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10 YEARS AGO
March 3, 1942
(It wag Tuesday)
Only 11 survivors reported as
United States destroyer sunk off
coast of New Jersey; is ninth
United States ship lost in war.
From Arthur Perry' Ye
Smudge Pot column: Country
pastures are now adorned with
pigs, whose ancestors are selling
on the Portland market for
$14.35 cwt., the highest price
since 1926. They are worth
enough to cast before pearls.
20 YEARS AGO
March 3. 1932
(It was Thursday)
Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh receive second note
demanding $50,000 for return of
kidnaped infant son; Boston
woman claims child held in New
Jersey town.
Negotiations for armistice in
war between Japan and China
break down; continuation of war
claimed "unavoidable."
30 YEARS AGO
March 3. 1922
(It was Friday)
Medford Mayor C. E. "Pop"
Gates announces he is not can
didate for governor; plans to run
in 1926.
Experimental "dry-land"
dredging operations conducted
on Rogue river east of Grants
Pass; process expected to elim
inate 40 per cent loss of free
gold.
40 YEARS AGO
March 3. 1912
(It was Sunday)
First National bank holds
open house in new building on
East Main street; building ma
terials include breechie opal
from Genoa, Italy, black and
gold marble from Abyssinia and
African mahogany from the
Congo Free State.
Buick "34" roadster carrying
four passengers and 50 pounds of
baggage crosses Siskiyou moun
tains to Yreka; first time in his
tory trip made this early by car.
Many Veteran Payments
Free From Income Tax
Payments to veterans for bene
fits administered by the Veter
ans Administration are tax-free
and need not be considered in
computing federal income tax,
veterans were reminded today by
the VA.
The VA said dividends which
veterans have received on their
GI insurance policies also are
exempt from taxation and need
not be reported.
Among the tax-exempt VA
payments are the following:
Subsistence allowances for
veterans training in schools, on
farms and on-the-job under the
GI bill and public law 16 (for
the disabled).
Payments by the VA to be ap
plied to veterans GI loans.
Disability compensation and
pensions paid to veterans.
Housing grants for seriously
disabled veterans.
World War I emergency of
ficers retirement pay.
Death benefits to families of
deceased veterans also are ex
empt Australia, South America, New
Zealand, the United States and
South Africa are the world's
.most important wool producing
nations.
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Douglas County 1 00 Years Old
Douglas county was 100 years old last month and
The News-Review of Roseburg is publishing a series
of articles concerning the region s early day happen
ings and personalities. One such article, which tells
of the pioneer James Murray family, is of interest in
Jackson county for the Murrays first settled on Butte
creek, 30 miles east' of Medford in 1858, moving on to
Camas valley, 30 miles from Roseburg, three years
later.
TN THE spring of 1862 James Murray, the head of
the family, took up a homestead near the home of
an earlier settler, Ranee Freeman. A few days after
the Murrays arrived a band of Indians appeared on
the scene and looted and burned the Freeman house.
Lance Freeman and another
the Indians some time before and killed one. After
this occurrence the tribesmen warned they would kill
Freeman some time.
There were no more Indian raids on Camas valley
settlers but twenty years later Freeman and the other
man were killed in eastern Oregon, supposedly by
Indians.
4k
A NOTHER story in the same edition of The News-
Review this ojie dealing with the thrilling adven
ture of the Applegate brothers, Jesse, Charles and
Lindsay, in blazing a shorter and easier trail into west
ern Oregon, has become a classic of pioneer history
and is also of particular interest here for Frank L.
Applegate, a grandson of Lindsay, is a long-time resi
dent of Medford.
The Applegate brothers and their families en
dured unbelievable hardships and faced many dan
gers after turning their facest westward in the "Great
Migration" of 1843 which three years afterward found
them struggling past the spots which later became the
sites of Sutherlin, Oakland and Yoncalla, to finally
make their home near the latter community. E.C.F.
Applegate And Ridgway
Speaking of the Applegates, there is interest here
also in the fact that a descendant of the pioneer fam
ily is mentioned in an article in the current issue of
Collier's.
DICHARD APPLEGATE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
L. Applegate, a former Mail Tribune spoils re
porter and for some years now a front line war cor
respondent for the United Press, is quoted in connec
tion with a story about General Matthew Ridgway,
MacArthur's successor in the Far East.
Says Collier's:
At Anyang-ni, in the thick of a battle, Richard Apple
gate, the. veteran war writer, said the general went down a
slope to talk to a GI digging a foxhole and trying to set up
a 75mm recoil-less rifle. "Afterward," Applegate recalls, "I
went down to get the soldier's name and to find out for
myself how close to the front the general came on these
visits of his. So I asked: 'How close to the front line are we?'
