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10 YEARS AGO
March 16. 1942
(It was Monday)
Medford hardware and sport
ing goods stores receive gov
ernment order to halt sale of all
types of firearms.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: No "two
fisted" candidates, the kind that
repulses the foe with one hand
while cutting taxes in two with
the other, have as yet appeared
on the horizon.
20 YEARS AGO
March 16. 1932
(It was Wednesday)
Government employees use
bulldozer to crack crust of ice
and snow covering roads in Cra
ter Lake National park.
- Medford high school defeats
University high of Eugene in
opening game of state high
school basketball tournament.
30 YEARS AGO
March 16. 1922
(It was Thursday)
Three candidates file for coun
ty offices on a platform of "strict
enforcement of the prohibition
laws."
Medford law enforcement of
ficers receive report that two
kleagles of Ku Klux Klan are
active here.
40 .YEARS AGO
March 16. 1912
(It was Saturday)
Twenty-seven members of In
ternational Workers of the
World "wobblies" leave Med
ford for California after receiv
ing a free meal from city offi
cials. Local group urges citizens to
write friends in the Midwest,
telling them of the beauties of
the Rogue river valley.
DAV Members Plan
Salvage Collections
Jackson county chapter No.
8, Disabled American Veterans,
in response to calls from national
conservation committees for sal
vage metal and other useful arti
cles that will reduce the require
ment of material for civilian use,
has inauguarated a system by
which discarded articles of furni
ture, garden tools, and other ob
jects that take up space in the
peoples garages, backyards and
store rooms, may be assembled
and, after some repairs and re
modeling, can be turned to some
use.
There are many members of
the DAV in this area who do
not hold down a job because they
are unable. The purpose of this
project, in addition to salvage
for the general defense effort,
is to give these disabled veter
ans a chance to work over dis
carded articles, thus relieving
the owner of the debris by ex
ercising a hobby that might
bring in a few dollars to the vet
erans involved.- . ,.
. Any one with such items to
dispose of is asked to notify
James R. Lillie," 1174 Court
street, Medford, phone 2-5305.
ONE WAY TO DO IT
Memphis, Term. (U.PJ Grady
Cox. television repairman, an
swered a call from a man who
got a picture on his set but no
sound. Cox found the customer
looking at the picture while lis
tening to the sound over the tele
phone from a neighbor's set. i
How Dumb Are the Voters?
Just how dumb are the voters of America?
The professional politicians assume, apparently,
the mass 1U is about minus 60.
Take Senator Taft's political chiefs - of - staff in
their comments on the New Hampshire primary, for
example Messers Ingalls of Ohio, and Brewster o:
Maine.
. Said campaign-manager Ingalls:
"The only mistake was in having Senator Taft campaign
such a short time in New Hampshire., Instead of two or
three days it should have been two or three weeks. We
won't make the same mistake in Wisconsin. There will be
a very different result there."
Said Senator Brewster,
and double-talker of 100 Republicanism of Maine
"It really wasn't a victory for Eisenhower in New Hamp
shire. It was a victory for Taft in view of the fact the Re
publican organization was for Eisenhower, and we had no
organization in operation. Yet we carried the metropolis of
New Hampshire Manchester, 'every precinct.'"
MOW who do these two
thmk they are fooling?
The primary in New
ING defeat for Taft. as
The Ohio Senator, in
mitting it as a candidate
his keen disappointment
he refused to make any comment, and later said frank
ly he had expected to do better, and somewhat wist
fully, believed he would do better in Wisconsin. Well,
whenever Taft does not have to meet Eisenhower and
has the well-oiled GOP machine behind him, as in
Wisconsin, he probably WILL do better. But it is as
certain as anything m politics can be, that where the
people have a chance to
favor of "Ike, they will
MORE pathetic example of whistling in the dark
1 could hardly be imagined than these two state
ments by Taft's top campaign managers. They should
have looked up their pre-election press releases be
fore they perpetrated such transparent and phoney
alibis.
Not only did their releases boast about the Ohio
benator covering i tm UiJNTlKt; STATE irom the ua
nadian line to the Massachusetts border, but every
where they declared, he had tremendous crowds and
aroused the greatest enthusiasm. Taft again showed
more sense and only claimed he would win four or five
delegates: but Taft headquarters predicted a land
slide." (In one direction
seared the less experienced
the point of collapse.)
