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Medford and Jackson County His
tory from the filet of the Mail
Tribune 10, 20. 30 end 40 yun
sgo.
10 YEARS AGO
April 29. 1942
(It was Wednesday)
Medford is one of five Oregon
cities named by OPA to go under
rent control regulations.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Hereabouts
the weather is still censured.
There are days when It is more
to be pitied.
20 YEARS AGO
April 29, 1932
(It was Friday)
Southern Oregon milk produc
ers Jubilant as butter price to
buyers rises to 17 cents a pound
on Portland market.
Eighteen inches of new snow
fall In Dead Indian area halts
search for bodies of man and
wife missing since January bliz
zard. 30 YEARS AGO
April 29. 1922
(It was Saturday)
Results of widely-heralded
spelling match in confusion as
teams captained by Gus New
bery and Court Hall both claim
victory.
Medford police Investigating
"crime wave;" homes of many
leading citizens entered.
40 YEARS AGO
(It was Monday)
New high-powered wireless
station at Central Point starts
operations; receives several mes
sages from ships at sea,
Members of Medford Univer
sity club bring back favorable
reports after inspection trip to
Blue Ledge copper mine south
west of Medford.
Editorial Comment
Knifing Mr. Sweetland
The dirt that comes out In some
political campaigns Is always dis
tasteful to a mnjority of voters
who believe in fair play and an
honest, open scrap. Fortunately,
Oregon voters seem to be more
immune than those in some
other stntes to influence by
whispering campaigns, anony
mous and libelous publications,
smears and backjubbing of var
ious types.
One of the nastiest campaigns
in this election Is being waged
against the Democratic national
committeeman, Monroe Sweet
land, whose enemies have de
scended to a new low in vitu
peration. If inme of the mate
rial being circulated could be
believed, Mr. Sweetland should
be hanged from the nearest limb.
Mr. Sweetland was a Socialist in
his student days, and that has
been the takeoff point. We find
nothing In his record, however,
which is dishonorable or detri
mental to the party he repre
sents. His mistake, from the
standpoint of his enemies, seems
to be that he has revived the
Democratic party In Oregon and
gained some Influence in Wash
ington, D.C.
This newspaper is not greatly
Interested in the affairs of the
Democratic national committee,
but we are interested In a fair
play and honesty in politics.
Democrats puzzled or disturbed
by the vicious Infighting should
make up their minds May 16 on
the basis of Mr. Sweetland's
record. Portland Oregonian,
IJead line on ctxssirtra Ada 5 3i
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Two Questions Answered
We have received a communication not for
publication which asks two questions:
1. If the Smith-Connally Act allowed the President
to seize the steel industry, why didn't President Truman
Invoke it?
2. If for some reason this could not have been done,
why didn't he invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, by which he
could have prevented the steel strike within the law
instead of in defiance of it?
1 Our understanding is the Smith-Connally act
applied only during World War II, and lapsed
when the war ended.
"Action brought during the war against this measure
on constitutional grounds, however, was not sustained
and the law was upheld by the Supreme Court in March
1947."
It was probably because of this ruling that Presi
dent Truman's Attorney General had informed him
the chief executive's "exceedingly great inherent pow
ers were adequate to deal with any serious strike
emergency."
The latter, in turn, probably was the basis for the
President's belief that his seizure of the steel indus
try had proper legal sanction.
ZO As before stated,
' ' know whether or not the fact his bitter politi
cal enemy Senator Taft, was author of the T.-H. Act,
impelled him to ignore it.
But we do know this:
Had the Taft-Hartley measure been invoked,
there would undoubtedly have been an interval of
several days perhaps weeks during which there
would have been no steel production, and it was any
interruption of steel production, that the Department
of Defense officially stated would be calamitous to our
war effort and President Truman, above everything
else, wished to avoid. R.W.R.
Why Do Democrats Favor Taft?
Things aren't breaking so well just now for Sena
tor Robert Alonzo Taft. And we are not referring to
the recent primary in New Jersey.
