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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. March XS. 1132 Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO, 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W..RUHL. Editor ERNEST R- GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor roir iM RK ID Citv Editor harry CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEW KIT. Sport Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: raiM nrl Sunday six months 8.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 350 Daily and Sunday one month 1-2? By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year 13 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper oi Mum United Pre -Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: irvsT.Hni i.fnAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San rrancisco. iajb nura Seattle. Portland. St Louis. AUanl VancouverBC ita NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION Z7 w C BOS I O' NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackaoa County His tory fnM the file at the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 mat) 40 run 90. 10 YEARS AGO March 25, 1942 (It was Wednesday) United States navy reports heavy attacks on Japanese held Islands of Wake and Marcus. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Japan ese aim to take the initiative in the southwest Pacific while the United Nations invoke the ref erendum. 20 YEARS AGO March 25, 1932 (It was Friday) Eleven persons are announced candidates for Republican and Democratic nominations for sher iff of Jackson county; woman plans to enter race for office. State officials report Jackson county property taxes down 22.16 per cent from 1931. 80 YEARS AGO March. 25, 1922 (It was Saturday) Medford man arrested, fined S500 and sentenced to 30 days in jail after federal agents find still, cache of liquor on his prop erty. Jackson County court sells $350,000 in road bonds; calls for bids on paving 13 miles of Cra ter Lake highway. 40 YEARS AGO March 25. 1912 (It was Monday) . Grand jury clears Jackson county court of charges of graft; recommends appointment of an auditor for county business. Forest Camps Neglected It won't be long now before Pacific coast recrea tional and camping spots will be invaded by the usual horde of vacationers. What the visitors will find in our national forests will not be too inviting unless more funds are made available for use by the Forest Service in improving recreational facilities. INCREASES in tourist inflow, growing population A in Oregon and Washington and shorter working hours have contributed heavily toward annual in creases in recreation use of the forests during the past decade. Latest figures show the number of recreation seekers in the national forests of this region totaled 3,010,000 in 1950, of which 1,923,000 were campers, picnickers, and winter sports visitors. The figure is an increase of 56 per cent over 1940, and past records show that forest recreation use more than doubles every 20 years. T17HILE this astonishing growth has been taking " place, there has been nothing like a comparable increase in expansion, replacement or maintenance of facilities to accommodate it Existing recreation de velopments, such as campgrounds, picnic areas and winter sports areas, were largely constructed during the CCC program from 1933 to 1941. Installations made during that period have been deteriorating rap idly, especially in recent years, and it is now estimated that over fifty per cent of the campground structural improvements are either in need of replacement or require a major rehabilitation job to put them in serv iceable condition. In the Rogue River National Forest's 1,200,000 acres there are some 45 campgrounds, 15 of them be ing of medium to large size. These natural beauty spots attract thousands of visitors each season and it is discouraging to note that while the number of users has been growing by leaps and bounds, the facilities have been going down hill even faster. DASICALLY, camp and picnic areas are developed within national forests as a means of protecting the forested areas from fire and other means of de struction: of protecting the health and safety of the users, and of preventing the pollution of streams and watersheds, thus protecting the health of those who get their water supply from the national forest areas. Neither protection nor adequate recreational ob jectives can be attained unless money is made avail able and since before World War II congress has been niggardly in appropriations for such -purposes. Eastern congressmen, who dominate the house of rep resentatives, are not conscious of the need for forest expenditures, probably because there are few nation al forests in the east. Operator of Medford livery stable hires out team and hack for round trip to Portland; pre dicts 30 days wiU be required for the entire trip. Court Records no stop at stop to POLICE COURT Dean Hart Donna, ai?n. S3. Ena Singler. driving too close car ahead. $3. Sally Joann Harris, violation "of basic rule. $10. Theodore A. Taylor, parking viola tion. $5. Jeannene Bray, operator's license not valid. $5. Clifford John Cord, violation basic rule. S10. Walter Edward Morris, failure give fight-of-way. $5. William Harold Roberts, switched vehicle license. S25. William Harold Roberts, no oper ators license. S10. Herman Allen Ghea. 217 Fourth street, apartment 6. Ashland, reckless driving, liquor involved, fine $100. operator's license suspended three months. 