Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 29, 1950, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MedfordJ&Tribune "Evaryona lo Southarn Oraion" Raada Tta Mall Trlbiin" Dally Excpt Saturday Published by MED1TORD PRINTING CO. 7-J9 North hit St Phona J-14l ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST & OILS TRAP Manasst HERB GREY. Advartlalnf Mir E. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BAHHY CH1PMAN, Talegrapn Edilot HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation May An Independent Newspaper "Entered aa second class nutter at Msdiord. Oregon, under Act of Marco I. IB1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year. ..W OO Dally and Sunday six months . Dally and Sunday three mos 3.U Daily and Sunday one month 1.00 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent and on motor routea: Dully and Sunday jna yoar.JU.OO Daily and Sunday one month IM All Terms Casb In Advance Of'lrlai Paper of the City of Medlar olflcl.il Paper ot iacksnn County -full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver. B C - If Nfrair rutiiSHiii ASSOCIATION NATIONAL tUIIUKiAi ASS0CkTJO)N ' aTTT" " " Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His lory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 14 years age 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May 29, 1940 (It Was Wednesday) County Judge Earl B. Day re signs and J. B. Coleman named. Roseburg population placed by census at 4,854, an increase of 10.1 per cent over 1930 count ing. Local 20-30 club elects Jack Hartley as president for period starting July 1. Miss Janie Smith 1 1 1 1 e d president of local branch of Zon fa International. Locations for signs near Weed and Diamond lake cutoff telling about Medford sought by Coun ty Chamber of Commerce. JO YEAR8 AGO TODAY May 29. 1940 (It Was Thursday) Pear and apple crop in val ley expected to fill 8,000 cms with pears, larger than last year's crop. Motorists going to Lake o' Woods must go via Annie Springs and Fort Klamath. Fay Estes and Arline Gossett rank first and second respec tively In grades as Talent school ends year. W. L. Van Loan resigns as high school Instructor to take post at University of Oregon education school. 34 YEAR8 AGO TODAY May 29, 1916 (It Was Monday) W. H. Gore, Medford, elected vice-chairman of southern Ore gon bankers' group. Horace Bromley appointed to savlnus department of First Na tlonal bank and Herbert Alford promoted to assistant cashier. Golden Link Bible class of Baptist church elects Mrs. C. A. Whillock president. Yon der Hellen Opens Grants Pass Drive-In Grants Pass, May 2B William von der Hellen, Medford, will be present hi the grann opening ol Grants Pass' newest theater a drive-in when it opens here Memorial day. He is the owner of the new amusement enterprise. Von der Hellen bus long been active in theater work In south ern Oregon and with Walter Leverette at one time owned Medford theaters. A resident of Orcein for more than fill years, he started hit career at Eagle Point building a hardware ttore. He also constructed portions of the Hedwood highway, the road to Crater l.akf, and highway 89 over the Siskiyous. For several years he has own ed the Rogue and Rlvoli theaters In Grains Pass, under the name of the Grants Pass Amusement company. FOURTH SUICIDE TRY Lnnrview. Wash . Mav 29 (U.P W. K. Blankenshlp. held at the county Jml here on charges of forgery and auto theft, made his fourth unsuccessful suicide attempt today by slashing his throat with a razor. Subscribers To report tmpropar ar na. llvr-rv et the Mail Tribona phoaf l-ll balsre I ts p. m. tally sa 10-10 a. m. Sunday If rainier i el l a or? arrives shortly after rati rail, pirate Ratify nfflra, thud rllmlnallni special mrtitnior service. I MAIL TRIBUNE Memorial Day Yesterday evening we strolled through the old Jacksonville cemetery where pioneers of this region lie sleeping, many of their gravestones slightly askew, like the heads of aged men, nodding in the twilight. Peace and velvety quiet prevail there, as in other little graveyards which dot the land. There the war heroes, the fathers and mothers, the children who lived their hrief earthly span, are at rest in death and the tranquillity that envelops their resting place is transmitted in some occult way to all who visit them. TOMORROW, Memorial day, many will make their yearly pilgrimage to the burial place of loved ones. In this era of tension, worry and crises it is regrettable that more do not avail themselves of the spiritual calm which such visitation offers. MEMORIAL DAY origined in this country follow ing the War between the States, when ladies of the Confederacy brought flowers to the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers. In 1866, General John A. Logan, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, named May 30 as a special day for honoring the graves of Union soldiers. Gradually through the year, Memorial day which had come to be observed for all fallen American sol diers, also came to be observed as a day of personal and family rededication. Too bad that for most of us it is observed but once a year. a THE LATE Arthur Perry, for