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TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WdaMar. Arm t. ms MedfordUITribuni Everyone in Southern Oregoa Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R- GILS TRAP. Manage HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CB3PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: riailv Siinriav-mi vear 112 riailv anH Sunday six months 6 Daily and Sunday three moi. Twii .1 c..inw twim mnnth XJtiLiy OUU .J uiiuu.- Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $19 00 Daily and Sunday one month l-2o All Terms Cash in Advance 00 .10 3.50 1.25 Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVodhATldN ZJ S t I Flight . Nt"irri FUtllSHftS ASSOCIATION or Time Madtord and Jackson County His tory from the files of the Mail Tribuno 10, 20. 30 and 40 roar 10 YEARS AGO April 9. 1942 (It was Thursday) Southern Oregon water fore cast committee, in seventh an nual meeting here, predicts sharp water shortage in Medford and Rogue River districts. From Arthur Perry'i Ye Smudge Pot column: When long er logs are hauled by truck, they will be hauled down Central avenue. 20 YEARS AGO April 9. 1932 (It was Saturday) First " nasseneer and . mail plane, a 40-B-4, arrives at Med- fnrrl municipal aiTDOlt from Oakland, Calif. v Local weather bureau reports that March, 1932, was the wet test March here in 21 years with 2.43 inches of rainfall. 30 YEARS AGO April 9, 1922 (It was Sunday) Southern Pacific railroad offi cials report that 95.7 per cent of its passenger trains were on time here during March, 1922. State education authorities an nounce that sessions of the Ash land unit of the Oregon State Normal school are assured for the summer of 1922. 40 YEARS AGO April 9, 1912 at was Tuesday) Mining engineers report Blue Ledge Copper mine near Med ford will produce 240,000 tons of ore. Contract awarded lor con struction of municipally owned Medford public market, low bid is $1,787. Cities Given Greater Fund-Raising Freedom Chicago (U.R) States are granting cities greater fredom in obtaining revenue to meet rising costs, according to the Municipal Finance Officers as sociation. . , "The tendency of the past five years for .states to give munici palities an opportunity to choose their own revenue . sources ap peared to continue through 1951," the association said. "At least 14 states passed laws last year permitting their cities to levy new taxes. These" reve nue authorization grants were undoubtedly predicated on the urgent need for additional funds with which to meet inflated budgetary costs." ' COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor most bear the name and address of the writei although under certain eireunw stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail ' Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters srith a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication most not exceed 4ft words. Crosstovn 17 In the Day's News Br FRAMK JENKINS From Washington: The Truman administration's c 1 a n-u p-the-government pro gram will be run by the depart ment of Justice (which is itself under investigation) if President Truman's choice of a new attor ney general (Federal Judge Mc Granery) Is confirmed by the senate." IF I had been tapping the till and suspicion to that effect had got around and there was businesslike talk of calling in an auditor to see what had been going on, I'm pretty sure I'D LIKE TO BE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE MYSELF. How Huron Built An Auditorium While Medford is pondering how to go about! j?x 3 -a i. - i;t-x ? securing a civic aucuionum u nugni oe enugiuening to consider the case of Huron, S.D., which has just dedicated a brand new $900,000 auditorium and ath letic arena capable of seating the town's entire pop ulation of around 13,000 people. T'HE little central South Dakota town didn't come - oy its uitra-moaern structure me easy way u took about fifteen years and four elections to swing it and the Huromans are justly proud of their ac complishment. Here's the story as told by the Huron Daily Plains man: In April, 1937, Huron voters approved a 1200,000 audi torium bond issue but an argument as to the site followed and so split the city that in a second referendum in Decem ber of the same year the entire proposition was defeated. In May, 1938, supporters brought the auditorium issue to a vote again, this time for a $123,000 bond issue. It failed by only 128 votes. Then came years of watching the crowds o to Aber deen, Mitchell and Sioux Falls (nearby cities) for athletic tournaments, big conventions and large-scale entertainments. Every time Huronians wanted to see a big stage show, a large convention or