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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County His
tory from the (lies of the Mail
Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 ftfn
go. y
10 YEARS AGO F
April 24, 1942
(It waj Friday)
Lela Rogers leaves Rogue
river ranch to appear in motion
picture, "The Major and the
Minor," with her daughter Gin
ger Rogers. .
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: To curb in
flation the government proposes
to; "stagger prices." Hit 'em a
good swat, s they have been
staggering the purchasers long
enough.
20 YEARS AGO
April 24. 1932
(It was Sunday)
Southern Pacific railroad an
nounces "cent-a-mile" fares for
parsons vacationing between
April 28 and May 1.
Medford business firms offer
high school boys opportunity to
gain one day of business exper
ience on National Boys day.
30 YEARS AGO
April 24. 1922
(It was Monday)
Owners of Medford cannery
urge local farmers to plant large
acreage to benns to fill Increased
demand for canned beans from
this area.
Analysis of "while mule
booze" seized in northern Cali
fornia shows it contains por
tions of creosote, ether and nico
tine sulphate.
40 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1912
(It was Wednesday)
Medford clothing store adver
tises mens high quality shoos,
$2.10, women's high quality
shoes, $1.49, men's sweaters 98
cents and women's skirts $2.79.
Medford bank deposits In
crease $1 13,000 during March
and April as general improve
men In business conditions
noted.
Panel To Discuss
Estate Problems
Typical estate problems which
face the majority of American
families will be discussed at a
special estate and trust forum to
be presented by the United Stales
National bank 7:30 p.m., Tues
day, April 2(1, In the Tioneer
room of the Jackson hotel, ac
cording to Allan F. Perry, man
ager of the Medford branch.
A three-man team from the
United States National's head of
fice in Portland will conduct the
program, which is to be a non
technical presentation of facts
and methods of estate manage
ment applicable to the average
family. Both estate planning and
tax economics will be included.
Estate owners today are tax
conscious and In search of ways
and means of minimizing estate
taxes and of securing experi
enced and permanent yet eco
nomical management, It was
pointed out. The purpose of these
forums is to present some of the
answers to such problems.
Opportunities will be provided
for questions from the audience,
according to Perry, who will act
as presiding officer. A social
hour will complete the program.
In the time it takes our planet
to go once around the sun.
earth turns on its axis about
3651-4 times. That is. there arc
365 li days in the year.
Voters More Inquisitive
Time was when about all the average voter wished
to know about candidates was their party label and
how high they stood in their party organization. But
that is becoming a thing of the past, especially on the
state and county levels. Nowadays many voters, and
particularly those of the younger generation, are con
cerned as to the aspirants' exact qualifications their
education, training, experience and general back
ground. One Jackson county voter has even gone so far
in his quest of information on candidates in the com
ing primary, as to get up a questionnaire of his own
which he has mailed for them to fill out. As this voter
explains, if he were hiring a man to do a job he would
want to know quite a bit about him. And, as the voter
helps pay the salaries of public officials, the former
feels he has a right to know a candidate's fitness for
the position sought.
e
"THE official Voters' Pamphlet now being mailed out
to Oregon's registered voters by the secretary of
state's office is, of course, one of the best sources of
information on candidates. Unfortunately, however,
the Voters' Pamphlet does not give space to aspirants
for county office and neither does it carry statements
from all those seeking state or national offices in
clusion of statements is optional with candidates.
The Mail Tribune has obtained statements from
all Jackson county men who have opposition in the
May 16 primary and these are being published, one
each day in alphabetical order. This is being done as
a service to voters who wish factual information on
county candidates.
COME of the Grange chapters of the county, and
other organizations, are inviting candidates to ap
pear at their meetings, get acquainted with the mem
bers, state their views and explain their qualifications.
Such contacts between the voters and those who
are seeking office are all to the good, and there can't
be too many of them, for there is no better way to cor
rectly size up a man than to
over with him personally. E.L.lf.
As to the Primary
As usual this time of year The Mail Tribune is
showered with requests for political support PRE
FERABLY with a 2-col cut on the first page gratis !
