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tory from the files the Mall
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ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 14, 1942
(It was Tuesday)
United States government au
thorizes construction of $93,000
USO building in Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A Detroit
man claims he can take an auto
apart in 30 seconds, A locomo
tive at a crossing could do no
better.
20 YEARS AGO
April 14, 1932
(It was Thursday)
Members of Jackson county
court report that limestone fac
ing on new courthouse building
at Main street and Oakdale ave
nue will be completed soon.
Jackson county pays bill of
$145 to Oregon National Guard
for aid in running down slayers
of Ashland policeman,
80 YEARS AGO
April 14. 1922
(It was Friday)
Porter J. Neff, Medford, re
ports local residents taking ac
tive part in Dunbar Opera com
pany in San Francisco,
Butle Falls residents report
adverse weather conditions are
halting construction of new coun
ty roads in that area.
40 YEARS AGO
April 14, 1912
United States forest service
prepares to print maps of Crater
lake area and make them avail
able to the public free of charge
for first time.
Clara Barton, founder of the
national American Red Cross,
dies at her homo in Glen Edit),
Md.
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Easier Egg Grab
To the Kditor: Have you ever
been to a public Easter egg
hunt? We were. Do you think
they arc put on for the benefit
of the children or the parents?
The one wc saw Saturday was
overrun with adults, and more
women got their limit of five
than children. In fact, many got
ull they could grub, even if' they
had to grab them out from un
der the child's hand. Wc saw
that happen several times. The
children didn't have a chance.
If we wish to teach our chil
dren greed and selfishness, they
certainly got a lesson Saturday.
As for us, that Is the last pub
lic Easter egg hunt we will at
tend for a long time, as we try
to teach our children that Eas
ter is the day to honor the
risen Lord, who was crucified
for the sins of all mankind,
and not to stage such a spec
tacle. It could be a wonderful out
ing for the children if there
could bo something done toward
seeing all children have a fair
chance, without adult inlerfer
ence. The sponsors were not to
blame, we felt, Just general
greediness and lack of enough
patrols.
Two Mothers.
(Names on file.)
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Tomorrow Is Deadline
There are still several thousand people in Jack
son county who have failed to register. They will not
be able to vote in the May 16 primary election unless
they take a few minutes to attend to the matter before
Tuesday evening when the registration books will be
closed.
THE test of a voter's sincerity isn't graded on his
curbstone opinions. They aren't important even
to himself if he will not register, and vote, to give them
meaning.
Registering and voting, constitute a duty that all
should face up to, regardless of on which side of the
political equator they may stand. Exercise of the fran
chise has more than a partisan foundation, and can
not be avoided or neglected without injury to the na
tion's whole political structure.
,
GOVERNOR Douglas McKay recently expressed
alarm and regret over Oregon's record as the
poorest of all western states in the matter of voter par
ticipation. "I think it is a sad commentary on our
evaluation of our freedom that over one-third of all
Oregonians entitled to vote are too lethargic or too
lazy to exercise their franchise. Percentage-wise, Ore
gan ranks 38th in the nation in voter participation,
and is lowest of all western states," the governor said.
There is still time to register but that time is
growing extremely short. The deadline is 8 p.m.,
Tuesday. E.C.F.
Congress To Eye Rain Making
In the belief that rainmaker?, and others who
hone to control the weather should be put under gov
ernment regulation, a senate sub-committee, of which
Sen. Wan-en G. Magnusen (D.-Wash.) is chairman,
has proposed legislation that would set up a committee
of weather experts and government leaders to con
sider the various problems connected with "weather
modification."
Congress will undoubtedly find its work cut out
for it if it attempts to provide an agency capable of
arbitrating disputes over weather control throughout
the country, or to reconcile the various opposing
interests.
I IVELY controversies have raged for some time
" over weather interference, especially on the west
coast where the wide diversity of agriculture makes
for an equally wide diversification in viewpoint as to
what should or should not be done about interference
with the natural supply of precipitation. 1
In regions where fruit and grain are grown in
close proximity the farmers' interests in weather are
generally so diametrically opposed as to make arbitra
tion practically impossible.
TN EASTERN Washington the cherry growers and
wheat ranchers are at sword's point over rain mak
ing, the former contending that extra rain squeezed
out of the clouds is causing heavy damage to their
fruit. Growers in the Yakima area have organized un
der the name "Sunshine Unlimited," and have sub
scribed $7,000 on a $1 a ton basis. The money was
raised almost overnight without putting on a concert
ed campaign for funds to fight the rain-makers.
