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Madiord and Jackson County His
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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.
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Alleys, Parking Lots, etc.
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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.
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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
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