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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MDFORdJ$TRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon" Raada Tha Mall Trlbona" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PR1NTINO CO. S7-29 North Fir St Phone S-141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. OILSTBAP. Manaia HERB GREY, Advertising Mr. m. C FERGUSON. Managlna Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Jk" HENRY L. GREEN, Sunday Editor OLIVE 8TARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newapapar Entered aa aecond claaa matter at Madiord. Oregon, under Act of March I, I87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance: Dally and Sunday one yaar...J00 Dally and Sunday elx months .JS D.Uy and Sunday three tnoa AM Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 By Carrier - In Advance Medlord Ashland, Central Point, JackaonyUle Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent and on motor route,: Dally and Sunday one month 1J All lerme tun Oftlclal Paper ol the City ol Medlord OlllcLtl Paper ol Jackson County United Preea TuU Laaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Ollcas In New York. Chicago De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. 8t Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B C iff" NEWSPAPIR Vi PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL IasctQn Flight o' Time Madiord and Jackson County His tory from Hit iilaa et the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years age 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May 28. 1940 (It Wa Tuesday) Belgium surrender! to nazis; 300,000 drop arms in surprise decree by king. Steve Crippen heads Craters baseball team in batting with an average of .462. Miss Mary Shreve to play Queen Elizabeth in Shakespear ean play festival. P. D. Coy named to Oregon state game commission position. Max G. Carter awarded schol arship at medical school at Harvard university. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY May 28, 1930 (It Was Wednesday) Medford Ice and Storage com pany expecls to have 25,000 tons of ice ready for huge crop of valley pears. John Barneburg, democratic nominee for county commis sioner, official count of ballots hows. Local Safeway store an nounces lease of property at 309 East Main street. Rogue River Valley Minis terial association final meeting for summer scheduled June 16 at Shady Cove. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY May 28. 1918 (It Was Sunday) Vance Wolgamott home, Tal ent, burns to ground with most of furnishings saved. E. C. and E. L. Welch plan to move sawmill and box factory to Medford. Ben Ciarnctt, H. D. Howard and W. N. Campbell considered leading candidates for local post mastership. Tax Amendment lo Constitution OK'd A proposed amendment to the Oregon constitution, whereby the stale would be prohibited from levying taxes on real and personal property except for the relirement of general obligation bonds, was discussed and ap proved at a meeting of the agri cultural committee of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce last week. The committee recommended approval of the proposal to the chamber's board of directors. Under the siiRKcstcd amend ment, real and personal property tuxes would be left to local sub divisions of government such as counties, cities and school districts. The recommendations arose out of a general discussion on tax problems facing the state, which were brought out at a re cent meeting here of the state legislature's interim committee on tax studies. Participating In the meeting were Chairman John Nieder meyer, Oliver O. Morton, It. G. Kowler, Stanley Morgan. Ben Day, Shelby Tutlle, Kay Schu macher, Eugene Peterson, Karl Day and Don Lane, chamber secretary-manager. Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune phone I-SI4I before ill p. m. dally and 10:30 a- m. Sunday. If rsiiilar delivery arrives shortly after yau rail, please noufy offlrs, thus ellmlaaUng epeclal messenger service. NATIONAL Editorial Correspondence New York City, N.Y., May 24 The theory is, that such items of New Deal "socialism" as unemployment insurance, are bound to destroy the spirit of independence, enterprise and industry which built up this country and made it great. The appalling picture Is drawn of American youth sitting around shooting craps, while awaiting their unemployment checks relief allowances or what have you, indolent, no-good lazy de pendents thanks to the democratic "gimme" doctrine. We wish those who accept this theory could have been over on West 59th street yesterday. They would have seen a mob of nearly 3,000 men, mostly young ones, behind police barricades, wailing for the office of the New York Civil Service commission to open so they could file their applications for jobs. The jobs involve hard work, and only 147 available. But the desire to get work, self-respecting, non-charitable work at a decent wage, the scale varies from $150 to S200 per month was so great that not only were