We have in mind the publication of the late sena
tor Vandenberg's official papei'3, and the newspaper
comments upon the recent refusal of Governor Ste
venson of Illinois to be a candidate for the presidency
The damaging element
plete absence of a partisan
MOT only was Senator Vandenberg a close personal
friend of Senator Taft, but they had been for
years, the closest political buddies.
Yet, not only once or twice, but frequently, the
Michigan Senator writing to members of his family,
declared the greatest cross he had to bear in his pa
triotic effort to weld together a high-minded, bi-partisan
foreign policy, was the pestiferous isolationism
of "Mr. Republican."
Time after time progress was reported and a
real step in advance seemed assured, when "Old
Ichabod" himself would get up on his hind-legs and
throw a sack of monkey-wrenches into the bi-partisan
gears.
"He gives me an awful headache," the late Sena
tor from Michigan declared time after time, in an
guish and pain.
We believe few people who read these interest
ing and extremely revealing papers, will fail to have
a far higher idea of the spiritual stature and sound
statesmanship of the late Michigan Senator, and a
far lower one of the same qualities in the character
of the senior Senator from Ohio, than they had before.
And it is difficult to escape the conclusion that
a majority of such readers regardless of politics, will
now be more hesitant than ever before to favor plac
ing the control of this country's foreign affaire, at such
a critical time as this, in the hands of a man as bigoted,
blind and hopelessly provincial, internationally speak
ing, as Senator Taft.
THERE is one dominant note running all through
the newspaper comments on Governor Steven
son's declination, and that note reads something like
this: '
"The one chance to get Governor Stevenson to re
consider arid accept draft would be the nomination of
Senator Taft by the Republicans."
This proceeds not from the Eisenhower camp,
but from the Democrats. It will be pretty hard for
Robert Alonzo to discount this sort of tribute to Gen
eral Eisenhower's vote-getting ability, and reflection
upon his own.
There is no campaign propaganda in this sort
of appraisal, it adds up to some very realistic calcu
lations by the smartest political strategists in the
Democratic High Command.
And perhaps the smartest practical politician
in the party, if not the country, none other than Harry
Truman of Independence, Missouri, himself, supports
this line of reasoning.
TN FACT, it is no secret that the only possibility of
President Truman ever reconsidering his refusal
to be a candidate for reelection, would be the certain
ty he would have the author of the Taft-Hartley bill
for an opponent.
As remarked above, the punch-line in this latter
situation is the fact that the Taft opposition proceeds,
NOT from Eisenhower Republicans, who don't want
him to get the GOP nomination, but from the Truman
Democrats who DO! R.W.R.
An A mazing A verage
An interesting column in the magazine section
of the New York Times recently revealed some inter-
fsung idcis. ii says mere are
Sunday, April 27. HJ1
The Mail Tribune doesn't
in bothcases is the com
political slant.
tnree copies oi tne uioie
Crossrown
"And THIS, I presume, it the 'Rushing trout stream'
mentioned in your ad?"
in the average American home, the average length of
circulation of a dollar bill is four months, and the
average woman who dresses in a room without a mir
ror finishes in seven minutes while a woman in a room
with a mirror takes sixteen minutes. The last state
ment is attributed to a German statistician. Americans
can't even imagine a woman dressing without a
mirror.
We wonder what women the German research
er tested? With or without a mirror, sixteen minutes
is phenomenal time for a woman to don apparel. This
is an age of jet-propulsion
er. Yet when a man must wait tor a woman to dress it
differs little from the days when he waited in a suit
of armor. We suspect that in the confusion the statis
tician read his slide-rule instead of his wrist-watch!
Watch Out, -
When it comes to cash
Street usually drops all prides and prejudices, viewing
the problem with a cold, fishy and realistically ap
praising eye.
So one is surprised to note the odds against a
Democratic victory this autumn since the checking-
out of Messrs. Truman and Stephenson have risen
nearly double what they were before.
Can it be the wise-money boys are discounting
"coon-cap" Kefauver just because the Elder States
men of the Fair Deal party have done so?
If so they are pulling a terrible boner in this de
partment's judgment. Kefauyer's unpopularity with
the White House "clique" instead of doing him harm
with the people, will do
the Bourbon "Big Shots" but the people in November
are going to have the votes.
