Medford mail tribune., April 21, 1952, Image 8

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10 YEARS AGO '
April 21. 1942
(It was Tuesday)
Forty-one of remaining 200
CCC trainees at Camp rrescou
near Medford sent to Louisiana
ior discharge.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A citizen
reports on a trip south he was
served a piece oi nam aimosi
thick enough to see with the
naked eye.
20 YEARS AGO
April 21. 1932
(It wan Thursday)
Trade magazine survey shows
Medford residents purchase larg
est amount of furniture per
capita of any in city of Oregon.
Survey of Medlord Junior high
ichool students shows 94.8 per
cent believe their classwork Is
"not too hard, not to easy, but
about right."
80 YEARS "AGO
April 21, 1922
(It was Friday)
Medford city officials start
campaign for construction of pub
lic children's playground here.
Jackson county fair board of
directors announces plan to con
struct buildings "of substantial
character" at fairgrounds.
40 YEARS AGO
April 21. 1912
(It was Sunday)
Medford construction com
pany starts grading of West 11th
street in preparation for sched
uled paving later in summer.
Medford electric company ad
vises use of electric irons "to
avoid excessive heat and noxious
gnses"; electric irons sell at $2
each.
U of W Regents Name
Spokane Man President
Seattle u.R) Dr. Donald C.
Corbett of Spokane Is the new
president of the University of
Washington board of regents.
Dr. Corbett, who succeeds
John L. King of Seattle, was
named at a board meeting here
Saturday. Grant Armstrong of
Chehalis was appointed vice
president and John Spiller of
Seattle, secretary.
CAR THIEF NABBED
Stnte police In Roseburg yes
terday arrested a 14-year-old
Medford boy who was driving a
stolen cor, according to police
headquarters here. The boy has
been returned to Medford, and
Is being held for Juvenile author
ities. The car, a 1949 blue Dodge
sedan was stolen from Its used
car lot at 203 South Central ave
nue operated by James Allen.
Steps Taken To Protect
Wild Animals From Public
Washington U.R) The Inter
ior Department is trying to pro
tect the wild animnls in our na
tional parks from the "wild"
American public and vice versa.
One sample of such protection
I Is the recent ban against tourists
i "feeding, touching, teasing or
molesting bears, deer, moose,
buffalo, bighorn (sheep), elk and
antelope."
, The prohibition Is doublc
edged. In four yean at Yellow
i stone National park, 1SB tourists
I were Injured and one killed by
be.irs because they were "(red
ing, touching, teasing and molest
MAIL TRIBUNE
Fluoridation Depots
Fluoridation of the city water has been practiced
for a year at Gearhart, Oregon, and in the experience
of that beach resort town there may be a hint for par
ents who would like to
treated for their children.
The Gearhart water superintendent, speaking at
a League of Oregon Cities
people from the neighboring towns of Astoria and
Seaside go to Gearhart with large glass containers
which they fill with the fluoridated water. The water,
kept in the family refrigerators, is used by the chil
dren instead of the home tap supply.
WHY couldn't fluoridated water prepared under
nrnnor morlipnl aiinnrvisinn Ho mnrlp sivnilahlp
for drinking purposes in places where the entire city
pupply is not treated? Actual cost of adding one part
of fluorine to 1,000,000 parts of water the propor
tion commonly recommended is said to be less than
20 cents a person per year. Initial cost of tanks and
other equipment should not be prohibitive.
Such fluoridated water depots would avoid the
squabbles which have developed in a number of places
over whether or not to adopt fluoridation of city wa
ter supplies.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, in
an article in the March issue of the Oregon Health
Bulletin, published by the State Board of Health, de
plores the present widespread controversies and de
clares the situation has become pretty well obscured
by a cloud of pseudo-scientific claims, haif truths and
unsupported statements.
Dr. Erickson, like practically all medical men, is
in favor of fluoridation. He states that only after thor
ough, exhaustive study have such responsible organi
zations as the American Medical Association, Ameri
can Dental Association, the U.S. Public Health Serv
ice, and the State and Territorial Health Officers'
Association unreservedly endorsed fluoridation.
Similarly, he states, the Oregon State Medical So
ciety, the Oregon Dental Association, the Oregon
State Board of Health, and the board of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce weighed the evidence very
carefully before endorsing the procedure. In none of
such studies, so far as he is
was any instance found where the use of fluorides, at
the recommended strength resulted in the slightest
injury to any user.