Wheat ranchers, on the other hand, are going
ahead there with plans for rain making operations de
spite action of the Washington State Fruit Commis
sion in undertaking research on the chances of stop
ping such operations.
The cherry growers, who are particularly opposed
to June rain, have consulted an Olympia meteorologist
who claims that he can "over-seed" cloud formations
with silver iodide crystals and dissipate them. Silver
iodide is also a principal weapon of the rain-makers,
although most scientists still label it as an experi
ment, lacking in proof of any production. The rain
makers do not claim to be able to produce rain except
where favorable cloud formations are available for
"milking."
iniEAT farmers of Douglas, Adams and Lincoln
counties in the north central portion of Wash
ington, however, are so convinced that rain-making
is possible that they are reported planning to sign con
tracts calling for expenditure of $14,000 per county
in the effort.
TN WASHINGTON state, as in Oregon, there is talk
of state regulation of weather interference. And
now that the congress is also giving the matter atten
tion it is not unlikely that some sort of legislation will
be forthcoming before long.
That any such regulatory efforts can satisfy all
interests seems extremely doubtful. E.C.F.
Beware of Duds
Last week's tragic maiming of a Yreka, Calif.,
boy again emphasizes the extreme danger faced by
those who pick up or otherwise monkey with dud
shells found on artillery ranges. In the Yreka accident,
a 13-year-old youngster's left leg was shattered and
shrapnel was also hurled into his right leg and the
upper part of his body and head when a bazooka shell
exploded as he was carrying it away from the National
Guard range south of town.
QNLY good sense and a certain amount of luck have
prevented similar casualties in this vicinity, 'as a
number of dud shells and mines have been found in
the Camp White region, most of them in the area used
for artillery practice during the time the camp was
occupied.
Those who have found the death-dealing devices
here have immediately called on military experts to
dispose of them. Anyone finding duds in the future
should exercise equal judgment E.C.F.
Monday. April 14. 19S2
Cross town
"Do you HAVE to use red ink?"
Matter of Fact
THE HARRIMAN CANDIDACY
Washington There is more
than meets the eye to the plan
to meke W. Averell Harriman
New York's favorite son. The
immediate purpose is to hold
the New York delegates in line
for Gov. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois. But if Stevenson finally
talks himself out of the race,
Harriman will immediately be
come a serious candidate with
the enormous asset of the big
gest state delegation in his pock
et. Harriman has, in fact, be
haved with remarkable gener
osity to Stevenson. An ambi
tious man, Harriman has bril
liantly discharged the highest
duties under two presidents,
and he has every right to re
gard himself an important po
litical figure. Yet he himself
regards Stevenson as the best
available candidate, and he has
had a good deal to do with keep
ing Stevenson in the race thus
far.
Immediately after the Jeffer
son-Jackson dinner, at which
President Truman made his sur
prise withdrawal announcement,
Harriman and Stevenson, who
are old friends, sought each oth
er out. Stevenson had no prior
inkling of Truman's intention to
withdraw then, and he had of
course been put in an uncom
fortable spot. He was therefore
in a disgruntled mood and he
talked seriously of taking him
self out of the race once and for
all.
1TARRIMAN argued eloquent
ly with him, especially when
Stevenson Indicated that he
thought Dwight D. Eisenhower
would be the Republican choice,
and gave his reasons for not
wanting to run against Eisen
hower. Harriman is himself an
old friend and admirer of Eisen
hower. Yet he argued that Eisen
hower would prove by no means
unbeatable; that Elsenhower's
election would also elect many
reactionaries to Congress; and
that domestic and foreign pol
icy were equally important and
wholly interdependent. For these
reasons, he argued, it was Ste
venson's duty to make the race,
even against Eisenhower.
Stevenson may not have been
wholly convinced, but at least
he did not withdraw the next
day, as some of his friends had
feared. And it is significant that
Harriman's own arguments ap
ply to himself, If Stevenson for
one reason or another is counted
out. Moreover, in this case all
sorts of powerful support will
almost automatically gravitate
toward Harriman. Harriman, al
though he has been generally
identified with foreign policy,
Is a more passionately convinced
New or Fair Dealer than is gen
erally realised. The Northern
liberal wing of the Democratic
party, as represented by Amer
icans for Democratic Action,
could be counted in his corner.
