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J TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MedfordTribuni "Evaryona Id SoutJiern Ortgon" Reads Tha Mall Trtb'me" Dally Ixcspt Saturday Publlihed by MinmRD PKINTINQ CO. 17-38 North Kir St. Phona a-Ul ROBERT W RUHL, editor ERNEST K GILSTRAP Manager HERB GREY Advertising Mar B. C FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, Telegrapn Edltol HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Edltol OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ma An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Ael oi Marco I. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Daily and Sunday one yearu.. 00 Dally and Sunday six months 4.7S Dally and Sunday three mos a.0 Daily snd Sunday one month 1 uo By Carrier In Advence - Mediord Ashlsnd, Central Point. Jacksonville Cold Hill. Phoenl. Talent and on snotor routes: .,,, Dally and Sunday jne year la.JM Dally and Sunday one month l All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ol the City al Medtor Official Paper of Jackson. County United Pre -full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INL Offices In New York Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles . Seattle, Portlend. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C NlWJf Af I PUBLISHIK ASSOCIATION HMI lu L EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Msdfoid snd Jackson County His tory from the files af the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 34 ream ago 10 YEARS AOO TODAY June 12. 1940 (It Wai Wednesday) Nails reported 124 mlleg from Parig aa they cross Marne In big drive. Par shipmenU from valley last year totaled 1,863,422 boxes, or 2,388 cars. I. V. Lincoln elected teacher at Rogue River high school. Bill Bauman of Troop 1 and Jim Hoey, Troop 8, made Life scouts at court of honor here. Local business men and worn em to feaBt on strawberries and Ice cream as guests of Chamber of Commerce in Sams Valley. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY June 12. 1930 (It Wag Tlmrgday) Mann's remodeled store open ed for public this morning. Military rule proposed to curb Chicago gangsterism. Marjorie Kelly. Marjorie Goff, Ceclle Cass. Evelyn Dew, Hen ry Fitch. Arthur Schoenl and Loren Egberg graduate at Uni versity of( Oregon. Smont-Hawley tariff bill as sured of congress passage. 94 YEARS AGO TODAY June 12, 1916 (It Was Monday) Miss Nellie Corum and Scot! Hubbard married at Jackson ville. Frost Inst Saturday morning damaged local tninnto plants. George Porter has narrow es cape from possible death when he kilU rattlesnake poised for strike. KC's Give Quiz Show Af Camp White Friday Camp White, June 12 Mud ford Knights of Columbus, with Jimmy Dunlevy acting as mas tor of ceremonies, entertained 257 members of Camp White at a quii show culled "That's the Question,'' In recreation hall here Friday night. The program covers many fields of endeavor and the questions embraced sports, geographical, history and Biblical subjects. A recording of bugle calls was played and members were asked to identify them. For the remainder of the sum mer the knights are going to carry their show out of doors. Assisting Dunlevy was his mother-in-law, Mrs. Malley; Mr. and Mrs. l.ee Meekers, Paul and Joe Zelivmk. Dr. Arnold Dep ner, Frank DoSouza. Paul New comb, Aurlel Meunler and Ernie Flakus. PLEDGES HAVE DAY K no x v i I I e, Tenn. (U P Pledges had their day at the Uni versity of Tennessee as they hazed Sigma Chi fraternity members. During "pledge-active nay tne actives ate oir tne Iloor or from the mantle. They also opened the front door for the "greenies" and craulcd under (he dining table when the "air raid" sounded. Dead Hit on Claatlfted Ad- S 10 p m. for following dav. in a in Mon day, noon Saturday for Sunday a in. Subscribers To report Imnroptr or rton dUrry of (ha Mall Trtbunt phono at-tUl brfor 41 p. m. UWy and 10:30 l. m flt.nUy If rfular diltrtrt arriv hnrtly nftr ton call, plfin noiuy offlrt), thui cllmlnaUni apMial mt Monger urtlti, MAIL TRIBUNE The K. E Hercules Plant Klamathites who have been wondering just what processes will be carried on in the pilot plant which the Hercules company is now readying on the former Ewauna mill site in their town, got many of the an swers last week. DILL JENKINS, managing editor of the Herald and News, quotes the Hercules plant superintendent as revealing that no explosives will be manufactured there. The Klamath installation will turn out naval stores resin and its products such as terpentine, pine oil, etc., the superintendent said, and will also delve into the commercial possibilities of the marketable products from Ponderosa pine stumps. The