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fOUH MEDFORD (ORBQOM) MEDPORDvIIIWrWlUNl -gveryone la aouthera Onfoa (Ml Tb Mall TWbuM" DaUr facapt aaturalay PublUhed by MXDFORD PRIMTINa CO. 17-a North rir 1L Phone l-ei4l ROBERT W. RUHL. Mltor ERNEST , 0OTRA. Manatee HERB GREY, Advertising aljr. a. C FERGUSON, Managing Edit ERIC ALLEN ht, Cltjr Editor BARRY CHIP MAN, telegrapa J" HXNRY U GREEN, SundlJ Editor OLIVE 8TARCHER. goeietj Editor OERALD LATHAM. CUroulaUon M An Independent Kewepapar Entered ieoond Clare matter a Medford. Oregon, under Act of March . IB" SUBSCRIPTION RATE B; Mall In Advance: Delly and Sunday ona year.W 00 Dally and Sunday U month! . Dally and Sunday throa moa J.60 Daily and 8undey-ne month im 8y Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Jackeonyllle Gold Hill. PhoenU. Talent and motor routea: Dally and Sunday .me year J11M Dally and Sunday one month I.B0 All Term! Caah la Advance Official Paper e the city of MedMcd Official Paper ol Jaomon county United Proea full Loaaod Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Adverttrlni Repreeentative! WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offlcea in New York. Chicago De troit San Franclaco. Loe Angelee Seattle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver, o . puansHiit ASSOCIATION NATIONAL D'TORIAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jickton Ceunry Hie. lory rrom the filer or the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and J4 yeart ho 10 YEARS AGO TODAY June 19. 1940 (It Was Wednesday) Lloyd N. Colbaugh, Medford high honor itudent, accepts $500 freshman scholarship awarded by Harvard university. Gladys M. Heath, Rogue Riv er, elected national director for third and fourth class postmas ters of state association. County welfare expenditure In May $20,042 compared with 820,879 In April. - Opening of local Brownie day camp postponed by rain. City council visits newly reno vated fire hall where firemen show city leaders workings of department. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY June 19. 1930 (It Was Thursday) Lightnings ignites dozen for est fires in Siskiyoui. Rogue River cannery to be gin canning valley cherry crop early next week. City council again urged to change to city manager plan. Clean-up crew busy in Crater Lake park getting roads open for season. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY June 19, 1918 (It Was Monday) Militia of United States mob ilized for Mexican service. Subway under Southern Pa cific tracks on Bailey hill south of Ashland started. Manager H. C. Tulley to open Crater Lake inn by June 29 and hotel at Annie Springs within few days. Methodists Announce Valley Appointments Portland, Juno 11) Pulpits of four Jackson county Methodist churches were filled Sunday by the reading of ministerial ap pointments by Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy at the 38th annual con ference of Methodist churches here. The annual reading of the ap pointments climaxed the week long conference in Portland's Sunnyside Methodist church. The Jackson county appoint ments were. Robert Mcllvenna, Ashland, fourth appointment; H. A. Dier.lorf. Gold Hill, fourth appointment; Meredith A. Groves. Medford, fourth appoint ment, and Alice May Woolley, Talent, sixth appointment. Governors' Conference To Hear Federal Men White Sulphur Springs, W. Va , June IB U P) The admin istration will make a bid here next week to win the support of state governors for Its for eign policies and programs. Secretary of State Dean Ach esnn and Marshall Plan Admin istrator Paul G. Hoffman are two of the spakers for the an nual four-day conference of governors which opens here Sunday. Subscribers To report Improper or nan delivery of the Stall Tribune phone I-SI4I tore U p. m. Sail; ana 10'SO a. m. aundav. If regular d o 1 1 e a r arrival fhortly after you rail, pleate iioury office, thuf ellmlnaUni special meseeneer lemee. TO MAIL TRIBUNE Vote for School Director Voters of school district 49 will elect a director today to succeed John P. Moffat whose term is ex piring and who is not a candidate. It is fortunate that the city has three fine, capable and public spirit ed people from whom to choose. r 1 m a e a THERE HAS been growing public interest in the city school anairs in recent years ana tnis is as it should be for certainly there is no more impor tant business before the people than the education of their young. r an in the willingness oi ur. L,eroy jensen, iurs. Moore Hamilton and Dunbar Carpenter to devote the time and effort to school matters which election to the board will entail, we have a concrete example of the interest