So could many of the Northern
and Western organization men
who have come to power through
the New Deal and the Fair
Deal.
As a result of hii long serv
ice in Washington, moreover,
Harriman already knows rather
intimately the key men in the
farm, labor and other powerful
groups, and these men like and
trust him. Finally, with Steven
son out of the picture, Harri
man would become the almost
Inevitable choice of the many
powerful Democrats who have
no use for Sen. Estes Kcfauver.
These conspicuously include
President Truman, who strongly
admires Harriman and who is de
termined to prevent Kefauver's
nomination at almost any cost,
a
TRUMAN, in fact, according to
reliable report, personally
approved the project hatched
by New York State Chairman
Paul Fitzpatrlck and Bronx
Boss Ed Flynn, to start a sort of
continent boom for Harriman.
The first step In this Fitzpatrick-
Flynn project is the New York
dinner in Harriman's honor,
scheduled.jfor April 17, at day
before the New York caucus at
which Harriman's selection is
New York's favorite ion will al
fly Roland Co
By Joseph ana?
Stewart Aliop
most certainly be formalized.
This dinner should be an in
teresting occasion. All the Demo
cratic hopefuls, with the possible
exception of C?ov. Stevenson, but
conspicuously including Kefau-
ver, will be on display. And they
wili be put through the paces
over radio and television. One of
the objections to a Harriman
candidacy has always been that
he is a poor speaker and does
not register well at this sort of
occasion.
Yet on April 4 he made a
speech which amazed even his
most fervent admirers. The oc
casion was the third anniversary
of the signing of the North At
lantic Treaty. President Truman,
Secretary of State Dean Acheson,
Secretary of the Treasury John
Snyder and others went through
the usual weary, ghost-written
performance. Then Harriman
made a speech which obviously
came from the heart, and which
was so brilliant that it brought
him a standing ovation from the
word-weary Washington audi
ence. If Harriman can repeat this
performance at the New York
dinner, he will become a man
to watch. And he will certain
ly become a man to watch very
carefully, if Gov. Stevenson
continues to run away from the
Democratic nomination.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Evangelists Visit
Foursquare Gospel
A religious scenic measuring
20 by 26 inches will be given
away at the Foursquare Gospel
church on Tuesday, April 15, at
7:30 p.m.
Artist Evangelist Jean Darnall
will paint the picture using pas-
EVANGELISTS
Will Paint, Sing
tels as her husband the Rev.
Elmer Darnall, sings a favorite
hymn. The picture will be award
ed to the one bringing the most
new visitors that have never
been in the church before.
The artist's easel is lighted in
directly with various colors of
neon lights and various lighting
effects are used to further add to
the beauty of the picture. Critics
say that Mrs. D,arnall is one of
the best artists in her field in
North America.
The evangelists have preached
from the Republic of Panama,
where they were missionaries to
the Dominion of Canada, where
they established a Foursquare
church. They have done evangel
istic work extensively in U. S.,
preaching from New York state
to California.
They will be in the church for
one night only. The sermon will
be illustrated to show their vis
ion to go to Australia to establish
churches there.
The public is invited to attend
the meeting.
Korea War Dead Inspire
Eighth Army Soldiers
Seoul (U.R) Gen. James A.
Van Fleet told Eighth Army
troops in Korea Saturday "we
derive additional assistance"
from the Inspiration service ren
dered by United Notions soldiers
who have died in battle.
Van Fleet, whose pilot son is
missing in action in Korea, said
that "like He who was resurrect
ed, our comrades will live for
ever In our hearts."
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Eisenhower
New Touch
Porch Campaigning
BY LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (U.R) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is putting
a new hop to the "front porch"
campaign technique which was
invented by Wiliiam McKinley
back there in 1896.
The Eisenhower touch appar
ently will be to make a stand
still race for the Republican
presidential nomination. McKin
ley did not take to his front
porch and his old rocking chair
until he had been nominated for
President.
Bryan Travelled Far
William Jennings Bryan trav
elled upward of 18,000 miles
that year seeking to put the Dem
ocratic party in power and him
self in the White House. McKin
ley licked him.
Warren Gamaliel Harding sat
out the 1920 presidential cam
paign on his front porch in Mar
ion, O. He defeated the Demo
cratic nominee, James M. Cox,
whose running mate was a
young fellow from New York
known as Frank Roosevelt
FDR.
