Medford mail tribune., March 10, 1952, Image 4

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10 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1942
(It was Tuesday)
Medford inaugurates new sys
tem of one-way traffic on River
side and Central avenues.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The war
production board will "freeze"
women's styles as of now to pre
vent cloth waste. This will leave
the women cool toward the idea
and as cold as some of the
stronger sex think they are.
20 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1932
at was Thursday)
"Startling" ? crease in cost of
living revealed in survey of
teachers in Medford public
schools.
Requests for oiling of county
roads forwarded to county of
ficials but no money allotted for
the purpose.
30 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1922
(It was Friday) !
United States demands pay
ment of $241 million for costs
incurred in occupation of Ger
man Rhineland.
Senator Charles McNary an
nounces plans to send experts
here to oversee packing of ap
ples in new type oiled paper.
40 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1912
(It was Sunday)
Jackson County Sheriff Wil
bur Jones leads nuu-man posse
in search of three men who
broke out of new county jail in
Jacksonville; trio believed head
ed north.
Crew of surveyors starts work
on extension of Pacific and East
ern railroad east from Butte
Falls. 1
Firemen To Aid
Fish Gear Repair
In a story in Sunday's edition
of The Mail Tribune, telling of
plans for collecting fishing gear
for veterans at Camp White, a
paragraph of type inadvertently
was omitted. As a result the
story did not say where such do
nated fishing equipment may be
left.
Fire Chief . Gordon Barker
said that such gear may be left
at the main fire station, -hird
.id Front streets. As time per
mits, he said, damaged but still
useful fishing equi. -ent will be
repaired by firemen for the vet
er ' use.
Ted Brown had the original
idea for the project, and has
the backing of a number of men
and organizations.
Rita Hayworth May
Rejoin Aly in Europe
Bombay, India OJ.PJ Rita
Hayworth may rejoin prince
Aly Khan in Europe in May and
let K her divorce proceedings
against him lapse, a member of
the prince's staff said Monday.
He said she probably would
return to Europe after finishing
a film on which she now , is
working in Hollywood.
In Hollywood, Miss Hayworth,
through her private secretary,
refused to deny or confirm the
statement.
MAIL TRIBUNE
As An Expert Sees Us
Patrice Manahan, associate editor of Westways,
official publication of the Automobile Club of South
ern California, has a number of complimentary things
to say about this portion of Oregon in the March edi
tion of the magazine. With three other travel editors
visiting Oregon and Washington last July, Miss Mana
han was taken in tow here
ber of Commerce representatives and transported to
Crater Lake, Jacksonville, Rogue river scenic spots,
around the valley loop drive and to the Bear Creek
Orchards plant.
OREGONIANS, Miss Manahan reveals in her first
v paragraph, told her
a magnificent coastline, the forested cascades, ier
tile valleys and a great desert plateau.
The visitors, coming into the Rogue valley from
the eastern portion of the state, also found Oregon
has a wide variety of temperatures, encountered with
changes in altitude. Driving out of the dry heat of the
desert to lofty and snow-banked Crater Lake brought
shivers while the descent
ded valley necessitated another quick change of attire.
"Much has been written about the fantastic beau
ty of Crater Lake and more photographs have been
made of it, but neither words nor pictures are a prep
aration for it," asserts Miss Manahan. "They only
serve to evoke memones for those who have seen it.
Like the' first sight of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite
Valley or a Big Tree, it is a personal experience. Each
chooses his own set of adjectives to describe it, and
each will remember it differently."
Following the rushing, foaming Rogue toward
the floor of the valley "past the ranches of .Holly
wood stars . . . orchards
into the city of Medford
carefully tended gardens
able people," the travel editors found here, as m all
other Northwest communities, an unvarying local
pride.
PRESCRIBING tne points
vicinity, the visitor includes the Bear Creek Or
chards plant just south of
IBM machines, electric
freight loading docks and
and kitchens, the 'Fruit of
over the country.
"Until recent years Ashland has taken chief pride
in her Lithia Park, a really
and the lithia water that is
center of town and warranted to be good for what ails
you. . . . Now Ashland has
the Shakespeare Festival. It is an exciting venture
for a small community. Last year 60 students came
here from 36 states and from England to study and
take part in four of the plays
Jacksonville is described by the travel editor as
the place where gold was
Here the past is today
museum is full of treasures of the years agone -and so
is the old town, quiet now with a sense of history, but
history still continuing. 'It was just here,' one man told
us, 'that I picked up a nugget a few years ago. We still
find gold around here.' The old hotel, the bank with
its gold scales, and other paraphernalia of the period,
are shown with pride, as is the quaint old cemetery on
the hill shaded by magnificent madrone trees."