mentioned. THE PEOPLE of the district should show their ap- nvonioHnn r,f tVll'o nrnffer nf BPI'VIPK VlV CdinC ttl yici.iRMu.i bit"? v ...... - the polling place in the senior high school sometime between 3 fend 9 p.m., DST and voting for their fav- .... rri r ti ored candidate. Fast Growth Shown Preliminary census Jackson county 17,176 and 57,831, respectively though slightly under some recent estimates, uphold the local boast that this is one of the fastest growing areas in the entire nation. THE SEVEN southwestern counties of Oregon Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Lane and Linn are credited with having the largest growth, percentagewise, in the country, with 58.S8 percent. It is interesting to note that Jackson county's :9.fi9 per cent tops the regional figure. M1 EDFORD'S growth percentage of 52.25 does not eive a true picture of has been a great deal of building in all directions just outside the municiple boundaries. Actually, if this population could be listed as within the "Greater Medford," we would undoubtedly have well over the 20,000 souls some had predicted. a a ALL IN ALL, there will be no disappointment about the local figures though we do hope they can be relied upon more than the census supervisor's word to this newspaper as to when he would make them available. On several different occasions the figures were promised for a specific date and in each in stance they were not forthcoming. The supervisor also gave repeated assurances that when figures for Medford became available this newspaper would have at least an even break on their release. WHEN the figures were finally issued Thursday in Eugene, at the southwest Oregon district super visor's headquarters, they were made available to other interests, and were not received by the Mail Tribune until Saturday morning a full day after they had become available AT THE bottom of the supervisors letter trans mitting the much wanted figures was a para graph expressing thanks for the "wonderful coopera tion" received. We are glad the supervisor appreciates our co operation though we wish he had shown his appre ciation in a little more substantial manner. E.C.F. New Ideas in Furniture Shown at Chicago Market Chlcno. June 19 (U.R) Twenty-five thousand buyers gathered here today to study the newest ideas in home furnish ings, including larger love seats and left-handed can openers. Prices were a little higher than last year. Four thousand home furnish ings manufacturers showed their wares at the 2tith Summer Inter national Furniture market, which will continue through June 28. Attendance is expected to exceed that for any summer market In history. Love Stats Longer Love seals were shown a full nine inches longer than the tradi tional 41 Inches, for ' greater convenience" in making room ar rangements, t h e manufacturer said. The can opener, of the gear type, has Its wheel on the left Instead of the right. Styles were modern. They ranged through the advanced or "unrelenting' modern and the "waterfall" modern, with exotic woods for "splashy" effects, to a tailored, streamlined modern the dominant trend that was not so extreme. Most of the price Increases were in the lower-priced furni ture and in rugs and rarpets. which have gone up because of higher wool prices. No drop in price was forecast r.ntil demand drops, and most manufacturers said demand is at a near-record higli in all lines of furniture. Dark Furnitura Unwanted Hut Americans are buying lit tle of the old. dark, traditional furniture that darkened their grandparents homes, thev said. Most of today's furniture is in gray or blond woods, with others in light metals, stainless sleel, copper, corn, slate and glass. "F.vervthlng is functional and efficient now, one manufacturer said. Hassocks, for example, are not only foot rests. They ran be opened Into benches or reclining lounges. Or you ran have "nest ing hassocks" that come apart to make four hassocks, four waste baskets or four small cocktail tables. Nearly every manufacturer had furniture made with foam rubber, for comfort, and covered Monday, June It, 1SS0 r. T T H H cj.u.r. fieures for Medford and the city, however, as there to others. with nylon, for easy cleaning Handles on Chairs Dining room chairs have hand les on the back to make them easily moveable. Tables, chairs and lamps were in "free forms" which one manu facturer said meant they were "any form that Is imaginative and doesn't fit into a set pat tern." Television set manufacturers said they are planning sets with larger screens. They said 98 per rent of their business since the first of 1950 has been in sets with screens 12' j inches or