To McKinley's and Harding's
front porches came endless depu
tations. So will endless deputa
tions be calling on Eisenhower
when he returns here toward
June 1. His week-end announce
ment in Paris that he would not
go off campaigning until and un
less he won the presidential
nomination said, also, that the
swarm of political visitors who
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
From Paris:
"General Eisenhower has dis
closed he aims to be home in
Abilene, Kansas, by June 4
just 33 days before the Republi
can national convention.
"Until he leaves, he told a
news conference, 'I am not going
to discuss any kind of political
questions, so I can devote hyself
to this job' (meaning his job in
Europe.)'
TIE also cleared his status as a
" five star general. Until the
convention, he will remain an
army officer on inactive duty.
If he is nominated, he will re
sign from the army. By resign
ing, he will give up his perman
ent pay of $18,761 a year of
which sum $7,304 Is in NON
TAXABLE allowances and the
remaining $11,457 is in taxable
base pay.
A five star general holds his
rank and pay for life unless he
resigns. By resigning to run for
president, General Eisenhower
will give up his earned lifetime
security and will take his chanc
es, along with everybody else.
"That," he said, in Paris this
morning, "will leave me free to
speak, like any other citizen, on
any subject."
rpHESE plans, I imagine, won't
- suit too well the politicians
who have attached themselves
to General Eisenhower's candid
acy "riding his coat-tails" is a
good rough-and-ready expres
sion for what a lot of them are
(doing.) They want him to get
home as soon as possible and
wade into it hammer and tongs.
They're staking their political
futures on him, and they want
to take as few chances as pos
sible. Presidential nominations
have always been gone after
slam-bang, hammer and tongs.
I'm - the - man - for - the-job-and
everybody-ought-to-know-it, and
the politicians can't envision any
other way to do it. Besides, a
slam bang, hammer and tongs
campagin gives the politicians a
better opportunity to impress
THEIR Importance on the candi
date and on the people, thus put
ting them in line for more per
sonal power.
But I think the people are go
ing to like the way Ike says he
is going to do it. The support for
General Eisenhower that has
developed is something strange
and unusual. It is like nothing
that any of us have ever seen
before. It is a YEARNING, it
seems to me a yearning for
something better than we have
had in the past. Always before
(except in the case of General
Washington) the man has sought
the office. Things being what
they are, the idea appears to
have come to millions of people
all at once that this is a time
when the office ought to seek
the man. When you're in a bad
fix and NEED a good man in
your business as you never need
ed him before, your inclination
is to go out and SEEK him rath
er than wait for him to come
barging into your office recom
mending himself to the skies.
If that is true, Ike's instinct is
sound.
I.IERE is the leading paragraph
'1 from Saturday's Easter
story:
"Songs will echo across the
mountainsides and fill the
churches Sunday in memory of
the resurrection of Christ."
That is the true spirit of
Easter. Easter is a SYMBOL. A
symbol of hope arising out of
despair. Without hope, the world
would have gone to pot long ago.
II
ERE Is another paragraph
from the same story:
Putting
on Front
descended upon him in the past
few months had made it impos
sible for him to continue as Al
lied commander in Europe.
Ain't Seen Nothin'
As Al Jolson used to say, the
general ain't seen nothin' yet.
For every 10 visitors to his Paris
headquarters there will be 100
seeking Eisenhower's counsel or
offering their own when he
comes home. If he makes a little
speech of greeting to the visiting
firemen from time to time and
these little speeches have some
political wallop, who could call
that campaigning? It would be
common courtesy.
That was the way McKinley
and Harding kept poking at the
issues of the day in 1896 and
1920.
Eisenhower is well equipped
with politically suitable front
porches. McKinley's Canton, O.,
and Harding's Marion, are no
more folksy and of the common
people than Eisenhower's Abi
lene, Kan. Each of them would
make a good backdrop for a po
litical campaign.
Eisenhower has another porch
handy, however. It is on the
farm house the general bought
some months ago in the rolling
hills of southern Pennsylvania.
If there is a front porch any
where better suited to politick
ing than in some small mid-western
town, it would be a farm
front porch with the owner gent
ly rocking at his ease.
News
"The annual Easter parades,
on Fifth avenue in New York, on
Connecticut avenue in Washing
ton, and on fashionable streets in
other cities, will draw their
usual crowds, and the kiddies
will hunt colored eggs."
That is the picture of Easter
that comes to most of us oftenest.
Clothes. Rabbits. Eggs. Ham for
dinner. A pleasant holiday. Re
laxation with friends.