" 'Bud, the GI said, 'you're standing on it.' He must
have been right. I passed that way again the next day 'and
there was a guy lying in the same foxhole. He had a bullet
hole through his head."
DICHARD, or "Dick" as he was known through his
high school and journalistic days in Medford,
was assigned to correspondent duties aboard by the
U.P. soon after returning to the news gathering agen
cy on completion of naval service in World War II.
After a considerable
gate was brought home
cable desk duties m the U.P. headquarters office m
New York City. The Medford man soon tired of the
more or less routine work in New York and especially,
he told friends here later, he hated looking at four
office walls and so many clocks. He soon requested a
transfer to foreign duty and when asked where he
wished to go said : "Any place, just so I can get out
from between all these walls"
HTHAT was just about the time the Korean war was
getting under way and the United Press taking
Applegate at his word, sent him posthaste to that
troubled area where he has since remained. E.C.F.
Joy Scouts
In the usual daily batch of mimeographed letters
urging publicity for this or that "day" or "week," one
reached this office yesterday announcing National
Smile Week, March 9 through 15.
e
THE National Smile Week idea seemed like a good
one until we read down a couple of paragraphs
and discovered the angle. Almost every effort to secure
free publicity for certain days or weeks has an angle,
more or less hidden. Some of the publicity putter
outers are a little more cunning than others in camou
flaging their ulterior motive, but there is advertising
or profit which usually amount to the same thing
for some individual or organization in practically
everyone.
"March 9," says the Chicago publicity agency
which is getting paid to push this particular drive, "is
a date you can face with a smile ! It's the day National
Smile Week comes up for its fourth annual observance."
ACCORDING to the agency, everyone should smile,
omila cmiln Inrin rr fV t xtjacAr nnA tVh fVi nca TirVii
follow the advice a name has been coined they are
to be "Joy Scouts." ,
Of course a smile now and then can do much to
lighten the day, net only for the smiler but for every
one coming under its influence. But from a whole week
of nothing but silly smiling, and by everybody, yet
deliver us.
Oh, yes, the "angle." Well, in this instance, the
advertising agency had been commissioned to pro
mote Smile Week by a movie actor famous for his
wide-mouthed smile. They sent along a picture of the
actor, too! E.C JY
Monday. reh 3, 1952
man had had a fight with
time in Singapore, Apple-
and given a promotion to
Crosstown
"It's not that I'm afraid to lake my report card home, but I've
found from experience it doesn't pay to spring it until
my father gets his income tax out of the wayl"
Matter of Fact
STEVENSON ON FIRST
BALLOT IF
Washington A strange high
drama is playing about the rath
er homely person of President
Harry S. Truman these days.
There is no doubt at all that un
til a month or so ago, the Presi
dent was very strongly inclined
to withdraw from the race, and
to back Gov. Adlai Stevenson oil
Illinois for the Democratic nomi
nation. Since then, all sorts of
pressures have been brought to
bear on Truman. And the terri
ble isolation which the White
House imposes on any man has
made him vulnerable to these
pressures.
Almost all the Democratic pro
fessional politicians privately
believe that Truman's renomina-
tion would tear the party apart.
A very large majority of these
professionals favor the nomina
tion of Gov. Stevenson. But, re
membering 1948, they do not
dare to say so. With a few ex
ceptions, they do not even dare
to announce publicly in favor of
Stevenson as second choice,
since this might be interpreted
as hostility to Truman.
At the same time, those whose
power is directly dependent on
Truman's continued presence in
the White House are maneuver
ing astutely. Knowing that Tru
man likes Stevenson personally,
they agree that Stevenson is "a
fine man. But it is too bad, they
say, that his divorce and other
considerations rule him out. Be
sides, what the party needs is a
fighter like Harry Truman'
and Stevenson has made it plain
he does not even very much want
to run. In short, Stevenson
would make a weak candidate,
and the President must make the
sacrifice again himself. '
-
"TRUMAN would not be human
if all this did not sound con
vincing to him. Yet the fact that
the professionals themselves con
sider Stevenson an extremely
strong candidate is very easy to
prove. For even a partial count
of the states which can be pret
ty certainly placed in the Steven
son column shows that Stevenson
is likely to be nominated on the
first ballot, if Truman withdraws
and backs the Illinois governor.
California, for example, can
be counted a sure Stevenson
state at the convention. Patrick
Brown, who is swing man be
tween the Roosevelt and Pauley
factions of the California organi
zation, has already telephoned
Stevenson on his own initiative
to tell him that he can expect
the support of the entire Califor
nia delegation if Truman with
draws. The Northwest Demo
cratic organizations are pro-
Stevenson.
