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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. June S, 1950 MEDFORDvfe-TRIBUNK "veryone In Southern Oregon" Budi Tha MU Trireme" DtUy Except Saturday Published by vua North Fir St Pbone a-lsl ROBERT W. RUHi, Editor ERNEST a GILS TRAP Mnr HERB GREY. Advertlslnl H. CFERGUS6N, Managlni Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City W2", HARRV CHIP MAN. Telegrapn Ed toi 5?NnV L. GREEN. Sunday Editor "SuVE STAHCHER I Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mtr An IndepenSent Newspsper Entered ai aacond claw matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act or March I. 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one ':" Dally and Sund.y-eU month! 4.1S Dally and Sunday-thrae mo. i.5U Daily and Sunday-one month LOO By Carrier - In Advance - Mediord Ashland, Centra Point, J"""' Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routee: ....... , Dally and Sunday-one Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terms wo m Olrlclal Paper at the City ol Mediord OIIIclAl Paper ol Jac.ion County United Preaa Tull Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertitlng RepresentaUve: WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY INC Oltlcee In New York Chicago. De troit, San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver, B C NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASC5TN Editorial Correspondence Flight o' Time Madford and Jacluon County His lory from tha files of tha Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 years ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Jun 5. 1940 (It Was Wednesday) ' A. S. Bllton, former publisher u Medford Mail, dies here. . Estimated - two million men locked in combat as nazis press drive Into France. . More than 1,000 fans turn out for softball season opening. . Ward V. Croft,, director of band and orchestra and music in structor in Ashland schools, re signs; Gordon Tripp succeeds to post. Eagles lodge and auxiliary to Iris-tall Paul Robertson and lythel Whitloek as respective presidents. Rcdmen lodge and Pocohontas plan picnic and initiation. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Jun 5, 1930 (It Was Thursday) Medford considers adoption of city manager government. Gus Samuels named city treas urer for Medford. ' Fourteen conventions held here In past year establishes new record for city. Slate gives county $1,686 for county fair this fall. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY Jun S, 1916 (It Was Monday) Residence and large barns on farm of George Hilton destroyed by blaze. Wells Forgo office, Ashlnnd, moved to Hotel Oregon block from Oak street. Dr. E. R. Socly and Will Bales represent Medford nt northwest ttapshoot. Missing Heir Given Up by State as Dead Philadelphia U.R The state ls given up its long search for Henry Homer, missing heir who Walked out of a nursing home eight years ago with eight cents in his pockets. limner's disappearance n e v er was solved despite a nat Inn-wide search. So the orphans' court awarded his $82,000 estate to four relatives. The missing man, 28 years old when he vanished from the nurs ing home at suburban Devon, Pa., was the grandson of the late Chief Justice William S. Gum mere of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Homer and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Homer, were pa tienls at the institution under care of neurologists. Mrs. Homer died January 21, l!M2, five days before her son vanished. At thai time, Homer remarked: "N o w that mother is gone, what will happen to me?" The Irusl fund he inherited on his mother's death was hrltl by the court during the eight year waiting period. Then (he miss ing man was declared presum ably dead. Golden canned cling peach haves filled with frosty rasp berry sherbet make a very re freshing dessert. Serve dainty crisp cookies with It. Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune phone 1-6141 before :4a p. m. dally and 10:30 a. nv Sunday ' It regular delivery arrives shortly after you rail, plrase notify offtre, thus eliminating special messenger service. New York City, N. Y June 1 The official weather report for "lay shows how a statement that Is entirely correct lactually can misrepresent and misinform. There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the New York weather bureau report that the precipitation for the month just ended was approximately 25 per cent below normal. An outsider would conclude from this that May had not been as wet as usual, and might reasonably assume the month, there fore, had been a pleasant one. Nothing could be further from the truth. May, climatically, was terrible! The actual precipitation was below normal, but that was due to the fact that while 60 per cent of the days were cloudy, gloomy and damp, there was very little actual rain, just enough to can cel ball games and force grandpappy to put on his rubbers and a raincoat when he sallied forth. There was a striking bit of evidence in yesterday's news as to the truth of