Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 10, 1952, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextMZDFOKD (OKZGOM) Everyone to Southern Orego, Beads The Mail Tribmw Published Daily Except Saturday by mid ford ranmifo co. 27-29 North Fir St. Phooa 34141 ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor ZBNZST R. GILSTRAP. Bfanacar HERB GREY. Advertising Itanagar X. C. FERGUSON. Manaiins Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telefraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. CirculatioB MaT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act a March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bj Mill in ovmw , m naUv and Sunday ona year $1300 . Daily and Sunday i months S.SO Daily and Sunday three mos. 330 Daily and Sunday one month 135 By Carrier In A d a n e e Medford. . Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold BUL Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent ana on mow ruuw. Daily and Sunday one year SIS .00 Official Paper e the City ef Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coaaty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Adven R7ren?ve: Offices in New York. Chicago. Da. troll, aan trancucv. r ' : Seattle, foruana. bi uouia. nuauw Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL E0ITOIIAI NEWSPAPII PUtlMHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford sad Jacks County Mis ter frem the files af the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 sad 40 rears 10 YEARS AGO April 10, 1942 at was Friday) Total of 3,422 Jackson county women agree to work on farms to aid in defense effort; work questionaires returned by 8,846 From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The weath er and the British are still the leading targets for extemporane ous and impromptu cussing. 20 YEARS AGO April 10, 1932 (It was Sunday) Political party registration of voters listed by county clerks shows 10,204 Republicans, 4,501 Democrats, 17 Progressives, 25 Prohibitionists, 60 Socialists and 403 miscellaneous. Floyd Gibbons, famous war correspondent, radio commenta tor and globe trotter, stops briefly in Medford on lecture trip to Portland. 30 YEARS AGO April 10. 1922 (It was Monday) Clarence Pankey, Medford, escapes injury in fall into deep well while building house at Fourth and Apple streets. Alameda district miner re ports rich gold discovery on Briggs creek southwest of Grants Pass. 40 YEARS AGO April 10, 1912 (It was Wednesday) Medford citizens committee announces plans have been com pleted for construction of rail road from here to Blue Ledge copper mine; $75,000 said need ed for project. Local fishing enthusiasts make application to Southern Pacific railroad for construction of aquarium near SP depot "where tourists, travelers and citizens can watch the native trout dis port themselves." Jail Beds Too Hard, Prisoner Declares Piqua, O. U.PJ Pearl Ray Dalton 26, called police here from Sidney, O., and asked if they had a peace warrant for his arrest When he was told yes, Dalton said he was willing to "come in" but didn't care for the jail here because the "beds are too bard." Dalton, named in the warrant sworn out by his wife, . Stella, first tried to telephone the police collect. After the call was de clined, he paid for it himself. The man, who is particular about where he sleeps, offered to surrender to Sidney police be cause the jail there has softer beds. That offer was refused. . Dalton, still determined, man aged to get himself into the cus tody of Sidney police, who ar ranged for his transfer here. - Dalton spent the rest of the night on the hard beds of the jail he wanted to avoid. OUTNUMBERED ' New Britain, Conn. U.R) A 33-year-old - New . Britain man backed up his boast but landed in a jail cell just the same. He told a policeman "the last time I was arrested it took two or three cops to bring me in. "Four policemen joined-forces to land him in a jail cell. - MAIL TKIBTJHC Taft Wins Illinois Although the victory of Senator Taft in Illinois was universally conceded, J a.J il mantel discounted, mere can De no aiioi uus ume as to the decisive character of the triumph. Not only has Taft won state with practically all chief rival for the nomination, beneral casennower came in a poor third; and the man most likely to be the Democratic nominee, Governor Stephenson, also as a write-in candidate, failed to do much better. !0 THE war-dance executed after his successes in ' Wisconsin and Nebraska bv Robert Alonzo. urom- ises to develop into a veritable saturnalia of rejoicing up and down Michigan boulevard, with the irrepres sible and indestructable Colonel Robert McCormick, arch-isolationist reactionary and chief beneficiary of me jJUbeiu cuiu juuurctauc vuitagu niuuiie, juuuug