30 days in jail suspended. Richard S. Peterson, parking in no parking zone. So. Elmer Harmon Ross, failure to stop at stop sign, $5. Milo G. Barnes, illegal parking. $5. Frieda Margretha Lawrence, fail ure to stop at red light. S3. Rose Mae Bar bee. illegal left turn, $2.30. Allen Dale Young, no tail light, $2.30. DISTRICT COURT Ora Otis Gusinger Jr., failure to stop at stop sign. $6. Anthony W. Lillywhite. overload. $39.50. Billy Doyle Flannery. switched li cense plates. $6. George Robert Moore, no motor vehicle license. $5. James Edgar I.illie. Improper muf fler. $5. Wilford Lou Longan. defective hand brake. $8. Iva Lou Wooster. improper 'muffler, $3. LeRoy F. Burley. overload. $35. Paul Eugene Johnson, overload, $44. Edward Ray James, no operator's license. $5. CIRCUIT COURT Nilsson. Georgann vs. Ralph H-. di vorce complaint. Klassen. Francis R- vs. Louise C decree of annulment. William Lathrop and wife vs. Valley Fuel company and Stanley Hake, mo tion. Seabright, Katherine vs. John R . waiver of appearance in divorce suit. Alber. Rose Zella vs. Clifford Wil liam, divorce Tpliint ASA result of repeated suggestions from congress that recreational use should bring in some reve nue to offset in part the cost of construction, mainte nance and administration of national forest recrea tional facilities, a few areas have been operated on a charge basis during the past three years. It has been found, however, that the receipts barely offset the cost of making the charges. Where areas have been operated by concessionaires, fair wages have been produced, mostly just enough to take care of day-to day cleanup and minor maintenance, with nothing left over for heavy repairs and rehabilitation. THERE has been rapid increase in national forest 1 receipts in more recent years but except for a small allotment in 1947 for rehabilitation, funds for further expansion or new construction of forest recre ation areas have been practically non-existent since 1941. Considering the number of persons who would benefit, it would seem merely good business to plow back' enough forest receipts money which the forests have brought in to assure more adequate recreation al accommodations. E.C.F. A Convincing Example With 250 dead, over 1,00Q injured and over 2,000 homes demolished or damaged, there is great need :or relief in the six southern states which were rav aged by the week-end tornadoes. Emergency food, clothing and medical supplies must be provided, housing found and the injured and ill cared for. piRST to go about the work of relief in the storm stricken area were the Red Cross workers, just as they have been the first in time of need in other places. The Red Cross workers are doing what most of us would do were we personally on the scene. We can not all go to disaster spots, of course, but through the Red Cross we can help just the same with our dollars. The plight of the southern states is a convincing example of the need for such service as the Red Cross provides. You can do your part by hurrying your dona tion in the local Red Cross drive. E.C.F. . Crosstovn tyltokmd Cot ,. In ihe Day's Hews Br nuurx jcuxms Something to think about: The prices of basic foods in the United Kingdom (the United Kingdom today is made up of England, Northern Ireland. Scot land, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) have shot up 19 to 125 per cent in the past six years, the London food min istry said today. "Increases cited in a report to the house of commons indue Ided potatoes 71 per cent, meat 1 54 per cent, bacon 71 per cent, butter 50 per cent, eggs 125 per cent, bread 52 per cent, cheese 85 per cent, cooking fat 67 per cent and cabbage 15 per cent THOSE six years socialist Britain has been under rigid price control. Yet food prices have gone steadily up. Paste this in your hat: It isn't politics or policticians that keep prices down. It s PRODUCTION. F, "Don't get me wrong. I think the Parent-Teachers Association is a good thing. It's just their, meetings I object tor f On The Side By E. V. Durting (Distributed ay Ktef futwtm Wdicste, IncJ Is there ea earth a space so dear As that within the blessed sphere Two loving arms entwine? Thomas Moore. Glider Fliers Claim Hew Altitude Record Bishop, Calif. flJ.PJ Pilot Larry Edgar of the govern ment's Sierra wave project studying' air currents, and Me tereologist Harold Kleiforth, re ported Tuesday they recently reached an altitude of 44,000 feet in a two-place glider. The men said that if the Na tional Aeronautics association ac cepts this mark it would be a new world's record for a glider plane. They reported that at 44,000 feet the rate of climb still was 700 feet per minute. But they said they returned to the air port because further was without pressurized cabin considered dangerous. , The flight was an official re search flight of the Sierra wave project, a study of the influence of the mountains on airflow at high altitudes. TRUCK SOLVES PROBLEM Castleton, N. Y. (U.R) When a milk truck skidded into a pow er pole and broke it off at the base, the nearby American Le gion post was