Strange how the time-honored pattern repeats it
self, year after year. There are always a certain per
centage of candidates who regard a primary as an
election not SElection; and their own candidacy of
world-shattering importance, simply because they
happen to be personally concerned.
A PRIMARY election is of importance of course
" EVERY election is. In many states, particularly in
the South, the primary settles the matter, while na
tionally the presidential candidate a party chooses
may determine, not only the immediate fate of the
party, but the country.
On the local, or state level however, primaries are
not so vital unless a civil war, or armed insurrection or
something equally catastrophic is raging.
That is why so few papers take an active part in
primaries. Some take no part at all.
The theory is that the candidates a PARTY se
lects, are chiefly a concern to the members of the
PARTY, not the people of a community as a whole,
and the members of a party are quite capable of de
ciding the candidates they wish without any outside
pressure, or inside advice, journalistically or otherwise.
THAT is valid enough as a general rule.
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And the Mail Tribune for many years has made ex
ceptions expressing a preference for a few candidates
in every primary when 111 its
standing, or some issue of
involved otherwise not.
THAT course, we expect,
TCitf tliot rlrnen'f moon
paign preceding the primary, or pledging support and
endorsements on the scale apparently expected by
some of the highly vocal and peripatetic aspirants for
office who treat this and every other newspaper office
in the campaign as honey-bees do the hive.
So this is a fair warning to all and sundry pri
mary candidates that a large percentage of them won't
be endorsed or opposed in this primary by this pa
per their fate will be left up to the tender mercies of
the members of the party.
This doesn't mean the sanctum-door will be lock
ed, or that candidates, local or state, won't be very
welcome for a handshake and a chat at any time.
But it does mean that those who are seeking edi
torial support between now and May 16th won't get
it; and those who wish an editorial preference ex
pressed just before election will get it just as certainly
if they don't ask for it via a half hour speech as if
they do the chances might even be better. There
fore if this warning is heeded a good deal of energy
and time will be saved by all concerned and perhaps
disappointment in some instances, will be avoided.
R.W.R.
No Sign of Life Seen
At Alaska Crash Site
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
Two helicopters reached the
scene of a wrecked C-47 Air
Force plane and reported no
sign of life.
The plane, with five men
aboard, crashed in Merrill pass
in the rugged Alaska range
Monday.
Thunder, April 24. Mil
meet him and talk things
judgment they were out
importance seemed to be
to follow this year.
ma oro CTnino1 intn tViO pain-
Two AWOL Sailors
Under Arrest Here
Two sailors, who admit that
they have been absent without
leave from the Whidby Island,
Wash., Navy base since April 20,
were arrested here by state po
lice last night, officers reported.
The men are Konrad Needham
Kethtey and David Anthony
Plieiffer. They are being held for
military authorities.
COMMUNICATIONS
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the name and address of the writer
lithougb under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication Is permis
sible. The Mall Tribune reserves
the rlfht to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words.
Easter Seal Success
To the Editor: As chairman of
the Jackson County Easter Seal
drive I want to thank all for
their generous support of the
1952 campaign. It appears that
we have surpassed our goal, and
I ' now this was made possible by
the fine cooperation we received
from both clubs and individuals
in the county.
This letter not only expresses
my gratitude but the heartfelt
thanks of hundreds of crippled
children and adults who will be
aided in their quest of rehabili
tation by the Oregon Society for
Crippled Children and Adults.
The Easter seal drive is their
source of funds to carry on their
numerous projects.
Mrs. C. B. Partch
Motor Haven Motel
Medford, Oregon
Wants Clarification
To the Editor: I would like to
clarify a few statements pub
lished in Tuesday's Mail Tribune
regarding the speeches made to
the Republican Women by me
and Carlos Morris, the present
county coroner.
Mr. Morris stated that I had
misrepresented the facts, and
went on to declare that coroners
may not order autopsies, that
the district attqrney must do so.
The truth is that in my own
speech, made just before Mr.
vlorris spoke, I said exactly the
same thing. I have never stated,
nor meant to imply, that the
coroner, even though a physi
cian, had any more authority in
authorizing autopsies than a
non-physician coroner. In cases
where an autopsy is authorized
I, as a licensed physician, can
do them, whereas Carlos Morris
cannot.