DOINTING up the need for fluoridation, Dr. Deme
trious Hadjimarkos, associate professor of dental
research at Oregon State college, told dentists and
health officials at a gathering in Salem last week that
he had found a tremendous incidence of tooth decay
during his recent examination of 5,000 pre-school and
school age children in Marion and Polk counties. Dr.
Hadjimarkos stated that this situation could be reme
died by fluoridation for the addition of fluorine to
drinking water has proved effective in reducing tooth
decay in many sections of the United States.
DECAUSE of the prevailing controversies, the ex
pense of equipment for treating city water sup
plies and the apathy which usually tends to delay
adoption of public works improvements, it is proba
ble that fluoridation may be some years in coming in
most communities.
In the meanwhile, some effort might well be
made, either public or private, to make fluoridated
water available for children. Spring water is sold by
the jug in many places in California and right here
in the Medford area city water is hauled home for
family consumption where farm or suburban wells or
other sources are not all they should be. Obtaining a
potable supply at a fluoridation depot would entail
little more effort than many are now making to get
pure water. E.C.F.
New Airport Buildings
Eugene, like Medford has outgrown its airport
housine facilities and also, lik-p Mprlfnnl la nmivirinrr
to build a new administration building. At it's Mahlon
Sweet airport, Eugene will erect a two-story structure
which will have space for the Weather Bureau and
Civil Aeronautics Administration and will be topped
by a control tower. Bids will be called for early in
June. '
ACCORDING to the Eugene plans, additions may
uimie iu me uuuai unit as iuiure trailic in
crease and other factors may require.
iotai cost ot the Eugene building is estimated at
S71.290, the city paying $31,400 and' the federal gov
ernment the balance.
Medford's structure will house the Weather Bu
reau, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, ticket and
operating space for three nir linns tha i,,..,,.,.,.
office and a restaurant. Because of the larger dimen
sions immeuiaieiy required, tne Medford building will
cost approximately $150,000, the city paving about
$06,000 and the government $84,000. E.C.R
ing" the animals.
During the same period at the
big park. 184 bears were destroy
ed because they had become de
ceptively "tame" and were dan
gerous to tourists with food and
cameras.
Tourists Blamed
"It s all the tourists' fault,"
said Victor H Cahnlane. chief
biologist nf the Nntionnl Parks
Service. Although the same cas
ualty ratio doesn't apply for the
whole park system, he said, the
public's main targets have varied
lilllr the bears and the deer.
"The deer," he added, "are one
Monday. April 21. I9S2
provide drinking water so
conference recently, said
aware, says Dr. Erickson,
of the things that set off this new
order."
No matter what type, the ani
mals have "lost all their respect
for mankind" and are in constant
danger of being "spoiled," he
said.
The attacks by the animals on
the tourists have been the end
result of this "treatment."
Animals Loss Respect
Yet "there Is no chance of per
fectly wild animals attacking
people," the NPS official said.
"Its only those that have lost
all their respect for mankind
that try anything like this."
He emphasized that though
"basically the public is to
blame," this new ban was for
avoiding any further animal de
struction and hamuli injury.
Crosstown
"Gelcher pitcher took holdin'
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Matter of Fact
MAKE SENSE IF YOU CAN
Washington (U.R) The fol
lowing collection of facts, all of
them of the most vital import
ance to every American in the
street, suggests the insane con
fusion of the current defense
picture.
ITEM: The Army has now
tested and flown the first truly
effective ground-to-air guided
missile. It is relatively short in
range. But it is supersonic. Its
guidance system is sturdy and
workable. It seeks and finds Its
target. In short, it represents an
enormous leap forward in an
enormously difficult art.
ITEM: The successful test of
the new intercrptor missile has
considerably influenced thinking
about our air defense problems.
Other influences have been the
development of radar capable of
tracking low - flying attacking
aircraft, and the formulation of
plans for remote radar outposts
to give very early warnings. A
new design has been drawn for
a better air defense net, com
bining earliest radar warning
and close coordination of air
craft and guided missile inter
ception of enemy bombers.
TN CONSEQUENCE, the rc--
sponsible authorities in the
Air Force have importantly
raised their estimates of the po
tential effectivneess of a mod
ern air defense. Formerly, they
held that the defender would do
well to bring down three out of
every ten enemy bombers. Now
the forecast is that at least half
of the enemy force can be de
stroyed before reaching its tar
get. This is considered to ap
proach the rate of loss which
will effectively disrupt enemy
air attacks, even with atomic
weapons.