larger. Air conditioning manufactur ers predict this could be their biggest year in history because "people would rather stay at home In comfort In the summer than go to an air-conditioned theater or restaurant." Soil Conservafion Hearing Thursday A public hearing to determine the extent of popular interest In and support of a soil conserva tion district In the Sams Valley-Reagle-Table Rock area will be held In the Sams Valley school at 8 p. m. Thursday. If the state soil conservation committee feels there is suffi cient interest In the proposal, a referendum election will be set at which landowners holding more than 10 acres of land in that area will be eligible to vote. Judy Garland Suspended Hollywood, June IB (UP1 Actress Judy Garland has been suspended by Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios for refusing to report for work on "Royal Wed ding" in which she was to co star with Fred Astaire and Peter l.awford, the studio announced today. In colonial New England, sheep blood and melted snow were among the liquids consider ed excellent quenches for special purpose Iron. The American Dental Associa tion reports an average of one dentist for each 1.727 residents in the United States in mid-1949 lie Mail IribunaWant Ads Crosstown My mother would prob'ly buy somtthlng from you but I don't think Splka htra would ever let you Into the yard." Jackson County Farm Notes Compiled by County Office Exparlmantal Field Day Scheduled for June 23 Experimental farm field day in connection with the Southern Oregon branch experiment sta tion is scheduled for Friday. June 23. This farm is located one-half mile west of Talent. Guided tours starting at 8 a.m., 10 am.. 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. have been arranged by the commit tee. Forage crops, seed crops, cer eals, soil building practices, fer tilizer trials, insect pest control and weed sprays will be observ ed by visitors and explained by authorities of the station and Oregon State college. All Inter ested persons are invited to at tend. Grasshoppers of the non-migratory type are more numer ous than last year. These crop grasshoppers may be controlled by spray, dust or bait. Spray or dust may be applied to the crop on which the hoppers are feed ing, while bait is scattered over the sparsely vegetated areas. Two chemicals are recom mended as most effective in grasshopper control chlordane and toxaphenc. Ready-mixed emulsion concentrates, wettable powders and dusts containing chlordane or toxaphene in var ious strengths are available from local dealers. Emulsion concentrates and wettable pow ders should be diluted with wat er to suit the available equip ment. Whatever the formulation or dilution, the quantity of tech nical material applied per acre should conform to the following recommendations: 2'i pounds per acre. Chlordane Sprays: j to 1 pound per acre. Dust: 3i to lit pounds per acre. Toxaphene Sprays: 1 to l'i pounds per acre. Dusts: l'i to !H; pounds per acre. Use lower dosage for young grasshoppers in short, dense, su cculant vegetation and on open stands of taller growth. Use the Stafe Dept. Claims McCarthy Mas Failed Washington, June 19 (U.R The state department asserted tonight that Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy, (R.. Wis.) so far has "utterly failed" to prove it em ploys a single communist or pro-communist. Resuming its running battle with Its No. 1 critic, the depart ment Issued an 11-page paper describing as "factual inaccura cies" 11 statements McCarthy made in a speech at the republi can state convention of Wiscon sin In Milwaukee June 9. Five pages of the release were devoted to a denial of Mc Carthy's charge that Secretary of State Dean Acheson admitted in January, 1949, that he was responsible for his former law firm's success in arranging a $90,000,000 (M) loan to Poland. McCarthy charged that $50. 000.000 of the loan "went to equip and arm the communist army and the dreaded . , . com munist secret police . , ," "This charge, with its inuen does." the state department said, "it utterly false and based on a deliberate distortion of the pub lic record." Ambulance Service The "Black and White" Ambulances I eV J Reiuicititor Four "Stretcher Pititnt" Capacity Blood Plsima Oxygen MABEL CARLOS CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS "Preferred By So Many" 5th and West Main Phone 3-1051 By Roland Coe ra I cimiiiiSliiwm rwiwiy O. S. C. Extension Service higher dosage when vegetation is tall and dense, or when long continued killing action is de sired. Do not feed forage treat ed with these chemicals to dairy animals or animals be finished for immediate slaughter. Wet