big athletic tournament, they had to go to another city. Virtually unnoticed, back taxes bean to be paid into the Huron school district fund in the late 1930 s and early 1940 s, and accumulated. Invested, the money also drew interest and by 1949 the fund reached $203,000. Public opinion talked up an auditorium bond proposal. A group of supporters met and named a chairman for an auditorium committee. The school board transferred the $203,000 into a "special auditorium building fund; a date was ret for a vote on the bond issue; an architect was chosen to make preliminary plans to show the public; the site was selected definitely and the campaign was conducted for the arena through the press, radio and speakers. Voters overwhelmingly endorsed a $330,000 bond issue on December 15, 1949, by better than a five-to-one majority, in a record-breaking turnout. No group or individual publicly campaigned against the issue. With such a remarkably overwhelming sentiment for an arena, the school board immediately borrowed the money, set up its 13-year repayment plan, gave the archi tect the go-sign, bought the site, let the general contract in the summer of 1950, and kept the building job going to completion. I JSE and maximum revenue is assured through a somewhat unique arrangement. A group of Huron citizens, organized and incorporated, will ad minister the arena-auditorium, booking entertain ment and acting as a clearing house in scheduling large events. Individual promoters, clubs and other organizations are expected and encouraged to rent the arena and sponsor programs, shows and athletic events. The group will function on a non-profit basis and if a profit is shown, above receipts required to retire the building bonds, the surplus will go to some char ity selected by the members. There was need for such an administrative set-up as the school board could not legally risk district tax money in underwriting any entertainment functions requiring guarantees. IJNIQUE design of the Huron structure will permit practically any type of entertainment, program or meeting which may be desired. The stage is built in sections and may be arranged to accommodate anything from a single orator to a brass band. As many as three basketball games may be played at one time on the arena floor. There are kitchens, eight public wash rooms, shower rooms, four concession stands, dressing rooms, two large check rooms, and other conveniences. The building boasts the latest in radiant heating systems, an elaborate 31-unit public address system and last, but not least, a commodious press box, adequately fenced off so that newsmen covering events in the auditorium or arena may work without hindrance. TF, and when, Medford and the National Guard get A together on plans for a building to take care of mil itary needs and civic events, we suggest that a dele gation be sent to Huron to inspect that city's auditorium-arena. Money expended for such purpose would be well spent E.C.F. Ten Years Ago Today Ten years ago today American and Filipino troops Ti. 1 J J iL r .i , i un uaiaan iaia aown meir arms aiier one oi ine nara- ,, v.... u. .Mther-in-law est-f oueht and bloodiest battles of the war in the win fix the beds but if a hankT l- IX. tWetoY Ism Vaj racuic. tf Roland Co UTTsS "I arsonn It's a piaoonv AS I was coming up from the news room this morning with a handful of teletype ropy, one of the boys in the shop said to me: "Any good news today?"' I answered flippantly: There hasn't been any GOOD news in years." I was wrong. The copy I held in my hand contained a dispatch relating that Racketeer Costello who for years has beaten efforts to put him behind bars was CONVICTED last night of con tempt of the senate and faces 10 years in prison. That is good news. It is ALWAYS good news when wrongdoers are punished. Only by punishing WRONGDO ING can we maintain a moral society. BUT there was a FLY in the ointment The dispatch tell ing of Costello's conviction con tained this paragraph: "Government Prosecutor Miles J. Lane, who finally tripped the Italian-born racketeer, hailed the jury's verdict of guilty as turning point' he said it is proof that no man, no matter how cunning or po'rfl he may seem to be. CAN BE BIG GER THAN THE GOVERN MENT ITSELF." I wish he hadn't put it that way. I wish he had said: "NO ONE MAN can be bigger than THE PEOPLE." I'm frankly scared of a federal government that is BIGGER THAN ANY ONE MAN. I can't help thinking of Gainxa Paz. the enlightened and liberal editor and publisher of La Prensa. who was driven into exile after his great newspaper had been con fiscated by the dictatorially pow erful (TOO powerful) govern ment of Argentina. rllS dispatch is from New York and if