Mr. Morris also stated that
the county health officer Is re
quired by law to certify to death
when no physician is present at
the time of death. This is true
In this county at the present
time but, and I emphasized this
in my speech, the deaths may be
certified by the coroner in coun
ties where the coroner is a li
censed medical practitioner.
This was taken from the latest
edition of the Registration Man
ual of the Oregon State Board
of Health.
Carlos abhored the Idea that
I had stated there were possibly
murderers unapprehended due
to the present antiquated coro
ner system. These statements
were made by law enforcement
authorities and experts in the
field such as Alan R. Moritz, M.
D., professor of legal medicine,
Harvard Medical school. I only
repeated them.
M. P. Vogel, M.D.
Heartily Supports Nunley
To the Editor: In reply to Mr.
E. C. Jerome's letter in the Med
ford Mail Tribune, I wish to say
this: Like Mr. Jerome, I never
heard of Walter Nunley before I
read Mr. Nunley's article in the
paper but unlike Mr. Jerome, I
think it's about time we did
hear from someone who has the
courage to speak the truth.
I too am a resident of Med
ford, a wife and a mother. I
know that gambling is wide
open here in Medford. I know,
because it has brought moral
and financial havoc into our
own family. I know, because I
have entered these places to
find out for myself If gambling
really exists and I saw with my
own eyes those gathered around
the tables losing their hard
earned dollars. Oh yes, there
were slot machines in full opera
tion too. If gambling is supposed
to be illegal here, why isn't
something done about it? Why
are they allowed to operate and
prey on the weaknesses of oth
ers? It seems to me that gam
bling is In some respects a more
deadly disease than alcoholism.
Why don't the churches get in
and do something about this
evil? Perhaps It's up to the
women of this community to or
ganize as has been done in other
places. Could that be the an
swer? Perhaps we may have a
champion in Mr. Nunley, to our
cause worth fighting for. It's the
women and children who are the
scapegoats and who suffer the
most from this menace.
Medford is a beautiful little
city if you shut your eyes when
you have the occasion to walk
down "skid row" past the clubs
and taverns.
I have not been a resident of
Medford as long as Mr. Nunley
has, but I've been here long
enough to observe BOTH the
beauty and the sordidness of our
town. I sincerely hope Mr. Nun
ley doesn't change his residence
as Mr. Jorofne suggested, for we
ne r him here. I don't intend to
leave Medford either. I like it
here, and when you live In a
nice "house" that becomes dirty,
you don't move out and leave
the dirt you stay In and clean
it upl
Mrs. Ruth Foreman,
Medford, Oregon.
The University of Santo Do
mingo, in the Dominican Repub
lic. West Indies, is the oldest
university in the New World. It
was authorized by papal bull In
1538.
Crosstown
4-14-4-1 JMgm.
"Take three. Mr.
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
"The government collected
more taxes last year than ever
before about $362 for each
man, woman and child in the na
tion. . . . The internal revenue
bureau announced today that
1951 collections totaled $56,093,
339,426.69 (a shade over 56 BIL
LION dollars), an increase of 40
per cent over 19.50."
fpHAT brings up an interesting
-- question:
How big is a billion?
CONGRESSMAN HUBERT B.
SCUDDER, of Sebastapol, Cal
ifornia, illustrated it interest
ingly a while back in this way:
If a corporation had begun
business in the year ONE, A. D.
(nearly 2,000 years ago) and had
lost $1,000 a day every day up
to now, it would still have
enough capital left out of the
original billion to go on doing
business, losing $1,000 every day,
until the year 2929 nearly 1,000
years from nowl
TS ANY ONE mathematician
enough to answer this one:
If we started in now to pay off
our national debt of 260 billion
dollars at the rate of $1,000 a
MINUTE, instead of $1,000 a day,
how long it would take us to get
it paid?
TT'S TOO MUCH for me. It's
like trying to figure HOW FAR
OFF is a light-year. A light-year
is the distance covered by light,
traveling through space at the
speed of about 86,000 MILES
PER SECOND, in a year of time.
