVER SAUSAGE Old Fashioned Frankfurters 39