you read it understand ingly you will agree that it Is significant of the times we live in: -Everybody STOOD AROUND in the stock market today (Sat urday) and did virtually nothing. Prices moved over a range cov ered by a major fraction either way. Many leading stocks held unchanged throughout the ses sion, and many more didn't even trade at alL The approaching steel strike was the cause of the doldrums. The strike is set for midnight Tuesday, and the steel compan ies already have started shut down operations. rpHETRE wondering if STEEL IS TO BE NATIONAL IZED as in England for the government has threatened, you know, to SEIZE the steel plants if their owners refuse to meet the terms laid down by the gov ernment for settling the strike. In England, nationalizing of steel and other industries follow ed vigorous political campaign in which NATIONALIZATION was frankly and admittedly the issue. There the people deliberately CHOSE SOCIALISM by their ballots. Here socialism is CREEP ING UP ON US BY STEALTH. Our federal government already holds the railroads and has held them for long time. By this time next week, it may hold the steel Industry. That would be a long step to ward socialism a nd yet the American people have NEVER signified by their votes in an election in which that was frank ly the issue that they want so cialism. HERE in the West, the federal government already owns ap proximately half of our total land area. In the frightening Santa Margerita case down in Southern California, it is reach ing for ownership of the water, without which ALL of our una would be valueless. The federal government al ready has seized the railroads. It is threatening now to seize the steel industry. What industry will be the NEXT to be seized? I. for one, don't like the trend. It scares me. As Wc Live nJXAHTM muilock, w.o. (Q) "Mr moihor-la-law Uvea with us. I work and have to cook. dean. wash, and shop when coma SPEBSQSA Appreciative . To the Editor: The members of Medford (Rogue Valley) Ore. chapter SPEBSQSA wish to thank you for the excellent pub licity given to our March 22 parade of quartets. It was great ly appreciated by aU and added much to the success of our pro gram. V . Del Sloan, Secretary Medford (Rogue Valley) Ore. Chapt SPEBSQSA. THE odds were with the enemy from the start for .Tartan was nhlp tn hurl srtmo 70 OOfl veteran frnnna v - v v w mm ms uvtiiv va w v v w vvi wn ve. w fw against 11,000 American soldiers and 68,000 Fili pinos, most of the latter being recent recruits. Our Asiatic fleet was not a factor and our air force, except for a token remnant had been wiped out. Though they were besieged on land and block aded by sea, cut off from all help from the Philippines or America, lacking food, medicine and war material, with two-thirds of the survivors near the end and suf fering from wounds and disease, the defenders fought on heroically for over three months in the jungle fast nesses and along the rugged coast. o o o a a T-HOUGH the battle of Bataan was lost, historians agree that the delaying action there badly dis rupted Japanese plans. And something more, it served to more firmly bind the ties of friendship be tween the Philippines and the United States. E.C.F. Valuable Bible Found In College Cbsnup Carthage, HI. (U.R) An an cient and valuable' Bible, lost for 29 years, was found during a . spring - house-cleaing at Car thage College.. . - The Bible,' ' printed in 1734. was presented to the school , in 1923 by J. D. Cheney of Men don, 111., and bears record of the Cheney family dated as early as 1750. It was placed apparently in a wall safe in the college bus iness office and overlooked un til the cleanup. ' Officials said the- volume, though yellowed, and thumb worn, was still easily readable. The long-crested blue jay is a common and conspicuous resi dent on both rims of the Grand Canyon. la left in bed the night before. It is stttl in the bed after she makes It. She never picks mp the shoes or clothes that are left en the floor. No matter what she does. I have to go behind her and do it over. I have told her nicely several times hew I want things done and she always says "yes" and that's all. Then she tells say husband that she cannot please me. She reads all day and lies down. She pays as ao sooner and I think she should do snore to help at home. What can I do to get her to help snore T , Mrs.R. (A) If you want your mother-in-law to do more to help you. you must show greater appre- oFM-vjaa elation for r iy I what she does. any strong in centive to do things for a critical and fault finding person. As people grow older, tHv am anf tn D. Has lack leM careful about their work. Just as they are about their personal appear ance, than they