plant will furnish the various extracts perimental laboratories of plans for a full scale plant may be worked out, pro vided there are enough stumps to warrant such in stallation. pOR THE present the plant will employ about 25 or 30 men in the woods and around 70 or 75 in the mill. Of those employed, all men. No river pollution problem will be involved, the superintendent explained. will be ashes from the boiler and the soil which is washed off the stumps woods. "OPERATION of the layout as briefly described by the Hercules official will include digging the stumps from the ground grouped in piles of anywhere from eight to 16 tons by use of a small tractor with ing it. 1 he stumps will then ing and cutting and loaded railroad and shipped to Klamath. Next they will be run through a hog and a thread er, reducing them to chips of the proper size for processing. DUT INTO extractors and solvents pumped through them at high temperature and pressure, the chips will then be steamed to regain the solvent. What is left will be burned to generate steam and power used in the plant operation. Treatment of the solvent by evaporation will re cover the original ingredients, leaving the resin and liquid elements that come from the wood. From the three major elements of turpentine, resin and pine oil will come more than 250 derivatives with a market value. TN ADDITION to the process described, it was stat- ed that the plant will carry on experiments with other woods native to the area. Construction of a major, permanent plant at Klamath (the present one is only a pilot, or experi mental set-up) will depend on freight rates and what success is had with the pilot effort. E.C.F. Tax Evaders Paradise Americans whose incomes, from the lowest to the highest, are hedged about by so much bookkeeping that tax dodging is both difficult and dangerous, must view the taxpayers' situation in some European coun tries with interest if not envy. France and Italy, particularly, are tax ducking heavens, according to the U. S. News and World Re port. 1 here only the wage amount of his income tax, ported by his employer. For especially the more well - to - to dodge, not to pay. A WEALTH Y Italian, for example, says U. S. News, toLroc it Ini' mar.f tad iVtof Yta iaiVf rminrr tr. nav all VCWW C 11, 4 V 1 ,1 (illVVU 1,11 CIV 11V IOH I, Y'aatst, ;u fJ the law calls for. He isn't even required to file a new tax return every year. The least once in his life, then let the government know it his income changes later. Few, naturally, comply with the latter provision of such an easy-going statute. jlOST ridiculous phase of the Italian system, from an American viewpoint at least, is the collection of income taxes by private agencies, instead of by the government. The collectors work on commission of five or six per cent and not infrequently find it more convenient to accept a little gift on the side than to press for collection of the full tax. Tax collection in Italy is made harder by a law which forbids banks giving out information as to how much money a depositor may have. In addition many businessmen keep three sets of books one for the management, one for stockholders and one for the tax collector. INVITATION to fraud is equally wide open in A France where it is estimated that the government is losing $1 out of every $1 due in taxes. Frenchmen bargain with tax collectors as to a sessments. When a declared income is obviously far out of line with the citizen's mode of life, the collector and the balky payer sit down and argue the matter out. Usually they arrive at a figure jnly a fraction of the amount really owed. Making the bookkeeping situation in France even more complicated than in Italy, business men of the former country often attempt to keep records in their heads instead of on paper. e e THE FRENCH taxpayer has at least one thing in common with most of his American counterparts. Taxes are so complicated that the ordinary individual doesn't understand how the rates are arrived at. He cannot compute his own taxes and, anyway, he figures they are too high. E.C.F, Monday, June 12. 