in. II7ELL, so it goes! " There are ups and downs in the political stock- market just as there are in ket After the Minnesota dropped to around 10-below zero and the Eisenhower stock soared close to par, Wisconsm and Nebraska, the positions will be re versed for a time but only for a time. e e a e e SNE swallow doesn't make a summer, and one state doesn't assure a nomination. From the stand point of morale, this break-through in Illinois may rank with the "Battle of the Bulge," but it should not be forgotten that only a few months thereafter, the allies were knocking at the gates of Berlin. History may well repeat itself. When the dust settles and a perspective is obtained it will be clear, that only in Illinois did the Taft group win decisively over the united Taft opposition. After that a very different story promises to be told. For then General Eisenhower, whether or not he returns soon to this country, will have the opportunity he was allowed in New Hampshire, to meet Taft not as a "write-in" candidate, but as a candidate with his name on the ballot, and in other approaching equal terms. "VoxPopuli, Vox Dei What has happened to President? There was a time when the General's ar dent supporters believed that all that was needed to put him in the White House, was his consent, and an election opportunity. Well the consent was and the opportunity has been made available in four or five states. But the boom has failed to take shape or even approach the stature of a peach-bud on the distant hill. TN FACT, the once apoplectic John Chappie, Ash- land (Wis.) newspaper tional MacArthur for President" organization threw in the sponge a few days hero to quit At least quit and throw his support to Senator Taft with the prom ise that he (MacArthur) presidential nomination, or of State there being no that under such a coalition the victory of Mr. Re publican in November would be a "push-over." . No word, as yet, has been received from the photo genic and histrionic General, but there was a small item in last Sunday's paper which may explain his unusual and unexpected silence. The date-line was Rockford, Illinois a munici pality which has often been ment the dispatch reading as follows: Rockford, 111., April 5-4I.F9 The local leader of "Fight ers tor MacArthur says he is not going to hold any more rallies on behalf of the general. The reason: attendance at meeting scheduled for Friday night was zero. "117ELL, if the electorate given the opportunity, " won't vote for the General: and the voters of one of the most concentrated tive political belts in darkest Illinois wont .attend a rally for him not even ONE person the writing-on-the-wall may be sufficiently plain to even disabuse the self-confident "master-strategist of Bataan," that there is no overwhelming demand that he take over the White House for the next four years. THERE is little doubt, however, that General Mac- Aifliiii to erf ill o nnnnlp on A vlamtrAiia "fionirn with thousands of people, all over the country. How, then, can one explain this sudden collapse of the MacArthur boom? Well, it may be a throw back to the William Jennings Bryan days. Mr. Bryan was one of the most popular dent this country has ever seen, but he never was elected President Time after time he was the' Demo cratic candidate. And when he wasn't the candidate he usually dominated the conventions or at least the galleries at the conventions. - But the "Silver Tongued" boy orator of the Platte was always a bridesmaid, and the delegates, always cheered him to the echo, but never voted for him at least enough of them. They liked to see him and listen to him, they applaud ed and they lauded him, they wanted him to keep go ing and keep on talking: but they DIDNT want him as President - It was a hard blow for William Jennings, we fear it is going to be a hard perhaps a harder blow for General MacArthur. But that's the way the people of this democracy behave at times and fortunately for THEM that they do! R.WJL v . Tlmeier. April II. IMS and in the political stock 1 1IL) iv:. n the pivotal Mid-Western its electoral votes, but his the New York stock-mar primary the Taft stock but with Illinois added to directions, on something K.W.R. 99 the MacArthur boom for given somewhat archly editor, leader of the Na ago, and advised his 5-star the White House effort, would be assured the vice the position of Secretary doubt m the editors mind mentioned in this depart Republican and conserva CANDIDATES for Presi never the bride.' The people - .. - Crosstown "If I fall asleep under the dryer, will you nudge me If any choice gossip comes inf Matter of Fact THE FAILURE OF TAFTS STRATEGY Washington At least one thing is now clear about the Re publican Presidential race. The strategy which Sen. Robert A. Taft adopted