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FOURTEEN MTDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Evcryoee in Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune Published Dally Xxeept Saturday by HCDVOJtD PBIMTIIf O CO. Xl-M North Tlr St. - FhoM 34141 BOBZRT W. RUHL. Editor KKNZST R. GILSTKAP, BXKB GREY. AdverttsiBs; Manager S. C. rZRCUSON. Manaalns Kdltor DUC ALLEN JR.. Citr Editor HARHY CHIPMAN. TelecrapR Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. , Aa Independent Kewspepe Entered a second claas matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ef March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year 919.00 Daily and Sunday eix months 6 JO Daily and Sunday three moa. 130 Daily and Sunday one month 129 By Carrier In A d v a n c c Medford. Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point . Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year 913-00 - Daily and Sunday one month 1-U All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Ceaaty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST.HOLLU3AY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De. . troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Lout. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATION At . fOITOtlAt l6TgH NCWSPAPtt PUBUSHIIt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time MedTerd md Jackie Ceaatv Hie lar trees the files ef the Mail TrHwae 10. 20. 30 ami 40 10 YEARS AGO April 3, 1942 (It was Friday) rnarpnee Edwards. Medford, returns home from Midway is land, after being evacuated ioi lowing Japanese attack. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The burg now boasts three horse and bug gy travellers. So far they have not had a triple crash at a busy corner. The drivers all say it is cheaper than gasoline and better than walking. . 20 YEARS AGO April 3, 1932 (It was Sunday) Medford school board votes to cut District . 49 operating ex penses by some $50,000. - . Large crew of workmen starts construction of interior of new Jackson county courthouse at Main street and Oakdale avenue. 30 YEARS AGO April 3. 1922 ' . (It was Monday) Jackson county realtors report property values in Jacksonville have doubled since early 1921. ' Government sources indicate that all appropriations including funds for Crater Lake National park roads may be "slashed to the bone." 40 YEARS AGO April 3, 1912 ' (It was Wednesday) Rogue valley property own ers meet to form organization favoring "a more equitable dis tribution of taxes. All pear orchardists in Med ford area report .trees n earing full bloom. Hearing Continues In Crash of Plane Seattle U.R) Civil Aeronau tics board hearing into the crash of a Korean airlift plane which resulted in the deaths of 36 per sons last Jan. 19 continued here Thursday. . E. S. Cox, flight manager for Northwest airlines,, told the board Wednesday that one of the plane's four engines quit an hour before it approached the field at Sandspit, B.C., then, suddenly pulled up and crashed into the sea. ' Cox said the pilot apparently had less than 30 seconds to fol io w regular procedures in "ditching" the aircraft. The pi lot must have touched down on the airstrip and then taken "off again - because he feared the plane would not stop before it reached the end of the runway, he. said. Early End Expected On Television Ban Chicago (U.PJ The chairman of the . Federal Communications Commission predicts that the government's ban on new tele vision stations will be lifted within two weeks. i Paul A. Walker said a three month period to permit filing of new applications will follow the lifting of the ban. He said an estimated 1,000 new applications would be filed. The FCC's "freeze" . on tele vision' has been in effect three and a half years. How About Us? The Congressional Record recently carried a speech by Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana in which he mentioned among other things the voting habits of the people of Martinique, one of the Wind ward Islands. The senator quoted the Intelligence Digest to the effect that bad conditions in that some what benighted isle are mostly due to the inhabitants' disinterest in politics. Less than forty per cent of the voters take the trouble to go to the polls, said he. e.eee-e AT THIS distance, the natural observation is: "What can such dumb people expect? Don't even vote when they have a chance." Such apathy does seem hard to understand but before we condemn the people of Martinique let's take a look at our own record. Right here in Jackson county where, we like to think, dwell the most enlightened people in the world, the right of franchise is passed up by around 22 per cent of. those eligible. A CCORDLNG to figures published this week, about "27,000 have registered out of a population of some 57,000. Allowing for 21,500 too young to vote, and adding these to the number of eligibles who have registered we find something like 8,000 to 8,500 resi dents still unregistered. "Pretty dumb, the people of Martinique," did we say? How about us? E.C.F. Pipeline Pipedreams The Oregonian recently commented editorially on plans to