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TEN MEDFORD (OHEOON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordISkTribunb Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MFnicnnri printing CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. G1LSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor dill. VIW HARRY CI1IPMAN. Telegraph Editor BILHAHU J awe. I I. apurm cunut OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second clam matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 13.. In AHusnri' Daily and Sunday one 91 Daily and Sunday six months 8 50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 50 Daily and Sunday one month 1 .25 By carrier in u v n n - c ' A . Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. i.nniriiu r.nM Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent mnA nn mnlnr miltPH! Daily and Sunday one year 115 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1J5 All jerms cosn in auvhh Offirlal Paper of the City of Medford tmiciai iaper oi jcmon vuumj United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLtDAY COMPANY, INC Offices In New York, Chicago, De. troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ZJ I UtlUHIX ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Madford and Jackie County Wa tery tnm th files at the Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 r' ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 25, 1942 (It was Saturday) Yreka gardener finds can con taining $1,000 in gold and cur rency while spading "victory" garden In back yard. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: This is "Know Your Neighbor" week. With rationing coming up you might want to borrow a cup oi sugar from him. 20 YEARS AGO April 25, 1932 (It was Monday) Installation oi Jail equipment and elevator under way as new Jackson county courthouse at Main street and Oakdale ave nue nears completion. Number of marriages In Jack aon county decreased 6.5 per cent to 570 In 1931, county clerk reveals. Divorces down 10.5 per cent during yenr. 30 YEARS AGO April 25, 1922 (It was Tuesday) Fifteen cases of smallpox re ported In Thompson Croek area as epidemic feared. Former vice-president of de funct Jacksonville bank tried on charge of making false report to bank examiners. 40 YEARS AGO April 25. 1912 (It was Thursday) . William Howard Taft declares Theodore Roosevelt "seeks a dic tatorship;" believes it would be impossible to dislodge him from White Houso if elected presi dent. Southern Pacific announces It will name new station near Rock Point "Roscy" In honor of A. S. Rosenbauin, general manager of the Medford division. Bids on Grocery Warehouse Called Mason Ehrman company offi cials in Portland today told The Mail Tribune that bids on the wholesale grocery firm's new warehouse building on the site of the old Piercy flying field will be opened here April 30. The bids will be on a 225-foot square reinforced concrete ware house building and a 30 by 200 foot building, including refriger ation and repacking facilities and office space. Included in the warehouse will be loading well facilities for eight trucks, com pany olficinls snid. Of the six contractors expected to submit bids on the construc tion job, five will be from south ern Oregon firms and the sixth from a Portland company. Mason Ehrman officials had previously stated that southern Oregon firms would receive preference in the construction project. The Mason Ehrman warehouse and office building will be the first in the new industrial area on the site of the old flying field. FIRE ANNOYS 'GATORS St Augustine, Fla. (U.Rl Firemen fighting a blaze at an alligator farm lied more to worry about than snapping flames. There were also snapping Jaws. The 6.000 captive alligators were unhurt but caused conj'dcrable disturbance before the firt was put out. Gtl53 I He Can Do Nothing Right No incident in recent political history more strik ingly illustrates the intensity and unreasonableness of some of the feeling against president unman 10 dav. than the reaction of the members of the Ameri can Society of Newspaper them to his remarks before them concerning seizure of newspapers and radios. We have iust received port of that 300th press-conference held in Washing ton by the present occupant of the White House, and it erives to any fair-minded, entirely different picture than was reported by the press services, or any newspapers we have seen then or since. I7HAT actually took place was this and it was " only one question and many: Question: If it is proper to seize the steel mills can you In your opinion seize the newspapers and radio stations? Answer: Under SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES the President would have to act for whatever were the best interests of the country." It seems to the undersigned the President