the above. A mother of four children, declared she was facing starvation and asked for relief because her husband was a carnival worker, ana the weawcr naa put street carnivals completely out of business! e e e e a The most interesting and inspiring parade on Decoration Day never got into the newspapers, or if It did, we failed to find it. We ran into it ourselves by accident. A business matter took us over to the East river and returning we were held up by a parade on First Avenue, the time was about 10:30 a.m. This parade was a Czechoslovakian demonstration of American patriotism and for enthusiasm and color, it made the official affair over on Riverside Drive look like a very tame, routine and Milquetoast demonstra tion indeed. The participants ranged from mere babies, to corpulent grand fathers and grandmothers, each and every one with an Ameri can and Czechoslovakian flag, each in native attire, gold, silver, lace, rainbow-bodices, Alpine hats and corduroy shorts, and everyone imbued with a spirit of seriousness, exaltation and pride that was genuinely inspiring. We wish "Uncle Joe" could have been there, he might revise his judgment regarding the loyalty of these sturdy and freedom-loving people to the Moscow-dominated police state! e One of the few genuinely GREAT Americans living today is General George Marshall. The verv Qualities that handicapped him as Secretary of State increase his spiritual stature as a private citizen. We refer to the man's COMPLETE integrity, his inability to deceive or dissemble, whatever the temptation from the purely diplomatic or political standpoint may be. Of all the snecches on Memorial Day, his at Arlington alone possessed the originality, dignity and impressiveness of true states manship and clear, prophetic vision. George Marshall is one of the few professional soldiers, whose judgment and insight have not been warped or clouded by his training and lifelong devotion to arms. Needless to sav he is not a pacifist. But he realizes. as so few high-ranking military men seem to realize. that the profes sion to which he has devoted his life, has become an anachronism: that war is as out-of-date as a medium of settling national differ ences, as blood-letting a method of curing disease. He opposes war not as does a pacifist on moral THEORY, but on the sound PRAC TICAL grounds of not only national self interest, but human sur vival. We would like to see the speech he made on Tuesday at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, put into pamphlet form, and distributed not only in this country, but, properly translated, throughout the world. We can Imagine nothing that would show to all the world more clearly the true attitude of this country toward peace and war, and disabuse foreign friend and foe alike of the suspicion that the American people have in recent years fallen for the "Great Illusion" that force ALONE can satisfactorily settle the problems of the post-war world. e e e e To those members of the "False Friends" who extend their sporting interests to baseball, we might once more assume our World Series role of "baseball expert" and remark that the Dec oration Day double-headers hereabouts demonstrated that In this sport as in any other there is no substitute for "Lady Luck." Regardless of how baseball teams stack up on paper, or the "dope give them the benefit of that old gal and they can t lose deprive them of her favors and they can't win. The New York Giants are a good team on paper. They have at least two of the greatest stars in either league, and how they do WANT to win. No team tries harder, perhaps too hard. But they just don't get the breaks. Lady Luck will have no truck with them. Perhaps the old gal doesn't like Durocher there are plenty who don't. Whatever the exact cause, the Giants are a striking example of a team that is above the average individually and on the record, but to date at least, just can't click. The Brooklyn Dodgers are the exact opposite, at least In the games we have seen. We don't deny they stack up on paper. with the exception of their pitching staff even higher than the Giants. But take that double-header which they won against the surprise team of the year the Phillies Decoration Day. Time after time, the Brooklyn "gang" got the breaks, the Phillies didn't. We grant the "wlll-to-win" morale always has a lot to do with It. With the 'breaks, ' we mean. Even so the Dodgers were just basking in the smiles of the "old gal,' inning after inning, the I'hiilies did their best to get her eve and even one nod or encour agement, but nothing doing from the first pitch to the last. Even so, here Is a hot-tip to G. T.: At, say, one to ten, picking the Phillies to win the National pennant is "sound finance," very sound. A fine gilt-edged invest ment! So now, Trygve Lie is a Communist, or a fellow-traveller, the two terms are becoming more and more synonymous. Ho Hum! How long. Oh Lord, how long will the American people have to endure nit-wits and pinheads in the halls of congress? If you were editor of a newspaper