So are the key Mid-west states.
Missouri, of course, will go as
Truman wants it to go. In In
diana. Gov. Henry Schricker is
one of the few who has nublicly
announced for Stevenson as sec
ond choice. Michigan's Gov. G.
Mermen Williams is privately
pro-Stevenson, and so is his state
organization. Illinois is certain
for Stevenson, of course, and
Stevenson has important strength
m other important Mid-west
states.
The big East Coast states are
without exception sure to be in
the Stevenson column, if Truman
decides not to run. New York's
powerful Ed Flynn, State Chair
man Paul Fitzpatrick, and Sen.
Herbert Lehman are all privately
strongly sympathetic to Steven
son. Connecticut's Sen. Brian
McMahon, who firmly controls
his state organization, is another
who has publicly backed the
Illinois governor. '
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GOV. PAUL DEVER of Massa
chusetts, who is similarly
powerful in his state organiza
tion, has actually been touring
the country drumming up Steven
son support on a contingent ba
sis. The New Jersey state organi
zation is pro-Stevenson, and
Pennsylvania's powerful Demo
cratic boss David Lawrence( of
Pittsburgh) has also let the Ste
venson backers now that he
wiU be in their corner if Truman
withdraws.
By Roland Co
aiMr
By Joseph and
Stewart Also
In the South, Gov. James F.
Byrnes of South Carolina (who
is an old friend of Stevenson's)
has agreed at least tentatively
with the other Southern leaders
not to split the party if Steven
son is nominated, as they will
certainly do if Truman runs
again. In short, if Truman de
cides to hand on the mantle to
Stevenson, he will find the resist
ance almost non-existent.
Partly this is because there
are so few alternatives. Chief
Justice Fred Vinson has taken
himself out of the running, as re
ported some time ago in this
space. No one now takes very
seriously the candidacy of Sen.
Estes Kefauver, who has alien
ated not only Truman but many
party regulars; Sen. Robert Kerr
of Oklahoma is given no chance
without Truman's all-out sup
port and even in this unlikely
case, there -would be poverfu
resistance to the nomination of
this bigsoilman who opposed the
civil rights program.
But the real reason for the ex
traordinarily widespread sup
port for Stevenson described
above is the simple and obvious
one. The professionals believe
that Stevenson would be the
strongest possible candidate, and
in view of Stevenson's record
they are undoubtedly right in so
believing. It remains to be seen
whether the President, who
leaves for Key West in a few days
to wrestle with his soul, during
a three-week vacation, can real
ly be brought by those around
him to believe that he must run
again, in order to save his party,
the country and the world. On
balance, it will be rather sur
prising if Truman, an essentially
simple man, is capable of with
standing the pressures being
brought to bear on him in the
silent drama which is now being
played out.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald-Tribune, Inc.)
Population Up
46,721 in State
Portland (U.R) Oregon's po
pulation increased by nearly 50,
000 persons in the 15 months fol
lowing the 1950 census, a report
from the State Board of Health
Vital Statistics Section indicated
Monday.
Board statisticians estimated
that 46,721 persons were added
to the state's population be
tween April 1, 1950, the date of
the last census, and July 1,
1951.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state
health fficer, said most of the
increase was due to the 26,924
more births than deaths during
the period. The remainder of the
gain, he said, could be attributed
to migration into the state.
Seattle U.R) Washington
state authorities have challenged
a Census Bureau prediction that
the state's population will in
crease by about 490,000 between
1950 and 1960.
SENTENCED to serve one to ten
years for slaying her husband,
Milton, wealthy builder, Mrs.
Gertrude Morris leave. San
Francisco jail for Tehachapl la
matron's custody. (International)
Kv-;-:;-;v-y
OCiil Var.a-
By TH
Poet's Gold
The other day a letter from
Jean Thibault o Adelanto, Calif.,
came to me marked "Reference
your letter Oct. 1, 1925, to J. Isa
dora Thibault." The latter was a
horse logger I'd worked with in
1914 and 1916 on big wheels of
the McCloud River Lumber com
pany, southward of Mt. Shasta.
"Frenchy" Thibault, a poet who
composed lyrics on subjects of
By FRANK JENKINS
A Tacoma man named Luvaas
was walking down a Seattle
street when he was hailed by a
passing motorist who double
parked long enough to hand him
$200 in cash and a business card.
The motorist (a total stranger)
said:
"I can't find a parking place.
Will you please deposit this
money in the bank for me?"