obvious- Iv said what he HAD to sav. if he agreed to answer the question at all. He could hardly have said if the newspaper and radio industry did threaten tne Dest interests of the country, as would have power to do NOTHING. This is not to say he believed the occasion would ever arise. , CCORDING to this amplified report the imme- diate reaction in fact was not particularly hos tile or resentful. But when departed and thought it agine during the cocktail madder and madder, and and hornferous resolutions were drawn up, inform ally. Some claimed that the chief executive of the country had deliberately chosen the dictatorial path of the late Adolph Hitler, and if allowed his way would proceed to destroy that great and sacred shield of American freedom the freedom-of-the-press upheld and guaranteed by that greatest document of human liberty ever penned by the hand of man the Constitution of the United States ! Etc., etc. WELL, so it goes! As before remarked whether or not President Truman had a legal right to do what he did regarding the steel-mills we don't know, that is a question we presume the Supreme Court must decide and our hope is it SOON will! But that the President because he BELIEVED he had the legal right within the inherient and implied powers cf his office and was so advised by his attorneys, we clont for a minute doubt. Mr. Truman has many any disposition to break the law is not one of them. And he is about as far from the dictatorial neurotic, "Hitler" type as anyone could imagine. JN FACT a reading of the complete report of this press conference emphasizes the President's gen uine humility; his freedom from any "side" or exag gerated ego, his "plain-folks" quality. Readme between the happy to meet the newspaper editors, liked them, hoped they would like him, and answered all sorts of questions, with a eenial informality ranging all the way from flood-control to foreign policy, "choosing not to run" to choosing a successor to General Eisen hower, and so on and so forth. The "loaded" question we felt the President answered it very well far more wisely and shrewdly than is his custom. But if any newspaper editors, attending the conference also thought so, we have heard nothing from them. We are pleased to note editors present differed with the majority, and a few of them even refused to sign the formal resolution criticizing the chief executive for this alleged threat to destroy the sacred rights and privileges of the free press. Senator Moody of Michigan, himself a news paper man (and a good one) with a number of the visiting ing this press conference unanimous in declaring "Mr. Truman handled him self very well" and they interpreted his remarks as merely meaning that: if the circumstances within the newspaper and radio business should present a danger to the security and wel fare of the country similar to thnt presented by the threat ened steel walk-out, the President naturally would do the same thing he had done and for the same reason. BUT, as Senator Moodv explained, he could not conceive of the press or radio presenting any similar threat or anything approaching it. BUT the editors who kept their heads and their ennen rf nimwi 111 o -l nnwl mmnt'lfw The vast majority grabbed their rones and tar- buckets, joined in the cries some even made the rafters for the President s "impeachment. Which takes us approximately back where we started from. R. W.R. Don Cruikshank New Calculator Distributor Don Cruikshank today an nounced that he is terminating his office supply business lo cated at 28 South Central ave nue. The office will close April 30. On May 1 Cruikshank will take over the dealership for the Marchant Calculating Machine company and will Have oflices rrld.y. April 23, 1952 editors at least most of the first unabridged re unprejudiced, person, an answer among a great the steel industry nad, ne the assembled editors had over particularly we im hour some of them got finally the most menacing did taue the action he did, faults and weaknesses, but lines one concludes he was was the last one. As stated however, that some of the told the senate he talked editors the night follow and they were practically of outrage and alarm, ring with their demand In his home at 329 Crater Lake avenue. He will maintain spearate shop for maintenance and service of the calculating machines. Cruikshank has been in the office equipment business in Medford for 18 years. 