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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
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. 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.)
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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) -
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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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