pipe natural gas and petroleum from Cana dian fields to the Pacific Northwest and quoted a mem orandum inserted in the Congressional Record by Senator Wayne L. Morse in which the latter pointed out that Oregon and Washington should have Cana dian oil, as well as natural gas, by pipeline. CUCH a line, according to the memorandum, could "come into the United States near the Washington Idaho line, thence southwestward, passing near Spo kane to the Seattle-Tacoma area with the fine extend ing south to Portland. Thus, the line would provide oil for the refinery at Spokane, and provide a source of oil for new refineries to be built in the Seattle Tacoma and Portland areas which afford ideal refin ery location in that plants could be built on deep water for ocean transportation but located 50 to' 100 miles from the Pacific shoreline." The memorandum, said The Oregonian, does not take note of the fact that contracts were let in Decem ber for the construction of an $80,000,000 pipeline along an all-Canadian route from Edmonton to Van couver, B. C, thus apparently shutting out the North west states. The Oregonian went on to say that producers now in the Portland market have contemplated piping crude either from Canada or. from the new-found fields in Montana. "The Alberta and Montana fields, the potentialities of which are just becoming known, may well make the Pacific Northwest independent of California oil reserves within the next few years," the Portland newspaper added. A RUMOR circulating recently in the. Medford re gion has it that a pipe line is to be built through this section. Where the line is supposed to go and by whom it is to be built are details which those claim ing to be "in the know" are unable or unwilling to supply. One version is that the line is to run from Crescent City on the coast and supply this territory with gaso line from tanker ships. . Though the rumors have seemed pretty far on the fantastic side, the Mail Tribune tried to find someone that would admit having definite information on the subject Thus far the pipeline seems to be mostly a "pipedream." E.C.F. Fugitive Fathers The "fugitive father" law, enacted at the last ses sion of the Oregon legislature to make possible the extradition of men who flee to other states to escape supporting their children, is headed for its first test in this part of the state. . - . K JOSEPHINE county woman who obtained a "divorce from her husband there in 1948, was awarded the custody of a minor child and $50 a month for the child's support. In a complaint filed last week she alleges that the former husband is now $550 in arrears, in the support payments and she asks that he be extradited from his present home in Crescent City, Calif., and made to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court. Section 5 of the hew law provides that defendants in desertion or non-support cases may be extradited from states where there is reciprocal legislation. Cali fornia has such an agreement with Oregon and it is too bad that extradition cannot be had in all non support cases, regardless of to what state the husband may flee. llE ARE not conversant with the details of the T" Grants Pass complaint, said to be the first under the "fugitive father" law to be filed in either Jose phine or Jackson counties, but the case will be watched with interest for there have been too many instances where fathers have, skipped out leaving families oftentimes to become public wards. E.C.F. WEATHER : By United Press . Northern" California: Fair Thursday and Friday except cloudy - extreme north Friday; local coastal fog. . ... TaarWey, April 9. 1M1 The National Board ef Fire Underwriters says that, though matches and cigarettes start three out. of every-10 fires, the really damaging blazes originate In household trash, ... Crccstovn "Asa you actually charging such a price for ttaakt I thought my wife was exaggerating.' Matter of Fact TRUMAN'S MEMO TO TRUMAN Washington As readers of that curious book, "Mr. Presi dent," must be aware, one of Harry S. Truman's most strong ly marked habits is composing memoranda from himself to him self. His purpose is to clarify his views on the questions con sidered by setting them down on paper in logical order. After he has labored through a long and lonely evening on one of these compositions, which he commonly writes in longhand, he has made up his mind and plainly charted his future course. . It can now be disclosed on undoubted authority that the President's decision not to run again was first embodied in one of these memoranda from him self to himself, which he wrote about two years ago. The paper, communicated only to the Presi dent's closest intimates, gave a long series of reasons against seeking a third term and offered none in favor. And ever since setting up this guidepost for himself, the President has fol lowed it without deviation, ex cept for one brief period of doubt. This interlude of uncertainty, as was natural, occurred this winter when the deadline of dis closure was approaching. In January, Truman had urged Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Il linois