'S.UH'" I Crosstown "Y'ought'a look on the bright side, up before this rain started Matter of Fact THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING FINE Washington The New York and Pennsylvania primaries may well prove to be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's most important pre-convention victories, except of course New Hampshire, which put the Eisenhower show on the road. The New York voting interest ingly proved the inaccuracy of the initial estimates of Sen. Rob ert A. Taft's strength, as confi dentially prepared by the Sena tcr's own lieutenants. These figures, which were the basis of the original Taft bull-dozer strat egy, gave him a New York po tential of no less than 20 dele gates. To be sure, the 20 were expected to be mainly composed of "sleepers," who would only unveil their adherence to Taft at the turning point in Chicago. Determining the number of sleepers in a 88 man delegation is naturally all but impossible. But after the severe defeat of most of the Senator's open adherents in New York, the best local ob servers doubt that Taft can count on more than four New York votes. Gov. Dewey says Taft will get only one. In New York as elsewhere, in short, Sen. Taft has not made the showing he at first counted on making. AS FOR the Pennsylvania pri mary, it could be close to decisive The important fact here was not the outcome of the con test for delegates. Only eight places were directly in dispute between the Taft and Eisenhow er forces, in Allegheny county, where the Eisenhower people did well. The important fact in Pennsylvania was, rather, the overwhelming turnout of Eisen hower enthusiasts far more than 800,000 of them in a state where people rarely bother to vote in primaries, and in a pri mary with no real contest to give it zest. It seems to be conceded, even by Sen. Taft's Pennsylvania friends, that this turnout repre sents a genuine popular trend. Gen. Eisenhower, who had no support whatever from the state organization, polled a vote very far ahead of Sen. Edward Mar tin, for whom the organization went all-out. The big question remaining is whether this popu lar demonstration in his own state will be heeded by Pennsyl vania's Governor, John S. Fine. As the man who personally controlled by far the largest number of Pennsylvania's 70 delegates, Gov. Fine Is in a posi tion to make other politicians die of envy. The primary does not bind him; he can vote his cattle as he pleases. He has by far the largest block of uncom mitted cattle still available. If Fine chooses Taft, this sin gle gain will offset almost all the Senator's recent losses. And if he chooses Eisenhower, the spectacle of the Pennsylvania cattle jostling Into the General's corral is likely to start a stam pede. The owners of many pro- Taft delegations, in the South, for instance, will then be unable to prevent their herds from Join ing the rush. IHE Eisenhower primary show in0 hnulri inflnpnr r.nv Fine in the General's direction, as proof that Eisenhower at the head of the ticket will help the local Pennsylvania candidates. Moreover, Gov. Fine wants to back a winner, and he will un doubtedly be Impressed by such DR. H. H. BRESEE Announc The Closing of His Office FOR THE DURATION OF HIS MILITARY SERVICE fly Roland Cot mister. The score you was pilin woulda made you feel worse. By Joteph and Stewart Alsop recent developments as those in Texas and Colorado. In Colo rado, despite the strong Taft stand of the able and admired Sen. Eugene D. Millikin, the Eis enhower forces now expect to capture a majority of the delega tion. And in Texas, the pro-Taft leaders of the established Re publican organization are now thought to be unable to stem the strong Eisenhower surge in the state, except by holding a rump convention. But on the Taft side, Gov. Fine is also subjected to extremely strong influences. The Grundy Owlett - Pennsylvania Manufac turers association machine is pro-Taft. Fine who wants to control Republican politics in Pennsylvania, has got to live with Grundy and Owlett in his back yard. Fine himself, who reserves his highest admiration for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, probably inclines personally to wards the Ohio Senator. Then too, he has had a sharp falling out with Pennsylvania Sen. James Duff, the boldest of the early Eisenhower backers. In this situation it is entirely possible that Fine will go either way. Since the Eisenhower-Taft race is still very close, Fine's decision will probably determine such vital questions as which delegation is to be seated if a contest develops in Texas. The stampede effect Fine can create has already been noted. In truth, barring unforeseen and almost revolutionary developments, it is quite possible that the out come of the Republican race will hang on which way Gov. Fine makes up his mind. In these cir cumstances, it is at least certain that the Governor can have just about whatever he asks for, from either of the two camps. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Prop Nuts Flight Contest Set Sunday , The Medford Prop Nuts, local model airplane club, will con duct another in a series of mod el flight contests Sunday start ing at 10 a.m., It was announced today. Events will include a novice all classes, and classes Hi A, A, B and C, all open. The contests will be on the club's flight area on the Agate desert which can ge reached by going out Table Rock road to the National Guard warehouse buildings, and turning left to ward the city dump grounds. The public is welcome. 