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TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, June 27. 1950 MedfowUWTbibunb "Evaryona In Southern Oraion Reads Tha Mall Tribuna" Dally Except Saturday Published by .rtnn'nDn DDIMTINn CO. (UX.vrvt' .... . . J7.30 North fir St Phona a-SMl ROBERT W RUHU Editor ERNEST B. GU-STRAP Managar HERB GREY, Advartlllnl a", a. c FERGUSON, Mananlnt fcdltof KSRY 1 GMEN.'TundVy- Edno, OLIVE ST ARCHER Society GERALD LATHAM. Clroulation Mgl An Independent Newipaper Entered aa aeoond claaa matter at Madiord. Oregon, under Act oi "" March . 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday-one year.OT.00 Dally and Sunday-.U montha . Dally ana ounaH mm Dally and Sunday one month 1 .00 By carrier in unvwiw , 7, , Aahland. Central Point Jackaonvllle Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent and on motor rouwii .., Dally and Sunday una jtaar U.U0 oauy ano ouhuju v - Ail Ternia Caib In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medlar Ofllclal Paper of Jacaaon Coonty United Preaa ruU Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU "vTh'olu15a7"company. INC Olflcei In Nev. York. Chicago De troit, San FrancUco. Loa Angelea SeatUe. Portland. 8t Loula Atlanta Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAPlR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL 'EDITORIAL pcfTo)N Flight o' Time Medford and Jacktoa County Hlt fery (ram the (ilea of the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 reart ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Juno 27, 1940 (It Was Thursday) Dewey leads, Taft second, Wlllkie third on first ballot at republican national convention. Tree Mining company starts operations in Upper Applegate district. Jim Rego allows two hits tor Craters and Alan Wray singles in winning run as local club downs Grants Pass 3 to 2. New warehouse, water sys tem and gasoline station planned at Union Creek. Clarence Buck, Big Applegate, breaks ankle in fall, 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Jum 27. 1930 (It Was Friday) Gus Samuels to assume city (reasurership on Tuesday. Ashland to hold pioneer cele bration in conjunction with Fourth of July celebration this year. Forests of area to be closed to smokers on July 1. Premier Mussolini orders It aly to be taxed for bigger army and navy. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY June 27, 1916 (It Was Wednesday) County fair to be hpld Sep tember 13 through 18, with M, A. Lowe In charge of secur ing exhibits. Ashland attempt to oust Bert R. Greer, chairman of springs water commission, fails at election. C. T. Noe, O. A. C. Crowe, H. D. Ellis, C. D. Wowmnn and William Schultz hike to Lost lake for fishing. Five 0 and C Tracts Sold by Sealed Bid Five tracts of O and C land In the Medford distlrct, three of them in Jackson county, were sold to logging firms through sealed bids at the Portland of fice of the bureau of land management, District Forester E. K. Peterson reported today. The tracts, totaling about million board feot, were sold for a total of 3138.000. somewhat higher than t h e 3120,000 appraisal. Robert Chamberlnin, Medco and Kogap were the high bidders on the Jackson county tracts. On ol the six tracts offered was unsold, Peterson said, and he explained that bids on this tract may still be made for 30 more days. It is in the Cougar creek drainage of the Big Ap plegate river area, and contains some 6,100.000 board feet, ap praised at $95,000. Bid inquir ies should be made at his of fice, Peterson said, CONSCIENCE AWAKENS New York (U.R) A conscience stricken former streetcar con ductor, who worked In Yonkers between 1902 and 1D04, gave the Third Ave. Transit system $300. He said he was guilty of "nickeling" while working for the car line and now that he was prosperous wanted to ease his conscience. The Road To Security President C. E. Wilson of the General Motors Corporation speaking before the National Press Club in Washington recently listed some of the things his concern is doing for the welfare of its employees. The overall objective of the program is to promote the workers' feeling of security, for, as Wilson pointed out, insecurity worries people and when they worry they are not able to give their best for their own inter est or the interest of their employers or their country. a THE INDUSTRIAL leader enunciated a simple truth and it is too bad that his company's policy is not followed more generally throughout the nation. Of course, all the people cannot get jobs with G.M., but whether they work under similar benign conditions or not. there is a sure way by which a ma jority can achieve at least a measure ofpersonal and family security and independence, lhat way is through the systematic accumulation of a safe back log of savings. a e a e e A S GOVERNOR DOUGLAS McKAY points out in "a proclamation published in another column to day: "The thrift of the individual builds the thrift of the community, the state and the nation, through building the personal and family security upon