1950 from the stumps to the ex the company in order that but 12 or 15 will be local Only waste from the plant as they come in from the with a "push-dozer" to be a long loop of cable trail be reduced in size by blast on carts, hauled to the earner is stuck for the lull because the income is re thousands of others and do, taxes are something law says he should file at Crosstown ... jp) "Fortunately I have a father In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS THE news this week is full of highlights. Here is one of them: T. V. Soong, brother of Mad ame Chiang Kai-Shek has quit the Kuominetaniz (China's Na tionalist ruling party) rather than come to rormosa, where his sis ter and her husband, the general issimo, have pledged themselves to stay and die (die when the communists take over the island that is the last stand of non-communist China.) SOONG is one of the world's wealthiest men. He is safe in New York, along witli his brother-in-law. H. H. Kung. another of the world's wealthiest men. The fortunes of both were MADE IN CHINA. If they had obeyed orders and had gone to Formosa, they would have gone there to die. Death is a futile gesture. They tell them selves they can do more for their country by STAYING ALIVE. Who are we to criticize? We don't face death. Till you face the music, you never can tell what you might do. gTILL If America were dying, as Old China is dying and our rich men, whose fortunes have been made in America, ran away and re fused to come back and die with the rest of us who were staying Well, in that event we would know WHY AMERICA WAS DYING. NOTHER highlight: The other niclit. in Jackson ville Fia QUADRUPLE AMPU TEE Jimmy Wilson was married to Dorothy Morlenson, his class room sweetheart. After their hon eymoon they will settle down at Boulder, where Jimmy will enter the law college of the University of Colorado. WHY is that a highlight of the news?. To understand that, you must understand what a quadruple amputee is. A quadruple amputee is a person who has lost both hands and both feet. Jimmy lost his in a wartime bomber crash. LET the teletype take it from there: "The twilight ceremony was a gay affair, with no overtones of tragedy. Jimmy walked to altar with steady tread (on his arti ficial feet.) . . . after both spoke 'I WILL' in firm voices. Jimmy WITH HIS SILVERED HOOK HAND received the ring from his best man and deftly placed it on the finger of his 23-ycar-old bride . . . "... After a brief reception, thev headed for Canada with Jimmy at the wheel (handling it with his artificial hands and pushing the pedals with his arti ficial feet.)" A LOT of people insist on tell ing us the world gets stead ily worse and worse. I can't believe it. There was a time, not too long ago. at that, when if Jimmy had lived at nil he would have lived to he A H KG GAR ON THE STREETS, at the worst, or at the best to earn his meager living selling papers on a corner, with people buying from him instead of some other newsie OUT OF PITY FOR HIS PLIGHT. Now. thanks to modern pro gress he is the self-respecting husband of a girl who married him not out of pity hut because she loved him and thought he MABEL ' CARLOS CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service "Preferred by to many" Office of the County Coroner Wcit Main af 6th Phone 3-1051 By Roland Co who feels he needs the exercise.' News was all right and he is starting to law school to learn to be a lawyer and earn a self-respecting living. Tell that to the next pessimist who tries to make you believe the world is getting worse instead of better. ANOTHER highlight of the news that I can't resist: In Baltimore a couple of gam blers got into a quarrel over a card game. They agreed to go home and get theri guns and shoot it out. The did. The one who was killed in the duel HAD HAD A GUN SLIP PED TO HIM SOMEHOW THAT WOULDN'T GO OFF. THE trouble with gambling is that there just doesn't seem to be any way to make gamblers honest. McGRATH HONORED Moraga. Cal.. June 12 (U.R) J. Howard McGrath, U. S. at torney general, was honored yes terday by St. Mary's college at its 87th commencement exer cises. POPE RECEIVES LEOPOLD Vatican City. June 12 (U.R) Pope Pius XII received in pri vate audience today exiled King Leopold III of Belgium. They talked for a half hour. .... AROUND B, VIRGINIA Unilad Press Hollywood. June 12 (U.R) Cy Howard, the boy genius of ra dio, is the oulv man alive who f doesn't like Ma rie Wilsons looks in a plunging neck line. And that, he said, proves he's a "charac ter." Marie aereed :W. -.jiSA with him. "When the pa pers run one of those pictures of me . . . you know what I mean," she giggled. "It ruins Cy's whole day." Howard has his reasons for this. He explained it this way: "To me. Marie is 'my friend Irma.' Irma isn't a low-cut neck line type. I hate to sec her out of character." That's a sin Howard was never guilty of. At 35. he's radio's top screwball-genius. He writes, pro duces, and directs. He also screams, bellows, sneers, and hol lers louder than anybody. And for this he makes more money than anybody else in ra dio except the performers. Doesn't Have lo Play "1 am not afraid of anybody," Howard said. "Let those other boys play at being a producer. I don't have to play. I am one. "People who