The dispatch goes on:
"The dazed Luvaas rushed in
to the bank and deposited the
money while the trusting mo
torist circled the block and fi
nally picked up his deposit slip
from Luvaas waiting at the
curb."
ONE for the book?
Sure! Sure!
But wouldn't this be a won
derful world if EVERYBODY
was as honest and dependable in
the pinches as this man Luvaas
turned out to be?
A NOTHER thought, less pleas-
ing:
Our ancestors walked be
cause they didn't have automo
biles to ride in. We of the pres
ent day are finding that we
have to walk because there isn't
any place to park our automo
biles. POLITICS:
"A county-by-county news
paper estimate of popular sen
timent in New Hampshire indi
cated today that General Eisen
hower is holding a narrow and
possibly SHAKY margin over
Senator Taft in the battle for
Republican votes in the state's
presidential primary election on
March 11.
"The editors agreed that Taft
has made long gains during the
past weeks after a late start in
organizing. Originally Eisen
hower was considered an over
whelming favorite in New Hamp
shire." pENERAL EISENHOWER is
" running under almost impos
sible conditions. As a soldier, he
has never talked enough about
politics and civilian government
to give the general run of peo
ple an understanding of what
he believes and what he stands
for.
As a soldier in uniform, HE
CAN'T TALK NOW and be
cause of the increasing gravity
of the military situation in West
ern Europe it seems utterly un
likely that he will have any op
portunity to talk to the people
about his views and his beliefs
ahead of the Republican national
convention next summer.
HIS political backers in this
country are aware of this sit
uation and are worried about it.
But Ike himself is DOING HIS
DUTY IN EUROPE and keep
ing his mouth stricUy shut on
political matters as a "soldier
in uniform MUST DO.
If the situation in Western
Europe remains as critical as it
is now, I think it can be taken
for granted that we will hear
nothing more from General Ei
senhower about politics.
He is a good soldier and an
honorable man whose concep
tion of duty is that it is some
thing to be done to the best of
his ability regardless of the cost
to his own personal fortunes.
MORE Washington politics:
"Senator Russell of Geor
gia in entering the Democratic
presidential race may have
snatched the Dixie banner from
Tennessee's candidate, Senator
Kefauver.
"Moreover, Russell is seen AS
A THREAT TO PRESIDENT
TRUMAN himself if the presi
dent decides to run again."
AS BETWEEN RusseU and Ke
fauver, there isn't much to
be said at this moment and at
this distance. They are both good
men and only one can be nom
inted. But the fact that two good
Democrats are willing to brave
the president's ire and run for
the Democratic nomination with
out his blessing is a political fact
of very great importance.
You've heard, probably, of
dynastic succession which is a
historically ancient scheme of
royalty to KEEP THE POWER
IN ONE SET OF HANDS.
Well
If each president CAN NAME
HIS SUCCESSOR, we shaU have
DYNASTIC SUCCESSION right
here in the United States of
America. Both Kefauver and
RusseU are challenging the right
of the president of the United
States to name his successor.
That's why their candidacies
art important
In the Day's News
m it,
ML J Li lUVvJU
GfefeHS
nature in the French style-of
Chateaubriand he said. I, my
self, was writing like Kipling
and Beats I thought.
Anyhow, life was very won
derful for us both because of
poetry. Each of us had lived
from first memory in the worst
of poverty. Up in the pine woods
we were chasing the big wheels
ten hours a day for 27 Vi cents
per hour, six days a week. But
we had poet's gold. It enriched
our lives as physical gold can
never do.
"Fireside"
The letter rom Frenchy's son,
Jean, a school principal, told of
the peaceful passing of my poeti
cal friend of long ago. And then,
by the kind of coincidence that
gives one to wonder, the mail
brought a copy of a modest new
book of poems by Van Boling,
poems that might well be de
scribed by an old term, "adven
tures in contentment" But the
title is simply "Fireside," for a
poem that sings like this:
"Deep in my old armchair
Here by the fire alone,
Watching the cheery flare,
Cozy world of my own. . . .
Firelight fancies and medita
tions, on the final verse:
"Here let me grandly dream.
Here let my ego shine;
Here life and love supreme,
One little realm, all mine."
Much more of the kind, and
many strong, hard lines, like
these:
"He lived by no accepted rule,
All charity was laid aside.
Gave honesty to ridicule,
And yet owned half the
countryside.
A Nichols" Worth of
Comment On
BY HARMAN
United Fran
Washington (U.R) W hen is
east more west than east, and
which is more middle than near?
In short, why
do we call it
uic x ai ami
when it's west
of us?
