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Medford and Jackson County His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 rears
ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1942
(It was Wednesday)
Jackson county merchants no
tified they must pick up data on
food rationing program a use
of first ration stamps scheduled
to go into effect May 5.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Farmers
are planting their corns and
crows are after the kernels with
more rapacity than robins after
strawberries, when and if.
20 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1932
(It was Friday)
Classified ad in The Mall
Tribune offers "Modern five
room bungalow, beautiful
grounds and trees, three acres
irrigated lands, fine neighbor
hood, near school, total price,
$1,650.
Ashland public schools an
nounced that starting fall term
they will cut teaching staff and
salaries in effort to keep within
budget.
30 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1922
(It was Saturday)
New York fruit distributors
predict "very good year" for
sale of Rogue valley orchard
products.
William von der Hellen and
Raymond Reter start construc
tion of large new fruit ware
house at end of South Central
avenue.
40 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1912
(II was Monday)
Medford residents organize
Driving club to place fairground
track In "first class condition
holding matinees and maybe
schedule races on July 4.
Medford rancher reports his
110 hens produced 3,600 eggs in
90 days.
Boys Said No Threat
To Jean-Clad Girls
New York (U.R) The tighter
the blue jeans, the harder it Is
for a girl to sit down, but that's
the only danger she's in, accord
ing to various experts.
From sportswear designers to
chorus girls, local authorities dis
agree with the Lodi, Ohio, school
board's claim that blue Jeans "in
vite familiarity," and Inspire
boys to pat and pinch.
"Who wants to pat a girl, real
ly, I mean, in blue Jeans.','
shrugged chorus Pat no kidding
Hardy. "We wear blue Jeans to
be one of the boys.
When she heard that the Lodi
teen-agers were ordered to wear
skirts and not blue Jeans to class
the 21-year-old brunette beauty
giggled. "Tell that fellow out In
Ohio that a pat In blue Jeans Is
Just a way of saying hello. Pats
in shorts or dresses are for real.1
COLORFUL. ANYHOW
Alliance, Neb. tU.R) An Al
liance man returned home from
a hnrd day at the office and
found that his bedroom had been
painted in a weird blend of pink
pearh and white. "What color
is il?" he asked his wife. "Hash
pink." she replied and explained
there hadn't been enough of any
one shade lo go around.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Bobbing Bob and Jumping Joe
The views of Senator Taft, good and bad, ate well known
to the country, he has spoken out sometimes wisely, some
times not, but always forthrightly on every major issue of
the day. It would be hard to see how Senator Taft, at this
late date, could add anything appreciable to the picture
familiar to the voters, Republican or otherwise. Wall
Street Journal.
No one should be surprised that the "Wall Street
Journal" has a very high idea of Senator Robert
Alonzo Taft. He is "Wall Street's" "favorite son."
But to anyone who has tried to chart the Taft
record for "forthrightness" since he became a candi
date for the presidency, attributing this quality to
"Mr. Republican" is surprising.
SENATOR Taft has weazled, wobbled, and double
talked on practically every important issue.
We wish the Journal would tell us, for example,
what Senator Taft's opinion of Senator McCarthy
and McCarthyism really is?
' In Wisconsin the Ohio Senator embraced both,
with a warmth and enthusiasm, which was as surpris
ing in a man of his type and character as it was
shocking.
Even one of his former admirers, Richard H.
Rovere, gifted author and
ent, couldn't "take it," and
pers Magazine had this to say, quote :
"It Is doubtful If American history provides an Instance
of a man comparable in stature and prestige to Taft, saying
anything as subversive of democratic values, and the values
of any sort of civilized human society as the words of en
couragement offered McCarthy by Taft."
But when Taft was confronted with this whole
sale endorsement of the Wisconsin senator he denied
he had ever given any such endorsement and de
clared the reporters had misquoted him.
TPHE Associated Press, -United Press, the New York
Times, and finally Philip Potter, a Baltimore Sun
correspondent, denied Taft had been misquoted, the
latter in fact stated that Taft after urging McCarthy
to, quote:
"Keep talking, and if one
with another."
remarked to Potter that
reaction to McCarthy was, quote :
"Pretty good on the whole except here In Washington."