to become an active candi date, and had tentatively prom ised Stevenson White House support. Stevenson's refusal to declare himself had disappointed and irritated Truman. He was and is mortally opposed to the candidacy of Sen. Estes Kefau ver. He considers that his friend. Sen. Robert Kerr, is unfortu nately disqualified from being Democratic standard-bearer. And because of the threat of a change in American foreign policy, the President further believes that the election of Sen Robert A. Taft wiU be a national disaster, e e WITH Stevenson reluctant to " seek the Dmnncratir nnmins. tion, with Taft then given by far the best chance to get the nomination of the Republicans, and with no other suitable Demo cratic ' candidate in sioht th President wavered from his for mer determination for a few weeks. But even though he thought he could beat Taft if he ran, he ended by deciding not to try it. And this decision was reached mmt time? hfnr New Hampshire, Minnesota and ew jersey so sharply altered the Ohio Senator's prospects. It is an interesting commen tary on Truman's power to keep nis own counsel that the great majority of his nersonal rntnu. rage did not have an inkling of me xinauty of the President's choice, while even those who were aware the President had chosen did not think he would make his announcement last Sat urday evening. EquaUy, the rea sons for not running again, which the President listed back in 1950, are still of interest as revealing the peculiar workings of his mind. Naturally, in view nt th Hat these reasons did not .include the corruption issue, , the candi dacy of General of the Army Dwifht D. Eisenhower, thm Am. cline in the President's personal popularity, or any of the other current lacrore which are sup posed to have influenced Tru man. . More surnrisineiv - th President's memorandum is un derstood to have placed very little emohasis indeed on hi own age, Mrs. Truman's strong desire to leave the White House, or any of the other personal con siderations which he must sure ly have -weighed carefully, e e- e INSTEAD, although the Presi A dent outwardly seems so down-to-earth and anti theotvti. caL his theory of the Presidency was wnat ne most stressed in his paper. Although he was elected when Franklin Roosevelt v running for his fouth term, Tru man dislikes the whole notion of ; individual dispensability. He personally. favored the Ey CsJancf Cm y Jsssah aa4 Stewart Alas - I amendment limiting all Presi- dents to two terms hereafter. And he has even told a few of those close to him that he would like to see a President's service restricted to a single term of six years "Two years to get his feet on the ground," as he is reported, to have said, and then "four more years to get his job done. - Besides his objection to any man continuing too long in the White House, it is further under stood that the President included in . the paper another favorite private theory. In brief, he is convinced that great . political changes occur in surging waves. which rise and ebb with an in evitable regularity. He thinks further that the long wave which started with the election of Roosevelt in 1932 is now plain ly on the ebb. And this ebb, he believes, will almost inevitably prevent immediate acceptance of his Fair Deal program, although he never ceases to predict that all its objectives wiU be met in the end. Not thinking that he ought to run again, therefore, and in addition expecting four years of frustration to be the reward of reelection, the President quietly reached the decision , which he has now revealed. The whole episode, with its peculiar timing ana characteristic touches, only reinforces the impression that there is a good deal more to Harry Truman than the' cocky little man . who meets the eye ai t a press conference. (Copyright. 1952. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) COMMUNICATIONS Letters te the Miter Bast tear Uie aasae aa address at the wrltci aHheofh under certala ctrcaav staaces the ase ef a pea Basse er Initial for aahUcatiea le permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right te edit all letters with a view te clarMicatiea and coadea satten. Letters submitted fer pub licities mast Bet exceed words. Grosbeaks To The Editor: Replying to Mrs. George W. Atkins concern ing the many cream colored thick-biUed birds, that she and others have asked about The MaU Tribune commented short ly ago that the feathered mi grants are undoubtedly the eve ning grosbeak. They seem to be making an unusually long stay in and around the pear capital. Though they are seed eaters, they go for fruit some. They are tame birds like the robin and as gregarious but not so much so as the blackbird with its synchronized flight gyrations so hard to understand. But un like the robin who will nest in a nearby rosebush or over the porch doqr, the grosbeak seeks the lonely forest habitat Your writer was fortunate to get the grosbeak's evening song on sound tape. It was near Bission Creek some 30 miles north of Medford. The evening sun high lighted the colors of the feath ered songster, truly a fine singer, perched as usual atop