which the nation's economic strength is based." The Governor calls upon Uregomans to devote the period from June 27 to July 4 to the state's First Annual Community Thrift Campaign, "a time of personal rededication to the cause of thrift and se curity in their daily lives by resolving to save regu larly in a savings account, protect themselves and their families with life insurance, or buy U. S. Sav ings Bonds regularly." THE community thrift campaign, which in addi- tion to Governor McKay has the backing of banks, savintrs and loan associations, life insurance agencies and the Oregon office of the Savings Bonds Division of the U. S. treasury, has a solid lounaauon on which to build as the following figures show: During the past 10 years Oregonians increased their bank savings deposits from $133,072,000 on December 31, 1940, to $390,121,000 as of June 30, 1949. During the same period deposits in savings and loan associations jumped from $23,799,176, to $92, 4')6,470; postal savings, in Portland only, from $8, 378,455, to $18,587,542, and life insurance, not in cluding fraternal or annuity policies, from $756,087, 530 to $1,607,111,981. In addition there was a mat ter of $500,000,000 in U. S. Savings Bonds A-G own ed by Oregonians on June 30, 1949 and a large sum in "E" bonds, although the exact latter total is not available. IMPORTANCE of building a reserve through per sonal thrift has been graphically illustrated many times in this state since V-J Day by a comparison of cash-ins on war bonds and unemployment figures. Throughout the area the story has been the sameas unemployment has risen those who have been thrifty have been able to maintain their living standards by using their bonds. On the other hand, as employment has increased, bond buying has resumed. e e a Conditions are now favorable for maximum sav ings and those who are wise will take advantage of the opportunity. E.C.F. Three Strikes and Out Oregon records show that during the fiscal year which ended July 1, 1949, a total of 3,672 drivers licenses were revoked upon conviction of driving while intoxicated. That was an average of 300 per month. Each of these drivers might be classified as a potential slayer, for anything can happen when a drunk man takes the wheel and goes careening down a highway. TN AN effort to discourage drunk driving, and aim-- ing particularly at habitual violators, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry will propose to the next legis lature that more stringent penalties be fixed. Under the planned amendment, the first conviction would draw a 30-day license suspension, the second a 90 day suspension, and permanent disbarment would automatically follow a third conviction. 1MAIN reason for favoring the all-time revocation for those guilty of a third offense is that under the present law judges are subjected to so much pressure on the part of the person whose license has been revoked and often-times friends and business or other associates also intercede in his behalf. The law now provides for revocation following conviction but permits the person involved to reapply for a driver's license at any time after the conviction, provided his application carries a recommendation from the convicting magistrate. a THE secretary should go a step farther and seek penalties for those who try to pressure judges and justices into lightening penalties for driving while intoxicated. E.C.F. Crosstown By Roland Co Festival of Lillies Slated at Brookings Brookings, June 26 The world's only lily blossom festi val will he held here July 2. 3 and 4 with the Azalea Gardpn club staging a flower show all three dnys. Non-garden club members may submit entries in the show which is governed by National Garden club rules making It eligible for the purple ribbon award. The show Is confined to outdoor grown entries, which will be received from southern Oregon and northern Califor nia. Other features will be a parade, art show and period tor photographers. Executive of the National Council of Gardpn Clubs con siddered last year's lily festi val a highlight of their tour of the country. , , ,,. a'('ft'f.f owmwii ww riwt fr-" -j, "The olher driver was very nice. He just told the policeman it was my fault and let it 90 at that." A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pratt feature Writer ,rW - Uarman Nichols Washington, June 27 (U.R) You can't keep on army going on a bowl of rice. That's what Col. Robert Brooks Ennis, believes, and he spent four months behind the "bamboo curtain," the area taken over by the reds in China. The colonel, now retired, thinks that we lost the chilly war in China because we didn't get up enough American dollars. A little more later about the situation in China: right now, something about the colo nel. Ennis claims San Antonio, Tex., as his home town. He went into the army in 1917 and re mained in the service until 1945. When World War II came along it wasn't long before he was heading up a group of men in America. He ran afoul a slug at Oran and spent a year