there over 20 applicants for each place, but some of these boys had stood in line for 60 hours brought blankets, and lunch-boxes along and stuck it out day and night in spite of the rain. When the signal was given around noon yesterday, and the barricades marked "police-linc-do-not-cross" were shoved aside, there was a rushing stampede similar to those of the "good old days" when free government land in the west was opened up. Those who got there first were served first. There is another side to the picture, of course. There are thousands of unemployed here in New York, perhaps 200,000 in all. But thanks to the welfare and unemployment set-ups, munici pal and state, no one is starving, none naked or without shelter. And an overwhelming majority of those who can't find work, want it as as this demonstration showed and tliev are willing to go to almost any lengths to get it. Another point should not be forgotten. While unemployment is large and still growing statistics show more are employed today than ever before in the city's history. How come? There are more people here. Few DP's who land in New York, for example, ever leave. e ? . Two events of world-shattering Importance. so imoortant in their results, direct and indirect, it is difficult for your correspon dent to believe they are really true. Une is tne recent understanding between trance and Germany regarding coal and iron. tne other the agreement between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers union and kindred matters. In both instances a major ages-old suspicions, fears and hostilities between France and Ger many wnicn nave orougnt two maior wars to Lurope in jo ye-trs, and rendered any realization of lasting European peace impossible, have been buried. Each side lias made pllowanres and taken "cal culated risks." so what appears to be a Franco-German reap proachment has actually been achieved. By another policy of give and take, each side making con cessions and sacrifices for the sake of labor-capital peace, one of the largest and strongest labor unions in the country and one of the largest and strongest major industries have come to a long term agreement WITHOUT a strike! There may be flics in the ointment which the writer can not discern. In another month or two perhaps France and Germany will be back where they were a decade ago, labor and capital in the U.S.A. ditto. But sufficient unto the day are the blessings thereof. If these two agreements prove to be lasting and their tre mendous implications sustained by future developments, then 1050 will go down in history as the most significant and vital year in human betterment and American advancement since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Such a consumation is certainly worth hoping for and pray ing for as well! N In this morning's Herald-Tribune is a short item asking all and sundry to turn to page two and pay heed to the public notice column regarding General Eisenhower. Those who follow instruc tions observed the following, to-wit: Elsenhower, right man for Pres. to beat strongly en trenched opposition machine. He must be convinced by popu lar demand. Cannot refuse If we the people insist. He has had no part whatever in this ad plan. Solely idea of private citizen businessman, not a politician. You can take part in this strict ly non-profit peoples campaign. Need more and larger ads in newspapers paid for by fellow citizens. Similar campaign I did for Wlllkic finally reached fll million people. Make check fiayable to "John Orr Young Draft Eisenhower." CPA audit o each contributor. Steinway Hall, 113 W. 57th street, N. Y. 19. Well, we hope John Orr (any relation to Bert?) Young has better luck with "Ike" than he had with Willkie. We never under stood and still don't understand why Wendell Willkie got so few votes, when he showed such amazing punch and leadership at the Philadelphia convention and at the outset of the campaign bowled them over on the stump. We have a feeling the real INSIDE of that campaign has yet to be written. Incidentally, reports about General Eisenhower are very con flicting. We have recently talked with two professors at Columbia university, both of them entirely reliable and friends of the general. One maintains General Ike is intensely interested in his edu cational Job and will under no circumstances leave it until after 1052. The other maintains, with equal finality, that the general does not like his job, the university authorities don't like him. and hope he will run for president so they can get a better quali fied man to take his place. Our hunch is No. 2 has the clearer view of the situation, but only time can tell. e More rain and fog. in fact the weather here for six months has been about as unpleasant as weather can get. According to the United States Weather Bureau during 1050 to date there have been 126 days when there was rain, cither measurable or a trace. That means rain approximately half the time! This does not mean there was no sun during that period, however, in fact there have been 110 