. e e e e
FROM this vicinity the visitors went on to Grants
Poee til A n,Aii,Am PniTin J ilt amaa aA PntvAnA -
over to Florence, up the coast to Seaside and later to
Portland.
Articles by other members of-the party will ap
pear in various mediums this spring and according to
James Dunlevy, chairman of the J.C.C.C. tourist com
mittee, another group of five travel editors will tour
this region during the coming summer.
Such publicity, appearing in periodicals reaching
a great many travel and vacation-minded people is of
practical value in promoting visitation. We have quot
ed Miss Manahan's observations somewhat liberally
tor the benefit of late comers to this area and so that
all who dwell here may see their country through the
eyes of one particularly qualified to appraise such
values. E.C.F. -
Spring and The Red Cross
, 1
It seems meet and proper that the annual Red
Cross drive for funds comes in the month which
marks the advent of spring, for spring brings renewed
hope and promise. It brings the swelling of buds, with
their pledge of blossoms and fruit to come and so too
it should bring the swelling of human hearts to that
magic ripening from which comes the harvest of
mercy. u
Through the years the people everywhere have
come to depend upon the American Red Cross in time
of emergency. They know it as the agency prepared
to deal with disaster or distress, whether involving a
single family or requiring the mobilization of vast re
lief facilities at the scene of a major catastrophe.
In recent years the Red Cross has provided facili
ties for collecting and delivering the whole blood and
blood plasma which have meant the saving of many
lives at the fighting fronts. : j
TTHROUGH the Red Cross millions are trained in
1 first aid, water safety work, nursing, food and
nutrition services; members of the armed forces are
aided in war and in peace, veterans are helped in
myriad ways and international relief efforts are car
ried on.
All these far-flung and manifold services are giv
en with only a comparatively small number of paid
workers there are more than 100 voluntary workers!
Monday. Muck 10, 1M2
by Jackson County Cham
their state has everything
into the warm orchard-stud
of pears and peaches, and
with its tree-lined streets,
and cosmopolitan, hospit
.
of interest visited in the
town "where by means of
typewriters, moving belts,
the products of orchards
the Month is shipped all
charming woodland glade,
piped to a fountain in the
a new source of pride
first discovered in Oregon.
and today is the past The
Crosstovn
"Yes. he's home brushing up on his arithmetic!"
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Police Commendea
To the Editor: I wish to com
mend the Medford Police De
partment for efficiency and co
operation to me. I am a stranger
to your fair city from Detroit,
Mich.
. Saturday afternoon my wife
and I went for a ride to see
your airport. On the way out a
car had left the road and
crashed into a telephone pole in
juring one lady so bad that she
had to be removed to a hospital
by ambulance. A little child
three years old accompanied by
her mother also was injured.
volunteered to take the injured
child to her mother, whose name
I believe was Mrs. Johnson, to
the hospital. However, neither of
us knew where the hospital was
located, -as the party involved
happened to be from California.
1 drove down town and hap
pened to see a policeman writing
a parking citation. I asked him to
lead me to the hospital as I had
Editorial Comment
A HISTORICAL SOCIETY
In the past year we have heard
so many citizens talk about the
need for a historical society in
Umatilla county that we must
conclude such an organization
needs only leadership to be
formed and in operation. Cer?
tamly there is no lack of en
thusiasm for it.
If Umatilla county is to have a
historical society it would seem
that the most important requis
ites are a person who has the
time and interest to provide
proper leadership and a museum
where articles of historical sig
nificance can be displayed.
The leader of a historical so
ciety would have to spend a lot
of time on the job. Organizing a
membership campaign would be
a monumental task and accumu
lating western lore for the mu
seum would be an endless job.
We feel certain, however, that
such a person exists in Umatilla
county. Many other cjo unties
have found that person and their
historical societies have been
most successful. .
Roy Raley, the father of Hap
py Canyon, seems to have the
answer to the museum problem.
He proopses that the new Happy
Canyon Foundation, when it gets
ready to build a new home for
Happy Canyon, include a muse
um for the display of western
lore. Mr. Raley believes, and we
heartily concur, that such a mu
seum could become a tourist at
traction that would stop thou
sands of travelers in Pendleton.