Can you IMAGINE that? 1
can't. The point is that we can't
understand what we can't imag
ine. About all I can do is to mutter
to myself that if we GO ON
spending at the rate we're spend
ing now we'll GO BROKE.
CPEAKING of billions, I'll have
to tell one on myself.
A week or so ago, I was deal
ing in this column with the prof
its of the steel industry at the
supposed rate of about $19 a ton
on 100 million tons of annual
production. I got all mixed up on
my decimal points and arrived at
a profit of 19 billions on which
the steel companies paid taxes of
12 billions. The profit figure
should, of course, have been 1.9
billions and the tax figure should
have been 1.2 billions. I copy
read it twice, carefully, and
NEVER NOTICED the discrep
ancy. But here's the payoff:
Nobody else noticed it! At
least, nobody jumped me about
It.
TPHAT can be explained In only
two ways:
1. Everybody else is as con
fused as I am about billions.
2. NOBODY ELSE READS
THIS STUFF.
TIERE'S a disturbing thought:
Maybe the braln-trusters of
the present administration are
just as confused as all the rest of
us by the multiple billions In
which we now habitually deal
when we speak In terms of gov
Chapel
Across from
Frank Morgan -
FUNERAL
Phone
By Roland Cot
Harris. It's triplet.'
News
ernment finance. Maybe the fig
ures have become so staggering
that they no longer can compre
hend them and just go on in a fog
spending more billions and levy
ing more billions in taxes with
out knowing what it's all about.
TT HAPPENS that way, you
know.
Louis XV of France was one
of the great spenders of history.
He tossed gold coins around as if
they were sawdust, as had Louis
XIV before him. France went
over the financial hill and began
to slide swiftly down the other
side.
By that time, the French court
had become too corrupt to care
much what happened. The sub
ject of what was to come of it all
came up one day and Madame
de Pompadour, Louis XVs mis
tress, shrugged her shapely
shoulders and wise-cracked: "Af
ter us the deluge."
Well, the deluge came. Among
other results, blood deluged the
streets of Paris.
Washington Crime
Probers May Hold
Seattle Hearings
Aberdeen, Wash. (U.R) The
Legislative Crime committee
may hold a hearing in Seattle
"very soon, before the tate Su
preme Court rules on our pow
ers," Sen. Albert Rosellini (D.
Seattle) committee chairman,
said Thursday.
The court is reviewing the au
thority of the committee, which
Wednesday concluded a two-day
hearing here.
The hearing was confined to
questions on state-level matters
only, and Rosellini said this pol
icy prevented introduction of
evidence concerning "thriving
vice conditions" in Aberdeen.
Conditions in the city were
termed "rotten" by committee
counsel George Kahin, Seattle
attorney. He assailed conditions
here as the committee sought to
prove at the hearing that boot
legging was licensed in Aber
deen by a system of fines and
bond forfeitures.
The committee contended that
the state liquor control board
and local law enforcement au
thorities were equally responsi
ble for liquor violations.
Washington Secretary
May Run for Governor
Olympia (U.R) Secretary of
State Earl Coe Wednesday hint
ed he may run for governor in
this year's elections and he said
he would make known his de
cision "within the next two or
three weeks."
Coe, former state Democratic
chairman, said "friends through
out the state and from every
walk of life" have urged him to
run for governor.
Almost 2,000,000 additional
tons of Iron and steel scrap may
be available this year from the
country's 20,000 auto wrecks.
Mortuary
the Courthouse
Harold Snodgrass
DIRECTORS
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Hero-vs-Villian Type
Propaganda Success
In Communist China
BY PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
Any good story must have a
villain as well as a hero.
It helps if
both are rath
er simple
minded fel
lows, the one
bent only on
good and the
other only on
evil. It also
helps if the
villain is rich
and the hero
is poor.
The Russian
Communists long ago realized
the value of the simple formula.
Thus, it is the landlord against
the peasant, or "Wall Street"
against the poor ' but honest
working man.
The success of the formula Is
demonstrated almost daily, and
in the totalitarian countries is
the more effective since it is
distributed through a 100 per
cent controlled press and radio.