and a half under hospital sheets and then was shipped off to Kun ming, China. In 1946, after retirement, he latched onto UNRRA. in China. That's how he learned about China and how the Chinese peo ple live. Not Very Pleasant "I was in Shanghai when the commies took over," he said. "It wasn't very pleasant. Since then I have been dedicating myself at my own expense to plead the cause of China. And to prove to the American people how im portant it is to save that coun try, and this one, from the reds. We have something at stake, too." Ennis said he wanted to make it clear that ordinary Chinese coolies, mostly never have lived very well. "But I observed them before the Russians took over, and af ter." he said. "They're much worse now." Let's keep on quoting the colo nel, who was there and saw it: Rice on Friday Before the Chinese commu nists pulled their bloodless vic tory over Shanghai, a Chinese merchant could go his way. Okay, maybe he lived a little better than the beggar on the street, but at worst he had rice and a bowl of noodles on Fri day. Today, if he displays any evi dence that he has more than is necessary for skinny existence he is required to buy red gov ernment bonds or donate any thing over essential "take-home" to the "party." "Being a communist in Chi na," said the colonel, "is like Ex-Local Pilot Now Spraying Poison On Spruce Budworms Spraying for spruce bud-1 ing in "Operation uuoworm worms in Oregon forests isn't has something of the fate and all its cracked up to be, ac cording to Farrel Snider, form er Medford ptiot wno is now engaged in spraying some 90,- 000 acres of highly infested timber. Snider, who with Cliff Pat ton of Patton Air Service, Har risburg, recently finished spray ing 30,000 acres of budworm- infested fir and spruce in Lane and Douglas counties, said fly- being a horse. You have a sta ble and a bale of hay, and you're cooped in. No freedom. They separate families to cre ate unhappiness and confusion. The little woman is left to shift for herself and take care of the kids besides. The communists in China have less interest in the common man than any group I have ever seen and I have been around the globe several times." High Wheel When the colonel was allowed to remain behind the bamboo curtain he was under diplomatic immunity, so to speak. He was a high wheel in the American government. "But that didn't amount to much," he said. "Once I wrote a letter of protest to the com munist authorities about the de plorable situation. I pulled out the stops about the confiscation of gasoline, trucks, ships and everything else that was against the agreements already signed. And what happened? I got the letter back in a matter of min utes. "Torn to little pieces and seal ed in a new envelope." Rogue River Rogue River, June 27 G. C. Wohgen of Rogue River Junc tion has been appointed zone chairman of the Lions club In this district comprising Cave Junction. Grants Pass. Rogue River, Gold Hill, Jacksonville and Prospect clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Culbert son and family of San Bernar dino, Cal., were recent guests of his uncle, James Wiley, and family, at the Wiley-Carter ranch on East Evans creek. Lee F. Jacobs of Grants Pass has announced he is leaving Bra dens to establish a business and will open the Cave City Parts and Supply company at Cave Junction. I Mrs. Henry Gilbert and daugh ter, Mrs. Rex Nichols of Aber deen, Ida., returned home Fri day after several weeks' visit , here with her brother and fam-1 ily, the Carl Christensons. Ernest Lewis of Los Angeles, I an old friend and fellow crafts- J man of Paul Hughes, was a ; guest at the Hughes home here j two days of last week. I West Evans creek neighbors ! and friends attended a farewell j party for the R, C. Miller, given ! at the Al Ebeling ranch Satur-j day evening, June 17. Mr. and , Mrs. Ralph Tison assisted the 1 Ebelings as co-hosts. The Millers recently sold their ranch and plan to visit in Burbank, Cal., before purchasing another home. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Stock-, ing, who recently sold their home on highway 99, have, for ; the past two weeks, parked their luxurious house trailer at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fuhr man. The Fuhrmans are visiting ; in southern California and while there attended the wedding of a niece at Kingsburg. Mrs. H. C. Chapman of Los Angeles is visiting her daughter and family, the Ralph Frantz of Foots Creek. R. L. Hollins and son, Bobby, of Post Falls, Ida., spent two days recently at the home of his nephew, Lloyd Smith. They were en route home from Con cord, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bonney and son, Edward, of Alhambra, Cal., have arrived and are get ting settled in their newly pur chased home on East Evans creek. The Bonneys were friends and neighbors of the John Dixon family at Alhambra several years ago and while visiting the Dixon home on highway 99, chose a home in this area. They purchased the Ray Benner property. Mrs. Lural Hayshp of La Can