He rightfully points out that as
the years passed interest in the
museum would grow.
We would urge that Umatilla
county pioneers get about the or
ganization of historical society
immediately. Whenever a citizen
leaves their ranks there are ar
ticles of historical importance
available for a museum. Some
one should be collecting those
articles. Once gone they are lost
forever, for the obvious reason
that such lore cannot be re
placed. The historical society
should get past the talking stage
just as soon as possible. Pendle
ton East Oregonian. .
for every one receiving pay, the latter including na
tional, area and chapter staffs.
. e
I TPON each of us rests the responsibility for provid-
ins this great organization with necessary funds.
The financial support is
obligation is as plam as though set forth by law. Every
subscriber of $1 or more is made a member of the Red
Cross. There -are approximately 37,000,000 members
and there should be more.
' Throughout this month the Red Cross is asking
you to" help by dedicating some, of your dollars to its
cause. 1$ Jackson county the goal is $27,000 . which
includes 31 per cent to the National Red Cross, and
69 per cent to be retained for local work. If each and
every one will assume their share of this obligation
the quota will be quickly filled. E.C.F.
By Roland Cm
an injured child in my car. This
officer without hesitation put his
book in his pocket, opened up
his siren and took us there in
nothing flat.
The officer left us at the hos
pital and went about his busi
ness before I could obtain his
badge number or even have a
chance of thanking him.
Therefore, through your kind
ness I wish to thank him and
the Medford police department
for their efficiency and kindness
rendered me in this case.
THOMAS CREAN,
99 Motel, Medford, Ore.
Burned Youngster
Taken to Portland
By Air Force Plane
Eva Adams, 5, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adams, 137
Tripp street, was taken to
Doernbecher hospital in Port
land yesterday by an Air Force
cargo transport for treatment
of third degree burns on the
right side of her body.
Transportation for the little
girl was arranged by Mercy
Flights, Inc., after a check of
weather conditions indicated
that it was unsafe for the non
profit air ambulance service's
planes to make the trip through
icing conditions without de-icing
equipment
The youngster was burned re
cently when she was playing
with matches, and has been hos
pitalized since.
First call for the aircraft
came from the girl's doctor at
11 a. m. Sunday. Officials of
Mercy Flights, with the cooper
ation of St. James Burgess, of
the Air and Airways Communi
cations service at the airport,
attempted to locate an Air Force
plane in the area.
They finally made contact
with a C-46 en route. from Mc-
Chord field to Portland, piloted
by Lt. J. D. Chambers, who
volunteered to come to Medford
to pick up the litUe girl after
he discharged cargo at Portland
He said he had heard of Mercy
Fliehts and its work before.
The big craft arrived here at
2 p. m. and the girl and her
mother boarded "it and departed
at about 2:45 p. m. She was
taken to the airport by Conger
Morris ambulance.
The girl's father, who is Ore
gon Journal distributor for
Southern Oregon, said he had
not been a subscriber to the pre
paid plan offered by the service
but he will be from now on.
Veterans, Dependents
Returned from Korea
Seattle U.B The Navy
Transport Gen. Simon B. Buck
ner landed l,33n veterans of the
Korean war and servicemen's
dependents here Sunday and two
more transports were scheduled
to dock Monday.
The Marine Phoenix will re
turn 2,780 troops for rotation
furlough and the Marine Lynx,
2,868.
entirely voluntary but the
Eisenhower's Political Gree
International Disarmament Said Basis for Peace
Br KEVIN M'CANN
President, Defiance College
(These articles are based on
the book, "The Man From Ab
ilene," by Kevin McCann. to
be published by Doubleday
k Company.)
General of the Army Dwight
O. Eisenhower, who proved him
self a supreme practitioner of
military science in Europe, hates
war because he knows it settles
nothing.
His plan for peace, his strat
egy to win peace, is this:
1. In the immediate future.
make of Western Europe a po
litical, economic and military
unit, aided by American and
British military and industrial
power.
2. In the long run, provide
for international disarmament
including atomic controls on the
Baruch plan, create . a United
Nations police force of defined
powers and seek international
cooperation to promote justice,
freedom and economic opportu
nity "for all men of good will."
At the end of his first year
in Europe, organizing NATO
he was hopeful about peace, but,
emphasizing his belief in West
ern European unity as the foun
dation of security, he suggested
something new: That the Eu
ropean countries "officially call
a constitutional convention to
examine and cope with the prob
lems of a great political and
economic unit.