over 35 years a Mail Tribune columnist, always turned to Walt Mason on Memorial day, publishing the Kansas poet's im mortal tribute to the war dead. The poem, which be came something of a tradition as part of Perry's Me morial day column, is published herewith. LITTLE GREEN TENTS The little green tents where the soldiers sleep: and the sunbeams plav, and the women weep, are covered with flowers todav: and between the tents walk the wearv few, who were ynung and stalwart in sixty-two, when they went lo the war awav. The little green tents are built of sod. and they are not long, and thev are not broad, but the soldiers have lots of room; and the sod is part of the land they saved, when the flag of the enemy darkly waved, the symbol of dole and doom. ,. , The little green tent is a thing divine: the little green tent is a country's shrine, where patriots kneel and pray; and the brave men left, so old, so few, were young and stal wart In sixly-two when they went to the war away. Walt Mason E.C.F. Lightning Control Experiments by Forest Service Planned in Summer Washington, May 29 U.R Forest service fire fighters hope to prove this summer that they can "wet" dry thunderstorms and thereby reduce the number of lightning-caused forest fires. The fire fighters would em ploy the trick now being used to cause rain by "seeding" clouds with dry Ice dropped from planes. It's the lightning from dry thunderstorms of the northwest which the forest service would like to prevent. These storms are accompanied by little, if Buy, rain. But the lightning some times causes disastrous fires. Ts Seed Storms The forest service's Idea Is to seed'' heavily such storms as they build up and before they reach the lightning state. A. A. Brown, chief of the for est service's fire research, said n an Interview that the experi ment offers "an alluring pros pect." Brown said lightning last year caused about linlf of all fires In the northwest Rockies. He esti mated lightning-caused fires alone caused $1 million in dam age and more than $1 million in fire-fighting costs In Mnn tant, Idaho. California and Ore gon last year. "We've been concentrating on holding down man-caused fires," Brown said. "We've always con sidered lightning fires couldn't he prevented. Now. maybe, we can do something about them." COMMUNICATIONS l.atiori lo (h r til tor mint hi Hi the nuniv and fttidr .. of tit writri illhouitt iimlrr rrriain rin-um tanrft tht m of pen nam 01 Intiti) for ii Miration It permit Ibl. Th Mall Tribune rttrrvtl lh right tn edit Kit litlri wtlh a vlrw to rUNMf atlnn and eonrlfn atlnn. I, film auhmlttrd tor pub Hi Alton must not tifi I0rt nrtli Agalntt Uniform Chang To the Keillor: An article In The Mail Tribune states that the present blue and grey uniforms of our traffic officers would be discarded for one of solid blue What a strange decision; what brought all this on? Surely this is not the vole of the majority of our taxpayers who look with pride on our traffic department and want our officers to he outstanding both In ability and uniform. Then, too, these very same officers must pass in review he fore the countless tourists who visit or pas through our fair city. Why not show them that e at least appreciate our pub lic servants, the police, enough to give them a fitting uniform j to go with their duties as traffic : of fuers. j Officers In warmer ditrirt are given uniforms that afford ! a maximum of romfnrt and hv being comfortable they are at eae and courteous to those whom they serve Has the thought ever occurred to those who have instigated this sudden change of uniform what it may be like to patrol our citv streets neath a boiling sun In a dark uniform? Put on your blue serge suit and attempt to be courteous and alert -try it for one day and you'll be convinced A. K. Hamilton. MondtT. May tt. 1930 Brown said the forest service will sock to find out in tests at Its Missoula. Mont., station this summer whether "seeding" is practicable in reducing light ning. Plan To Seed On Storm The service plans to have an airplane with dry ice and a movie camera ready and waiting for two similar thunderstorms. The plane would "seed" one but not the other. The plane and camera would follow each storm, recording what it did. This, said Brown, would be a "controlled experiment." Brown is fairly confident that the movie will prove that "light ning prevention it practicable." The forest service doesn't wor ry too much about the big broad storms in which lightning flashes along a 200-mile front. The big storms, along with the lightning, usually have heavy rainfall which puts out fires. However, the smaller ' 'dry lightning" storm, a characteristic of the northwest, Is another matter. Smoke Jumpers Lacking "One such storm can some times cause as many as 80 fires scattered about in inaccessible areas of the Rockies," Brown said. "We Just don't have enough smoke-Jumpers (fire fighters who parachute into inaccessible areas! to cover the peak load ade quately when that happens. Oc casionelly. one or two fires get away and then we get a real disaster, particularly when the forest is dry. "If we could wipe out 10 per cent of lightning fires In the