Now the Russians, past-masters
at the art, have passed it
along to the Chinese Reds in
whose hands the constant reiter
ation of the "big lie" is being
used to cement the country firm
ly against the West.
Tireless Propaganda
It is the more disturbing when
it is noted that, no matter what
other troubles they may have,
the Communists are tireless in
pursuing their propaganda line.
Thus the Chinese, with a war
on in Korea, with epidemics and
threatened famine at home, be
set by party purges and in the
midst of a campaign against
both landlords and merchants,
still are able to assign more than
a million and a half persons to
the propaganda job alone.
And they're carrying on their
campaign effectively in a coun
try which has no TV, few radios
or telephones and even fewer
newspapers and among a popu
lation which has millions of il
literates. The system Is interesting.
Postal Workers Lead
Postal workers deliver the
major official newspapers, col
lect subscriptions and canvass
for new readers. They organize
"reading groups" where a leader
reads the newspaper aloud and
explains the news. Postal work
ers also are expected to lead one
or two such groups themselves.
Where delivery of newspapers
is impossible, "blackboard news
papers" are used. These are
blackboards set up at local party
headquarters upon which is
copied news broadcast at dicta
tion speed by Peiping Radio.
Court Records
DISTRICT COl'RT
Herbert L. Wadell, no motor vehicle
license, $5.
Dnvid G. Rohertson, no motor ve
hicle license, $5.
Willis Oelbert Greer, failure to stop
at stop sign, $10.
William J. Rightmier. no splash
aprons or mud guards, $10.
Melvin William Wallace, no motor
vehicle license, $10.
Cleo Henry Taylor, no operator's li
cense, $5.
Ralph Lory Mitchell, violation of
basic rule, S14.50, and aix citations for
overload, total $137.
Elrion Leonard Bean, overload, $71.
Sharold W. ChaDman, overload, $12P
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Peter Jerome Wright. 22, of 401
South Newtown. Medford. and Marilyn
Helen Wright, same address.
Vernon Dale Lehman, 19, of 2570
Springbrook, Medford. and Loretta
Virginia Rush, 20. 1710 Orchard Home
court, Medford.
Robert Brure Cardin, 21, Williams.
Ore., and Joette Ann Allen, 18, also
Williams.
Hnrold Brooke Pence, 43, Central
Point, and Lottie Trevia LaJeane Bush,
39, Bessie street, Medford.
Milo Mattox. 28. Ashland, and Viv
ian Jean Householder, 20, Ashland.
. I'hil N'ewsom
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HUBBARD
MAIN and RIVERSIDE
Iron party discipline assures
sellout audiences for all propa
ganda films. Tickets are sold to
unions in blocks and attendance
is compulsory. If movies aren't
possible, then magic lanterns
and puppet shows are substi
tuted. All pound the "hate America"
theme and reports from inside
China say it is having results. H
Meet the
Candidates
Editor's note: This Is one of
a series of statements furnish
ed by candidates tor local of
fice in the primary election
May 16. They are being pub
lished by The Mail Tribune
as a free service to the candi
dates, and for the Information
of readers wishing io Inform
themselves of candidates' po
sitions relative to their candi
dacy. By CHARLES HOCKERSMITH
Democrat, for County
Commissioner '
I am a candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for county
commissioner of Jackson coun
ty, and I am seeking the nomina
tion and election because I feel
that many specific improvements
can be made in the administra
tion of the business and affairs
of Jackson county.
The county court is the agency
of county government that is re
sponsible for the efficient and
economical administration of the
county, and I feel that I know
the county, and its problems, to
such an extent that I can be of
service to the people by Improv
ing the operation of the county
affairs.
I was born in Jackson county,
now live on a farm west of Phoe
nix, and I know every section of
the county and the county prob
lems as well as any man, and
better than most. I believe in
two-party government, and be
lieve that government should be
conducted for the welfare of all.
Your support in the May 16
primary election will be appre
ciated. WEATHER
By UNITED PRESS
North California: Mostly
cloudy Thursday and Friday; oc
casional rain Thursday Redding
north. ,
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