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10 TEARS AGO
March 18. 1942
at was Wednesday)
Duane Eldon Bartholomew,
Medford, only local man hold
ing selective service Number
441. first pulled from goldfish
bowl in Washington. D.C.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Spring
hereabouts continues to be Just
around the corner of a snow
flurry.
20 YEARS AGO
March 18, 1932
Ot was Friday)
Medford restaurant offers din
ner of roast turkey with dress
ing, potatoes, gravy, green
beans, bread and butter and
choice of coffee, tea or milk for
23 cents.
Bill pending before congress
to buy old Keyser photographic
studio on rim of Crater lake for
"not more than $1,000."
SO YEARS AGO
March 18, 1922
at was Saturday)
Medford man kidnaped by Ku
Klux Klan and ordered to drop
lawsuit against Klan member
and leave town; man given lib
erty after threatened with hang
ing.
Stockholders report drilling
of oil well in Rogue Valley
southeast of Medford delayed by
damaged caused by vandals.
40 YEARS AGO
March 18, 1912
at was Monday)
Medford man reported
death after accidentally drink'
Ing glass of carbolic acid in local
saloon.
near
Vigilance committee meets
near Applegate to form plans for
apprehension of cattle rustlers
in that area.
Court Records
POLICE COURT
George William Rode, failure to
stop at stop sign. SS.
James Harvey Phipps and Wendall
Kay Sipes, violation ot basic rule. f 10
each.
Phillip Paul Clarke, failure to yield
right-of-way. $5.
Jerry Curtis Jennings, expired ve
hicle license, so.
Gerald Lee Wier. reckless driving.
SIS.
Eldon D. Nelson, improper parking
and failure to stop at red light S15.
Helen J. Perry, expired license
plates. S3.
Robert Lee Radke. violation of basic
rule. $10.
Charles Duanne Brazille. Malin,
Ore., violation basic rule. 13.
DISTRICT COURT
William Robert Fry, truck speeding,
$15.
Marvin Lee MllUksn. no motor ve
hicle license. S3.
Victor Vaughn Varaer, defective
tail light S10.
Joseph Carl Casaidy.. no operating
license. SS.
Roy Vernon Deutachman. improper
muffler. $6.
William Edward Ruffher, no motor
vehicle license. $5.
James S. Strawn.. no muffler. SS
William H. Clark, one license plate
displayed. $730.
Samuel B. EIrod, drunk in a public
piace, line io.
cntcurr court
Groom. Gloria Jean vs. Walter Lee.
divorce comDlaint
Love. Florence Bromley vs. Eugene
M.. ouvorce complaint.
A rent. Effie vs. George C divorce
complaint
Bradshaw. Mary Louise vs. Wallace
F.. divorce complaint
Logan. Eloise M. va Robert Edwin,
divorce complaint
Probate Department
Estate of Edward Forrest, inventory
and appraisement
MAKRIAOE LICENSES
Darrel Rader Stanley, 30, Eagle
Point and Lois Amelia Simon. 38.
Central Point
Charles William Gilchrist 20. Colt
Hill, and France Claurtine Trailer.
Medford. I
Retirement Well Earned
Big, dignified, Ttjndly Ernest P. Leavitt seemed to
fit the Crater Lake picture perfectly and his retire
ment as superintendent will take something from the
park which will be missed by the many residents o:
southern Oregon who have come to know him through
their pilgrimages to the scenic wonder.
MR. LEAVITT came to Crater Lake National Park
15 years ago. He has served nearly 42 years in
the park service,-during which he became successively
assistant supenntenaeni 01 losemne, supenmenaeni
of Hawaii National Park, Mesa Verde National Park,
and Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park. And it was
fortunate that he came so well qualified by training
and experience for the period during which he has
been Crater Lake National Park's chief executive has
been a most difficult one, difficult not only for this
park but for most of the others in the government s
far flung cham.
Most of the troubles which have beset the parks
have stemmed from the war. First, there was gasoline
rationing which sharply restricted travel and the
movements of seasonal recreation seekers. Peace came
eventually, and with it the relaxing of restrictions. Bu
soonanew war threat loomed bringing the necessities
for greater expenditure for rearming the nation and x
the same time curtailment of tax spending by such
governmental branches as the park service.
In addition to the troubles mentioned, several of
the Crater park winters have been unusually severe
in recent years causing damage and imposing prob
lems for all hands on the staff.