a tall fir. The robin, too, on occasion. A record was obtained of his singing that was highlighted by an obligato like echo against a backdrop of dense forest on the shore of Flathead lake in Mon tana. Protesting my presence there, or having no yen for singing, that small reporter of the wood. a pine squirrel had to get in his scolding nickle s worth, the big 25-inch speaker used as a mike, picking up every sound far and near,, just one of the many wor ries of the sound catcher. . F. J. Clifford, 1319 South Stage Road Medford, Ore.. . On Sportsmen's Conduct - To the Editor: A few com ments on Mr. M. M. It's letter to the Editor on April 1: I'm in full agreement on tak ing off the hunting cap to the hunter who consistently gets doves, they're not. "sitting ducks".' But what have you when you get the little critter? I'm in favor of eating whatever In the Day's Hem By FRANK JERKINS Ma? Mum! Nathins? mueh to do but twiddle our fingers and wait tui uie zinai returns come in from Wisconsin and Nebraska. Second, and PLEAS ANTER, thought It's better to be waiting for nm tit what the neonle have done on their own account than to be banging around waiting to see WHAT THE POLITICIANS HAVE HANDED US. rpHE Internal revenue bureau is making a drive on non-tax-paying racketeers. It has collect ed 80 million dollars and thinks it has just got started. It is work in on list that contains 37.000 names, and says that so far seven out of every 10 racketeers check ed have been found in arrears in their taxes. i S THAT suprising? Heck, NO! .That's why these rackets pay so well. ANYBODY could make money if he didn't have to pay taxes. Incidentally, collections so far have averaged $18,652 per rack eteer fried out in the income tax pan. The biggest one was $3,334, 805 levied against a guy in Costa Mesa, Calif. He was doing right weU for himself till the tax collectors caught up with him, wasn't he? N ASTY thought: All these rackets are AGAINST THE LAW. That's why they pay off so fabulously. The fact that they're against the law cuts down the competition and the further fact that in gen eral they don't pay taxes has added fantastically to the profit margin. . No wonder they're gold mines. jNOTHER nasty thought: IF the internal revenue bureau (which, by the way, hasn't been whoUy free from racketeering itself) can catch these illegal racketeers and fry out of them the taxes they should have paid, WHY CAN'T OUR LAW EN- FORCEMENT OFFICERS CATCH THEM AND CLAP THEM IN JAIL AND THUS PUT A STOP TO THEIR ILLEGAL OPERATIONS? That IS a nasty one. The deeper into it you go the smellier it gets. WH AT is a racket? I expect a lot of us think of a racket as GAMBLING which, in its various forms, is forbidden in most of our states except Nevada. Is is CERTAINLY for bidden in Oregon, starting m our state constitution and going clear on down through our state laws and our municipal ordi nances. Why do we look the other way when gambling is permitted to exist? I expect that's because we LIKE TO GAMBLE A BIT OUR SELVES and don't want the of ficers of the law getting too nosey. . W AIT a minute. There are nastier, viler rack ets than gambling. Narcotics ped dling, for example. Peddling of narcotics is almost universally forbidden by law. But it's profit able. Very, VERY, profitable Largely because the fact that it is forbidden by law cuts down competition and AVOIDS TAXES. So, you see, unscrupulous pec- I kill and though a sporting match for any man, the dove is not noted for its delectability. Does that help of explain Mr. M. M. M.'s quotation? Now, how about the sports man, so called, who has a chance to knock over a "chink" while supposedly dove hunting and gets away with so doing? Or haven't you noticed the de cline of the pheasant population shortly after dove season opens? They're not all hiding sir! I'm not a sentimentalist but I say let's close the dove season en tirely." Back to the business at hand. I'm for more and better sports men and sportswomen. And I do mean better. As for people with the point of view of Mr. Abbott let us hope they are in the minority. This country has been built and defended by red-blooded men and women who knew how to handle fire-arms. What better way than the way of the sports man to preserve this know-how and spirit! One more word: Our conduct as sportsmen has possibly influ enced the opinion of Mr. Ab bott We know. what is right let's do it! Another War II vet whose slogan is "don't let old field and stream sports die".