Senator Taft has never
ter regarding this statement.
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VET "Mr. Republican" at another time, when asked
his opinion of McCarthy and "McCarthyism," told
his press conference that he had no particular faith in
the accuracy of McCarthy's information, that while
he approved of his drive
lieved he often went too
NOT approve of McCarthy
shall.
THIS so enraged the Wisconsin "smear-artist" that
tic iuiu ma pi coo lumci ciice me iicAt utv, lie uiti
not believe Taft had ever said such a thing, and would
not until the Ohio senator told him it was true to his
face.
If there was ever a "face-to-face" confrontation,
the present writer could never find a report of it. But
it seems fair to assume, that Taft must have convinced
his colleague and political "alter ego" IN SOME
WAY, that his remarks did not mean what they seem
ed to mean otherwise the subsequent Taft-McCarthy
love-least in Wisconsin would hardly have occurred.
R.W.R.
What Does 'Forthright' Mean?
As a postscript to the above here are just a few
of the political contradictions and inconsistencies, of
"Mr. Republican" as he has staged his non-stop presi
dential campaign from coast to coast, from the Cana
dian border to the Rio Grande. Senator Taft:
One day declared Russia did not have the long-distance
bombers to make any attack on the United States, and an
other day he said Russia DID.
Advocated an all-out Invasion of Communist China by
Chiang Kai-shek in Seattle.
In Portland the next day said he was not for an "all-out
Invasion" of the Chinese mainland, but only an attack for
"diversionary purposes."
When he got to Pocatello, Idaho, he was opposed even to
this, unless the Red Chinese should move into Indo-China.
By the time Mr. Republican got to Denver, however, he
had dropped Chiang and returned to his position of many
months ago, that while he fnvored sending amis to south
east Asia, under no circumstances would he send American
troops "unless we were absolutely sure of winning." (How
any nation could be absolutely SURE of winning any war in
this day and age and especially against the hordes of uncon
qucred China, Taft never explained.)
Asked Inter on if he would aid Chiang in Taft's proposed
Invasion of China if the Nationalist leader got into trouble,
Mr. Republican replied: "No if that happens he would Just
have to fall." (What Chiang thought of this proposal has
never been reported.)
In his book defining his foreign policy Senator
Taft proclaimed the following 5 points he favored :
(1) Rearmament, (2) economic aid to non-communist
countries, (3) military aid to anti-communist countries, (4)
warn Soviet Union aggression beyond certain lines would be
regarded as cause for war, (5) sending U.S. troops to nations
threatened by Russia or under actual attack.
All these proposals had been adopted by the prosent ad
ministration yet all of them were OPPOSED AT THE TIME
OF ADOPTION by ThiI, and all appropriations to finance
them he wanted materially reduced. He continued, however,
to declare the Truman foreign policy, wasteful, undesirable,
resistance to Russian aggression in Korea a colossal and
ghastly blunder, UN action in Korea ineffective and the UN
a washout.
DUT the Wall Street Journal insists the views of Taft
are well known and always forthright!
What brand of dictionary does the Wall Street
Journal use? R.W.R.
Tuesday. April 22, 1952
Washington correspond
shortly thereafter in Har
case doesn't work out, proceed
he was pleased to see the
made any protest to Pot
against communism he be
far and definitely he did
s attacks on General Mar
Crosstown
"I'll just about balance this month's food budget. Tom's away
for two weeks and the children have had a lot of
invitations to eat out."
Matter of Fact
THE EEL BARREL
Washington Democratic party
politics, which have resembled
nothing so much as a barrel of
eels for the last week, are again
beginning to resume an intelli
gible pattern. It is a very queer
pattern, to be sure, but at least
one can guess where it may lead.