BUT through it all war, weather and economy
RiiTariritov1orif Tavitt Vina rrrvno oVimif Vile rlnttiis
MUblWWl'UUVUh Mill, A.MO VA.w MV" W UWMVW
efficiently, keepmg the 160,290 acres within his juris
diction in orderproviding a never-ending delight for
the thousands who each year visit the famed and f abu
lous lake within a crater.
Though his government service ended last week
Mr. Leavitt will not be lost to Medford. He and Mrs
Leavitt have purchased a home on the Old Stage road
where they will be able to do a bit of gardening. From
there, too, they can look out over the valley, a vista
which despite his familiarity with many of the vaunt
ed beauty spots of the nation, holds sufficient attrac
tion to keep him here. E.C.F.
We Go for Grease Paint
Jackson county people like entertainment and
they like to entertain how else can one explain the
large number of stage and musical offerings provided,
and mostly well patronized each season?
From Shakespeare to slapstick and from Bach to
barbershop, the list of offermgs runs the gamut witn,
m most cases, home folks furnishing the talent
1XITNESS the last few weeks. The schedule has in
T T eluded the high school senior class play, "Take
Care of My Little Girl;"" the Southern Oregon Col
lege play; the Footlighters five-night presentation
of "George Washington Slept Here;" the Kiwanians'
four-night offering of "Gee! Washington; three
Jackson County Civic Music association concerts out
of five slated for the season, and the 20-30 club s
Drama Guild "Voice of the Turtle," with a cast of
professionals from New York.
The recent heavy list of footlight fare doesn't
mean that theater-going is winding up for the season,
however far from it. Next on the grease paint menu
will be the Vinmg Repertory series which will run
rom April 14 to May 10 in Ashland s Vininp; theater
with four plays being presented in rotation every
night of the week except Sundays.
The modern nlavs. now. in rehearsal, are Arsenic
and Old Lace, Claudia, The Importance of Being
rnest, and Death of a Salesman.
TMa4ay. March It, lUt. ' - ' ' -
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CUCCESS of the repertory series is assured as the
casts will be under Southern Oregon College's
dramatic genius, Angus Bowmer, as producmg direc
tor, and will be mostly made up of members of the
Vining Repertory's fall season who are also well
known for their roles in the Shakespearean Festival.
Railroad Adds Feminine Touch
Women are great ones to spot the rough edges,
the little irritations and inefficiencies which show up
in business and services catering to the public While
a man will put up with inconveniences rather than
complain, not so the little woman for women, on the
average, are far smarter shoppers than the men and
when they spend their money they demand full value
in goods or services. -
fNE of the more enlightened railroad managements
plans to take advantage of the feminine pen
chant for "nagging" people into doing things right,
and has commissioned a woman to ride its trains,
check on decorations, cleanliness, courtesy and other
details.
By adding the lady trouble-shooter the Chesa
peake and Ohio hopes to sell more people on rail
roading as the most pleasant, most comfortable way
or getting where they are going.
It looks like a smart move. Most of the air lines
and their passengers have long realized the value of
the feminine touch as provided by their obliging,
courteous, efficient and generally easy-to-look-at
stewardesses and the air lines have been doing verv
well in attracting passenger business. E.C.F.
Cy Halsnd Cot
Wi war wonderia bow It would be ii we held our me tings
ai YOUR house. Mr. Johnson? We hear your mw
cook turns out soma swell doufhnuur
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Matter of Fact
EUROPEAN TIMETABLE
Washington Sometimes a
great, historic process takes
place so haltingly, UlogicaUy
and amidst so much confusion
that it goes on almost unnoticed.
It is extraordinarily difficult to
take seriously the notion that
the ancient dream of a federal
union of Western Europe may
actually be realized there are
so many excellent reasons for
believing that it wiU never hap
pen. Yet sober and experienced
men, like former Ambassador
to France David Bruce and even
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
seriously believe that it may well
happen, and quite soon.
The timetable for the estab
lishment of a European army,
as it is perhaps rather wishfully
projected by the American pol
icy-makers, seems to support this
conclusion. T h 0 agreements
reached in general terms at the
Lisbon conference, including
the Europe air army plan, should
be worked out in detail and for
mally approved by the partici
pating governments by the end
of April.