work for me have three choices: They can do it totally my way. absolutely my way. or completely my way." If this sounds conceited, okay. But Howard's "way" has zoomed "Irma" to the No. 4 spot on the air and his "Luigi" to No. 16. According to the Nielsen ratings. He also helped produce both "Irma movies. He's going to take her into television next. And a couple of weeks ago he sat down and banged out a movie script. "That's My Boy," for Pro- i 1 " J Virginia MacPheraoa uffe Falls Butte Falls, June 12 A show er was held May 31 in honor of Mrs. W. Bowen, at the home of Mrs. Bruce Burton. Games were enjoyed and after the honoree had opened her gifts refresh ments were served by Mrs. Bur ton to Mrs. Louis Geppert, Mrs. R. Capello, Mrs. Dcwain Burton, Mrs. Mallory, Mrs. Henry Ty gart and Mrs. Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tungate and Leslie Casey, motored Lloyd's father. Jack Tungate, to Harbor, Ore., where he makes his home, leaving here Friday evening. While there they did some fishing with fair catches of perch. They returned home Sunday. Among many spending last week-end at Diamond lake were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rodgers. They reported fish were scarce but mosquitoes plentiful. Spending last week-end with Mrs Jim Arnold were her daugh ter and family Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Greer and Jeanette of Med ford. Mr. Arnold and Edwin were working in their mine on the Applegate. Marvin Berg is owner of a new Hudson. Miss Lila Ellis, who received a head injury at the Phocnix Butte Falls baseball game re turned home Wednesday after spending the past month in a Medford hospital. Mrs. Edyth Price and children visited friends here Thursday. H.E.C. will meet Wednesday, June 14, at the home of Mrs. John Hinshaw. Mrs. Ray Chambers and chil dren were recent visitors here at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Ben Edmondson. Recent visitors at the Leslie Casey home were Mrs. Casey's mother. Mrs. Gladys Von Nor man and her aunt Mrs. Art Rog ers. Monday they motored to Crater lake, leaving Tuesday for Portland to visit relatives. A car driven by Mrs. Joe Hare recentlv slid off the camp road and overturned. The road was extremely slippery due to recent rain and grading. Neitner Mrs. Hare nor her daughter were in jured. A wrecker from Medford came after the car. Home Extension unit enjoyed a picnic June 2 at Whiskey Springs. This was the last meet ing of this year. About 20 mem bers and children attended. Mount Pitt club will hold its regular meeting Thursday eve ning, June 15, at the home of Mrs. Booth Dyer. All members are urged to attend as the nomi nation of officers will be made for the coming year. Kenneth Dunlap, home on leave from the navy, visited friends and relatives here last week. Ronnie Rodgers has returned home from a Medford hospital. He recently broke his leg while working for Medco. HOLLYWOOD MaePHCRSON Cormpondanr ducer Hal Wallis. For this one Howard hit that rare peak in Hollywood; four screen credits. He gets his name on it as original author, screen writer, assistant producer, and director. Gets Four Paychecks "If it's bad I'll kick myself four times." he said. "If it's good I'll lake four bows. Also four paychecks. I'll take those In any case." Howard at work is a sight no body should miss. He gathers his cast around a table and spends the next three hours before mike time brow-beating a good per formance out of 'em. Sometimes he's funnier than the script. "If my talents don't impress you." hell leer at a balky actor. "I'll bring in mv clipDings. I'm very big in New York. They don't know you don't let me direct. "And don't correct me; that gives me complexes." Mugs With Actors All through rehearsal he mugs with the actors . . . chews on the script . . . and laughs like crazy at every gag. "It's a friendly gang." How ard said. "I'm a perfectionist, sure. But so are they. And if I want to change the script or the direction or cuss out the pro ducer I don't have to check with anybody. I'm it in all three de partments." In general the best watchdogs are said to be those with upright ears, which seem ready to pick up the slightest sound. aassasssssssssaajasasamajaaawssssssssas .,rraV. ,i I MEDFORD EXCELLENT MUSIC O Expanded Program of U.N. Technical Aid To Be Launched Today Lake Success, N. Y., June 12 (U.R) Representatives of some 70 nations meet today to launcn tne United Nations' expanded pro gram of technical aid to the world's backward areas. It was a moot point whether Russia, which has boycotted all UN organs for the past 21 weeks, would show up. If they do. it was a foregone conclusion they would walk out again, protesting