days when the sun shone for a few hours at least. And the rain a large part of the time has been a spray rather than any precipitation. In other words for nearly five months New York has had the inconvenience and unpleasantness of rainy weather with practically none of the benefits. (If we were Walter Winchrll we would mark the above "flash-exclusive" for the facts were se cured for the Medford Mail-Tribune from official sources). Another feather in the cap of the FBI. They have finally fer reted down the so-and so, who was the "go-between" for Dr. Fuchs in his transmission of atom secrets to Russia. How long will it take Senator McCarthy to hook him up with the state department? R.W.H. Wall Street New York. May 27 (U.R Leading stocks rested in a dull short session on the stork ex change today, while specials at tracted moderate attention. It was a typical pro-holiday market. Many traders were cele brating a four-day holiday through Memorial day, Tuesday, when the exchange will be closed. It will operate as usual on Monday and resume on Wed nesday, Dow Jones closing slock ave rages: 3D Industrials. 221 71; off 0.22; 20 rails 56 21), off 0.0B; 15 utilities, 43 67. off 0.04; and 65 stocks. 7R 16. off 0.0B. Sales declined to 470.(100 shares today from 900.000 last Saturday. Gas Rationing Ended, Britons Rush for fuel London, Mav 27 (UP) Gaso line pumps began to run dry to day under the demands of British motorists who lined up through the night to fill their tanks freely for the first time In almost 11 years. Rationing was ended hv a sur prise announcement and bv mid night, when coupons no longer were needed, cars were lined up for blocks at filling station all over the country. One g sta tion reported serving 2.000 cus tomers during the night. Sunday. May 28, I9S0 (CIO), regardine wage scales miracle has been performed. The Oil Strike Details Reported by Firm Details of an oil strike made recently hy a company largely financed by Medford men were told here Saturday by Verne Shangle, a director of the Mu tUBl Drilling corporation. The well, located in Illinois, had a production of 144 barrels the first dHy of production. Slian gle said. He explained that the wellshaft goes through four lev els of oil-bearing limestone with a total thickness of 56 feet. The first day's production was from the lowest level only, 12 feet thick, and represents the first results of the use of limc-corrod-ing acid at that level. The well, 1,8!)0 feet in depth, will have a total production es timated at upwards of 500 bar rels per day when full produc tion is achieved. Shangle said drillers estimate. Acid treat ments will be continued on all levels, with eventual flow from all four levels being maintained simultaneously. Portland, Ore . May 27 (UP Hans F. Hansen. 77. of Bend w as killed by a Great Northern freight train here. Crosstown 71 "Look we got an audience. Maybe we'd better take up a collection. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington, May 27 (U.R) Pop, if you're right bright, you'll stick by the fire and mind the young uns. There are eight bills be fore c o ngress which w o u Id give you pain if you left the old lady and the babies and crossed a state line to duck the bill collec tors. On c a pital hill they call them the "run- Uarman Nichols aw a y pappy bills. Kep. Chauncey V. Reed's house judiciary subcommittee is looking over the proposed legislation. Penalties for child abandon ment if the old guy crosses a state line would run from three to five years in jail or fines from $1,000 to $2.500 or both. But actually, papas don't have to worry too much for awhile. The FBI and the justice depart ment are chilly toward the pro posed legislation. The law en forcers see a lot of complica tions if the bills pass. There might be u bit of trouble cap turing and convicting a guy if the matter was handed over to the federal government. Rep. Andrew Jacobs (D., Ind), author of one of the measures to keep daddies on the straight path, was a little outspoken. "If the FBI can spend its time chasing the thief of a Model T Ford across a state line, it can better occupy itself in tracing a man so low as to run out on his kids. Jacobs said. The gentleman from Indiana referred to the Dyer act, which makes it a federal penalty to take a stolen car across a slate line. Congressman Reed admitted that it any of the several bills become law, the justice depart ment would have a bad time. The courts would be bogged with truant pops. But, he said, the evidence be fore the subcommittee indicates that a federal act against leav ing your kids behind might be a powerful deterrent to what now is a felony in many states. Heed said extradition is a tough problem when it comes to tracking a disappearing father and more often than not. money is not available for bloodhounds, the cops, and deputy sheriffs. And some states do not have a law against leaving a baby alone in liis crib without dough. One of the congressmen to sponsor bills on the abandon ment business is Rep. Louis Rabout, (D., Mich.) He argues that