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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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,
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Holly - Craterian - Rialto - Esquire -Starlite Drive-In
....AROUND
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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
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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.
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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
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where nobody knows what
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we don't either, so we're even,
after all.
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