and someone came in with a communication and this ultimatum: "Print this in your newspaper or cancel my subscrip tion!" What would you do? It's close to a hundred-to-one bet. vou would tell the gentleman or lady, to cancel their subscription at once and get out. That sort of technique just doesn t work in any newspaper office we have ever been familiar with, or anywhere else for that matter. Yet that communication might not have been offensive or im proper In any way. But It was the wrong approach. Newspaper editors refuse to be bullied. A similar situation exists as far as Soviet Russia and UN are concerned in relation to recognition of Red China. Russia presents a demand, with this proviso: "Either admit Red China to the UN or we get out." "OK" Is the naturnl and inevitable reaction. "GET OUT! We are not going to be bullied Into any action, by Russia or any other nation." It may be entirely proper to admit Red China as the de facto government and It may well be Inevitable. Rut human nature being what it is, Soviet Russia adopted the wrong approach. The impasse resulting Is not the fault of the Unit ed States or any other nation. It is exclusively and COMPLETELY the fault of Russia. We hate to admit It hut the years do often make a difference. For example yesterday an 8-year-old boy in Brooklyn fell through a skylight and landed 40 feet below in a washroom. At the same time a Brooklyn man 4!) years old also fell through a skylight and landed only eight feet below on a carpeted floor. The former picked himself up and returned, somewhat dazed but not serimislv in convenienced, to his starting place; the latter was carried to the hospital, and at last report had not regained consciousness. The dnrndest things happen in this man's town. Someday a bright enterpriser mav collect some of them and Inehide them in a hook. But we doubt if the effort will he partic ularly profitable for most people won't believe '.hem. Take this item for example: Yesterday on the Lexington Avenue subwav a voting man was arrested for making "improper and insulting advances'' to a woman across the aisle. The woman happened to be a female policecop on the Board of Transportation. So the storv looked like one that should be featured as a question of unfortunate tif natural) selec tion. But when the young man. against his violent protests, was taken to the police station he insisted he had made no improper (or proper! advances to the woman in question. He was the unfor tunate victim of a nervous ailment, which made him continually blink and stick out his tongue. And this the young man did, and continued lo do So there is your story. We will give a prize of a fresh bunch or lont-ord carrots to the person providing the best caption. After going lliinugh his nervous manifestation for an hour, the police were convinced and the innocent but Infnrtimate voting man was released, but from the woman cop cam no apology. R. W. R. Cross town By Roland Coe "Ho told me we were spending our vacation at a fish ing camp and I wouldn t need io buy any new clothes. He'i In for the lurprise of his life!" In the Day's News Your Health and Its Care By OR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. Raiders should address inquiries to: Dr. William Brady, 265 II Camino, Beverly Hills. Calif. ( v ANNUAL OR REAL HAY FE SPURIOUS The characteristic irritation of the membranes of nose, eyes, throat and bronchial tubes, sneez ing, watery running at the eyes and nose, redness of the eyes and more than one -third of the cases of asthmatic wheezing and labored breath ing that char acterize the condition com m o n ly known as hav fever. ur Brady may be an an nual recurrence for some vic tims or a perennial state for others. When "hay fever" is peren nial, that is, when such symp toms harass the victim the year around or at any or all seasons of the year, the chances are 100 to 1 the condition is not hay fever at all, that is, not due to pollen, but to some systemic ail ment or state such as sinusitis or sensitivity to cat hair, orris root or horse dander. Probably one person in every iweuiv-iive or miriy is suojeci to hay fever, and in one out of every four of these there is more or less asthma. For years I have been recom mending to persons subject to hay fever the practice of increas ing their daily intake of calcium and vitamin D particularly in the weeks preceding the usual date of onset. A good many read ers have reported that this has carried them through the season comparative comfort. Of course old A. J. Coincidence may have a hand in it, but in any case this practice can do no harm, may improve general health to a notable degree, for most Ameri cans get insufficient calcium in their diet to maintain good nu trition. This calcium feeding is oro- phylactive or preventive only. It Is not particularly effective for relief of symptoms after hay fever has developed. Nor is it of much use unless the increased calcium ration is continued with out interruption for several weeks, at least. Then when the individual's season begins it is