delighted. Post of ficials had been dickering with a power company to remove the pole, which was in the way of ascent their picnic grounds driveway. , A prominent hotel manager says tips should not be objected to. That if guests didn't tip gen erously the help would have to be paid higher wages. If higher wages were paid the hotel rates would have to be increased. No doubt the gentleman's line of reasoning is sound. Incidentally, not so long ago I paid fourteen dollars a day for a room and bath, European plan. A rather small room at that. It was the only one available at the time. I shudder to think what the rate of that room would have been were it not for tips. Mail A promise of more than one mail delivery a day in many places might improve the chances of a presidential candi date. Especially where that one delivery comes around ten in the morning. In such sections, and there are many in well populat ed cities, the person who expects an important letter suffers from too long a wait. If it doesn't ar rive at ten one morning he has to wait until ten the next morn ing. This situation not only pro longs anxiety, it also upsets plans and frequently can cause financial loss. It Is ridiculous that mail service should be cur tailed to save money when so much of our funds are being so freely tossed about the world. Among the Married , Californian, happily married for fifteen years, says her mar riage took place on the 11th of the month at 11 a. m. Now on the eleventh of every month her husband presents her with a gar denia. He also never fails to have a present for her on the wed ding anniversary, birthdays, St, Valentine days, the day he met her and several other occasions. Quite a remarkable spouse. Al most as good as one of those wonderful Chicago husbands. Asking Queries from clients. Q. At the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire what opera was Caruso appearing in there? A. Carmen. Olive Fremstead played the title role. Q. What was the name of that fellow who bet he could find a needle in a haystack and won the wager? A. That was Jim Moran: It took him three days and a half to find the needle. Jim was a quaint character. He once claimed that in his youth he had made a good living in Texas selling advertis ing space on the ceilings of bar bershops. Q. Before me is a book in which is described a ball given in the Hotel Knicker bocker, New York City, 1921, I claim the Knickerbocker was converted to an office building in 1916. Right? A. You're wrong. Don't know exact date Knicker bocker hotel was converted into an office building, but it was after 1921. It was the celebrated Knickerbocker bar with that Maxfield Parrish painting of old King Cole and two superb cock tails offered for a quarter that kept the hotel in the black. It couldn't survive the prohibition era as a hotel. Trulr Yours To hand a communication m which the "yours truly" is re versed to "truly yours." Sounds much better that way. Is from a client whose first name is Isa bella. When we moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn I lost the first twenty-six fights I had with kids on our block. One ox them was on account of a girl named Isabella. I yelled: "Isa bella, Isabella, kissed a Telia nine times in the cells." Her brother swung on me. I swung back. He crossed me and drove a left to my jaw and I took the count. However, I stiU think Isa bella is a nice name. Why has there never been a song about a girl named Isabella? The name has rhythm. Passing Br Paula Miller. Statesquc styl ist Specializes in designing fash ions for tall women. She is also TN NEW York last night. Gen eral MacArthur said in statement issued by his aide, General Courtney Whitney, that there is no inconsistency what ever between his statement in 1948 that he would not shrink from any public call to duty and his present unwillingness to ai low his name to be used in party primaries. He added "I neither directly nor indi a battler for a better break for the lengthy ladies. In this she has the support of the feminine members of the fifty-eight af- rectly approved any move to put filiated clubs for Tall Young my name forward for the Re People in the USA. The tall girls publican presidential nomination want nigner telephone booths, in the April 1 Wisconsin pn longer hotel beds, more space mary. between bus and theater oaf longer stockings, etc., etc. They I GENERAL Whitney was imme also want all the information W diately asked by newsmen if they can get about tall bache lors. It is the ambition of every tau girl not to have to lean down for a good-night kiss. Geraldine Fararr. Once the darling of the Metropolitan opera. Made her debut at the Met when 24 years old. Her father, Sid Fararr, was a major league baseball player. He played on the same team as Billy Sunday. Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital, furnished y Congressional Quarterly News features. Q Can Speaker Rayburn be overruled on his decision to ban TV and radio from House hear ings? A Speaker Sam Rayburn, (D-Tex.), who February 25 ruled out TV, radio and motion pic ture coverage saying present MacArthur's reference to his 1948 principle could be inter preted as an announcement that he now would be willing to ac cept a call from the people to be President. He replied: "I won't interpret the state ment, but anyone else is free to interpret it for himself. rrHAT recalls a bit of luncheon and cocktail gossip that has been current in Washington re cently and which. I'm told, is rather WIDELY BELIEVED there. The tale goes like this: IF a deadlock develops in the Republican convention between the Eisenhower and the Taft forces and IF it appears that the deadlock can not be broken in favor of either Taft or Eisen hower, then At the psychological moment, . ... . .. 