savings of 51) to 100 million dollars in dependent children's relief funds could be expected if we make abandonment a fed eral offense. Rep. Sam llobbs, (D.. Ala.V said that the states are taking a bad licking in taxes evaded bv fathers who desert the home hearth. Last year alone, said Harry Hayden," legislative representa tive of the American Legion, some 1.327,000 children were Arrowhead Collection Is Loaned to Museum A collection of Indian arrowi heads, described by acting Cura tor K. E Patterson of the Jack sonville Museum as the finest he has ever seen, has been loaned to the museum by Wayne Neat, a member of the Camp White Domiciliary center. The colled ion, including sev eral thousand arrowheads all neatly arranged in glass-faced caes. was accumulated by Mr. Neat over a ten year period an. came mostly from the vicinity of Neat's former home in Kiow county, Colorado. DUST Eliminated On Old Roads Alleys, Parking Lots, etc. 23c Sq. Ft. PHONE 2-7325 2-5126 fit By Roland Coe This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Wrltei abandoned. The Legion, he said, is on record as in favor of laws to ban pop runaways. Rep. Tom Steed, (D., Okla.), kindled the fire, too. He said that aid for dependent children has risen from S140 million in 1941 to S400 million last year. No one dad could foot that bill. Pickin' Pears By L. J. "Tick" Malarkey A large straw hat covered his head and when he looked up a good natured grin lit his face. We asked if he needed any help in pulling weeds from the bed of flowers which was his work project while on hands and knees. "No. I guess I can make out all right," he said, and kept on with the job. The new friend is Walde Hull, and back in April, 1917, the young man was living at Cottage Grove and was a member of the 65th coast artil lery that trained at Ft. Stevens before they pushed off for France. Private Hull made out all right before and after the Kaiser quit. When it was all over he came back to Oregon, followed logging, farming and sawmil ling. About five years ago the Hulls moved to Eagle Point and Greybeard Waldo is no improv ing some acreage he has there with his spare time and money. Everyone likes the lad out here, and we have it from the top hand of the personnel depart ment, that one-time stacker of cannon balls puts in every min ute of his time on the job and for the job. "Tex" Hatcher, chauffeur. That is the way personnel carries the "Kid from Two" on the pay roll. We sometimes ride with Chauffeur Hatcher when he meets the morning train from Portland. "Tex" drives left-handed had to learn after he made the beach head on Iwo Jima in 1944. A hand grenade had been tossed at him and he tried to toss it back. Didn't have good luck. Commissions Here For Friday Hearing A joint meeting of California and Oregon interstate commerce commission boards was held here Friday in the federal building, to hear a request made to the commission by George Yockel Jr., Ashland. Yockel asked au thority to transport lumber as a common carrier in southern Ore gon and northern California counties Here for the hearing from Sa lem, was P. O. Delap. supervisor of permits in the state public util ities office. Loans on Auto, Furniture, Salary, up to 20 months to repay Don't borrow unnecesiarily but if a loan will help, phone or visit Oregon Finance's YES MANager LOANS $50 TO $800 v Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie. S-211 M-217 In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS In a day barren of any very ex citing news, this casual para graph in a dispatch from the island of Guam meets the eye: "The biggest concentration of naval power in the western Pa cific since the war's end 33 U.S. warships is arriving at Guam under Vice-Admiral Arthur D. Struble, commander of the seventh fleet." WHEN Struble arrived in Guam one of his first jobs was to hold a news conference. This, Joo, was a casual affair. Answer ing questions, the admiral cas ually told the correspondents: There will be an aircraft car rier with this new naval force arriving in Guam ... it will carry two squadrons of Grum man F9F fighters . . . these will be the first Jet fighters ever seen in this part of the world. There will also be four "snor kel" submarines . . . ("Snorkel" is a German word ... its mean ing is approximately that of our word "snoot" like Jimmy Du rante's . . . You breathe through vour snoot ... so does a Snorkel submarine ... a snorkel on a submarine is a long snoot that sticks up to the surface . . . the submarine breathes througn u and so can stay under water a heck of a long time . . . staying under water tnat way, it's hard to see . . . what is hard to see is hard to SHOOT AT.) Snorkel submarines are hot stuff, just as jet planes are hot stuff. WHY all this weight of fighting ships and fighting planes away over there in the Western Pacific? Admiral Struble goes into that for the benefit of the corres pondents. Among the fleet's mis sions, he says, will be courtesy calls in Southeast Asia parts. Such "courtesy" calls, he adds, will probably feature