the presence of the Chinese na tionalists. The conference thus would become the 33rd UN activ ity boycotted by the Soviet states since the Russians first walked out of the security council on January 13. Sets Bavahior Pattern Poland already had set the pat tern of Soviet behavior bv notify ing Secretary-General Trygve Lie it would not participate in the technical aid conclave if the Chi nese nationalists are present. Lie rejected a Polish demand that he Invite the Chinese commun ists, explaining that the general assembly had instructed him to summon the UN's 59 members and those countries not members of the UN which belong to spec ialized agenceis participating in the aid program. That made a total of 74 coun tries invited. Only Bulgaria and Saudi Arabia formally reject ed the bid to the conference. Meanwhile, the trusteeship council was scheduled to return Annual Elks Stag Slated Thursday Al Picnic Ground Medford Elks lodge this week is completing arrangements for the annual stag party of the or ganization on Thursday, June 15. The event will be held at the organization's picnic grounds on Rogue river in the Camp White area. Elks report that consider able improvement and additions to facilities there have been made there. Barbecue Set A barbecued beef banquet will top off the day. Entertain ment will include baseball, a tug of war. horseshoes and a vaudeville show. The event will begin at 3 p. m. Members are in vited to come at any time after that hour and bring one male guest. Proceeds will be used for the Elks' summer camp for under privileged youngsters. A crab feed and entertainment will start at 6 p. m. the same day for Lady Elks only at the temple here. Chinchillas Are Good Following Six Months Cleveland, O. (U.R) The Peter Zahutas thought they were stuck when they kept their pair of chinchillas six months and had no little ones. "I'm sure they're both boy chinchillas." said Mrs. Zahutas, and she complained to the Cleve land Better Business Bureau. The bureau didn't help much but the company from which they bought the animals at S600 apiece worried over its promise that they would produce one or two litters every year. It turned out the chinchillas just couldn't make up their minds. After six anxious months, mama chinchilla brought forth two healthy youngsters, each 2V4 Inches long. Editorial Comment Mercy Flights Out in Oregon, where dis tances are long and the popula tion sparse, the live-wire com munity of Medford recently staged a campaign to buy a "mercy airplane" or flying am bulance. The pilots, co-pilots, nurses, attendants serve without pay, and leave their jobs to fly the ill from various isolated areas into larger cities. Real ser vants of brotherhood. Drew Pearson in Washington Merry-Go-Round. Dead line for Sundav Classified is at Noon Saturdays. Y.F. YOUTH for CHRIST INTERNATIONAL Presents Don Lonie TUES., 8 P.M. to. tne problem of international- izing Jerusalem, me counr-ii drafted an internationalization sttute, in accordance with the general assembly's instructions at its winter session in Geneva' The plan was rejected by Israel and ignored by Jordan, the two powers now occupying the Holy City. ' Alternate Plan Israel, in rejecting interna tionalization for the entire city of Jerusalem, offered an alter nate plan providing for UN guardianship of the holy places of three faiths. But the council was not expected to act on it, as its instructions, specifically limit its action to drawing up an inter, nationalization staute for the whole city. The entire issue was expected to be thrown back to the a bly's fall session. The technical aid conference was largely a formality. It wit summoned to formalize contribu tions by countries which already have proffered them informally in conferences with UN officials. It also will ratify a previously recommended schedule of how the funds will be distributed for technical assistance work by the UN and its specialized agencies. $20 Million Expected. More than S20 million is ex. pected to be pledged for the first stage of the program, which will parallel President Truman's "A "point four" technical aid pro ject, for which congress recent- , ly voted S35 million. The United States, it was understood, has in formally pledged between $10 million and $12,500,000 for the period ending Dec. 31. 1951. Britain is understood to have pledged the equivalent of S1.700 -000 and France $1,200,000. FATHER'S DAY CARDS and j GIFTS MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10:30 P M. For Complete Prescription service DAY and Night Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford's Own Modern Pharmacy JslWAfe nmnASKM M4XN "ASPIRIN" JUNIOR HIGH AUDITORIUM SINGING