bails may be made by mixing 25 pounds of mill-run bran with three times this bran volume with sawdust. To this is added '.1 pound of chlordane or 1 pound of toxaphene and suf ficient water (10 to 12 gallons) to make a moist crumbly mash. This mash may be scattered over infested area at the rate of 20 pounds per acre. A dry bait may be mixed and scattered by plane over range areas at 5 to 10 pounds per acre. It is mix ed by using coarse bran impreg nated with an oil solution of chlordane or toxaphene. This solution is made by using M pound of chlordane or 1 pound of toxaphene in gallon of kerosene or fuel oil and spray over 100 pounds of coarse dry material. Mix or stir constantly while preparing the bait. W. B. Tucker County Extension Agent Summer Schedule for Juniors Announced The following summer sched ule of classes of Bliss Heine's Juniors was announced today: Drill class. Tuesday, 2 p.m.: beginner drums. Saturdays. 9 a.m.; older girls' baton class. Sat urdays, 10 a.m.: drum and bu ples. Saturdays. 11 a.m.; younger girls' baton class. Saturdays. 1 p.m.: Swiss flag class. 2 p.m. All classes are at the armory with the Saturday afternoon classes upstairs. Several new members joined the group last Saturday. All wishing to join may enroll at any of the above classes. Last Saturday additional flag twirlers joined and Sandra Ab bott was advanced to captain of this section. Mary Lou Culy and Dora Mae Leffer were advanced to the rank of sergeant In the baton section. There will be no classes Sat urday, June 24, when Juniors will lead the Talent Festival pa rade. They will meet at the arm ory Saturday at 10 a.m. in uni form. Oregon Classifies Driving 'Teenicide' Salem, Ore. (U.R) The kind of reckless driving that has been de scribed as "teenicide" caused the arrest of two 14-year-old boys. The arresting officer reported: "One was driving and the other was In the back seat. The driver opened the door on the right side of the car, climbed on the running board and got into the back seat. At the same time the boy In hack opened the left hand back door, walked on the running board to the front door and took over the driving. "It was a continuous merry-go-round, one change after the other, and all at a speed of about 30 miles an hour." The boys were turned over to Juvenile authorities. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN Uairael f'eea Washington, Va., June 19 (U.R) The destiny of Washington (Washington, Va., that is) Is in the hands of a pretty brunette named Dorothy C. Davis. From Sep tember on this town of 250 will be run by Davis & Co. The new city council is all feminine. George Wash ington himself surveyed this quaint village snuggled in the Hantuui Nioaoes pleasant Piedmont foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, and before he had made a name for himself decided to call it "Wash ington." Maybe George would be surprised to see what has hap pened; maybe not. Mrs. Davis, the new mayor, Is the 28-year-old mother of three and the wife of an attorney in the Justice department In Wash ington, D. C. Mrs. Davis' campaign was not organized and the election didn't cost her any more than shoe- leather. "I decided after church one Sunday that I was going to run," she said. "The election was Tuesday." So there wasn't time for any speeches. In a small town you campaign by jabbing doorbells. That's what the lady and her feminine colleagues did. iso doorbell in Washington, Va.. went unpushed. "We feel pretty good about the turnout at the polls." she said. "We have 133 registered voters. We learned from unan swered doorbells that 20 people were out of town. We had a turn out of 99 voters. We've had elec tions here with a total vote of 15." It was rather an unusual elec tion all the way around. The present council, male mostly, actually got behind the ladies in their effort. Mrs. Davis and the others, In the leafy village, pledged to fight for three-ply improvements. First was the matter of the street lights which always seem to be omg out. Second, getting the grass manicured on public prop erty. Third, doing something about stray hungry dogs which are forever biting people and nosing over garbage pails. The day after the election, tne present council decided to get in one of its last good licks and ordered the grass cut around town. The place looked pretty Publicity Agent's Job Mayoress Davis thinks of her job as that of a publicity agent. Washington, Va., she avers, is due to get onto the map. "There are 28 Washingtons In Body of Prineville Boy Found in River Prineville, Ore., June 19 (U.R) The body of seven-year-old Bob by Braxton, who drowned last Tuesday in Crooked river here, was recovered late Saturday. