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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTeibuns "Everyone In Southern Oregon" Reads The Mill Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Published by ITKDFORD PRINTING CO. al-29 Nortli Fir St Phone M141 ROBERT W. RUH1, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP Manafel HVRn r.nKV Advertlalne Mgr. B c. FERGUSON. Managing Edltol nir A 1. 1 .FIN JR citv Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegrepb fdltM mrNBV L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mg An Independent Newipeper Entered as eecond cleaa matter at MedJord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ci ftj.il In AHuunrs: Dally and Sunday one yeer..S 00 Dally and Sunday six months .7B Dally and Sunday three moe i.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 By earner in aovbuw , Ashland, Central Point, Jacksonville Gold H1U. Phoenix. Talent end on Dally end Sunday me year Jia.oo nilv and Sunday one month 1-00 All Terma Caah In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medfera OtllcUil Paper of Jackson County United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY. UJC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angslea. Seattle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver. B C. NATIONAl EDITORIAL gg I actQn Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the (ilea at the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears SJO 10 YEARS AGO TODAY June 14, 1940 (It was Friday) Paris occupied by Hitlerites; Maginot line threatened from rear by nazis. Foursquare church to dedicate new quarters, Jackson street and Central avenue, Sunday morn ing. Mrs. Matilda Hornbeck, Gold Hill resident for 42 years, dies at home there. Nearly 30 Boy Scouts signed for one or more weeks at camp at Lake o Woods. Miss Maxlne Avers. Central Point, assists with Bible school being held at Antelope school this week. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY June 14, 1930 (It was Saturday) State horticultural board lays down standards for canned pears, effective July 1. Bears retain strong hold on Wall street dealings. Mrs. Llndscy Slsemore, former local resident, improves from re cent illness at Fort Klamath. House ends long battle over Smoot-Hawley tariff bill. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY June 14, 1916 (It was Wednesday) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Powell and daughter leave today by auto for cross-country trip; camping and sleeping quarters included. Grass fire on Capitol hill de stroys J. H. Cooley residence and barn, and home of Theodore Marsh. Angelina Smith elected princi pal of Washington school and head of junior high for next year. COMMUNICATIONS Letlrrs to the P.dltor must beat the name and addrmse of the wrllet although under certain circum stances the nil of a pen Dame Ol Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mull Tribune reserves the rlRht to rdlt sll letters with s view to clarlflratltm and conden satlon. Letters submitted tor pub llrallon nmit not exceed ItlO wnrds To the Editor: I want to take this opportunity to thank every one who helped to make it pos sible for me to attend the Nation al Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge, Penn. 1 especially want to thank the Jacksonville Lions club for the very big part they did. Also I want to thank Troop 37, each and every scout in the troop, the scout mothers and each and every Individual who helped make this trip possible. I wish all my scout friends could be with me on this wonder ful trip. I ll be thinking of all of you as I travel across this wonderful country. Jim Parris ... Jacksonville COME IN SERIES Evanston. 111. ;U.R Three sets of twins gave St. Francis hospital attendants a record and busy time. The sets arrived on three successive days, making the first series of its kind in the 50-year history of the hospital. Dead line Sunday Classified la a Noon Saturdays Subscribers to rtpnrt Improper or noo delivery of tht Mall Trlbnn ptaont 2- 14 1 btfora 41 p. m. 4.tj and 10:30 . m Sunday. II regular d 1 1 r y irrtvan ihortly after yon rail, pleaia notify of rice, thu UminaUni apacUl meuanger Mnic. CpW?33v fOBllSHIIS VASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE itorial Correspondence Ardmore, Pa., June 10 If be sore. One of the New York him as "the urea oia man. Ben isn't old. And if he is tired, then the mor,e credit to him. For any golfer who feels tired but can play a tough course like this Merion layout on a day like this sweltering around 90, with humidity the same and after playing 35 holes he has to make a par on the 36th to stay in the running and DOES it ! ! ! Well, we would use some other more fitting term to describe one of the greatest golfers who ever lived, and the gamest com petitor in any sport in the world today. And among the sports we include that of fighting the "Grim Reaper" when