A dominant figure in this pat
tern, curiously enough, is Presi
dent Harry S. Truman. He was
supposed to lose all his influence,
according to the traditional rules,
the moment he declared he
would not run again. As things
have turned out, however, the
President will probably have a
considerable influence, and he is
planning to use it to the full.
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IN BRIEF, the President intends
to do everything he can to get
the Democratic candidacy of W.
Averell Harriman off the ground.
He has already gone infinitely
further than President Roosevelt
did, in the rather comparable
time when he was seeking to pro
mote the candidacy of Harry L.
Hopkins. Truman will continue
in the same vein. And he will
be helped by the New York lead
ers who have now made Harri
man their favorite son, and by
the other northeastern chief
tains who have been left with no
where else to go by the defection
of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois.
But if the Harriman candidacy
fails to develop popular appeal,
and if the Republicans seem at
all likely to nominate Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft( the President can be
expected to take a new look at
his problem. In the event that
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is
the Republican choice, the Presi
dent may well be willing to see
Sen. Estes Kefauvcr carry the
Democratic standard, on the as
sumption that Kefauver will be
beaten anyway. But Truman is
known to think that the election
of Kefauvcr will be a national
tragedy, and to regard the elec
tion of Taft as a national catas
trophe. e
HENCE, if Taft is leading the
Republican race and Harri
man has not put himself over,
the President will really have
only two serious choices. Either
he will have to reverse his own
decision not to run. Or he will
have to take the lead in revers
ing Adlai Stevenson's decision,
seeking to draft the Illinois Gov
ernor by main force.
Although Truman has been
greatly angered by Stevenson'6
reluctance to become a candi
date, the President is far more
likely to swallow his irritation
with Stevenson than to eat his
own words about a third term. If
he decides to try to draft Steven
son, the President ought to com
mand the active co-operation of
the New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and Illinois dele
gations, which all share his views
of the national party situation.
This would be Just the beginning,
and the beginning alone might
well be enough to make the
draft-Stevenson effort succeed at
the Democratic convention.
Harriman, meanwhile, is tackl
ing the business of being a Presi
dential candidate with his cus
tomary earnestness and energy.
His greatest problem is, very sim
ply, that he has never learned
to project in public his warm
private personality. On only one
recent occasion a celebration
of the NATO anniversary here
in Washington has he overcome
this difficulty. The NATO celeb
rants, who were largely high
government dignitaries, filled the
town with talk of the Harriman
speech for a good many davs. It
was hoped that he would repeat
this success at the New York
dinner In his honor last week
see
ITNFORTL'NATELY. it seems
to be the concensus of the
politicians and observers that
Harriman's New York sneerh
while every way admirable, did
not light the fire which was
hoped from it. Probably the trou
ble was that he tried'too hard.:
for he is con"nus nf his peculiar
problem, and he works over hut
By Roland Cot
By Joseph and
Stewart Also
I major speeches so endlessly and
painstakingly that he tends to
go stale before delivering them.
In any case, it is generally agreed
that the great triumph of the
New York dinner was scored by
Governor Stevenson, the man
who had just said he could not
"accept the nomination this sum
mer." Stevenson was Harriman's can
didate until he withdrew from
the race, and Harriman is now
Stevenson's. Harriman has laid
out an extensive speaking pro
gram, and it is entirely possible
that he may hit his stride some
where along the way, beginning
to perform once more as he did
at the NATO celebration. In that
case, the Harriman candidacy
will have to be taken very seri
ously indeed.
e e
llf EANWHILE, however, the as-
tute Illinois national com
mitteeman, Col. Jacob Arvey, is
already preparing for the other
conditions envisioned above
namely Harriman not putting
himself over, and Taft leading
the Republican race.
Arvey has announced that he
now regards himself as free to
gather delegates to draft Gov.
Stevenson. He has Ignored Ste
venson s protest against this an
nouncement. And he has ac
tually opened talks with like
minded Democratic leaders.
He is finding a sympathetic
audience, moreover, since Ste
venson's New York appearance
convinced the assembled Demo
crats that the Illinois Governor
was THE man who can prevent
their expulsion from the land of
milk and honey.