northwest, it would mean a real money saving." Brown figures that such a 1 .saving would make the cost of ! seeling look small. J News of 4-H $ CLUBS Gold Hill 4-H club met at the Norman Gail ranch home There was a record attendance of mem bers as well as a number of In terested parents. First part of the meeting was Given over to rtemnnslrntirmt nf Final plans were completed for the local lamb show, to be held at the F.stremado Ranch on Saturday, June ,t. An exceptional number of entries are expected and competition Is keen for the list of prizes offered: competent ludges have been secured and the show is expected to exceed even the fine record of previous years. Other Jackson county clubs are urged to visit Gold Hiil on this day. The show starts at 10 a m . and w ill continue throughout the day. Hot lunch will be available at noon and re freshments throughout the day. ! Sammy Collins. Reporter, JUDGE REACHES SCENE Augsburg. Germany, May 29 U P1 Judge Werner Oppel. who j is expected to preside it the. trial of Use Koch, said todav he , feared the notorious wartime mistress of Buchenwald may get off lightly. Crosstown "Sha's my daughter's youngest the on who wants to be an opera singer. They're letting her stay with me until the gets over the notion." A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN United Pratt Washington, May 29 (U.R) According to the eye doctors, farmers are getting so fuzzy in eves thev can t tell a hill of beans f r o m a row of corn. It's the long distance look ing that dims the sight of the man in the ov eralls. After looking so far and so long each day he can't tell a country hill from a in o 1 e hill. Uarnun Nichols This is all on the authority of Dr. James H. Grout, president of the Northern Illinois College of Optometry. He thinks the farmer would cut a straighter furrow if he wore trifocal eye glasses. The doctor explained about the trifocal business. It is sup posed to combine one eyeglass into three segments. One for dis tance, the second for close read ing, and the last for intermedi ate vision at arm's length. "It used to be until not long ago," said Dr. Grout, "that many people considered trifocals only as occupational lenses for the Acfivians Guests of Boy Scout Troop 4 Members of the Medford Act ive club were guests of Oak Grove Boy scout Troop 4 last week-end. A potluck dinner, sponsored by families of the scouts, was given lo raise funds for tile troop, to be used to send members to the national jam boree in July. Herb Sampcrt. scoutmaster, was in charge of the meeting, and other speakers were J. A. Mac Dougall, scout commissioner, and R. L. Jones, general secretary of the Medford YMCA. Activians recently presented the troop with three jamboree tents. Clinton Bennett, president; Willaim Bittle. vire-pivsdent. and Jamese Gibbons recentlv rep resented the club at a district Active club convention at Coos. Bay. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Butte Kalis. May 2f Vacation Bibl" school will be held in the little brown church June 1!1 to nil for all children of the P.uttc Falls community. Classes will be held in the mornings and new features are planned by leaders. Staff members include Mrs. John Fnilen, Miss Virginia Slancy, Mrs. Robert Beeman. Mrs Guy Tedrick, Misses Beth Abbott and Onil Nelson and one or two others. Bible lessons, music and handicrafts will be given each day for different auc groups. Those wishing to attend mav sign up at cither Sund;ty school. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E 6th Just Off Central 9 A M 10 30 P M For Complete Prescription Service DAY end 2-6253 If No Anvvtr Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford's Own Modern Pharmacy By Roland Coe This and That W. NICHOLS feature Writai very old. But our research shows that they have a much wider use. Take a test case ': Too Tired To Read Dr. Grout mentioned a farm er named Clem Jones. For years he had worked in the fields and looked across the acres and come back to the house too tired to read the farm publications which might have siven him more bushels per acre. His eyes smarted and the only thing he could do was turn on the radio and by that time it was too late to learn what the cash corn or wheat prices were. This is not a plug for eve glasses, but, according to the doctor, Clem used to eat his sup per, take a nap on the divan, and then hit the hay. He couldn't see to read. His eyes had lost their abilitv to adjust to the different range's of seeing. The transition from the corn rows to the dinner ta ble to the printed page was too strenuous. Eye doctors call that trouble presbyopia. Loses Ability Dr. Grout warns that when you go to your eye specialist vou ogh to tell him what vou do'for a living. Whether it's vour Job to look ahead at a distance, etc., or to look at things close up. The man on the plow, natural ly, has to look far. And while he is doing this, he loses the ability to adjust his eyes to near vision. Actually, he doctor said, he mav lose his sense of being able to look close at anything at all. The farmer sometimes is in a fine fix. He can't see the butter and the carrots on the table, without backing off a