But how can they SERIOUSLY maintain more
campaigning would have changed the result when
Gen. Eisenhower won easily without ANY:
.
THE point we are particularly interested in, how
ever, is WHY experienced practical politicians
seasoned adults like Messrs. Ingalls and Brewster
should make such assinine
swer we can see is they
voters of the country are
rons, that they will swallow such silly nonsense if its
fed to them. If this were not so, they would follow
Mr. Truman s example and
We predict not only the
the election m November
ly and completely they were and ARE mistaken!
How About
Wise politician that he is, President Truman when
informed of the result in New Hampshire kept his
mouth shut
Secretary Short, on his behalf, merely told the
newsmen the President felt fine, enjoyed his brisk
early morning walk, and the
would have no effect whatever upon his decision to
run or not to run for
llfELL, we would take that statement also with a
" few, grains of salt. Our idea from the first, at
least, has been that the President would not run again
had no intention of doing so UNLESS the demand,
for his doing so, from his own party, became insistent
and OVERWHELMING.
"THERE is no point in trying to dodge the fact the
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such development, it was
Tinman hopes if any
Democrats oi that state, not
dent, but turned a deaf ear
own party leaders, and registered an emphatic pref
erence as President for the
against crime and corruption during the Truman administration.
TN OTHER words, if Mr.
as to any ovenvhelfning
party for his renomination
in New Hampshire, must have removed them.
So while it may be entirely true this surprising
defeat in New Hampshire did not change the Presi
dent's decision NOT to run again; it could hardly
have failed to have had the effect of greatly strength
ening it R. W.R. ,
Cheap Wine Too Much
Houston, Tex. (U.PJ A rough
ly-dressed man walked into a
fashionable Houston liquor store
and asked for a bottle of cheap
wine.
Mrs. Ruby DeLozier, the clerk.
said the store didn't handle that
brand. He asked for another
cheap brand. Again the clerk
didn't have it.
The man put his Land in his
Sunday, March 16. i..
the champion isolationisi
high-powered politicians
Hampshire was a CRUSH
everyone knows.
fact came as elose to all
could. He could not hide
Wednesday morning when
ditch Mr. Republican m
do so and with bells on
they were successful they
Eisenhower directors to
statements? The only an
must seriously believe the
such easy marks and mo
say nothing.
remaining primaries, but
will demonstrate how sad
K.W.K.
Truman?
result in New Hampshire
reelection.
as stunning a blow to the
as to Senator Taft's. The
oniy repucuatea tne iresi-
to the pleadings of then-
man who led the crusade
Truman had any doubts
demand within his own
now, or later the results
Liquor Clerk Hears
coat pocket as if holding a pistol.
' "This is it . . . stand over there
by the shelf . . . now show me
the cheapest wine you got," he
gruffly demanded. Mrs. DeLozier
pointed to a 59 cent bottle.
"What, you don't have any for
49 cents?" the man asked in
amazement. "Fifty-nine cents is
too much.
He walked out.
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Hard On Newbold
According to the newspaper grapevine, former
Mayor O'Dwyer's friends in New York were respon
sible for the selection of Newbold Moms as the right
eous St. George to slay the crime and corruption drag
on in Washington.
They wanted Newbold politically liquidated and
tnought this would be a neat way of doing it. .
If so, it looks as though they would succeed.
POR while Newbold's honesty can not be questioned
nor his simplicity and purity of heart there
appears no doubt his law firm was hooked-up in
SOME way with one of the profiteering Chinese ship
deals, and under prevailing conditions that should
be enough to damn him,
role of moral crusader is concerned.
TN NEWBOLD'S vigorous verbal counter attack
against Senator McCarthy our sympathies were
all with him; but we fear, the old adage about the
penalties of trying to tangle with a polecat, will be
painfully demonstrated before the engagements ends
A Senate committee in
too many trump cards, for
The writer was in New
campaign two years ago,
of the charges of enme and
ris against Mayor O'Dwyer, also the latter's attitude
of indifference and sneering contempt for his op
ponent.
So the claim that the
hind the selection of Morris for this suicidal assign
ment, would not be surprising the motive, at least,
would be there.
fN THE other hand, it is
v-r Truman would have
spiracy, or that had there been one, he would not have
quickly become suspicious, before taking any definite
action and called it all
However that may be,
what consoling to come
unsophisticated at times
man m public life as Newbold Morns, born to wealth
and social position, who immediately upon his gradu
ation from Yale, started
city, and proceeded to tackle single-handed such a
formidable and ruthless
Hall machine.