he has two strikes on you, your body is all smashed up, because in a motor-crash you threw yourself in front of your wife to save her life. And that was only around 18 months ago if we recall correctly. "Tired old man" indeed! e e e e e However, if this New York sports writer gave Benny the worst of it, the 15 or 20 thousand people who followed the final day of the 50th Annual "National Open" did NOT. It was truly a Ben Hogan day. Not only did everyone or nearly everyone follow him and his partner Middlecoff but everyone was boosting for him to win. Come to think of it "boosting" is too mild a word. They were and we mean this literally hoping and PRAYING for him to stage what would have been one of the greatest "comebacks' in the history of American sport. The hie- moment came at the 15th when Hogan took a five on a very rough four-par hole which put him three over par. Fazio and Mangrum his two opponents (and already in) were tied at 287 for the 72 holes, so Ben had to get three straight pars to win, and two pars and a bogey to tie. Any golfer who has ever seen this Ardmore course will ap preciate what a spot that was for the "little bantam." Here were oathered the ton colfers of the entire country, pro and amateur, and not one had come within eight strokes of breaking par. The next hole. No. 16. Hogan his putt and had a hard one coming back for a four. As usual he took a long time sizing things up, walking back and forth, pulling up his slacks, squatting down, looking this way and that. He had in ant hie nnr or else! The ball was hit firmly and true a mite too hard it hit the further end of the cud but dropped in. The roar and applause that went up from that mob and it behavior could have been heard Broad a dozen miles away. Only two holes left only two more pars to win! No. 16 is a three-par, down-hill "dog-leg" a short pitch for pro but it has to be exactly on the line or there is trouble. A muffler! crnan went un as Hogan sliced and caught the left-hand sand-trap. His explosion was on the beam but too strong, just missing the trap opposite. Again most careful calculating, but ihi timo the hall refused to riroD and Ben was FOUR over par. The final hole Is a heart-breaker up hill, through a cut in thick woods even old Doctor K would be satisfied with a seven. (Fazio made a five on it. Ferrier a six) The heat was certainly on, there was a record-breaking gallery stretching solid on Doth sioes irom tee to green, there was silence but a tense expectant silence, even the boys and girls in the NBC and CBS short-wave jeeps, took off their head-phones and stood up. And there is another thing to say for Hogan. If he ever gets jittery, is ever anything but completely cool and collected, he never shows it. (At least he never has when we were about.) He has lost some of the SPRING in his walk that he had before that near-fatal accident, he sits down more often, but of the half-dozen golfers we followed today.he showed the least nervousness and irritation. Ferrier and Ransom for example (the latter we never heard of before but he played a beautiful game) got shaky several times, the former taking a six on No. 1 and the latter, on the seventh, walking away from his teed-ball a couple of times, finally asking the gallery to please stand still and be quiet. But to return to that final hole. Hogan's drive could hardly have been better, straight as a string and nice distance. His second a wood, was on the green and another one of those ear-splitting yells went up as the gallery broke into a run for the "kill" nearly killing those who no longer could qualify for the volunteer fire-department. So again the heat was on. But not so intense THIS time for sinking the putt for a three meant victory and as stated one of the greatest in the history of sport but a four meant a tie and a ploy-off another chance at the $4000 which considering very- thing wasn t so bad. Well, as everyone knows by 10 sinK DUl tne par was nut umiuuii su mc nui Smiling broadly for the first time, Hogan strolled toward the cliihhmisp. was corraled bv newspaper photographers, made to stand up with Fazio and Mangrum, who also looked relaxed and happy the competitors for the morrow having their pictures taken with their arms around each other, and the 15,000 or so gallery, broke up and went their respective ways. Later: , , , . Speaking of that gallery In that terrific heat, we would have liked to have had that soft drink concession. The great hazard frr, ih nopininra' slunrinnint was the emntv bottles covering the course. We venture to say the club cleanup crew worked most of the night getting the course ready for the play-off. (Wish we could stick around for it, but no can do.) A n4 ikarn nm nmnonsnllnns. The callorv this aflernoon (Sunday) should be larger than yesterday and yesterday s from the spectators' standpoint was one hundred times too big. Con sidering its size, the desire of all hands to see and