advisable to continue the in creased calcium intake right trough the usual season. Further Information about this and about resorts and about rem edies for the relief of the attack of hay fever andor asthma in the hay fever pamphlet. in cases of snttrinus hnv fever in which there is excessive wa tery secretion from eyes and nose, wtih or without asthmatic wheezing and coughing, booping the calcium intake, through a high calcium diet and supple mentary eating of calcium and vitamin D, seems to bring about considerable improvement. The vitamin D is necessary because without vitamin D It is difficult or impossible to assimilate enough calcium. In food or in medicinal form, to fulfill the re quirements of good nutrition. good health. More about this in the booklet The Calcium Short. age, available on request if you VER versus PERENNIAL OR HAY FEVER inclose twenty-five cents and a stamped self-addressed envelope. Hay fever, real or spurious, may be characterized as a sissv complaint, pnrnarilv due to the inadequate daily ration of cal cium and vitamin D in the re fined American diet. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Swollen Anklrs My sister and 'I have been bothered with swollen ankles ever since we were in our teens. We are now 28 and 30. Doctors have merely told us it is poor circulation, ixone could ao any' thins about it. (Miss C. B I Answer It could do no harm to take a suitable rial v ration of iodine Send stamped self-addressed envelope and ask for the oamohlet THE IODIN HAiiUN. in many parts Ol tne unit ed States and Canada men. women and children Ret Insufficient iodine in rifltly food and water to maintain nor. mal metabolism. "Cure" Was Not Quite, Your opinion of a man past 30 who. six months ago. took the "cure" at an institution for alcoholism, yet persists in takine a "shot" of whiskey or beer or sometimes both every day? IE. F.) Answer Well. It can hardly be can. ed a "cure." The best thine that can happen, as the man himself may he first to d scover. s that he Ret in touch with a Rroup of Alcoholics Anonymous in his vicinity. Alcohol ics al . thev'l never ask him to at tend a meeting, but they'll welcome him if he does so on on his own. iCopyright 10S0 by John . Dille Co.) First City Traffic Light in Cleveland Cleveland. O. (U.R) August 5, 1914, is an historic date for American motorists. It is a day that has since cost drivers money. caused high blood pressure and developed many bad tempers. On that day, according to the Cleveland Automobile club, James B. Hogc. hung up the first traffic light at a now bustling east side intersection here. Hoge's first signal was hand operated by a policeman station ed at the corner, who would ring a bell and turn the light on whenever the nearby firehouse received a call. The signals had full approval of the chamber of commerce and a few months later a second set was installed. However. Hoge's success was c'ul short when the lights were declared unnecessary and impractical. Kangaroos, Driving Exciting When Mixed Darwin, Australia (U.R) Mo torists on the 1,000-mile Darwin Alirc Springs road are using "kangaroosters" to coDe with the Kangaroo plague. A "kangarooster" or kangaroo swatter is a reinforced bumper for added protection against damage. Almost every week a car reaches Darwin with its front end damaged by the animals. Like cows, the kangaroos often move across the road instead of away from it. One recently came through a jeep windshield and landed on top of the driver. But the kangaroo hazard isn't confined to the road. Before leav ing for an inland airfield, the pilot messaged the ground men: "Please have the drome cleared of kangaroos." MABEL CARLOS CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors "Preferred by So Many" AMBULANCE SERVICE & J RESUSCITATOR West Main it 6th Phone Medford 3-1051 Office of the County Coroner By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: "Senator Taft, of Ohio, chair man of the GOP policy commit tee, told a reporter he is opposed to the whole principle of trying to arm other nations because he is afraid it invites Russia to go to war. But he conceded that, since congress embarked on the plan last year it won t turn DacK now." Senator Taft then added: "I don't approve of the policy, but I won't lead any fight on the program." LAST year we committed our selves to the expenditure of one and a third billions for the arming of European nations. Congress is now considering the appropriation of another billion and a quarter for the same pur pose. It is a foregone conclusion that the money will be appropri ated. IS THAT wise? I don't know. I don't think anybody knows. So far as I can recall, I never heard of any good coming of buying guns and spreading them around among the neighbors. Still. 