4, . J a bana wm sinxe up a viu Soldier Never Dies" and Mac- Arthur's friends in the conven- ZIT... Z?m -ticm will beein to march and nuu5c ruies uu not auiuurize i . WELL, wors them ,told the lower chamber it could change its rules. House GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., (R-Mass.), promptly urged such action and Reps. Hillings, (R-Calif.), and Meader, (R-Mich.), introduced bills to allow radio, TV and movie film coverage. A similar bill by Javits, (R-N.Y.), already was pending. Q I thought Congress passed universal military training last year. Why is it up again this year? A Last year's Universal Mil itary training ana service aci r . : . , . , t. established a National Security ?mu muchmterested in the Training Commission to suggest Republican party s Platform as legislation to provide UMT de- its candidate In times 1 ike tails. After debating it, the these, we need PRINCIPLES as House March 4 sent bark to com- ea as men. i : Keep c o-, mittee a biU embodying the J? the thought that the Repub- r i , I ucan Dariv 5 uiauui in n um A similar bill was reported in year of decision should contain Feb. 21. The bills a siaiemcm we can promise you umv chant. Emotional excitement, strung as tensely as a banjo string, will be depended on to do the rest. it mieht work. And worse things could happen I'm for Eisenhower for two reasons: 1. I have FAITH in him. 2. I think he can be elected. But Douelas MacArthur as Presi dent of the United States would be no calamity. HERSONALLY, as a citizen, the Senate would provide six months train- ins- and 7Vi years of reserve service. Q How much do state gover nors make? blood, sweat and tears for tne immediate future, with national solvency and perpetuation of the American way of life as the ulti mate reward for the sacrifices Japanese On Verge Of Again Becoming I ndependenfr People By PHIL NEWSOM UJ. Foreign News Editor The wheel of . fortune has turned full circle for the Japan ese. After seven years of being a defeated and occupied n a- tion, they are on the verge of returning to i n dependence. American troops in Ja pan will be come "guest" troops, to be withdrawn as soon as Japan can defend ft I'hil Newsos herself. Economically, the people are better off than before Pearl Harbor. ' National health standards, be cause of work done by the occu pation, are their highest in his tory. But the family of nations to which the Japanese are return ing is a far different one than had been hoped in 1945. And the conditions of Japan's return are not without their ironic side. Ten years ago, in the midst of war, Japan was one of the World's great military powers. Five years ago, the Japanese were a defeated people, stripped of their possessions and by their constitution pledged to "re nounce forever" the right, to wage war or to maintain armed land, sea or air forces. Today, the nation which de- COMMUNICATIONS Letters te the Editor mutt bear the name and address et Ute srritei although under certain circum stances the use el a pen same er initial for publication is permis sible. The Hail Tribune reserves the rlfbt to edit all letters sritb a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed words. A It varies from $4,500 an- we shaii cau UDon you to make. nually for Maryland's governor A political party's platform is to jzs.uou m camornia, new DECLARATION OF faith York and Pennsylvania. Most wjtn a declaration of faith such states also provide either a gov- L, that, the Republican party ernor's mansion, expense fund, could approach the task of re- or ooin. storine the nation s solvency ana O What would be the effect rehabilitating its moral cnarac of a 25 per cent limit on income, ter in the same spirit of fighting stale and gift taxes, called for faith in which it approached in in the proposed Constitutional i860 the problem of abolishing amendment? A The staffs of the House Small Business Committee and the Senate-House Economic Re port Committee said February 24 that such a limit would mean an annual federal revenue loss of $16.2 billion. $14 billion of it from lost corporation taxes. Ac- human slavery and saving Union. the Chairman of Cancer Drive Here Praised Mrs. John Day, Medford, to- cording te their report, benefits w Pif tTAom.?Z of the ceiling would go to about SwbideUs, jrttor tor h f one per cent of the taxpayers, rrr1-", . ... SZ. m $ k - shipship again this year of the . " ..ul ' , I ihiDshio again this year of the iwemyiour m u.c ucvr,, " r- an. nual campaign during April. states have called for a conven tion to consider the amendment, but eicht later rescinded the action. Swindells is state president of the society's Oregon division. ' ThftM nt lie wtin havst nn C2T-,.1? engaged in the fight against 1 - l nnM. Wnr minv vain knnw what a tremendous task it is to cent post card' Tart A A bill repealing the 10 per direct a