This win set the stage for the
ratification of the European
army agreement, by the parlia
ments of France, Germany, the
Low Countries and Italy. It is
hoped again, perhaps, rather
wishfully that all these parlia
ments will have ratified by July
1, or a little later. The Schuman
plan wUl almost certainly have
been ratified already by July 1.
If and when these two agree
ments come into legal existence,
Western Europe will have taken
an enormous step forward, at
least on paper, toward federal
union.
a a
FTHE military significance of
the European army plan lies,
of course, in the fact that Ger
many wUl thus be enabled to
make a contribution to the de
fense of the West. But even if
all goes well, the European army
will not make a great deal of
difference militarily for two
years or more. The timetable
calls for the recruitment of the
first German soldiers by mid
summer, and the training and
equipping of two or three Ger
man divisions by the end of 1953.
But Germany wiU not make a
really important contribution,
of 10 or 12 divisions, before the
end of 1954 at the earliest
The over-riding, immediate
significance of the European ar
my plan is political rather than
military. European leaders like
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman and German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer are
perfectly aware that the plan
they have hatched cannot pos
sibly work without some sort
of European Federal Union. A
nation without an independent
army cannot have an independ
ent foreign policy. A group of
nations collectively supporting
collective army must have
oint economic ' and financial
policies.
For such reasons, it is now
intended to call a conference of
the governments of the six par
ticipating nations, shortly after
the European army plan is rati
fied, in order to try to lay the
groundwork for actual Euro
pean federation. It is intended
to consider at this conference
such matters as a central Euro
Dean political authority limit
ing each nation's sovereignty:
Joint taxaton and financial
policy - and the lowering and
eventual elimination of customs
barriers.
e a e
A LL this sounds extraordi-
narily unrealistic and It
may well be. In the first place,
any one of a number of perfect
ly Dossiblr developments an
other explosion over the Saar
issue, the triumph of a Charles
de Gaulle in France or a Kurt
Schumacher in Germany, the
emasculation of the mutual se
curity program by the American
Congress could cause the
whole flimsy paper structure to
fall to the ground. And the So
viets are already doing every
thing possible to tear it down.- ,
In the second place, the whole
movement toward European un
ion has been illogical, accident
al and through the back door
xne European army plan was
proposed initially by the French,
essentially as a device for de
laying or preventing the creation
of a sovereign Germany army
No one took the idea very seri
ously until last summer, when
General Eisenhower, after a good
look at the European scene, em
braced the plan enthusiastically
Eisenhower's support for the
European army plan in turn
shifted the movement toward
European unity from the realm
of vague, high-minded talk to
the area of practical planning.
And thus what started as
French tactic for delaying a de
cision on a German army might
possibly end with the federation
of Western Europe.
This may not be so odd as it
seems. Great historic changes,
after all, are more likely to
come about, not as a result of
constitution-making and con
scious planning in advance, but
as a result of a series of more
or less spasmodic reactions to
the pressure of immediate
events. And even if it does
happen this way, and Western
Europe achieves a unity which
can only be a paper unity at
the beginning, there will be no
reason to think that the United
States can hail the "solution" of
Europe's troubles, and cheerful
ly wash its hands of. Europe.
American support and leader
ship have been the essential in
gredients in what progress has
yet been made, as the crucial
part played by General Eisen
hower suggests. American sup
port and leadership will con
tinue to be essential ingredients
for a long time to come, if the
Western alliance is to be organ
ized and strengthened to with
stand the shocks which are sure
ly in store for it
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Douglas Eyes O&C
Timber Sale Funds
Eugene (U.R) Douglas coun
ty may get as much as $2,000,000
this year from timber sales in
Oregon and California revested
lands.
Walter H. Horning, chief of
the Bureau of Land Management
forestry division, estimated that
Lane county's share of the
O and C fund may be more than
11,000,000.
Division of O and C timber
sales proceeds is the subject of a
legal battle now going on be
tween the federal government
and the 18 O and C counties in
Oregon. Legislation has also been
introduced in Congress to settle
the controversy.
Counties claim they should eet
75 per cent of the total instead
of the 50 per cent paid in past
years. Horning said the counties
wUl probably receive 75 per cent
this year.
Eat Your Vitamins,
Drug Chief Advises
Washington UJ0 Commis
sioner Charles W. Crawford of
the food and drug administration
believes "eating should be fun."
So he advised the American
people Tuesday to get their vita
mins from beef steaks instead of
bottles.