the impossibility of more than 20 per cent doing so, we will say that mob was well-behaved. Perhaps one reason was they were so well marshalled and policed. Also cameras, movie or otherwise (except bv the accredited press) were proniDitect. nna n anyuiic above a whisper with a player at the tee, there were "shushes from all over the place, as well as by the marshalls. It was a wonderfully manuged tournament. e e e The telcvisloh crews had the best of it they were set up on raised Iron-pipe platforms, mostly around the 18th green, llieir -..I- jf(,,n u,n in renxHine hoarders Dnrticularlv the younger generation who scampered up and were thrown off took to the trceii forest, while the "rough'' Is a jungle oi wire grass inu piate the False Friends quartet, particularly G.T.) Vnr h flrt Una we found a periscopes were sold on the course, allowing one to look over the heads of those in front, except where there was a six-foot cowboy who refused to take off his 10-gallon hat. They were made of cardboard and looking glass. One of the older boys packed around a fruit box and stood on it your correspondent was tempted by both, but decided It was job enough to pack himself! Washington Treats Truants Gently, Visitors Discover Washington (U.R) It's spring and truancy temptation Is on the wing but here in Washington there is no such thing as the old-time truant officer. The "big, bad men" have given way to young women, sympathetic and attractive, known as "attendance officers." Moppets in the capital are led back from the ball game and fishing hole by Mrs. Alice Shel don, attendance director for 113,- 000 Washington school children for 15 years, and her assistants. Most children are not real truants," Mrs. Sheldon said. "They only succumb to the temp tations of the season." Chronic truants, who some times are committed to children s institutions for the remainder of their education, often are vic tims of a maladjusted home life, she said. 'We try to find the underlying causes for continual non-attendance, using a quiet, common- sense approach, rather than the police approach, she said. Mis Slit ltlnn, a member ot the District of Columbia bar and a graduate social worker. Is Wednesday, June 14, 1950 we were Ben Hogan we would sports-writers keeps referring to was on In two, but overstroked was a mob in all respects but in Philadelphia at Locust and now, once more the ball refused down like monkeys. Manv who the course being cut out of a suggestion of ours followed ie: Unusual Names Crowd City's Crime Blotter Montgomery, Ala. (U.R) Mont gomery police have probably as fine a collection of unusual names on their crime rolls as any department in the United States. Now wanted by police here (and the FBI) is "The Angel." Also being sought are Slick Wil lie Sutton. Mustache Devons and The Tank Kid. Others on the police roster In elude Love 'em Fat Lee, Banjo eyes foweu, uopey uwens, Joe Elijah, alias The Prophet, and Seldom Gamble. China Motelv and Mule An derson got those names because that's the way they look. Then there's Kate Jones. Frank Cal lace, alias Chick 99: Willie Wil lie and Robert Campbell, alias Mildred. On history's side, Montgom ery records list Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Johnson. officers who investigate an av erage of 21,000 cases a year. ' I hey must be neat and attrnr tlve and smart and sympathetic. ' she sulci. "To get reallv close to a pupil and ferret out tiie reason ror truancy, such qualities make i it a lot easier. All officers are college trained." The first colonists of Taimsnls Crosstown x ' gggfr if "No, the gam didn't break up in a fight. The captain are just choosing sides." On the Side-8 E v Dur,,n (Distributed by Klstf Features Syndicate, lac.) MIMtMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM I love you, I love yon, 'Tie all ! can say, It Is my vision In the night, My dreaming In the day. The very echo of my heart. The blessing when I pray: I love you, I love you, 'Tis all I can say. Rood Now a Brooklynite claims the speed record for driving a car from California to New York. He says he made the trip from Needles. Calif., to Thirty-first street and Seventh avenue. New York City, in 44 hours and 15 minutes. He thinks he could drive from New York to Los Angeles in fifty hours. Over There In Great Britain, a man mar ried to a career woman is respon sible for his wife's income tax. if his wife spends all the monev she earns and has none left for her Income tax. he has to pay it. A situation like that could be very hard on the husband of an extravagant movie star. First Song l he first sonB written bv Anrlv Donnelly, composer of popular mines, was one titled "Your Wife." He received the inspira tion for this from a newspaper article written by Ella Wheeler wiicox. At mat time, sones sucn as "My Wife's Gone to the Coun try and "I Love My Wife, but Oh You Kid!" were popular. Mrs. Wilcox deplored the fact that songs making