FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. June S, 1950
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!