ITEM: This improved modern
air defense is as yet no more
than a gleam in the planner's
eyes, however. Several wings of
all - weather Interceptors are
needed for an effective air de
fense of this country, but we
have as yet only a pitifully small
number. The joint Chiefs of
Staff's coin-flipping system of
allocating production priorities
has placed this vital aircraft
rather low on the list.
Enormous outlays are also
needed to complete the radar
screen with its costly Arctic out
posts and picket boats at sea; to
build adequate quantities of the
new interceptor missiles, and for
other air defense purposes. The
decision has not really been
made, as yet, whether or not to
buy the up-to-date and efficient
air defense which we can now,
in theory, achieve in this coun
try. ITEM: The difficulties of air
defense in the Soviet Union are
considerably greater than they
are here. Yet it has to be pre
sumed that the Soviets, who cap
tured an important group of
German guided missile experts,
have made the same progress in
this art as we have. If the So
viets also possess an efficient in
terceptor missile, this must re
duce the value of our strategic
air force as a deterrent to ag
gression. e e e
4T THE same time, Intelli-
gence estimates and in
formed scientific opinion agree
that the Soviets are producing
atomic weapons and building up
their own strategic air force
with unlooked-fdr speed. The ex
perts have ceased to give their
former soothing forecasts about
the "time of danger," when the
Kremlin will be able to deliver
a crippling surprise attack in this
country. They do not think the
lime has come yet, but they are
no longer prepared to say it
will not come fairly soon.
Intelligence studies also re
veal a huge Increase In arma
ment outlays in the new Soviet
budget. The American and Brit
ish experts, who had hoped the
Soviets had already reached
their peak of cold wartime mili
tary effort, are deeply perturbed
by this development with Its ob- ,
vious and far-reaching Implies-'
Hons. i
11 KM. Meanwhile, the Kepub-i
By Roland Coo
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By Joicpfi and
Stewjrf AUop
lican isolationists and southern
Democratic coalition in the
House of Representatives has
slashed to ribbons the American
defense problem. In the Defense
Department by the grim efforts
of Secretary of Defense Robert
A. Lovett, the Joint Chiefs' orig
inal "minimum" budget of $71,
000,000,000 had already been
reduced to $53,000,000,000. A
further cut in the Lovett mini
mum had already been made by
the President and the Budget
Bureau.
A PPROPRIATIONS that were
" therefore too low to carry
forward our rearmament at the
planned rate, were then sliced
by 4.5 billion dollars in the
House. In a final orgy of total
irresponsibility, the House also
ordered the Defense Department
not to spend $6,000,000,000 in
previously appropriated funds,
which are required to meet con
tract payments in the coming
year. This simply means, of
course, that build-up of urgently
needed units, including air de
fense units, will have to be can
celled despite the heavy risk.
And deliveries of even more
urgently needed hardware will
have to be refused, despite the
enormous resulting waste.
If anyone can make sense out
of the foregoing series of facts,
he is a better man than these re
porters.
(Copyright, 1952,
Nwe York Herald Tribune Inc.)
News of 4-H
f$ CLUBS
Upper Rogua 4-H Dairy Club
Upper Rogue 4-H Dairy club
met at the home of George Mil
lard on Aprily 14, at 7:30 p.m.,
with six members present. We
discussed what kinds of feed that
we should feed our animals.
Next meeting will be at the
home of our leader, Grace Peile,
on May 14, at 7:30 p.m.
Tha Busy Sewettes
The Busy Sewettes met at
Shady Cove schoolhouse on April
17, at 4 p.m. Oficers for the com-
ing year are: President, Renage
Hicks: vice-president, Nona Cob
ble; secretary, Joann Cooper,
and reporter, Velma Peile.
Our leader, Marceille Black-
man, showed us how to make
pin cushions, and needle cases.
Next meeting will be at Shady
Cove schoolhouse, on May 15, at
4 p.m.
Velma Peile,
Reporter
The Grange
Central Point Grange.
H.E.C. of Central Point Grange
will hold its April meeting at
the home of Mrs. W. I. Suther
land, Old Stage road on Wed
ncsday, April 23, with a dessert
luncheon at 1:30 p.m.
Hostesses for the afternoon
will be Mary Taylor, Virginia
Russell and Virda Ault.
Roll call will be answered by
the name of any county, state,
or city official and their position.
Virda Ault will have charge
of the program.
MIEAlHi
WALT" NUNLEY
Republican Candidate for,
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
MMEP
9:30 Tonight
alel Adv.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Truman blew his top
the other day over cuts of four
to six billions of dollars that
have been made (tentatively, at
least) by the house of representa
tives in his defense fund re
quests.