Nonetheless, if Gen. Eisen
hower is the Republican nom
inee, Stevenson will almost sure
ly refuse even the most insistent
draft. But if Taft is the opposi
tion choice, the Democratic con
vention looks like being pretty
interesting after all.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
SixNewPOWCamps
Opened in Korea
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
The United Nations Command
disclosed that it has opened six
new camps for Communist war
prisoners In South Korea.
The Allies gave the location of
the new camps to the Commu
nists at a truce negotiating ses
sion Tuesday and promised to
hand over later the names of
prisoners who have been trans
ferred there.
Moving Inland
It was believed the UN com
mand is moving inland those'
prisoners who wish to return to
North Korea and Red China. The
move also will break up bands
of Communists believed respon
sible for the riots at the Koje
Island prison camp.
Col. George W. Hickman of
the UN said after the hour and
40-minute meeting that both
sides still are exploring ways to
reconcile the UN demand for
voluntary repatriation of prison
ers with the Communists' insist
ence on the return of all cap
tives. In an adjoining conference
tent, an Allied staff officer ac
cused the Reds of not even trying
to negotiate an armistice.
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Meet the
Candidates
Editor's note: This is one of
a series of statements furnish
ed by candidates for local of
fice in the primary election
May 16. They are being pub
lished by The Mail Tribune
as a free service io the candi
dates, and for the information
of readers wishing io inform
themselves of candidates' po
sitions relativt io their candi
dacy. By PAUL HAVILAND
Republican,
for District Attorney
As Jackson county takes its
place as an increasingly import
ant population center, the posi
tion of the District Attorney also
becomes a more important fac
tor in our way of life.
There are ever changing prob
lems in a well organized commu-
I A Mi
PAUL HAVILAND
nity which affect many human
lives. The District Attorney must
face these problems without
fear, hesitation or consideration
for special privileged groups.
My early legal education and
training in Oregon, my exper
ience with the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and my service
with the District Attorney's of
fice have made me conscious of
a public official's responsibility
to the people who have elected
him to represent them, not as
individuals, but as a group de
siring good government.
Should the voters, after care.i
fill consideration, elect to retain
me as District Attorney, I shall
continue to conduct the office
for the protection of the inno
cent and prosecution of the
guilty, regardless of creed, color
or political affiliation.
Congressional Quiz
Questions and Answers on What Goes on at tho Capital
Furnished by Congressional Quartorlt Nwt Features
Q Did
funds for
the House approve
a U.S. envoy to the
Vatican?
A In passing April 4 the SI
billion appropriation bill for the
State, Commerce and Justice De
partments, the House upheld a
committee rider that said none
of the money could be used for
maintaining a foreign mission
prior to Senate confirmation of
an appointee to the mission.
(There is no Vatican envoy at
present.) Rep. John J. Rooney's
(D.-N.Y.) motion to strike out
the section was defeated, as was
Alfred D. Slemenski's (D.-N.J.)
amendment to exempt the Vati
can. Q Does my boss have to let
me off so I can vote on election
day?
A It depends on your state's
laws. The Supreme court March
3 upheld a Missouri law which
requires employers to give work
ers four hours off with pay on
election days. Twenty-four other
states have laws requiring time
off for voting, but not all require
pay.
Q How many lawmakers
made known their stands on all
roll-call votes this year?
A Twenty - two Demo crats
and 18 Republicans in the Sen
ate did so on the 24 roll calls in
the first three months, according
to Congressional Quarterly's "On
the Record" compilation of votes
and declared stands. In the
House, 35 Democrats and 48 Re
publicans missed no opportunity
to make known their roll-call
positions on the 22 roll calls in
that chamber. The average Sena
tor went on record 89.8 per cent
of the time; the average for Rep
resentatives was 82.4 per cent.
Q Was anything done about
rumors that the Chairman of the
Congressional committee Inves
tigating tax cases had intervened
Locusts, Communists
Factors in Iranian
Economy and Future
Editors note: This i the sec
ond dispatch in a series deal
ing with the three greet
prise In the struggle between
East and West.