Crawford said a lot of diet fad
dists who argue that ordinary
nutritious foods must be supple
mented by pills and elixirs have
a commercial interest in pushing
the sale of such products.
In lie Day's Hews
Br nuunc joncots
Hero are some startling
figures:
In the IS rears ending last
June 30-that is to say, from
1933 to 1951 the federal gov
ernment collected in Oregon
total of $2,721,465,204.01 (ap
proximately two and three
quarters BILLIONS of dollars.)
. In the same period, the fed
eral government RETURNED
TO OREGON in Its various
programs including veterans'
benefits, social security benefits,
various federal aid projects and,
in the depression years, funds
disbursed by WPA and other
agencies (boondoggling) the
sum of $704,581,166 (approxim
ately 7041s MILLION dollars.)
TN other words:
In these 19 New Deal and
Fair Deal years, the federal gov
ernment took roughly FOUR
DOLLARS out of the state of
Oregon for each ONE DOLLAR
that it returned to the state of
Oregon.
QUESTION:
If we felt that we wanted.
needed and had to have aU these
things, wouldn't we have been
FAR better off if we had PRO
VIDED THEM FOR OUR
SELVES right here in Oregon
and had paid for them with our
own Oregon money?
As it was, we sent four dol
lars to Washington and got one
dollar back.
yHY did aU this happen?
Here's what I think:
It happened because we per
mitted TOO MUCH GOVERN
MENT TO BE REMOVED
FROM THE STATE HOUSES,
THE COURT HOUSES AND
THE CITY HALLS AND TAK
EN TO WASHINGTON.
Things like that always hap
pen when the people permit
government to get too big and
too far away.
"FHE big job that lies ahead of
us, as I see it, is to bring
more of our government back
to the state houses, the court
houses and the city halls. The
federal government's job,
BASICALLY, is the conduct of
foreign relations and national
defense. That job can be done
ONLY by the federal govern
ment
There are, of course, other
things that can be handled bet
ter by the federal government
than by the states, the counties
and the cities. Such things as
radio, television, long distance
communications, air and land
transport all of which cross
state lines from one end of the
country to the other. This is
big nation, and as such it has
certain problems that can ob
viously be handled more effic
iently by the national govern
ment than by local govern
ments.
But in the 18 years covered
by these Oregon figures the ten
dency has been to take too
much LOCAL government away
from the states, the counties and
the cities and move it to Wash
ington.
This is a DANGEROUS ten
dency. Its dangers are admir
ably illustrated by Oregon's ex
perience during these 18 years.
AMONG all the candidates for
nresident in this campaign
year only one, Senator Russell,
Democrat, of Georgia, has pub
licly recognized this danger that
faces us and has demanded that
more of our government be
brought back from Washington
and lodged again in the states,
the counties and the cities.
I wish more of our candidates
would join with Senator Russell
in his demand for MORE local
government and LESS big na
tional government
I feel strongly that in these
18 years we have permitted too
much of our local government
to be taken away from us. There
in lies the root of a lot of our
troubles.
Emmanuel Planning
Supreme Court Appeal
Olvmnia (U.R) Defense at
torneys for Samuel Emmanuel
were preparing to appeal to the
State Supreme court Tuesday
after a motion for a new. trial
for the resigned state land board
secretary convicted of asking
bribe was denied..
The motion was refused by
Thurston county Superior Judge
Charles Wright who set 1:30
m. next Monday as the time
for sentencing. The crime carries
a maximum penalty of 10 years
in prison or $5,000 fine, or both.
In denying the motion, Judge
Wright said there was sufficient
testimony in Emmanuel's week-
long trial, which ended March 7,
to sustain the verdict
Peterson Confirmed
For Relations Board
Washington UJ5 The sen
ate Monday confirmed the . nomi
nation of Ivar H. Peterson as a
member of the National Labor
Relations board, succeeding
James J. Reynolds Jr., resigned.
Peterson, former NLRB offic
ial, more recently has worked
as administrative - assistant to
Sen. Wayne L. Morse, B-Ora. v
Final Tabulation Shows
Everett Gets New Mayor
Everett QUO A final tabula
tion of last week's general elec
tion ballots showed Tuesday that
Louis Unzelman, public works
commissioner, has been elected
mayor.