These are all fine things. They
are a part of the way of life that
is dear to us. We love them and
we want to keep them.
But if we ARE to keep them
and pass them on to our chil
dren, it will be well for us, I
think, in this time when the
world is in travail, if we pay
more attention to the TRUE
SYMBOL of Easter and a little
less, perhaps, to the trimmings.
That could go for Christmas,
as well.
Two Youths Arrested
For Theft From Grave
Copper Center, Alaska (U.R)
Authorities Saturday held two
native youths accused of violat
ing the sanctity of a sacred old
Indian custom and, incidentally,
of breaking the law.
U. S. Deputy Marshal Nelson
J. McCrary said the two boys
stole $1,400 from Chief An
drew's cache. Chief Andrew died
January 21 and, according to
custom, all of his possessions
were placed outside of his house
immediately after death.
McCrary said $1,190 of the
dead chief s stolen money had
been recovered. An additional
$1,960 in old-fashioned, large-
size bills was found in the cache.
The boys left these because it
would be difficult to pass them,
McCrary said.
Copper Center is 210 miles
east of Anchorage on the Copper
river.
Mystery Shrouds Fate
Of Norwegian Ships
St. John's, Nfld. (U.R) Mys
tery shrouded the fate of five
Norwegian sealing ships and
their 100 crewmen Saturday
more than a week overdue in
the Arctic Ocean.
The United States and Cana
dian air forces both planned
searches but their planes were
hampered by bad flying weather
and a thick blanket of fog.
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Low Bid
For Construction
01 First BLM Road
Portland (U.R) J. W. Briggs
of Bend submitted the low bid
of $685,349.50 for construction
of the first Bureau of Land
Management timber access road
in Oregon, W. H. Lynch, divi
sion engineer of the U. S. Bu
reau of Public Roads, has an
nounced. The project, calling for con
struction of 11.63 miles of high
standard logging road is located
18 miles east of Sweet 'Home
along Quartzville creek, a tribu
tary of the South Santiam river.
First Access Road
Roscoe E. Bell, regional ad
ministrator for the Bureau of
Land Management, said the
Quartzville project would be the
first timber access road built
into O & C or public domain tim
ber by the federal government
in the state.
The road will open a valuable
stand of public and private tim
ber, Bell said.
Users will pay the same per
thousand board foot road charge
until the government's invest
ment is regained, Bell said, re
gardless of ownership of the
stumpage.
Oregon Capitol
To Remain Open
Salem (U.R) Your state capi
tol will be open again this sum
mer on Sundays for the benefit
of the thousands of tourists who
make their annual trek to Ore
gon's seat of government.
Secretary of State Earl T.
Newbry said the Sunday open
ings will start on April 20 in
conjunction with Salem's annual
Cherry Blossom day. Through
the winter the doors of the Cap
itol were locked on Sunday.
On Cherry Blossom day, the
Salem Cherrians, capital city
booster group, will be on hand
throughout the city to guide
motorists over the famed cherry
blossom route in Marion and
Polk counties. They will also be
on hand at the capitol to help
show tourists around.
Navy Slates Inquiry
On Cause of Sub Fire
Philadelphia (U.R) The Navy
has announced that a board
of inquiry would be named
to determine the cause of an ex
plosion and fire which injured
25 civilian workers and enlist
ed men aboard a submarine here
Friday. V
The blast occurred on the sub
marine Requin which recently
docked at the Philadelphia naval
base for conversion into a sub
marine radar picket boat.
Spokesmen said the fire was
quickly extinguished and dam
age was slight.
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A tap on the shoulder and the
Chalk-Talk man looked around
to hear the woman say "I was
the girl who gave her heart to
the Lord that day, years ago in
such and such a city. The man
recalled it all and
the woman added I
that with her hus
band a n!d chil
dren, she was
soon to leave for
N. Africa in obed- jjTl
lence to Christ's fe&
r.CI VV. onri oivp IlVl
the Gospel to
such as sit in
darkness.
Big palrt for
Stay - Homes, "I - .
would not think Ge0' N' T",,t"
of going back to the foreign field
except for the prayers of the
home folks here in America.
Your prayers lift us. We can feel
them." So said Mrs. Irl McAllis
ter, then on furlough in America.
Be a prayer partner. "Whatsc-
ever you shall ask the Father in
my name, he will give it to you.
John 16:23. Christ's pledge.
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