county-wide campaign,' cent surcharge on post cards he said, "and we want to express bought in lots of $50 or more our sincere thanks to Mrs. Day in effect making the 50th card I for joining the crusade against cost 12 cents instead of 2 cents the nation's No. 2 killer, was passed by the Senate Febru- - ----ary uTrA by the House March BUDGET BOOK PWHTED Vw ..,.. h. .ff-rt in Copies of "The Federal Bud Wl. wasafanedatrnakint e m.Brl"- "3?" govern- commercial user, of the port LfSSi ST cards pay more. Quantity users .1? ta now 4V Cans at a RmmmiMt dj..: (Copyright 1852. office, Washington 25. D. C, it Dngressiooal Quaxtely) .'was announced today. . i Sportsmanship To the Editor: What Is "Good Sportsmanship?" Is it god sportsmanship to bar any breed of retriever or even any cross-bred dog- from field trials just because the officers and members of a club are pro moting certain breeds from their own kennels for personal gain? Is it good sportsmanship to bar shoot down tame pigeons and farm-raised pheasants about as wild as old biddy hens? Just about as fair as throwing live ducks with wines tied into lake for dogs to retrieve which is done in training. This seems to be on a par with chain ing raccoons to logs for dogs to fight as is done in Arkansas or with a "brave" bull fighter-kill ing a pint-sized bull, pain-crazed from darts shot by other "brave men from the backs of old crippled horses. ' . . ' How inconsistent can we be? A dove is the international em blem of peace yet each season the mighty hunters show their prowess in stumbling over one another to shoot their quota of these useful, harmless birds, now in diminishing numbers. Isn't it rather inconsistent to raise fowls on game farms and maintain a game refuge at great public ex pense just for the wholesale slaughter of these same creatures later on. Just as much sport as shooting a cow in a corral yet how proud these deer killers are I with the lifeless body - draped over their car and it is called good sportsmanship." Men have been put in prison because they dare to say that un warranted killing is morally wrong while others who enjoy killing creatures of field and forest use any legal trick or ali bi to. avoid.- military service their patriotism consisting per haps of holding some cushiony political job. Still they call themselves "sportsmen." John C. Abbott, Central Point- J'ville Road, Central Point, Ore. " TRIPLE THREAT MAN Herried, S. D. (U.R) Clar ence Bauer is a triple threat offi cial. He is chief of police, water commissioner and street commissioner. feated them is urging them to arm again to take their place in the lineup of nations 'against communism. 'V Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway spelled it out for the Japanest the other day. He said that the United Na tions ,by going to the aid of Korea against the Communists, had staved off a very real Red threat to ' Japan as well as to South Korea. And he warned that Commu nism in Japan is following the same path that it did in China. Communist actions, he said, are proof "that the aims, of the Soviet military power are now directed toward control of Ja pan." It is taken for granted that the Japanese will take the Unit ed States' and Ridgway's advice. Premier S h i g e r u Yoshida'a government is strongly anti-Communist. Among the people, the Com munists are vocal but not over ly popular. The Reds did have five seats in the Japanese sen ate but lost one of them in the last election. Nationally, the Japanese are fully; aware that the: Russians refused to sign the San Fran cisco peace treaty last fall, and Russia still has not given satis factory answers as to the where abouts of some 300,000 Japanese taken prisoner by the Russians in the closing days of World War IL The Way Out of Trouble For countless thousands Christian Science is daily proving to be the "table in the wilderness." In the modern world, which turns for health to healing systems that often fail to bring release Christian Science has be come for multitudes the long-promised Comforter. : By thoughtful study of its remarkable textbook Science and Health with , Key to the Scriptuth life's tangled problems are steadily solved and health replaces hopelessness. Difiv ' cuities of home and human relationships yield. ' ' These are large claims, without doubt Yet your . neighbors who are Christian Scientists gratefully testify that the study of Science and Health has brought lasting and increasing freedom from every sort of problem. . That is why they have authorized these adverrise- . ments for your considers- tion. ,: - Science and Health may be bought, read, or borrowed at Christian Science READING ROOM 228 West Sixth Street MEDFOBJt or send $3 and a copy in the blue doth Library Edition .will be mailed postpaid. Yov arm invited to mske full nM of : die above sod other public Read ins Rooou (list in roar neighbor hood ent on request) . Information cooceroinc re public lectures, church services sod Sunday School is also available ia these . IFdDH . . . 414 mMGS Tht folks of this community hava xoiM'to us in their hoar of sor , row . . .Mod haro always bean . . highly ptosed with Perl's undr ' standing ' and complete sarvlca Tho cost, of course, is always do- -tertnined by riioso wo servo here. 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