were when they were younger. You cannot ex pect your mother-in-law to do things as carefully as you your self might do them. But if they are done it saves you that much work and time. In the first place, all members mm of your family should take more responsibility for their own pos sessions. Your mother-in-law should not have to pick up clothes or shoes left on the floor. The person who left them there should have picked them up before your mother-in-law did up the room. All Should Share la Work - Then, secondly, if you are working, every member of the family should share the work required to run the home. Why can't some member of the fam ily help you with the 'shopping. another with the washing and ironing, and another with the cooking? To get this help, however, you must change your attitude. You cannot expect everyone to do things just as you would like to have them done. If they help you carry the burden of running your home, while you are out working most of the day, that is all you can expect. If on the other hand, you must have a perfectly run home to be happy. there is nothing left for you to do but to give up your job and devote your time exclusively to your home. If tn have problem about family or friend, ask Dr. Hux leck to kelp yon. Write la vul of this newspaper. (Copyright 1952. General Features Corp.) Salem. (UJ9 The Salem office of the state employment service issued a call Tuesday for hopyard workers in the Inde pendence area. Ccsgrcssiensl Quiz Ourt:Mns anS Answers on What Coos aa at tka Capital, mmishs C cm Ml mil Quarterly Kw rmraraa. O What were the provisions of the Japanese peaea treaty? A The treaty would formally end the war and recognize Japa nese sovereignty. It records Japan's intention to apply for UN membership and live peace ably according to UN principles, states that Japan renounces title to Korea, Formosa and other islands, and obligates Japan to pay reparations in surplus as sets such as excess labor and un used plant capacity. Approval by only one more nation was needed after the U. S. Senate voted rati fication of the treaty March 20. Q My husband, who is a vet eran, wants to buy a house with a VA loan guarantee, but he can't find a lender. What can he do? A A 1950 law lets the Veter ans Administration make direct home and farmhouse loans to the approximately 30 per cent of the ex-servicemen living in areas where private lending at four per cent is unavailable. Although the $150 million originally au thorized for direct loans has been used up. a bill to add another $125 million was passed by the Houe Feb. 19. Individual loans are limited to 510.000. The "di rect loan" area comprises nearly 90 per cent of the U.S. Q Can lobbies stop making reports, since parts of the lobby law were ruled unconstitutional? A This is a situation left by the March 17 special court ruling In Washington, D. C: Technical ly, the 1946 law was still in ef fect, but prosecution of violators was unlikely, pending a Supreme Court ruling. Lobbies could an ticipate high-court approval of the ruling, or play safe and con tinue to make reports in case of reversal. Individual lobbyists, although not covered specifically in the ruling, had the same choice because the penalty clause was struck out. O Do ex-Presidents or their wives receive pensions or re tirement pay? A Neither ex-Presidents nor ex-Vice-Presidents receive retire ment pay or pensions by virtue of their White House service. But Congress has made it a practice to grant their widows something extra to live on $5,000 a year for life to a President's widow and $3,000 for a Vice-President's widow. Current recipients are Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Coolidge. $5,000 each, and Mrs. Marshall, widow of a former Vice-President, $3,000. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt declined the pension. Q How many former mem ben of Congress are now draw ing retirement pay? A Sixty-six. Retirement pay for former legislators began with passage of the Legislative Re organization Act of 1946. (Copyright 1952, Congressional Record) WRESTLING FANS FUSSY Syracuse. N. Y. (U.R) Ar nold M. Abrann learned the pain ful way that whistling and wres tling don't mix. Abrann's merry whistling during a wrestling match so irked two other fans that they hit him on the head, cutting his right ear. Spark To Touch Off South African Racial Explosion Expected 1'kil Nensoa By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The Union of South 'Africa tinder-box could explode at any moment. Source of the explosion would be the resent ment which has smou 1 d e r e d for more than 5 0 years against so-call ed "ghetto" laws by which the vastly out- numbered European or white popula