By PHIL NEWSOM
Untied Press Foreign Analyst
Whether Iran is to erupt in
chaos and eventually fall prey
to the Communists may depend
on the locusts.
Settlement of
Iran's oil dis
pute with Brit
ain also is a
factor, but ap
parently not so
important
as had been
from the oil
thought. The
Iranian peas
ant recei ved
little benefit
'hi I Newsom
income, anyway
Now, however,
for the first time in his life he
is becoming a landowner.
His entire future is tied up in
the land, and much of it in this
year's crops. That's why, under
the U. S. Point Four Program,
so much attention is being paid
to locust control throughout the
entire Middle East, and why
anxious eyes scan the skies for
the first sign of the great locust
swarms which destroy every
thing in their path.
Target for Tudeh
Should the land refrom pro
gram fail or should the peasant
be wiped out by the locusts, then
he will become another ready
made target for the Communist
Party, or, as it is known in Iran,
the Tudeh.
A Westerner finds it almost im
possible to understand the in
ternal working of Iran.
In the main, Iran has been
owned lock, stock and barrel by
about 100 big landowners. They
own whole villages, and some
individual holdings are larger
than Switzerland. Shah Moham
med Reza Pahlavi, one of the
richest men in the world, alone
owns 1,376 villages outright,
large portions of another 706
and nearly 2,000 vast land tracts
reserved for grazing.
Living Contrasted
The large landowners live
mostly in the cities in the midst
of great wealth, while the peas
ant subsists in poverty on a diet
of a loaf of bread per day and,
if he's lucky, a little wine.
The landowners have resisted
the reform government strenu
ously but are being forced into
It because it is being strongly
supported by the Shah, who sys
tematically is distributing all his
holdings and giving the peasants
many years to pay for them.
in some California tax fraud
cases?
A The House Ways and
Means committee April 9 filed
a report formally clearing Sub
committee Chairman Cecil R.
King (D.-Calif.) of improper ac
tion in tax cases involving Long
Beach citizens. Rep. J. M. Combs
(D.-Tex.) in charge of hearings
into the rumors, said they were
"completely without foundation"
and "not one scrap of evidence"
had been submitted to back
them up.
Q How much of an extension
did Congress give the President's
war powers?
A Until June 1. The House
and Senate completed action
April 9 on the bill extending
the wartime emergency powers,
and the measure was signed into
law April 15. Without such legis
lation, the powers would have
expired on formal ending of the
war with Japan April 28.
(Copyright 1952,
Congressional Quarterly)
WORST OF ALL
Waterbury, Conn. (U.R)
Frederick W. Kel'y complained
that an airplane dived within 10
feet of his chimney, made the
house shake, knocked pictures
off the walls and caused his chil
dren to cry. Worse yet, he added
his wife fell off a chair and
ripped her nylons.
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A difficulty is that farming
methods are crude, and many of
the peasants, ignorant, and il
literate, have fallen victim to the
Iranian version of the loan shark.
Land banks and other govern
ment projects now are being set
up to protect him.
Red Party Active
Meanwhile, the outlawed Tu
deh Party still is the most active
in Iran and provides Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh with one
of his greatest headaches. How
ever, much of the steam has
been taken out of the Communist
sales talks by the land reform
program and by the program to
nationalize the oil industry.
If Iran is to stay out of Com
munist hands, it appears the land
program must succeed and a set
tlement must be found for the
oil problem. Iran's economy did
not collapse, as had been feared,
with the shutdown of the oil In
dustry. But the loss of more
than $100,000,000 annually in
income and wages definitely left
it shaky.
Gold Hill Improving
Sewage Facilities ,
Gold Hill Work will be com-J
pleted in two or three weeks on
bringing the Gold Hill sewage
disposal plant up to state stand
ards, City Recorder Ferd W.
Jones, said Monday.
Jones stated that the present
changes and additions were nec
essary to meet state demands
and that, when complete, they
will provide a "well-equipped"
service "favorably meeting" the
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