fun of wives were Decoming so popular. She sue. gested somebody write a serious song in praise of a wife. So Andy wrote a song titled "Your Wife ' in the vein suggested bv Mrs. Wilcox and got his start recognized songwriter. Passing By William Dinwoodie. Pictur esque turf figure from the west. His experience with thorough bred racing goes back to the Emeryville track in California, and before. Mr. Dinwoodie is tak ing a vacation from the race courses this summer and is off to visit his native Scotland. He is looking forward with much anticipation to riding the Flying Scot from London to Glasgow. I wish I were going with him. Horses & Women "Most small women rely too much on their size," writes a Louisiana reader, who savs her own height is 5 feet 11 inches. "The small women think all they have to do to get a man is to be cute and coy. Holding him will take much more than that. The clinging vine technique won't al ways do it. Clinging vines of any size can be very nauseous. Being tall has disadvantages, but so has being 5 feet and under. No tall man likes to dance with a eirl whose head nestles In his stom ach. Unlike the shorties, the tall girl does not knock herself out trying to be cute. Therefore, she can put more effort into being a good sweetheart, wife and com panion. Asking Wuenes from clients. O Hnw do you account for fried eggs being so badly cooked in the great majority of restaurants? A. Restaurant cooks frv eecs too quickly. They give them too We'll Help You ... If Extra Cash Is What You Need W say "YES" to 4 out of 5! Cash on livestock furniture, or ear, which ever suits you best. YOU select payment plan ... for example: $50 costs only $3.04 when repaid in 3 equal monthly install ments LOANS $50 TO $800 Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterlan Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie. S-211 M-217 J3 By Roland Coe IHIIHIMMMMIlllMMIMIMIIIt soon. To fry an egg properly mod erate heat is essential. Q. Were the major leaguers, Sherwood Magee and Lee Magee brothers? A. They were not related. Lee Magee's real name was Leopold Hoernschmeyer. Q. Do you know a child's praver starting "Glad for the Night"? A. Yes, ma am. It goes as follows Glad for the night. Glad for the day, I hold my hands Dear Jesus and pray. Keep my lips pure. Keep my face bright. Keep my hands busy Doing the right. Sidelights So Joan Crawford, who al ready has adopted four children, is going to adopt two more. Never heard of anybody having six adopted children. Is it a record? ... It is said the French have at least one book on every imaginable subject. The British also appear to cover a lot of ter ritory in the literary field. I note the British author. Dr. C. Willets Cunningham, is writ ing a history of underclothes from the Middle Ages to the present. Please Note John L. Osborne, a 95 year old Kentuckian. has 289 living de scendants; twelve children, seventy-six grandchildren, 163 great grandchildren, thirty-eight great-great-grandchildren. John should do all right for presents on Father's day. Incidentally, what state would you say tops the na tion in the matter of large fam ilies? I believe it is Massachu setts. I also think Boston has a higher average of large families than any major city in the nation. Those 10 Cent Shave Prices Gone Forever Sacramento (U.R) Union bar bers rubbed their eyes and took another look but there it was, a large sign advertising 15 - cent haircuts and 10-cent shaves, in downtown Sacramento. What's more, "Wilson's Sani tary Barber shop" proudly ad vertised "union wages and union hours established in 1879." The sign, painted on a brick wall, came into view with the tearing down of an old building. Older residents recalled that as children they received a big bag of candy from the enterprising barber along with every hair cut. According to the sign, Wilson's also dealt in "Corn and Bunion Killer, Chilblain Killer, Dand ruff Killer, Hair Grower and Fresh Egg Shampoo Compound." All services were "money back" if the customer wasn't satisfied. SKILLED RUG MAKER Pepperell, Mass. (U.R) When the Pepperell Federated church held its annual hooked rug ex hibition, one of the finest ex amples on display was the work of a retired railroad engineer, Bradford Upton. Paassl ijf''! ! IT AN STARl Yes Man ....AROUND 8; VIRGINIA Ualted Press Hollywood, June 14 (U.R) You can stop feeling sorry for tne poor, poveriy-stricKen glam or gals who can't afford chinchilla coats. The man who makes their furs said they wouldn't be caught dead n the stuff. Al Teitel- b a u m, Holly wood's raink and -sable ex pert, had only this to say of ine super-exciu-sive chinchilla: "It's a second-rate fur at first- Man Plans Barrel Trip Over Falls Middle of July Niagara Falls. Ont. (U.R) Curiosity may entice a 31-year- old daredevil to plummet over Niagara Falls in a plastic barrel July 15. Major (t h a t's his christian name) Hill said he wanted to cover the entire