Artificial Bonds
He had already put the case
for European unity in these
words to the English-Speaking
union in London six months
before:
"How tragic! Free men, fac
ing the specter of political bond
age, are crippled by artificial
bonds that they themselves
have forged, and they alone can
loosen!"
Gen. Eisenhower, while ex
horting Europe, has urged Amer
icans to realize the importance
of Europe to our security. In a
letter to a friend in Chicago,
he wrote in part:
"Our position as the chief ex
ponent of the free system of
the dignity of the individual
and of a capitalistic economy
not only makes us the chief tar
get ,of Communistic destructive
purpose, but makes it incum
bent upon us to be a bit wiser
and more determined in our de
fense of freedom than would
be the case in a country where
devotion to these free principles
does not burn so brightly. . . .
Victory for Kremlin
"First and foremost, it is al
most trite to say that our own
country must remain solvent;
that bankruptcy for us would
be a tremendous, if not a de
cisive, victory for the Krem
lin. One of the things Com
munism tries to prove to the
peoples of the earth is that our
system is weak, inefficient and
unfair. I violently disagree with
any plan or program that ig
nores this basic principle, either
explicitly or implicitly. I am
sure that one thing worse than
bankruptcy would be military
defeat, yet it is my contention
that the only way we can achieve
military success either in pre
venting war or in winning a war
is through preserving the integ
rity of our economy and our fi
nancial structure. This means
courage in facing up to sacrifice
both individual and national.
"Communism acts both
through threat of aggression by
means of armed force and by in
ternal subversion, bribery and
corruption. This combined ef
fort has been so long sustained
against Western Europe that this
region is by no means the heal
thy, strong and virile portion of
the world that we considered it
back in the days of 1914 or in
deed -. in 1934. Yet the impor
tance of Europe to America's
security is not by any means
to be minimized.
Major Catastrophe
"On the purely military side,
4-H Club News
Valley View 4-H
Valley View 4-H club held its
regular meeting at the school
house. The box social was well
attended. VisithT were some
former members of the club,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bigham and
family.
The electric club will meet
at the home of the leader, Mr.
Zediker on Marjh 29.
The cooking club wiU take
over serving of refreshments
from now on. Plans were made
to have a skating party during
spring vacation on March 18.
Next meeting will be on April 4
at the schoolhouse.
Aria Williams, Reporter.
Griffin Creek Club
Griffin Creek 4-H clothing
club met at the Griffin Creek
school cafeteria March 8. We
worked on our projects.
Georgia Ann Hicks,
Reporter.
The Grange
Upper Rogue Grange '
The dance and fashion show
scheduled for March 29 at
Upper Rogue Grange hall has
been postponed until April 5
due to conflicting dates.
the transfer, by force or by sub
version, to Communistic con
trol of the great industrial com
plex of Western Europe, in
cluding its tremendous num
bers in skilled labor, would be
for us a major catastrophe.. . . .
"The military strength of
such a Communistic combina
tion, organized and armed un
der Communist dictatorship,
would be staggering; and the
existence of such a vast organ
ism, hostile to us, would , pose
a military problem that would
defy solution. Aggravating the
whole stiuation would be the
fact that over and beyond this
would be the economic problem.
Where would we get the mate
rials needed for our exist
ence? ... , '
"It is clear that American ef
forts to rejuvenate in Europe a
feeling of self-respect, of self
confidence and of self-dependence
including the burning pur
pose and desire of self-defense
are not only worthwhile, they
are mandatory because of the
utter bleakness of the alterna
tive. . . . Without the Marshall
Plan Europe would already be
under the control of Moscow.
In any event, the present ques
tion is how to inspire Europe to
produce for itself those armed
forces that, in the long run, must
provide the only means by which
Europe can be defended. . . .
Other Solution Seen
"It is quite certain that should
Europe as a whole fail, in 10
years and with our help, to re
build the economic, military and
internal strength required to pre
serve itself inviolate against
Communism and Communistic
attack then the United States
will have no recourse but to
seek some other solution to this
desperate problem. But, in the
meantime, the issues are so great.
the contrast between what could
be won and would, through neg
lect, be lost is so all-embracing
that I do not believe we should
place, in advance, announced
size limitations upon our effort.
These would tend to retard or
discourage the rebuilding of Eu
ropean spirit, which must be
the foundation for European
strength."