- Too bad he did not have the shrewd political in
stinct and rugged two-fisted
predecessor of a generation
dore Roosevelt. R.W.R.
British Acceptance
Of Increased Budget
Features Week's News
By PHIL NEWSOM
U. P. Foraign News Editor
The week's balance sheet be
tween the good and bad news in
the hot and cold wars:
THE GOOD
1. Britishers-accepted calmly
the new budget introduced by
Prime Minister Winston Chur
chill's conservative government.
It meant higher excess profits
taxes, fewer imports and higher
prices on commodities ranging
from gasoline to bacon. But it
also relieved approximately 2,-
000,000 Britons in lower income
groups of paying any income
tax at all; it was a concrete move
to maintain the credit of the
pound sterling, and it promoted
individual incentive for greater
production through bonuses and
other benefit payments.
2. The three western powers
the U. S., Britain and France
- neared the successful conclu
sion of negotiations to grant West
Germany almost complete sov
ereignty. 3. The North Atlantic treaty
nations completed .their per
manent organization with the ap
pointment of British General
Lord Ismay as secretary general
of NATO.
THE BAD
1. French Premier Antoine Pi-
nay's new government got off,
to a shaky start, approved Dnly j
because of 'a revolt in the ranks
By Roland Cot
so napnaiaxaiyi
as far as the success of his
such encounters just holds
a solitary opponent.
York during the mayoralty
and has a clear recollection
corruption made by Mor
O Dwyer machine was be
hard to believe President
entered into any such con
off.
it is refreshing and some
across such an honest and
almost painfully naive
out to clean up his native
opponent, as the Tammany
pugnacity of his Gotham
ago, ex-President Theo
,
of Gen. Charles De Gaulle's
Rightist party. Money with
which to pay France's mounting
debts and the need of a plan to
halt mounting French inflation
were Pinay's chief problems.
2. Communist stalling tactics
in the Korean peace talks had
reached the point where it seem
ed that only new decisions from
Washington, Peiping or Moscow
could break the stalemate.
3. Russia proposed an early
conference with the United
States, France and Britain to
reach a peace treaty with Ger
many. The move was regarded
as only a thinly-disguised at
tempt by the Russians to prevent
West Germany participation in
the European army.
Two Registered Dogs
Sent for Training
Larry Turner, owner of the
Kal-Or kennels, near Gold Hill,
said last week that he has ship
ped two grown registered male
German shepherd dogs to the
Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.,
at San Rafael,. Calif. .
Turner donated the two dogs
to the school for training and
to become property of some
blind person, he said.
- Several months ago he offered
to give a German shepherd pup
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK; JENKINS
I'm inclined to think that
among Americans who lean
slightly toward the idealistic
side in their politics, there is no
more fascinating thought than
this:
"The exalted office of Presi
dent of the United States of
America . should SEEK THE
MAN. It is too sacredly impor
tant to aU of us for us to permit
it to be hawked about among self
seeking politicians which is
what happens when ambitious
men SEEK THE OFFICE."
ASA theory, it is certainly in
trieuinc but in Dractice
we've never come within guided
missile shooting distance oi giv
ing it a trial.
We MIGHT give it a try this
year.
TF WE try it, it will be with
Ike. Ike's candidacy is an odd
political accident. Certain Re
publicans, looking (probably
with mixed motives) for a can
didate who can WIN, decided
that he has what' it takes that
is to say the CONFIDENCE OF
THE PEOPLE.
So they went to work on him,
Eventually, he said to them
"Why, ye?. If the Republican
party wants me to be its candi
date, I will accept the job. But
I will do NO campaigning.
have a job that will keep me
very, very busy. If the GOP con
vention should nominate me, let
me know. My address will be
SHAPE headquarters in Pans.
Just like that.
HPHESE Doliticians. of course
- didn't think he meant it.
Their political minds couldn't
encompass the thought that ANY
man, tempted by the possibility
of becoming President, wouldn't
drop EVERYTHING ELSE and
go after it hammer and tongs,
It turned out that Ike did
mean it. Having given his an
swer, he put on his uniform and
went to work building an army
in Europe. It has been a tough
job. Much tougher than expect
ed. One of the toughest ever
tackled by any American. It's a
long way from finished yet.