few paces. Same with the tools in the workshop. Or the cows in the barn. Or the bills on his desk. Me. I'm an inside man. Work ing at close range under lights with common glasses, I see pret ty well, 3 TERRIFIC G.E. PRIZES 2 Wed., May 31 8:30 p. m. Given By Home Appliance Co. 115 EAST MAIN STREET O TELEPHONE 2-4585 You Can Put Your Confidence In G.E. and the Home Appliance Co. 1st Prize A $319 General Electric HOME FREEZER BE AT ANY ONE OF THESE THEATRES- It May Be Worth Your While! Holly - Craterian - Rialto - Esquire -Starlite Drive-In ....AROUND I, VIROINU Ufllrad fraai Hollywood, May 29 (U.R) An anguished movie maker, now conducting a talent search for a photogenic oil tanker, said to day he'd rath er 'take his chances with a cast full of - glam our girls. They may scream and holler and yank hair, but you can usual ly reason with VirttnU KMPher-MS em if you can get 'em to simmer down for a minute. But Director Edwin Marin is dealing with tankers now. And beginning to think his Idea of starring a ship in a movie called "Black Smoke" wasn't such a slam-bang gim mick after all, "It has to be photogenic," he explained, "but not glamorous. It has to be big enough to hold the crew and the actors and not so big we can't afford it. "And you'd be surprised how many ships don't fit any of these qualifications." Marin went into this project with high hopes and manly cour age. Figured he could handle it, all right. He's an old hand at producing ships for movies. Found In Bay 'I am the one," he said fain fully, "who dug up two ships for 20th Century-Fox's 'Sea Wolf.' That was my first ex perience with boats me . . . the guy that gets sick on a ferry ride! "It took 10 years off my life, but I did it. I got an old ice- cutter from Alaska that hadn't been used for so long it was kind of a monument. It was the L'SS Bear and when I found her .she was sitting in the bay at Oakland. "Nobody knew for sure who she belonged to. I had to get the commissioner of navigation on the phone in Washington to get an okay to borrow it. Then I had a day and a half to get it ready. "All the old sea dogs up there told me I'd never do it. But I did. Even got an inspection okay from something called the 'de partment of hulls and boilers.' Then we towed it to Catalina island. I forgot to mention: It didn't have a motor. On Fire Three Times "That trip I'll never get over. The cutter caught fire three times on the trip and broke away from the tow boat three different times." "Mariner" Marin's other head ache, a sloop christened the Metha Nelson, started out to be 760 Scholarships to Annapolis Available Seattle, Wash.. May 29 Mem bers of the civilian reserve of the navy and marine corps will be eligible to compete for 160 scholarships to the United States naval academy, it was announced today. Detailed information may be obtained from navy or marine recruiting offices. Dead line on Classified Ads: 9:30 pm (or following dsy; 10 a m Monday for Monday, noon Saturday for Sunday a m HOLLYWOOD MacPHERSON Crris)e4adisr a 'bargain." He was the fair haired boy around Fox when he snagged it for $7,500, "It was just what they or dered," he sighed. "Looked like it'd seen a lot of sea duty. Then somebody decided they wanted to shine her up a little. By the time I'd shined her to suit 'em I'd spent $64,500:" They piled the Metha Nelson full with the cast and crew and enough provisions to last 30 days. "When she left the dock." Mar in said, "she was so overloaded the water was only six inches below the rail. Everybody else was singing Aloha Oe.' Me . . . I was praying!" Radio Dial Lights By Johnny Ah- n There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. And whether Walter Kiernan would recognize that as a favorite cliche of his, we don't know. But whether he does or not, he'll come up with some smooth ones of his own Walter Kiernan, the Five Minute man has now expanded to thirty minute size ... on Wednesday evening ... at 8:30. Orchids to the ladies ... or at least, some of them . . . and a bunch of prizes for a whole lot of people. That's what's in store Saturday night at the Medford senior hi auditorium, with Jack McElroy and "Welcome to Hol lywood." One question . . . will the show be called "Welcome to Hollvwood ... or "Welcome to Medford"??? The sign of Barnett road has us bothered. It reads "Men work ing for miles." and nobody has filled in the blanks. What's more, when we come to work-in the morning, there's nobody in sight for miles, and the whole thing looks rather "super fluous." Another way of saying "Why put up signs when every body is sleeping, anyway?" Who's Buick convertible lost MABEL CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE SERVICE "Preferred Office of the West Main et 6th 2nd Prize -J asssaSi A $249.95 GE CLOTHES DRYER 1 day at Camp White? This mod ern age! rj,iaiiAH rl liist ahoot t here, not onlv for you kids, but .for some kids around here. In fact, Wednesday is the- day we hand out sheepskins. This is one of those inter-station deals, where nobody knows what we're talking about! Truth is, we don't either, so we're even, after all. MEDFORD BEAUTY . 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