CARRIER BASEU JE1S IN Altt PA RADES. (Watching these carrier based jets in action in air parades, the folks down there, we hope, will say to themselves: "Uncle Sam is News, Gossip, Comment From Camp White Friend Hatcher is a fishing fan. That's what he wants to talk about that and his job. And of course his wife, Shirley, who works for the Ross Lumber com pany, and who at one time (when "Tex" was a-courtin') used to be with Miss Rodgers in the Camp White Red Cross office. So as we ride to town, particularly on Mondays, the fishing news comes first hand. And the ex-GI gets the limit. It is wonderful to watch that sturdy left arm and hand pilot his detail with the skill of any man with two. When the Gold Star Mothers chapter of Medford was installed several weeks ago we attended the ceremonies which were held in Camp White Recreation hall. During the evening tribute after tribute was paid the efforts of Freda Lawrence for doing so much to bring about the chap ter's organization and ultimate formation. Wednesday afternoon it was a privilege and pleasure to meet and visit with her over a cup of coffee in Bill Clegg's canteen annex. Fred Lawrence, commercial artist, brought Freda to Jackson county 20 years ago. Four chil dren blessed their marriage, two boys and two girls. The sons, Harry and Charles, are kids that got through fracas two in good shape and today head their own families. Eddie Durno. Dr. Durno It is ' now. When this Medford surgeon was up at Eugene, and wearing i thn lcmnn.,.allnu, t tl.n ,",..-. teams, he was as good as they come and as tough as they made 'em on the athletic teams of his day. We caught a glimpse of the doctor just as he was going in to Camp White surgery to per form an operation on one of our members. He was as tanned as a chestnut, brown, and looks fit as a fiddle. Today Is "Daddy" Penland's day at Camp White. The news reels are to be here, all service organizations will be on hand, representatives from po litical and civil life, bands from the high schools, veterans of four wars and many citizens are to be on hand to honor the last living commander of the GAR. Theodore "Daddy" Penland. A young man who was born more than 100 years ago. Date, Jan. 23, 1849. YOU CHOOSE THE AMOUNT YOU NEED YOUR OWN PAYMENTS News BIG MEDICINE. Maybe we'd bet ter not monkey with him.)" "pHE admiral then adds: "THE FLEET'S MISSION IN CLUDES READINESS FOR IM MEDIATE ACTION IN A NA TIONAL EMERGENCY." That suggests this question: WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED A NATIONAL EMERGENCY? WELL, the Chinese communists (which, we were told for many, many moons, were just simple Chinese farmers who had no connection at all with Mos cow) have been getting awfully sassy lately. They've taken over AA of China but the island of Formosa and will probably gob ble that at any moment they feel like it. They might take a notion to gobble up French Indo-China, which is just over the border from China. They might go on through Malaya and then over into the new United States of Indonesia and take all of that part of the world over in the name of communism. THAT we would probably re tard as a national emergency, - lough it would all be a long, long way from continental Unit ed States, where our homes and our businesses are located. DO you remember reading in your school history of the davs when a ruckus ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD meant possible (maybe probable) war for Britain? Those were the days when Britain ruled the world. Well, we're sitting now in the seat where BRITAIN USED TO SIT. 12 KILLED IN EXPLOSION Bogota, Colombia, May 27 (U.R) Twelve persons were kill ed and 20 were injured today when a powder magazine ex ploded at nearby Neiva. Two magazines were destroyed and about a dozen nearby commer cial buildings were wrecked. Do You Know that your savings in this institution are thor oughly protected? Every dollar saved here, up to $5,000 is insured by the United States Savings and Loan Ins. Corp., Washington, D. C. A man and his wife, each having an account in addition to one in joint ownership, may enjoy Federal insurance on as much as $15,000 savings here. ANY AMOUNT will open an account. Deposits made on or before the 10th of the month will draw interest as of the 1st. Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 East Main PARK VIEW NURSING HOME 906 West Main Street Medford, Oregon Phone 2-6938 Completely equipped Nursing Home for chronic and convalescents. Hot water heat throughout building. Licensed by the State of Oregon. 24 HOUR NURSING CARE Registered Nurse in Charge in ht j is lis ssi nimiMssim r LOST? i (DOG) Mm Another KYJC FIRST! The Blue Mountain LOST AND FOUND FILE 7:10-7:15 A.M Tue., Thur., Sat. ) ABC in Southern Oregon f The face-lifting of the Batory of the Gydnia America line, in cluding a complete change of the decor inside, is being carried on by alternate staffs of artists and workmen at New York and Gvdnia during nine uninterrupt ed trans-Atlantic trips. 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