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Braxton, was swept away as he waded at the edge of the swollen stream. Three men, Marian Hayes, El mer Clark and Orpheus S. Bry ant, who had searched since the drowning, found the body float ing about 3 Vl miles downstream from the point where the bov disappeared. They will share in a SI 00 reward offered by Crook county. ; Funeral services will be held ; Mondav at Prineville Funeral I home. ML ty(e faAe ifeaterte in annctnietny Portland Office on June 19th, with complete investment and brokerage facilities and direct private wire connections to all our principal offices. ,J;,rtt SAN FRANCISCO This and Thai W. NICHOLS feature Write the country but ours was the first," she said. "And we had George Washington on our side. It's about time people learned about it." The first president at the age of 17 surveyed and plotted the town on July 24, 1749 about the time George II was roosting on the throne of Britain, the Bourbon King Louis XV was rul ing France, France I was em peror of Germany and Benedict XIV was the pope In Rome. People will learn about it now, you can bet. And it won't cost the citizens of Washington, Va., much, either. Mayor Davis gets S5 a month. The six mem bers of the council get $2 each. And they're all eager-beavers. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Back at Harvard they've suc ceeded in teaching pigeons to piay tunes on a piano, to piay table tennis, to tell time, to push pushbuttons and to understand changing colors like red and green traffic lights. Psychology Professor B. F. Skinner has been doing the teach ing, ana ne says tne purpose of it is to determine whether chil dren can be trained more effect ively by encouraging and re warding good behavior or by punishing bad actions. He ex plains that pigeons are Ideal sub jects for such a study because they have a "reaction time" com parable to that of humans. He adds that his experiments so far cause him to lean toward patting 'em on the head and bringing out the candy sack when they're good rather than using the hair bru-h or the slipper when they're bad. f THINK there's a flaw in his theory which he doesn't men tion. If you spoil a pigeon by pam pering it in order to get it to per form as you want it to. you can make pigeon pie out of the pig eon and dust the whole business off your hands. But a spoiled child Is handi capped throughout its whole life. pROM Washington: "A proposed economy drive In the senate to cut government costs APPEARED TODAY TO HAVE BACKFIRED ON ITS TEST." o F COURSE it has. This is an election year, and the politicians all believe the way to be re-elected is to promise the voters to spend MORE MONEY rather than less. PERSONALLY, I think the pol iticians are mistaken. I talk to a lot of people, of widely varying political beliefs, and I find most of them as scared as I am over the present spend ing policies of our federal gov- FREE ! SPECIAL JUNE OFFER ! Each child born in your family from now on, will receive FREE HOSPITALIZATION for the rest of his or her poliey life, including the baby you are expecting. You join our RESERVE HOSPITAL PLAN in this month of JUNE only. For information Phgne 2-8714 or write 209 Leverette Building. ! f DO IT TODAY ! ! AMERICAN BANK BUILDING PORTLAND 5 BEacon 8165 on.Hoffmnn & Goodwin Mamberi New York Stok Esehonge New York Curb Exchonge Son Froncisco Slock Exchonge los Angeles Stock Exchonge Philodelphio-Soltimore Stock Exchonge Chieogo Boord of Trode New York Cotton Exchange New York Produce Exchange NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA 30 Offices Codit-to-Cocnt ernment. They think (as I do) that we ought to have, with gov ernment help if they can be ob tained in no other way, all the advantages and all the comforts of a modern industrial civiliza tion THAT WE CAN PAY FOR. But they're worried over the modern political tendency to BUY ALL THESE THINGS ON THE CUFF, and leave it to fu ture generations to pay for them in taxes and Inflated prices. BUT you can't tell the politic ians that. In the enchanted Shangri-La that is the city of Washington the opinion prevails that what the voters want Is high, wide and handsome spending NOW with the future left to take care of itself. That being the case, ALL ECONOMY DRIVES are fore doomed to failure in this election year. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E 6th Just1 Off Central 9 A.M. 10 30 PM. For Complete Prescription Service Night Call 4 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford'a Own Modern Pharmacy plnisSPEfflllZED V? 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