But Ike did eactly what he
said he'd do. He kept his mouth
strictly shut and tied into his
job in Europe.
THE politicians who had climb
ed upon his band wagon got
uneasy. Then they got STILL
MORE UNEASY. With the New
Hampshire, primary in the offing
and Ike still sawing wood and
saying nothing, they GOT
PANICKY.
Politicians know only their
ancient shibboleths. One of the
ancient and dependable political
shibboleths is that you can't
BEAT SOMEBODY WITH NO
BODY. Taft, rolling up his
sleeves and wading into the New
Hampshire hustings, was dis
tinctly somebody. Ike, sawing
wood in Europe and saying noth
ing, looked to the politicians like
a political nobody.
They were TERRIFIED.
They made frantic overtures
to Ike for Pete's sake to get
home and get busy. He ignored
the overtures and stayed on with
his job. His political backers,
with their futures at stake,
HEDGED. They alibied. They
said it wasn't true and never
had been true that Ike was a
cinch in New Hampshire, or
anywhere else. They allowed as
how if he got even half the N.
H. delegates and barely scraped
by in the popularity poll it
would be a great victory.
And a lot more political tosh.
1I7ELL, they guessed wrong.
" Ike swept the primary, get
ting ALL the delegates and win
ning the popularity contest hand
somely.
What happened?
Why, the people SPOKE! They
said WE LIKE IKE. We have
confidence in him. We think he's
the kind of man we need for
President. They went farther
than that. The New Hampshire
Democrats tromped on Truman
and gave to Kefauver the same
kind of vote of confidence their
Republican contemporaries gave
to Eisenhower.
There the situation stands.
WHAT does New Hampshire
" mean?
I don't know. I'm no Dronhet.
But I think what happened in
little New Hampshire is grass
roots stuff. I think (and hope)
it is what we newsoaDer neonlp
call a GROUND SWELL.
If it is. IOOK OUT! TRUE
GROUND SWELLS OF PUBLIC
OPINION can't be stoDDed bv
political shennannigans. No fact
in political history is better es
tablished than that. It doesn't
happen 'of ten, but when the
times come around when the
people mean business. THEY
MEAN BUSINESS. And they
stand for no monkey-business.
As I said before, I HOPE this
is one of those times. We need
that kind of attitude on the part
oi the people.
to any group here wanting to
conduct a contest to raise funds
for training a grown dog by the
Guide Dog institution for a Jack
son county blind person, Turner
also to donate the grown dog
for the training. Since the of
fer has not been accepted, he
has shipped two dogs to the
Guide Dogs school. Anyone in
the county wanting a dog for a
blind person should contact the
school directly, he said.
Matter of
THE LESSON OF
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Washington It sometimes
seems that the American voter,
that testy and unpredictable
fellow, takes a sly pleasure
these days in confounding the
professional politicians, the self
appointed experts and every
body else. For what stands out
about the New Hampshire pri
mary is that everybody was
wrong as usual.
The supporters of General of
the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
were wrong. They were wrong
as far back as February 15. On
that date, the Eisenhower lead
ers, including Gov. Thomas
Dewey and Senators Cabot
Lodge, Frank Carlson and James
Duff, gathered in a New York
hotel to discuss the Eisenhower
prospects. And they were so
convinced that Eisenhower could
not win unless he were present
in person to campaign that they
made a collective telephone call
to Paris to tell him so.
When Eisenhower stuck to
his initial position, a black mood
fell on the Eisenhower camp.
In New Hampshire, Sen. Lodge
was at pains to say that the
preferential primary would not
mean very much. All the other
Eisenhower leaders privately
took a dim view of the general's
chances. A day or so before the
primary, there was much talk
in the Eisenhower camp of send
ing a sort of polite ultimatum
to the general, if he lost badly,
asking him either to return and
campaign or to withdraw and
get his followers off the hook.
TUT Taft and his supporters
were equally wrong. If Taft
had maintained his original po
sition that he entered the New
Hampshire primary only as a
sort of gallant gesture against
hopeless odds he might have
emerged almost unscathed. But
when he in effect predicted the
capture of four delegates (which
the faint-hearted Eisenhower
men were ready to concede him)
and said that he considered the
preference primary a "horse
race," he opened himself up to
the severe political wound which
he has now suffered.