-. . W. Vf '. H. (Name on File) - Medford Garden Club . ANNUAL . Plant Sale - Animals, Perennials and Skr-bt FRIDAY a. as. te p. as. 309 Easf Oth tertian ft. th'iiiHl Time Thought Near For Easing Tension In World Affairs By PHIL NEWSOM U ailed Press Foreign Analyst We can't be overly optimistic yet but perhaps just perhaps, we are coming into a time of easing world tensions. There have been a number of straws in the wind. One.of course, comes from Gen. Dw i g h t D. Eisenhow er's report that the military tide now is flowing toward I'kil Newsom the West Eisenhower's report on his first year as supreme commander was full of warn ings, but the gist of it was that we are on the right track. Another favorable straw come from none other than Russia's Josef Stalin. He said he didn't believe an other world war was any closer now than it was two or three years ago, small comfort, except that if Russia didn't want to start a fight then, there doesn't seem any more reason for her to do so now. There have been other hopeful indications, too. An example is Russia's appar Taft Hopes To Have 100 Delegates Lined Up By End of Month By LYLE C WILSON Washington.?.) Sen. Rob ert A. Taft's managers expect to have 200 or more Republican national convention delegates actually chosen and friendly to or frozen for the candidate by the end of this month. A minimum nominating ma jority would be 603 convention votes. Taft now counts 100 dele sates already chosen for him; 40 for Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower; 25 for Harold E. Stassen; and six for Gov. Earl Warren of California. , Michigan, Iowa and Idaho se lect full or partial delegate slates this week. Taft expects to pick up strength in all, although not 100 per cent He got four more delegates in Tennessee Wednesday. Five more state presidential primaries ' are scheduled for April Illinois, April 8; New Jersey, April 15; Pennsylvania and New York April 22; Massa chusetts, April 29. Strongest in Illinois Taft, is strongest in Illinois where 60 delegates are to be chosen. He opposes Stassen there. His chances are slim in New Jersey which will choose 38 delegates. Taft entered the New Jersey delegate contest but sought to withdraw when Gov Alfred E. Driscoll endorsed Eisenhower. The time limit had expired and his withdrawal was not honored, although Taft now refuses to acknowledge the con test Stassen and Eisenhower are in that one, too. Pennsylvania will have 70 delegates. A check there in early spring indicated strong Taft sup port as well as a lot of enthus iasm for Ike. Taft's reverse in Npui Hamrjshire and Eisenhow er's writein triumph in Minne sota cooled the lee ling tor tne pie who are looking for a fast buck go into it HERE'S the nastiest thought of alk . Wherever rackets are permit ted to flourish in a BIG way, you can be practically certain that it's because somebody who ought to be enforcing the law is GET TING PAH) FOR NOT ENFORC ING THE LAW. That thought HURTS. T THINK these thoughts I've '- been putting onto paper are PROPER thoughts because if all of us voters voted as thoughtful ly, as intelligently, as PRAYER FULLY as we should we could get the kind of government that would put an end to these evils such as racketeering. What do YOU think about it? Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - FUNERAL Phone ently changed viewpoint toward Germany. A year ago she was saying that Russia would not tolerate a rearmed Western Ger- -many and that war was sure to result. Today she has reversed her position completely, and ad vocates not only a German army but a unified Germany as well. Of course, her changed atti tude toward Germany is for her own reasons, foremost of .which is believed her hope to prevent West German participation in a European army. Regarded as Good But many regard even that as good, inasmuch as it would seem to be Russian recognition of Western Europe's growing power and of the fact that Russia no longer has it all her own way militarily on the continent of Europe. On the other side of the world, the tough U.S. policy toward For mosa seems to be paying off. - Not even the Chinese National ists seems to fear an invasion of Formosa by the Reds as they did only a few months ago. One rea son is the strong stand of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in defense of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's island, and another is the in creased flow of weapons and sup plies to the beleaguered Nation alist forces. senator, and fired the Eisen hower campaign. Taft is not entered in Pennsyl vania where the contest is be- . tween Eisenhower and Stassen." But in Pennsylvania, as in Illi nois and New Jersey, the pre ferential vote on candidates is not binding on delegates. They are chosen separately. Political organizations rather than popular votes will deter mine the actions of delegates from those states and Taft has excellent prospects in Illinois, fair to good prospects in Penn sylvania. His Nebraska and Wisconsin victories this week may encourage his wavering Pennsylvania friends to stand fast for the senator. New York For Ike New York State will choose 86 district delegates April 22 and 10 delegates-at-large at a later date. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey says he will hold the big New York delegation almost solidly for Eisenhower: Taft claims he will take around 20 votes there. Massachusetts has 38 Repub lican convention votes. There is no preferential primary but Taft delegates have been entered throughout the state. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, R-Mass., is top manager of the Ike-for-President campaign. Taft men claim, how ever, that they will pick up some Massachusetts strength. 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