last fall, when he announced his candidacy, has failed. It has failed simply be cause the assumptions on which it was based have proved in correct. ' Before Taft finally made up his mind to run, his managers. David Ingalls and Ben Tate, had made an exhaustive, state-by' state survey of the delegate strength on which Taft could confidently count. This detailed analysis showed Taft with an as sured strength of just under 600 votes, or only a handful short of the required majority. This was, moreover, no mere wishful thinking, but a hard headed assessment of Taft's safe support or so it seemed at the time. No extravagant claims were made. For example, Taft managers only counted ten Taft votes in Pennsylvania, with 25 Pennsylvania votes conceded to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the remain der marked questionable. No votes at all were counted from states like Missouri, Maryland, Kansas and Michigan, on the grounds that the outcome in these states was unpredictable, e e ri SHORT, the survey last fall showed Taft with a very large, solid base in the Taft heart lands the Middle West and the South and with important new worlds to conquer elsewhere. This analysis in turn prompted the campaign strategy which Taft adopted. This was to start early, campaign hard, apply ruthless pressure on the waver- erg, and sew up the nomination before the Eisenhower campaign could get off the ground. This strategy has now failed, essen tially because the Taft heart lands have not proved as solid and dependable as they seemed. In the Middle Western heart land the failure has been only partial. There has been no gen eral disintegration of Taft's strength, only a. slow erosion. For example, the Taft managers claimed all Utah's delegate votes, all South Dakota's, all In diana's, all Oklahoma's aU Ken tucky's, and 15 of Iowa's 28. In practice, Taft has lost undeterm ined but important delegate strength in Utah, South Dakota. and probably Indiana, half Oklahoma's delegates, four in Wisconsin, two or three in Ken tucky, and six out of the claimed 15 in Iowa. Moreover, the new worlds have refused to be conquered. Typical Is Michigan, where the Republican leaders have been ac counted strongly Taft -minded. But they also want the strongest possible candidate in order to beat the powerful local Demo cratic combination of Gov, G. Mennen Williams and Sen. Blair Moody. Thus the Michigan con vention last week, while avoid ing a firm commitment, gave Eisenhower a probable hand some majority of the delegates. The same pressure of local situa tion operates to Eisenhower's benefit in other states. . e e VTTHILE Taft strength has been " nibbled at m the Middle Western . heart land, great chunks have been chewed out of it in the South. Last falL when the survey was made, the Taft forces were claiming all of Ala buna, Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana, all but on delegate in Florida. 17 out of 26 in North Carolina. 32 out of 38 fat Texas, and -20 out of 23 in Virginia. It is significant that in at least two of these states, Texas and Arkansas, Taft forces have re portedly been offering the Eisen hower people a S0-50 split deal with no taken. Eisenhower forces art now confident of tak ing most or even all the dele gates m Alabama and Georgia, and a much larger share m the ether Southern states than the tof Roland Cot y I Taft managers so confidently predicted when they made their survey last fall. What with other losses for example in Maine, where Taft took five delegates instead of the 10 his managers had predicted there now seems to be just no way Taft can capture the nom ination in advance, barring some wholly unforeseen development It is almost impossible to see how Taft could win on the first or second ballot, which was the central objective of the original Taft strategy. And if Taft does not win in the very early balloting, where is he to pick up the extra bloc of dele gates he will need to win on any later ballot?. California's Gov. Earl Warren is now publicly committed to support Eisenhow er if he cannot win himself. So is Harold E. Stassen, and al though Stassen's goings-on have been curiouser and curiouser, he can hardly be expected to make a deal with a man who has pub licly dsecribed him as "ridiculous." . IF General of the Army Doug- A las MacArthur had amassed important delegate strength, this might have provided Taft with the required margin of victory at the crucial moment. But Mac Arthur's stand-ins have made such a consistently poor showing in the primaries that he is not likely to have any really useful number of pledged delegates. Taft is certainly not to be counted out of the race, and the prospect of Eisenhower's early return a prospect which has made some of Eisenhower's sup porters a trifle nervous about what the general will say- changes everything. Yet it re mains extraordinarily difficult to imagine what new strategy Taft can devise as a substitute for the strategy which has now failed. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Dead Man Elected Ward Committeeman Chicago U.R Residents of Chicago s 31st ward have eiectea a dead man as Republican ward committeeman. Tha voters elected Charles Gross, who was shot to death in front of a church last February, over James MesL ftrma alleredlr was murdered by gangsters seeking control of thai ward. Hia slavins stirred un a storm of protest against West Side politicians wno auegeaiy ao the bidding of Chicago's under world. Ti want committeeman now will ha selected bv the resular Republican county organiiation. Pullman 0J.R3 The state's tourist income last year was 1118.900.000. a drop of three per cent from 1950. a survey by the Washington Stat College Bureau of Economies and Busi ness Research showed Wednes day. May This EASTER SEASON Bring HOPE and PEACE to the Hearts of All! In the Day's Hews By FRANK JEM AIMS Political news possibly VERY Important: "General Eisenhower favors STATE OWERSHD? of the oil rich submerged coastal lands, VhVIUUl .V U1V MUM, Morning News. The News quotes) the general as saying he has not changed a previously-expressed opinion that federal con trol of these so-called tidelands would tend Howard centralized ownership and control . . . WHICH I HAVE BITTERLY OPPOSED." TF IKE feels that way about the tidelands, it is a reason ably dependable sign that he is a believer in states rights (in the Jeffersonian sense) as op posed to BIG FEDERAL GOV ERNMENT. So far as I know, his state ment to the Dallas News is the first time any Republican can didate for the presidency has touched upon this highly sig nificant issue. I hope he has more to say about it along the same line. OUT here in the West, the fed eral government already owns in the neighborhood of half of aU of our land area. In the Santa Margarita case in Southern California, it is reach ing for ownership of ALL the water. It seems to me it's about time to stop the federal government before it gets TOO big. THE Portland Oregonian says: "If it is unconstitutional for the legislature to fix mini mum charges for barbering services, how then may the state control milk prices? "The question naturally rises from the decision of the Oregon supreme court the other day that the 1945 law setting mini mum fees for barbering is void." By way of clarification, the Oregonian then adds: "justice Tooze points out in his opinion that . . . 'where the business affected by such (price- fixing) laws was found to be one intimately associated with the public health and welfare, such as the milk industry, the 'stat utes were upheld as a reasonable exercise of the police power.' "In the barber case, the court was not concerned with 'legisla tion having a well-recognized and direct bearing upon the health, happiness and well-be ing of the public as a whole. Justice Tooze added. 'In this barber case, we are concerned with a price-fixing statute of primary interest to the barber trade itself." ETS try putting it this way: If you go without enough milk, you may get sick. You might even die. That is the pub lic's business. If you go unshav en and unshorn, you may look like the devil, but THAT IS YOUR BUSINESS. Pursuing this line of reason ing If the barbers can make - it stick that unshaven and unshorn men frighten women and babies and thus endanger the public health, maybe they can get away with their law putting a floor under the price of bar bering. POM Moscow: "A half hour conference between Prime Minister Stalin and India's ambassador to Mos cow has produced a new call for the world's TOP PEOPLE to meet in an attempt to settle major international problems." I WISH it were possible to get the world's COMMON peo ple together (it ISNT, of course) in a serious attempt to settle major international problems. That might (if it were physically possible, which it isn't) get some where. I'm getting cynical about these conferences of the BIG SHOTS. Beginning with the Congress of VIENNA, where the world's "top people" got together to fix up the mess that had been made by Napoleon, and running on I down through the Treaty oi Versailles and the Yalta confer ence, it looks to me like the ' more of these top-level "confer ences" we hold the worse off wc get Water from the slopes of Tri ple Divide peak, 8,000 feet high, in Glacier National Park, Mon tana, flows into three oceans the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic. Mortuary , Across from the Courthouse FRANK MORGAN HAROLD SNODCRASS Funeral Directors Communist Nations .