Shaking his fist angrily, he
charged that "congress is en
gaging In this fake economy
wave so when they go home they
can make a lot of stump
SPEECHES TO TRY TO GET
ELECTED."
HOLDING up his right arm
with fist clenched, he added:
'There's only one thing these
congressmen understand, and
that is this (politicking)." He
went on to say that anybody
who thinks slashes in the de
fense program are true economy
ought tp have his head examined.
He concluded:
'If I have to call a special
turnip day session of congress
every day between now and the
first day of next January, we
are going to get this THING
DONE AND DONE RIGHT."
BEING thus bitten in the leg
by the President, members
of the house armed services com
mittee bit right back, asserting
that the slashes in the military
budget merely eliminated Tru
man's wastes and excesses.
ISN'T that a pretty kettle of
fish? T wnnrier if a ctrpat rtn.
tion, assuming world leadership
in a crisis in mankind's affairs,
could get any sillier.
WHAT is the truth of the mat
ter? I don't know, but I'm pretty
certain that if congress and the
President went about the job
seriously and cooperatively they
could squeeze six billion dollars
out of our fantastically swollen
federal expenditures without
anybody ever missing it except
possibly a few minor bureau
crats and boondogglers who
might lose their jobs as a result
of the squeezing.
1 11 bet we d even be MORE
EFFICIENT if we cut out our
drunken spending and got down
to the hard brass tacks of getting
a dollar's worth of results for
every dollar put out. Did you
ever see an efficient wastrel?
I SOMETIMES wonder about
these biB cornoratinns. Are
they really as smart and super
efficient as they claim to be?
THAT crack is prompted by an
AP dispatch relating that in
1951 Charles E. Wilson, presi
dent of General Motors, earned
a total (in bonuses and salary)
of $566,000. A company state
ment says the federal income
tax on that amount would be ap
proximately $470,000.
Albert Bradley, executive vice-
president and chairman of the
finance policy committee, earn
ed $486,100. Harlow H. Curtise,
executive vice-president in
charge of general staff activities,
got $471,200. Frederic G. Don-
ner, vice-president in charge of
finance, received $391,395.
Taxes of these others must
have bitten relatively as deeply
as in the case of President Wil-
THE AP dispatch adds that un
der General Motors bonus
plan 64 top executives and di
rectors earned a total of $10,-
880,415 last year.
MIND you, I'm not complain
ing about the size of the
salaries and bonuses going to
General Motors' top brass. Man-'
agement EARNS ITS PAY the.
same as labor, and it is an ac
cepted principle in business that
the bigger the responsibility the
bigger the pay. Labor recognizes
that principle, just as manage
ment does. Top union officials
get big pay and earn it by the
responsibility they carry.
What I'm questioning is the
plain hors? sense of paying huge
salaries and bonuses to high-up
corporation executives, who, aft
er pungling up to Uncle Sam,
have only relatively small
amounts left.
If that ten million dollars re
ceived by General Motors' 64
top executives and directors had
been distributed out in the divi
dends to GM's 452,000 low in
come tax brackets, the tax on it
would have been far less. It it
had been cut in half, this upper
echelon of GM management
would still have received nice
pay checks, of which a much
larger share would have been
take-home pay, the shareholders
would have benefited, and tho
total tax would have been
smaller.
THE answer, I suppose, is that
GM saved lot ot taxes by
Walter Nunlty
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Union Men Ara Slaves
To the Editor: We claim this
is a free country. Is it? Can you
call it a free country if it has
a special privileged class, spe
cial privileged laws that apply
to some people and not to oth
ers? John Lewis, Phillip Mur
ray, and Harry Bridges talk
about slave labor, under the
Taft-Hartley law. Is that a fact?
I admit we do have special
privilege laws, but they are all
on the other foot. We have laws
against conspiracy. Does that ap
ply to labor? We have laws
against coercion. Does that ap
ply to labor strikes, and unions?
We have laws against monopoly.
Does that apply to labor unions?
Now what about liberty? A
common laboring man that does
NOT belong to a union can work
for whom he pleases, and quit
when he pleases. He can bargain
for a wage and refuse to work if
he does not get what he wants.
He can start a competitive busi
ness of his own, or work for a
competitor. He can choose any
business or profession that he
wants to, and change any time
he wants to. He can own his owr.'
home, or rent one. He can move
to any state, or even be a poli
tician, and be elected president.