ada, Cal., has purchased the Carl Pomeroy ranch on East Evans creek. Charles White returned Fri day from a two weeks' trip through the western states. He motored to New Mexico as guest of a classmate who resides in Albuquerque, then flew to south ern California. He visited in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Fran cisco and at the agricultural col lege at Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Covell and son, Gary and Ronnie, of San Jose, Cal., arrived Saturday for a two weeks' visit with Mrs. Covell's aunt, Mary Moore. Mrs. J. B. Bangert of Salem spent last week with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Laws, and attended the Eagles convention at Grants Pass. Mrs. Margaret Irwin of Oak land, Cal., sister of Carl Chris tenson, is a guest at the Christen son home on highway 99. The Clifford Johnsons have as guests from Los Angeles, their nephew, Bob Johnson, and their grandson, Ronnie Winchell. THIS TIME TO PRAY . St. Paul (U.R) Ed Janssen says he wasn't stalling when a bandit accused him of being slow in opening his liquor store safe during a robbery. He was praying. "I was sure he'd let me have it in the back when I was kneeling there, Janssen said, "so I took a little time to say my prayers. finality of walking on thin ice In Four Operations The former Medford pilot, who was an instructor and CAA examiner here prior to taking up budworm spraying, Is prob ably the top-ranking pilot in the battle that began last year. Snider has flown in four bud worm operations and is destined for several more this year. "When you're in the middle of many acres of timber, flying at less than 100 feet and your engine goes out, all you can try to do is hit the trees at the right speed," he said. He explained that a crash landing in dense timber is tricky, if not disstrous: "You try to hit fast enough so that you don't stall and flutter down and slow enough to keep from getting gilled by the initial im pact about 70 m.p.h." Hot mushy air, flat turns at tree-top level and heavy loads in small planes which all go with the business combine to keep a pilot on his toes, Snider said. The worm !i eut only, about two weeks a year and spraying has to be done when the temperature is under 70 degrees and the wind six miles an hour or less. As a result. Snider says, you fly without a minute off when things are right. In Plan Constantly It takes less than 10 minutes to unload a tank of poison on the bugs and only three minutes to refuel not even time to get out of the plane. Snider pointed out. Snider and Patton recenUy completed spraying 4,500 acres southeast of Springfield and 25,800 acres near Roseburg. Snider explained that small metal plates are tied to infested trees about to sprayed, usually in a straight line through the tract, about six or so to the mile. After spraying, foresters go through and examine the surface for the concentration of DDT and diesel oil. So many drops to the square inch and the pilots have fulfilled their contract. "You never know where the plates are," Snider said, "so you do a good job." Budworms were first seen in Oregon in numbers in 1947. Left alone, the prolific bug can kill a forest in three years. Some estimate the spraying pro gram will continue for as much as 15 years, concentrating on the worst areas each season. TONIGHT tNOUK TOWN They'll Rally 'Round HEAR r.t. McNeill MEDFORD JUNIOR HIGH AUDITORIUM 8 P.M. Good Music, Singing ylu -0T t-i 8 P.M. Good Music, Singing GREYHOUND POST HOUSE 5th and Bartlett We Never Close Steaks Chops Fried Chicken SERVED ALL NIGHT Paul Bulkin Vyron P. Rossiterl Chef de Cuisine Manager HOSPITAL HONEYMOON Brookfield. Vt. UP.t Ralph Fogg and his bride spent their : wedding night In a hospital be-; cause of a dog. The animal ; chased them into a ditch when they set out on a honeymoon trip by motorcycle. j John & Frank Perl FUNERAL DIRECTORS 40 Years of Continuous Service The Very Minute : : : . . . you call us in an emergency, Perl's swift ambulance is on its way to serve you . . . driven by careful, experienced drivers who are equipped and able to render fast, effec tive first aid. Because Perl's ambulance service is SO de pendable, southern Oregon people have come to depend upon it in cass of sickness or accidents. Rogue River Valley's Oldest AMBULANCE SERVICE Always At Your Service PERL FUNERAL HOME 624 West Sixth Street Telephone Day or Night 2-6675 John A. Perl . Frank Perl Are You Participating ON JUNE 30TH With the hundreds of savers of this Asso ciation when they receive their semi-annual dividends on savings they have placed with us? If you are not one of these lucky per sons why not open an account now and participate in the next dividend on Dec. 31, 1950? CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 3 Any amount will open an account. All Savings accounts insured up to $5,000 by the United States Savings and Loan In surance Corporation of Washington, D. C. Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Association 12 IAST MAIN ESTABLISHED 1909 PHONE 2-6201