stretch of the Niagara river from the famed Canadian Horseshoe falls to Queenston. "It's just curiosity." he told skeptical reporters. His chariot for this unosal ride will be 12 feet lone, four feet in diameter, and will have six air tight compartments. Major is attempting something that even his Hill family prede cessors have not tried. Red Hill, Sr., contented him self with conquering the rapids below the mighty falls, while other members have devoted their spare time to rescue work and life-saving inventions for trips around the falls. "But I'm going to complete a trip from the Whirlpool Rapids downstream to Queenston," Ma jor said confidently. He admits there is a drawback to the whole project. "There's been a considerable amount of water removed for power." A glance at the record of what happened to previous intrepid barrel-jumpers over the falls doesn't appear to give Hill too bright a future in life. Charlie Stevens tried the feat in 1930. He was smashed to pieces in his wooden barrel. George Stathakis of Buffalo plunged to his death in a one-ton wooden barrel the same year. Bobby Leach, in 1910, fared somewhat better. He spent only 18 weeks in hospital. Leach slipped on a banana peel later, broke his leg, and died of gan grene. On the credit side, however, Annie Taylor managed to sur vive in a wooden barrel and a French Canadian, Gene Lussier, performed the act in a rubber ball back in 1928. Best Sellers Unable To Remain Popular Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (U.R) If the best sellers of 1950 are read 50 years from now, it will be extra ordinary. The Osterhout Free library has checked among high school students on the eight best selling books of 1900. Only two still are in steady use the two still list ed as required reading at nearby Pringle high school. Except for Mary Johnston's "To Have and to Hold" and Booth Tarkington's "Monsieur Beaucaire," the books "every one was reading at the century mark are gathering dust on the shelves. Dead line on Classified Ads: 9:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a.m. Mon day, noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. VtrftnU HacFhersoes To AVOID the nagging money worries Save First, then Spend! Our liberal earnings paid on savings twice yearly come in mighty handy! CURRENT RATE IS PER ANNUM SAVE ANY AMOUNT ANY TIME WITH . . . Jackson County Federal Savings and LOAN ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHED 1909 126 Eett Main HOLLYWOOD MaePHERSON Cerretpoadeat class prices. And besides, it has no sex appeal." He couldn't give one away, he said. - "It tears like paper ... It changes color and gets a rusty brown . . . and it looks like a beat-up old rag in no time." Teitelbaum pooh poohed the rumor that Hollywood's dazzle dolls have to struggle along with last year's $15,000 minks be cause they can't pick up the tab on those $75,000 chinchilla jobs. "I've read about $75,000 chin chilla wraps," he snorts. "But I've never seen one. And I don't think anybody else has, either. I can buy the makings of a top chinchilla for around $4,000 and make it up for another $300. Stars Can't Afford It "But I'd have as much luck peddling it to an actress as I would trying to sell Jane Russell a pair of falsies." Stars nowadays can't afford to throw their money away, Teitel baum went on. And Chinchilla just isn't worth those fancy prices. "It has some kind of place In the fur business," he said. "But not at the top. It's way below sable and mink and even stone marten." Teitelbaum admitted it was must equipment" in the old days of silent screen vamps. "The sirens sported lots of it," he shrugged. "The kind that was imported from Peru and cost plenty. But they didn't have business managers around to tell 'em the facts of life. Must Get Nickel's Worth "Stars nowadays have to get their last nickel's worth out of ineir iurs. Ana cnincnilla s no bargain. Our girls can't afford to oe suckers. Teitelbaum was lust as frank about the fancy prices dreamed up by press agents for mink and saoie. Whenever I see a picture of a stnr wearing a 'S50.000 mink coat . he said, "I let out a big ha-ha. Black mist mink, the finest of all. seldom costs more than half that. "And most actresses never pay more than $15,000 for their minks." If they really wanta go de luxe, he said, they splurge on sable. "I've pinned price tags up to $50,000 on extra-special Russian sable," he explained. "But I don't sell many of 'em. Most of the girls buy sable in the $20,000 class." Use Mall Tribune Want Ada Prince Gardner Watch Dad's eyes glow when ha sees this handsome Prince Gardner Registrar. Superbly crafted, with the famous detachable windowed pus case. MAXIMUM PROTECTION FOR SAVINGS Phone 2-6201 DUDE RANCHER? ANGLER? SUN BATHER? SIGHT-SEER? 0? You've got vacation ideaa...we've got the direct, low-cost transpor tation to help make your ideas really dick! 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