In discussing peace from a
long-term point of view, Gen.
Eisenhower has ruled out ap
peasement of Communism on
the Munich model for appease
ment of Nazism and Fascism
as " a more fell blow to human
ity than the atom bomb at Hi
roshima." In the first of the Gabriel Sil
ver lectures on peace at Colum
bia university nearly two years
ago, Gen. Eisenhower laid down
his thoughts on a permanent
peace. Some of these follow, in
summary:
Too Often Scraps
Treaties: "Treaties are too of
ten scraps of paper; in our age
the signal for two world wars
was the callous repudiation of
pacts and pledged word. There
must be a universal urge to de
cency." Conferences: "By all means
let us continue to confer. . . .
But, equally, let us not delude
ourselves that, in 1950, establish
ment of real peace is merely a
matter of very important person
ages signing papers or 'talking
tough' in Paris, Geneva, Wash
ington or Tahiti."
Police Power: "It is obvious
that an enduring, world-wide
and secure peace must be found
ed on justice, opportunity and
freedom for all men of good
will; be maintained in a climate
of international understandins
and cooperation; be free from
militaristic menace, and be sup
ported by an accepted and re
spected police power, represent
ing all nations."
Atomic Controls: ". . . the pre
sentation of the Baruch plan
for the control of the atomic
bomb with the offer of our in
formation to any nation that
would make its own premises
with ours open for inspection
was not only an additional evi
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dence of our peaceful Intent
but was also the most generous
offer ever made by any nation
and was equivalent to another;
Marshall Plan for peace in
the military field."
Threefold in Nature
Human Hungers: "First ol aU,
justice among men can be at
tained only by the universal and
equitable satisfaction of human
hungers that are threefold in
their nature because man is at
once a physical creature who
must be clothed and fed and
sheltered; a thinking being who
is forever questioning and must
be answered or given the oppor
tunity to find the answers; a
spiritual being within whom
burn longings and aspirations
that cannot be quenched by aU
the goods of this world. Star
vation and hardship, ignorance
and its evils, oppression and dis
crimination are the fuel of war
the raw materials of strife.
Natural Resources: "This
creeping terror is the wastage
of the world's natural resources
and, particularly, "the criminal
exploitation of the soil. ... By
every step that the nations take
toward more productive and
more efficient use of land,
toward better production and dis
tribution of food, toward rais
ing the living standards of even
the least of the world's tribes;
by every schoolhouse that is
built where none was before;
by every plague spot that is
cleansed and made healthful;
by every increase in the sum
of universally shared knowledge
and the consequent increase in
each man's mastery of his en
vironment; by every measure
that enlarges men's opportunity
to develop all their talents and
capacities by that much we
reduce the stockpile of griev
ance, injustice and discontent
on which war feeds."
Should Not Deny Knowledge
Sharing Knowledge: "No
schrap of knowledge, whose only
effect is to make life better,
should be denied any nation by
any other nation. Even the So
viets, living behind a curtain
woven from fear, could afford,
to work with the rest of us, now,
for this decent and human ob
jective." United Nations: "In a dis-:
armed world should .it be at
tained there must be an effec
tive United Nations, with a pc
lice power universally recog
nized and strong enough to earn
universal respect. ... I do not
subscribe to any idea that a
world police force or a world
organization should be permit
ted . entrance to any hation for
the purpose of settling disputes
among its citizens, or for exer
cising any authority not specif
ically and voluntarily accorded
by the affected nation."
(Copyright, 1952, New York '
Herald Tribune, Inc.) -
Human Torches
3Y GEO. N. TAYLOR
Wrap these Christian men.
women and young people in
reeds soaked in tar. Then bind
them to t a 1 1
posts and set
them afire. So
ordered the Em
pire Nero who
burned the early
Christians a s
torches to light
his garden part
5. And so was
fulfilled Christ's
word to His peo
ple "In the
world, you shall
have tribulation
Geo. N. Taylor
John 16:33.
And why do such as Nero's
guests and servants press in and
fill up the ranks until the early
church spreads and spreads and
covers the then-known world?
It was that all who looked, saw
heaven's joy mirrored in the
faces and ringing out in the
voices of those saved ones. They
chose death rather than deny
Christ. Adv.
STAFF
MEMBER
John S. Duffy
Office Manager
Presbyterian Church
York Rite Mason and
Shnner
Rogue Valley Radio
Club
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