tion has sought to curb the Negro and Indian population. The spark to touch it off would be generated in the policies of a heavy-set, balding, smooth-shaven rather grim looking man in horn-rimmed glasses who began his career as a preacher in Dutch reformed churches of the Transvaal and Cape provinces. He is Prime Minister Daniel F. Nalan, chief disciple of "apart heid which would divide all persons of "color" from the whites. Malan favors segregation, in all departments in fields rang ing from marriage to separate queues at postoffices. Bit Test Made A bit test of Malan's policies came recently when the South African Supreme Court tossed out a law which would have removed some 50,000 half-castes from the common voters' role of the Cape Province, lumping them into a separate list where they would elect four white rep resentatives to the House As sembly from four constituencies. The ruling so enraged Malan that he now is moving to take from the courts their right to rule on the constitutionality of laws. Many European whites are aroused against Malan and are demanding new elections in or der to get his government out of office, but, more important, his "apartheid" policies seem also to be uniting the Negroes and Indians of South Africa as they never have been. Campaign Prepared The result is that groups rep resenting Negroes, Indians and half-castes now are preparing a union-wide civil disobedience campaign. They promise it will be non violent, but, remembering the violence which accompanied the civil disobedience campaigns in India a few years ago and the racial riots which flare easily in South Africa, such a. hope seems scarcely possible. Bloodshed Seems Certainty Bloodshed seems a certainty. There are in South Africa about 2,850,000 Asiatics, most of whom are in the Durban area; a little more than 2,000,000 whites and nearly 10,000,000 Negroes. Many of South Africa's, disor ders in the past have been be tween Negoes who in the citiea are ill-housed and ill-fed and the Indians who are the shopkeep ers. Now,' however, the two groups are uniting against laws which they say they had no voice in passing. Editorial Comment Taft vs. Eisenhower The chief fact is the Eisen hower -Taft confrontation. In Wisconsin Warren and Stassen vied with one another to attract the pro-Eisenhower vote. Mr. Warren made it clear that his delegates would be released to the general; Mr. Stassen took the unprecedented step of offering up in advance one-half of his winnings such as they might be. The tenor of their two cam paigns showed that their indi vidual candidacies are not to be taken too seriously at this point; and their joint total," some 115 thousand over Mr. Taft's, was a measure of the Eisenhower ap peal. In line with these develop ments was the slight vote gained by the MacArthur stand-ins. This narrowing down of the Republican race is a testimony to the political strength which Eisenhower has built up through the New Hampshire and Minne sota primaries. Opposing candi dates like Warren and Stassen move more and more in his orbit and draw strength from him. As this happens the only realis tic interpretation of the figures is to add up the anti-Taft vote. In Wisconsin this addition leaves Taft in a minority; in Nebraska, with Stassen's total added to the write-in vote for Eisenhower, the result is an impressive evidence of popular feeling. Assuming the MacArthur support would go to Taft, the figure would be: pro Taft, roughly 60,000; anti-Taft, roughly 77,000. The showing made by Mr. Taft need not be minimized; indeed to do so could ' lead to dangerous over-confidence in the Eisenhower camp. Yet the realities of the political situation are too clear to be de nied. The popular support for Eisenhower which is now di vided and which expresses itse'i through rival candidacies will soon coalesce; and the Eisen hower candidacy will then stand plainly forth in its true propor tions. N. Y. Herald-Tribune (Republican). Million of homes keep 100 TABLET BOTTLE, 0NIY43C How Does Christian Science Heal? MANY persons are asking about Christian Science. They would like to know more about its healing power and why it is that Christian Science brings so much health, happiness, freedom, and serenity to the earnest seeker. One of the best ways to learn about Christian Science is to attend A Free Lecture entitled "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE LIVING LIGHT OF CHRIST, TRUTH" By Jean M. Snyder, C. S. B., of Buffalo, New York Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts Friday, April 1 1th at 8 p. m. in Medford Junior High School Auditorium WEST SECOND STREET AT OAKDALE First Church of Christ, Scientist Medford, Oregon Cordially Invites You to Attend