1 rather imagine mat n I were in congress I would vote for the program. I wouldn't know what else to do. I'M SURE, however, that if we nermit ourselves to fall for the delusion that we can HIRE SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO OUR FIGHTING FOR US we'll be gone goslings. Rome proved that for us some 20 centuries ago. When Roman citizens ceased to be willing to bare their breasts to the foe and began to hire mercenaries to fill up the le gions, it was the beginning of the end of Rome. THERE is a curious little tale in the news about Loves Hew Zealand Pianist Plays 7 Days in Row Auckland, N. Z. (U.R)-Iim Montecino claims that when he played the piano non-stop for 176 hours and 45 minutes he established a world record. The 45-year-old New Zealand er sat at a piano in Auckland's Trocadero cabaret and played for seven days. He ate three meals a day, supplemented by bowls of soup and cups of tea, as he played thousands of tunes and request numbers. "The first day was the hard est," Montecino said. "The nights passed quickly, but the days dragged. After six days his feet and ankles began to swell and slits were cut in the sides of his carpet slippers. Montecino chain - smoked 250 cigarettes daily during his en durance test, and used powerful smelling salts to fight sleep. At intervals eau-de-C o 1 o g n e was sprayed on his face. His feet were so swollen when he ended his marathon that he had to be carried to a couch, where he slept for 18 hours. Montecino said he intends to visit the United States sometime this year to challenge marathon pianists there. Park, 111. Loves Park Is a sub urb of Rockford. It was incor porated as a city back in 1947, but It seems that through some boggle or other ITS ORDI NANCES DIDN'T TAKE and now it has no city laws. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people In Illinois took it into their heads to MOVE TO LOVES PARK. Laws are getting so numerous that any place that has fewer of them is beginning to look attractive. AND here's a strange, strange story from Stuttgart, in the western part of Germany: "Wine growers of the slate of Wuerttemberg-Baden met this week to find a way to meet the danger of growing Coca Cola consumption, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (South Germany news paper) reported today. "The newspaper said the growers decided IT WAS UP TO THEM TO PRODUCE BETTER, HEALTHIER WINE SO THE PEOPLE WILL DRINK MORE OF IT." OVER most of the rest of the world we'd have yelled bloody murder for a law or a tax or a tariff to keep the wicked Coca Cola out. Those Wuerttem burgers draw their belts a hole tighter and allow as how if they're going lo keep people drinking wine instead of coke it's n to them to MAKE BETTER WINE! 111! They're old-fashioned and stuck in the mud and dead to all modern political progress. But I can't help admiring their rugged individualism. "THE way to meet competi- tion is to make a better product" That idea is so old and so time-tested and so sound that it's practically revolutionary. FAMILY WELCOME Big Laurel, Va. (U.R) A wren couldn't find a better place to build a nest than on Lee F, Craigcr's truck. Craiger discov ered a nest in the tool compart ment of his truck, with six speckled eggs in it. He parked the truck and bought another one. He said he'll not use the old one until the eggs hatch. LEARNS TO KNIT Pittsfield, Mass. U.R) Some 185 Pittsfield fathers learned to knit under the prodding of their daughters, who trained them for a contest sponsored by the Camp Fire girls. The winning father took home a sport shirt as his prize while the daughter who trained him was awarded a skirt and blouse. Dead line Sunday Classified la at Noon Saturdays- Since 1927 "Your Office Boy" Royal Typewriters Office Furniture Systems & Supplies Across from the Rialto Theatre PROPANE TANKS LOW EASY RENTAL PLAN DOMESTIC GAS CO. 3330 N. Highway 99 CASE SOON SOLVED Brockton, Mass. (U.R) Alert detective work quickly solved a robbery at the C. A. Eaton com pany shoe store. Police spotted a young man wearing a new pair of shoes and carrying a carton containing another pair. Harold R. Brown, 18. admitted the break and said he was trying to sell the extra pair. urgoy By Request of Our Patrons . . We Will Be Open 6 DAYS A WEEK Starting MONDAY, JUNE 5 Those Who Enjoy Good Entertainment With Satch - Droops & Ham Come Out and TRY IT - - - Our Food DANCE IT - - - Our Floor ASK IT - - - We'll Play It It A 1 IJ r ss 1 r I I 1 1- V V f "v WW, T II rl jT ' WM Co1 flrit Oicgon will sunn SI f y's Coming! : KT be playing host to summer vaca tion visitors from all over the nation. Entertaining our tourist guests is an important job for all of us! Last year, vacationists brought $110,000,000 of new income into our state. That's more than $63 for every man, woman and child in Oregon! The vaca tion industry is our third largest industry. Our traditional Oregon hospitality and courtesy will go a long way toward helping our visitors enjoy themselves. A cheery word, a smile, a bit of helpful information will help keep them longer with us, and their friends will hear of Oregon's beauty and friendliness and they, too, will vacation among us in future years. It's plain good business to extend a special meas ure of hospitality to our visitors. Let's show them the grandest vacation in the world Oregon at its best!