4-H Club News Cheerful Cookers The Cheerful Cookers club of Eagle Point met April 23 at the home of Mrs. Victor Hay. It was decided to give a tea for the mothers on May 14 at 3:30 p.m. We decided on a wiener roast instead of a taffy pull on April 30.. Leolyn Brock, Acting Reporter VOLCANO ROARING Manila, P. I. U.R Didicas volcano, which rose out of the sea north of Luzon, was reported roaring and throwing fire and smoke high into the air Friday. WEATHER By United Press North California Scattered showers Friday; generally fair Saturday. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Korean truce is snarled at the moment on the issue of ex change of prisoners of war. The Reds are insisting on acceptance oi the principle that ALL prison ers of both sides shall be sent home regardless of their indi vidual wishes. The United Na tions command has declared that prisoners who do not wish to return across the battle lines should not be forced to do so. THIS prisoner business ought to be clearly and fully under stood by all of us, for the princi ple that underlies it is of the greatest possible importance to Americans, who believe in the rights of the INDIVIDUAL MEN. Here is the long and the short of it: Vast numbers of the prisoners we hold in Korea deserted to our side to GET AWAY FROM THE REDS. If we send them back by force, they'll be shot against a wall, or be sent to the slave labor camps, or some other horrible punishment will be visited on them. TN THIS matter of exchange of prisoners with the Reds, our record in Europe is black enough. There, after V-E Day, we sent back to the Russians (despite the protests and the pleadings of the pitiful victims) thousands upon thousands of Russian prisoners of war who deserted to the Ger mans to get away from the hor rors of Russian communism. We took these prisoners over from the Germans and handed them back to the Russians be cause the Russians insisted on it. What happened to all of them we don't know in detail, but we know enough . to be bitterly ashamed of the whole nasty and sickening transaction. THE dispatch telling of the - present situation in Korea says the UN command "declares that prisoners who do not wish to return . . . SHOULD not be forc ed to do so." I hope that is a misquotation. With the tradition of FREE AMERICA behind them, our ne gotiators should make this ring ing declaration: These unfortunate people SHALL NOT be sent to the ruth less despotism of communism from which they fled to the sanc tuary of our lines. Before we will be guilty of such a dastardly be trayal of individual human rights, we will GO ON FIGHT ING INDEFINITELY IN KO REA, regardless of the cost." Weary as we all are of a war we can't win, a war that should never have been allowed to get started, I think we'd all smack our fists in our palms and shout with grim approval: THAT'S the stuff! THAT'S AMERICA! We're willing and ready to FIGHT for a principle like that!" TN Pennsylvania, the pendulum of Republican favor, which had swung strongly toward Ike in New Hampshire and Minne sota, then toward Taft in Wis consin and Nebraska, swings back sharply toward Ike in Pennsylvania. With the bulk of the Pennsyl vania votes counted, Eisenhower has in round numbers 826,000 out of 1,110.000 Republican votes cast. That is 75 per cent of the to tal, or three out of four. Taft gets some 167,000 write ins and Stassen gets some 118, 000 ballot votes. T'AFT'S name was not on the Pennsylvania ballot. He refus ed to file, and urged his followers not to write him in. So his back ers call the Pennsylvania pri mary "meaningless." Personally, I can't agree. Among other things, I think the fact that, under the circum stances Senator Taft got 167.000 write-ins is a fine tribute to him. A written-in vote is usually a OFFICE EQUIPMENT INVENTORY Typewriters Chairs Kardex Desks Adding Machines Costumers (Hall Trees) Cardex Book Units Typing Standi Liquid Duplicator Card Duplicators Filing Cabinets Shelfrack Cash Drawers Portable Addressers Letter Trays SUPPLIES DON 28 SOUTH CENTRAL Solons Seen Trying For Self-Protection In Impeachment Bill By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (U.R) S o m e of the Republicans who would im peach President Truman or cut of funds with which to adminis ter seized steel companies are acting in self-defense in a pe- cularly personal way. A few of them will admit it. More of them will concede that impeachment of Mr. Truman Is impossible. The self-defenders are trying to protect themselves from blis tering mail and telegrams from back home. Some sections