The commissioner who re
ceives the most votes is elected
mayor, and Unzelman had 50
votes more than incumbent May
or Henry Arenas.
Cheap Substitutes ;
For Artillery, Tanks
Revealed by Lovett
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (U.B The tax
payers will want to hear more
from Defense Secretary Robert
A. Lovett about cheap and dead
ly substitutes for artillery and
tanks.
Lovett told a Detroit audience
Monday that these substitutes
were reliable. He said that they
should knock out tank as ef
fectively as another tank or an
artillery piece could do the job
The word around Washington
is that two such cheap substi
tutes have been developed and
proven, although neither is yet
in production.
Dime Store Merchandise
Compared with many, uses of
which atomic artillery pieces or
tanks could be put at a cost of
tens to hundreds of thousands of
dollars each, these substitute
weapons are dime store mer
chandise. At least one of them is
believed to be easily portable
and to be handled by a two-man
team.
Lovett -was cautious. He did
Editorial Comment
Homecoming at Junction City?
The proposal of Frank Van
Dyke, member of the state board
of higher education, that consid
eration be given to construction
of a single stadium to serve the
athletic needs of both Oregon
State college and the University
of Oregon was promptly squelch
ed by the rest of the board. The
suggestion had been explored
before and no solution found.
Nor is one likely to be reached.
Physically the plan presents
no major problem. Only 40 miles
separate Corvallis and Eugene.
Modern highways and fast cars
would put an intermediate point
only half an hour's drive from
either campus. Even a site as
far away as Salem could be
reached in a little more than an
hour from the more distant in
stitution. However, the impor
tant factors are not physical.
Alumni build the stadiums at
our colleges, though the land is
provided by the state. Alumni
enjoy returning to the campus
for football games to relive their
undergraduate days in familiar
surroundings. It gives them
pleasure, too, to introduce their
own and other youngsters, in
cluding promising high school
athletes, to their campuses when
fraternity houses are decorated
and everyone tramps happily
across the leafy grounds to the
football field. A neutral stadium,
away from ivy-covered halls,
could hardly be expected to
awaken enthusiasm in the old
grad, even though he could
scoot back to the campus in half
an hour after the game.
Nor would the innkeepers and
other business men of Eugene
and Corvallis welcome removal
of the colorful autumn contests
to some other place. Ordinary
citizens of the two communities,
in considerable number, would
view such a step as a slap to
their civic pride. .
Principal consideration should
be given the students, however.
Though they swarm happily
enough to Portland and even
farther for occasional games, it
is unlikely they would partici
pate, as extensively as now if
every game were away from the
campus. One of the aims of de-
emphasis of college athletics is
to return the game to the stu
dents. A joint stadium off the
campus would tend, rather, to
reduce student attendance and
necessitate stimulation of non-
student interest, which is commercialization.
Add the necessity to maintain
campus facilities for practice and
minor contests and the savings
of a joint field over one at each
school would be reduced. Oregon
state alumni undoubtedly will
continue their present drive for
funds for a new field at Cor
vallis and university graduates
proceed with plans for later im
provements in Eugene. They
would be wise, however, to con
sider thoroughly the need for
big stadiums. Television may
make the football field of the
future a modest one.
The Oregonian
not say that these substitute
weapons were available or would
be available. The secretary
should know about that and,
doubtless, does know much more
than he may say in public.
Army Anxious
He said plenty, however, to
raise questions about the long
haul tank program and the
Army's anxiety to cut itself a
bigger piece of the atomic war
fare pie. The Army is well start
ed on a guided missile program.
These missiles ultimately por
haps now wUl deliver atomic
explosive charges.
The Army also is demanding
atomic artillery. It may already
have committed the Treasury to
heavy expenditure for such. Be
tween civilian authorities and
the Army brass right now there
is a policy dispute whether there
should be any atomic artillery
at all. The civilians oppose it
May Arouse Committees
If the generals have ordered
up some experimental atomic ar
tillery at a cost of hundreds of
thousands of dollars for the first
few pieces, then the military has
taken round one from the civil
ian authorities. And if the Army
is tossing the money away, it has
taken the taxpayers.
Lovett's reference to cheaper,,
equally deadly and reliable weap
ons may arouse the ' congres
sional armed services commit
tees to have a look at the whole
picture. The story current here is
that the cheap substitute weap
ons can deliver an atomic missile
just as effectively as an expen
sive atomic cannon.
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