As for the Democratic pri
mary, nobody was more wrong
(except possibly one of these
reporters) than Sen. Estes Ke
fauver himself. Here it may be
worth describing an interview
with Kefauver which took place
a few days before his resounding
victory over President Truman.
The interview was "not for at
tribution" at that time, because
Kefauver wanted to talk frank
ly but did not want to compro
mise his chances. And it is worth
recounting now, if only because
it suggests the element of mys
tery which lends American poli
tics its peculiar fascination both
to participant and spectator
sportsman.
The talk took place in the
usual dingy hotel bedroom, after
a Kefauver rally in the usual
dingy hotel "ballroom." The ral
ly was sparsely attended, con
sisting largely of non-voting teen
agers wearing cardboard coon
skin caps. Kefauver, obviously
tired, had spoken haltingly and
with about as much fire as a
turtle. Later, talking to one of
these reporters, he seemed near
the end of his tether.
No, he said sadly, he knew he
didn't have a chance, with both
labor and the whole Democratic
regular organization working
against him. He might jus.t take
a single delegate, but no more
As for the preference primary,
he would be delighted if he
scored, say, 40 per cent of the
total. Poor-mouthing to report
ers is a familiar political tech
nique, but Kefauver certanily
seemed quite honestly convinced
that he had no real chance.
IT IS still remarkably difficult
to take Sen Kefauver really
seriously as a presidential can
didate, since he has little sup
port in the South and he has
alienated most of the Northern
Democratic organization men.
As for the effect of Kefauver's
triumph on President Truman,
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the possibility that this might
arouse in the president his fa
mous streak of Missouri stub
bornness must be balanced off
against the fact that Truman,
if he runs at all, wants to run
against Taft, not Eisenhower.
And it goes without saying that -Eisenhower's
remarkable victory
in absentia has altered the whole
Republican balance sharply in
his favor. -
The victory's effect on the
general's own plans remains un
predictable. At least one mem
ber of Eisenhower's inner circle
in Paris has told these reporters
that Eisenhower would consider
a striking success in New Hamp
shire the necessary "clear call to
duty." Another such success in
the New Jersey primary, where
Taft and Eisenhower are again
matched on April 15, would
make the call clearer. Converse
ly, the New Hampshire victory
wiU certainly sharply reduce the
pressure from this country on
the general to return.
At any rate, the fact that ev
erybody was wrong again sug
gests a rather obvious conclu
sion. AU concerned were per
fectly logical in their wrong
ness. The Eisenhower sunnorter
and Taft himself were entirely
logical in expecting Taft to be
strong in a poU presumably dom
inated by orthodox regular Re
publicans. Kefauver and the reg
ular Democrats were equally
logical in expecting Truman to
be strong in a poll presumably
aominated by the regular Demo
cratic organization. Yet both
Taft and Truman were much
weaker than anyone had guessed.
The lesson seems to be that
the voters are tired to death of
the old, over-familiar political
faces. They want something
new to be added, whether an
Eisenhower or a Kefauver. And,
judging by the remarkable size
of the New Hampshire turnout,
the voters are determined to get
what they want.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Much-Decorated
Medford Veteran
In VA Hospital
Dan Ehrheart, Medford World
War II veteran and son of Mrs.
Lillian Ehrheart, now living in
Central Point, is convalescing
from spinal surgery at the Port
land veterans administration
hospital, according to news re
ceived here this week.
Ehrheart, since his release
from the Air Force several years
ago, has bean working as an
electrician at Klamath Falls.
When taken to the VA hospital
recently he was paralyzed, and
his mother has been informed
that though he is now unable
to walk, he will be able to do
so again, she said today.
He was wounded while flying
on a mission over Guam when
the plane he was in was struck
by enemy fire, and his present
condition is caused by the
wound, according to his mother.
He was a captain at the time
of his release and was decorated
numerous times for his service.
He has been awarded the sliver
star, bronze star, distinguished
flying cross and oak leaf cluster.
the purple heart and oak leaf
cluster, and three presidential
citations as well as other awards,
according to friends. He was
graduated from Medford High
school in 1928 and played foot
ball during the time Bill Bower-
man was Medford high coach.
He has a son, Don Ehrheart, 5,
who lives in Medford.
Ehrheart was a bomb sight
speciaist and bombardier and
held numerous other jobs dur
ing his service, his mother said.
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