of the American public took the steel seizure in stride and some cheer ed it on the union leaders, for example. A very considerable number of citizens, however, saw in Mr. Truman's seizure of the steel in dustry a gross and dangerous violation of the constitution. The violation would be in the lack of any legislative act authorizing the president to order the sei zure. These citizens belabored their congressmen and senators to "do something." The idea was to do something which would assert the complaint that Mr. Truman had reached far beyond the bounds of legality to take an ac tion which only could be author ized by act of congress. The protesting mail from back home said Congress should as sert itself, defend its constitu toinal position as one of the three co-equal branches of gov ernment. One rather substantial parti san argument has been made against the effort to compel Mr. Truman to release the steel in dustry by forbidding the use of federal funds for its adminis tration. Get Off Hot Spot It is that such action would do more than release the indus try. It would get Mr. Truman off a hot spot. Anything that happened thereafter easily could Upper Rogue Marblo Tourney Finals Set Shady Cove Finals in the Upper Rogue marble tourna ment will be held at the Shady Cove school at 10 a.m. May 9, it was announced today by Steel head nost, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which is sponsoring the event. Elimination contests at par ticipating schools of the area are now under way, and some stiff competition is shaping up for the final contest, reports in dicated. VOTE OF CONVICTION. If I were Senator Taft, I'd feel good over those 167,000 hand-written ballots. , Still, you can't shrug off the fact that General Eisenhower, in the old, Back-East, supposedly hard-boiled state of Pennsyl vania, got three out of four of all the Republican votes cast, in cluding write-ins. K EEP this in mind: No dirt was done Senator Taft in Pennsylvania. Nobody kept him off the ballot. He was free to file, if he had wanted to. He just anticipated that he would lose in Pennsylvania and decided to stay out. It will be the same in the Oregon primary. He could have filed, but didn't. Our system of hodge-podge, hit-and-miss state presidential primaries is more or less of a joke, but at least it's a crap game that everybody can horn into. Senator Taft just chose not to horn into Pennsylvania. The results indicated that his judgment was sound. BATTERY OF 5 THREE-DRAWER LETTER SIZE FILE With Custom Made Counter on Top Adding Machine Ribbons Carbon Pads Stamp Pad CRUIKSHANK OFFICE EQUIPMENT be charged to Congress regard less of the merits of the charge. And Mr. Truman is mighty handy at indicting Congress with the public and making the indictment stick. That will not decide the ques. tion whether Mr. Truman did or did not violate the constitution. A suit by the steel industry ul timately will determine the Su preme Court's judgment of that. There are persons here who hazard a guess that Mr. Truman can expect friendly treatment from a Supreme Court he and FDR created. But a majority of both houses of Congress already is emphat ically on record in disapproval of the policy of seizure without specific authority. The presi dent probably would not risk it. again. Meet the Candidates Editor's note: This is one of a series of statements furnish- t 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 to the candi dates, and for the information of readers wishing to inform themselves of candidates' po sition! relative to their candi dacy. By E. H. Mann Republican for State Representative As a Republican candidate for nomination and re-election to the House of Representatives from Jackson County, I offer my past record for your approval. I feel that men who are experienced and familiar with the tax prob- t .-v V- A X 1 3' E. H. Mann lems and other Important legis lative matters facing the state of Oregon In the next session of the Legislature are best quali fied to serve through their past experience. If I am returned to the Legis lature, I will continue to con sider all proposed legislation strictly on its merit, regardless of political pressure or special interests, so that the people of this county and the state of Ore gon may be well served. I have been a resident of Jack son County for over twenty years, during which time I have owned and operated the E. H. Mann company in Medford, Oregon; and during that time I have become thoroughly famil iar with the problems facing the people of Jackson County. If you feel that these quali fications justify your returning me to the Legislature in 1953, and if my services in the past have been honest and faithful, I would appreciate your support. Everything GOES AT COST! 1 Paper (standard and wide) Paper Stencils Stamp Inks Folders Guides PHONE 2-2431