Our kids in
school rooms
are confused,
after looking
at the map,
and so. was I
until I did a
little looking
Harmon Nichols m. I paged a
lew bw.xuoi j.id.iis In these parts
and they are fuzzy on the sub
ject, too.
But the State Department, the
Library of Congress, the Na
tional Geographic Society and
the Enclyclopedia Britannica fi
nally solved the problem or at
least crystalized it.
On the map there are three
easts. The near, the middle, and
the far. The map makers re
port all of them accurately, for
purposes of the map, but in the
cutlines under the maps they put
in the east stuff. And in the east
department none of them have
had any official status and none
of their boundaries ever has
been too clear.
The term "east" near, mid
dle and far came into use in
Europe long ago as a matter of
convenience. We have accepted
them and they remain that way
today in name the maps be
darned.
The outlines first began to
appear distinctly when Portu
guese explorers, soon after
America was discovered, aimed
their sails at the southern end
of Africa, crossed the Indian
ocean, rode the waves into the
Pacific, and edged toward the
Indo-China and China coasts.
And here we get the nub on
"why is it called the Far East?"
At that time, these coasts and
their far-reaching outlying areas
became known as the "Far
East." They remain as such to
day, even though they are west
of us. We just- conform to that
early designation.
Considered Far
"They were considered 'far'
from a Europe that considered
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CONGER-MORRIS
Funeral Directors Ambulance Service
West Main at Sixth Medford
Member National Selected
The casket with Its silent dust
Cast shadow wholly un
benign; It seemed that clay brought
vague distrust
To those who'd best known
Ansel Trine."
Van Boling has worked for
Simpson Logging company for
many years, and his new work
is dedicated "to Simpson's, to
whom so many owe so much." It
is a prime book of verse in its
humor and the rugged stuff of
the timber, beside its more ser
ious poetry. Van lives at Elma,
Wash. Write him there if you
would know more about his
book, and about a man who has
found riches of life in the an
cient poetic art
So Long j
. But again Frenchy haunts my
mind and mood.
Jean Thibault writes, "I hope
that his eternity may be spent
looking out across the grand
vistas afforded by 'the timber
country at McCloud that you
and he knew together in youth,
and of which you spoke in your
letter. He always loved that
country. In his last years, when
one or another of us would come
across a piece of yours, we would
take it to him and . . . the eyes
of the old man sitting there
would become the clear shining
blue of a youth reliving the
'many brave times' of the lum
berjack. I trust you still inhabit
the timber country."
Yes, Jean, I do. With mem
ories, dreams and poetry, by the
fire in the boompond shack as
rain drums the old shakes above
and the wind whines around.
So I remember Frenchy, friend
in labor and in poetry, in the
days of our youth. The days that
with us all must come to this
pass. So long, Frenchy, so long.
The dipper or water ouzel
dives under water and walks
along the bottom of mountain
streams in search of insect food.
This and That
W. NICHOLS
Feature Writar
itself the center of the world,1
observes the State Department
Also about that time, by con
trast, writers of the day began
to use the term "Near East."
These fellows were talking
about the fringe of countries
along the Asiatic mainland
closest to Europe.
"The "Middle East" did not
come into such common use at
the time, but was used by a few
writers in a hazy sort of way to
cover parts of the intervening
east.
Restricted by Mountains r
Actually the terms "Near
East" and "Middle East" never
have been used in connection
with regions north of the moun
tain wall formed by he Cau
casus, the hills of northern Iran,
the Hindo Kush, and the Hima
layas. . In the Far East, as of now,
fall the lands of the Asiatic
mainland washed by waters of
the Pacific from the Malay pen
insula through China. Offshore,
Japan and the Philippines are
regarded as part of the Far East
So All May Know
BY 0. N. TAYLOR
- Portland, Oregon
What kind of folio send out theso
Gospel Messages to the newspapers?
Some of the families are in dairying;
n. it in the marine insurance busi
ness; one raises nursery stock; others
are in the saw-mill
business and so it
goes. They obey
Christ's "Go ye I
into all the world"
and give the Good
News to every man.
Also comes God's
Part. It is fer him to
bear down on the
unsaved who hear
God's Son died for
them. May God bear
down heavily. Most Geo. N. Taylor
folks have been saved are on some
one's prayer list.
Three The Lost, Know that God
so loved you that he gave his Only
Bom Son that if you should believo
on Him, you would not perish but
have eternal life. John 3:16.
Adv.
STAFF
MEMBER
Gordon C.
Hays
Licensed Funeral Director
and Embalmer
Advanced A.R.C First Aid
Card
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First Christian Church
B.P.O.E.
Deputy Coroner
Morticians by Invitation
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