In fact, he is the most independ
ent man on earth.
A businessman has more than
a dozen restraining laws, and
professional men have quite a
few. Businessmen cannot coun
cil together and agree on prices.
He cannot have a monopoly. He
cannot employ or discharge a
union man when he pleases. He
cannot dictate hours of labor, or
pay wages he chooses, employ
minors, and many other restric
tions. Especially if he employs
union labor including collecting
their dues.
The laboring man that Joins
a union is really a slave and in
many cases a puppet, and obliged
to do many things of which he
does not approve. A country
ruled by labor unions is in reali
ty a slave state. These are plain
facts. Think them over and know
the truth. A union plumber must
not drive a nail, or saw a board,
but he must strike for Stalin if
Harry Bridges tells him to.
I. C. Jones,
2325 Stewart Ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Who Will Pay? .
To the Editor: President Tru
man seized the steel plants to
avoid a shutdown. The labor
unions were seeking higher
wages. Will they get higher
wages and by whom will they be
paid by the U. S. Government,
or by the steel companies in
volved?
F.S.B.
(Name on file)
Ed note: The wages when and
if raised, will be paid by the
stel company.
Editorial Comment
Senator Morse Praised
It's heartening, I think, that
one of the statesmen who sensed
the peril and acted quickly is
Senator Wayne Morse, Republi
can, Oregon, a man whose pro
Truman, pro-labor record is al
most unbroken. While many
Democrats were embarrassedly
looking the other way and many
Republicans were industriously
shouting "Dictator!", Morse got
to work on a bill (S. 2999) which
seems to make a lot of sense.
The Morse bill, it's true, is one
of those measures which piles a
new "emergency board" on top
of all the others. It calls for
still another "fact finding" com
mission in labor disputes, as if
we didn t have enough already
Even so, the Morse bill would
prevent any more one-man plays
Dy tne president and would
leave him no excuse for culling
"inherent powers" out of the air
in cases like the recent steel
paying these high salaries and
charging them to expense. That
illustrates the screwball nature
of our present economy.
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Meet the
Candidates
Editor's note: This is one of
a series of stalemenis furnish
ed by candidates for local of
fice in the primary election
May 16. They are being pub
lished by The Mail Tribuna
as a free service to iha candi
dates, and for tha Information
of readers wishing to inform
themselves of candidates' po
sitions relative to their candidacy.
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BY R. G. FOWLER
Republican, for County Assessor
Twentv-nine vears in Jackson
county, 24 years as County Ag
ricultural Agent, 3'5 years as
field man for First National
bank. Last year and one-halt In
-ai ct:iif and annraisals. Lone
personal knowledge of property
values both rural and urban. If
elected will approach the duties
of the office with an open mind.
No obligations to any one. win
nrrwirie nrnmnt. efficient serv
ice with courtesy and justice to
ev:ry one concerned. Will make
an honest endeavor to correct
inequalities in assessments so
that no property owner is penal
ized. Will maintain a public re
lations program, so that proper
ty owners may know what is
eoine on in connection with the
assessor's office.
irri that mv rernrd of demon
strated ability and personal in
tegrity warrants my election to
this office.
strike.
Mnrsp. n former law school
dean, rightly points out that we
have no automatic safety-lock
on dictatorship in this country.
"No decision of the supreme
court, no history to date." he
says, has clearly denned ana
delimited the emergency powers
of the president."
Rut n time has come when
we must devise and test such
a safety-lock. Mr. Truman's ex
plosive nature has sounded this
thunderous warning. Holmes
Alexander in The Oregonian.
Pay-Day Sure
"The wages of sin is death,"
said Christ and pay-day is sure.
First Is Judgment Day when tha
lost are judged. The books are
opened and liars get their re
wards; they who
hold unclean
thoughts theirs
and so on. From
Judgment they
go on to ths
Lake of Fire
Rpv 9nth
tnnsi pourea
out His sinless
soul and went
down into hell
to be numbered
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with the lost. There He suffered
al Hhe wrath of God for your
sins Isa. 53:10-12. Then being
the Author and Giver of Life, He
arose by glorious resurrection to
indwell with God-Life, all who
receive Him as Lord and Sa
vious.. "For God so loved you
that he gave his Only-Born Son,
that If you should believe on
Him, you should not perish but s
have eternal life." John 3:16. v
A Bethany family uses this
space to tell the wisdom, love
and power of God Who would
win you to eternal glory. Adv.
Mrs. H. W.
Conger
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Methodist Church
Daughters of the
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