-' Offer Tempting Bait For Trade With West By PHIL NEW80M United Press Foreign Analyst The . Communist nations are holding out a tempting bait in their world economic conference at Moscow. Especially the British it must seem like the apple in the Garden of Eden. Britain's fu ture hinges on its ability to build up its ex port trade not as a matter of giving the British people 1'kil Newses. luxuries but as a matter of saving them from bankruptcy. Of immediate concern to Prime Minister Winston Chur chill's Conservative government is the fact that local British elec tions last week went badly for the Conservatives, a fact attrib utable in part to the voters' ap parent dissatisfaction with the government's handling of affairs of the pocketbook. Must Remove Barriers Now, in Moscow, Communist spokesmen speak glibly of build ing their trade with the West to as much as $10,000,000,000 an nually on only one condition that the West remove its trade barriers against them. Basically, the Communists want raw materials, machinery and machine tools. As they have in the past, the Communists. Darticularlv the Russians and Chinese, have skipped lightly over the fact their men and materials are kill ing United Nations soldiers in Korea, and that new materials they would buy might be turned to the same purpose. Would But From U. S. But the Communists say they are ready to buy more than $1,250,000,000 worth of goods trom tne United States alone. There seems no danger that either the United States or its allies will lift the ban on ship ment of war potentials to the Reds. But many European countries. and the British especially, will look longingly at other Com munist offers, particularly for textiles. And, since textiles are not on the forbidden list, there's no rea son why they shouldn t The joker might lie in what ever else the Communists even tually demand be included in the package. Chines Offer Deal The Chinese Reds have offered a deal which would include the purchase of about $10,000,000 worth of British textiles - this year. Like the textile industry in the United States which is suf fering from one of the worst slumps in its history, British tex tiles also are having a rough tune. The government has promised to place orders worth up to $70,- 000,000 with textile firms as quickly as possible, but it isn't helping the 100,000 jobless tex tile workers now, nor is it head ing off a revolt inside the House of Commons on the same sub ject. Five members of Churchill's own party are demanding that the government rescind a sales tax on clothing and other textiles to aaf V Learn How Prayer Can Heal You LEARN how bodily ills are healed, how personal and fi nancial , problems ar solved, through understanding prayer as taught In Christian Science. Attend A FREE LECTURE entitled . "Christian Science": "The Living Light of Christ, Truth" by JEAN M. SNYDEX, C. S. B., of Buffalo, N. Y. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts FRIDAY, APRIL 11th 8 p. m. in MEDFORD JUNIOR HIGH School Auditorium West Second St.; at Oakdale First Church of Christ, Scientist -. Medford, Oregon Cordially Incites You to Attend ;. in order to ease rising unemploy ment in the industry. A prosperous textile Industry is one of Britain's main hopes for reversing the present economic tide. That's what makes the Com munist offer so tempting, no mat ter what pitfalls may develop later. Post Office Asks Truck Route Bids An advertisement has been is sued by the post office depart ment for bids to establish regu lar truck service for carrying the mail between Dunsmuir, Calif., and Grants Pass, to super sede the present temporary con tract, acording to announcement from the Medford post office. The new schedule will be ap proximately the same as the present. Bids must be forwarded so as to arrive in Washington, D. C. by 5:15 p.m., April 24, 1952, with the service to begin July 1, 1952. Bond required with the bid is $20,000. Persons having a truck with a minimum of 1,800 cubic feet carying capacity, who are inter ested in the contract, should con tact J. E. Florey, district super intendent, Postal Transportation Service, Portland, 8, Oregon, acording to the. announcement. Additional information may also be obtained at the Medford post office. Mongold Dairy Herd Tops County Again The dairv herd ownml hv W. D. Mongold again topped all oth ers in Jackson countv in milk and butterfat production during tne month of March, it was re vealed todav in the monthlv rav port of the Jackson County uairy nem improvement asso ciation. The Mongold herd of 2S cows had an average production- of 863 pounds of milk and 48.S pounds of butterfat The top-producing individual cow was "Queenie," owned by Vinson Vaughan. She produced 2,120 pounds of milk and 93.3 pounds of butterfat, the report showed. 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