FINALLY more important than anything else, the
F Anti-Vice Crusader, with his winning ways and
attractive smile also wife has yet to be beaten in
any Democratic primary no matter whether his name
has been in box-car type on the ballot, or not.
There is another point
ed in this department, while on paper the Democrats
CAN'T beat the Republican Party next November, the
Republicans can still beat themselves and the die
hard Taft zealots are still doing their level best to
bring this about.
So our advice to the
to take another gander at
cially keep a weather-eye
tion in Chicago before they
ey on Jumbo s weather-beaten and badly battered
nose.
Unless the big money
battery are dumber than we
ing this Kefauver rFD stock short, m anotner z or 5
weeks ! R.W.R.
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Discoursing in this column the
other day on the subject of spend
ing, I was moved to ask if any
body around here is mathematic
ian enough to figure out now
long it would take us to PAY
BACK our 2B0 billion dollar na
tional debt at the rate of $1,000
a minute.
When the paper came out, Gor-
die Lee, over on the radio side
of our establishment reached for
his slide rule and came up in a
few minutes with the statement
that, not allowing for leap years
or for Interest, it would take us
493 years.
UNCOMFORTABLE thought:
I'm afraid I'll never live to
see our country out of debt.
WHAT got me off on that line
was a recent statement by
Congressman Hubert Scudder, of
California, to the effect that if
somebody with a billion dollars
had started In the year 1 A D. to
throw It away at the rate of
$1,000 a day he'd still have
enough left in this year of our
Lord 1BS2 to last him until the
year 2929 or nearly a thousand
years hence.
hat he was seeking to prove
by illustration Is that a billion
dollars Is a lot of money to every
body except our spenders in
Washington. THEIR story, o'
course, is that this is a big coun
6 Roland Co
and most things move fast
R. S.
Wall Street!
- money on the line, Wall
the exact reverse. And not
as has been so otten stat
wall street oooKmakers is
their hole-cards and espe
on that Republican conven
put any three-to-one mon
boys down there near the
think they will stop sell
News
try and calls for big spending.
TRUE enough.
Still, I think I'd like to recom
mend to the members of our con
gress a re-reading of Boswell's
Life of Dr. Johnson, in which
this sage financial advice is of
fered in one of Dr. Johnson's let
ters to Boswell:
"Whatever you have, SPEND
LESS."
If our government had fol
lowed that advice over the past
20 years, we'd all be a lot better
off.
CONGRESSMAN SCUDDER
lives in Sebastopol. That sug
gests another question;
Who knows how Sebastopol,
California, got its name?
WELL, it's a rather Interesting
story.
About a century and a half
ago, the Russians got an idea that
they'd like to have a slice of
what is now the American Pa
cific Coast. What really interest
ed them was the beautifully
furred animal known as the sea
otter. The sea otter's pelt was
valuable, and the Muscovite of
that day was not above turning
a quick ruble at every opportu
nity. So. purusulng the sea otter,
the minions of the czar crossed
over to Alaska, established head
quarters at Sitka, and gradually
Turn of Events in
Prisoner Discussion
Features Bad News
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's balance sheet be
tween the good and bad news in
the hot and cold war:
THE BAD
1. The on-agaln-off-again Ko
rean truce talks seemed drifting
toward another low. The Com
munist Peiping Radio said the
Allies had submitted a new pris
oner list omitting the names of
captives who do not wish to re
turn to China or North Korea.
The Communists said it was a
"nasty trick" and also accused
the Allies of "leaking" news of
the prisoner talks to Allied re
porters. Talks covering construc
tion of new airfields and Russia
as a neutral also were at stale
mate. 2. West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer said further
talks with the French over con-
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Mortuary Favors on a Coroner
To the Editor: Since the time
we moved here from Minnesota
and established our business in
Medford, many have urged us
to "run for coroner" when the
opportunity came. Those who
have made this suggestion will
verify that we have consistently
said it is our'sincere belief that
the office of the coroner does
not belong in a funeral home. In
our opinion it is not an ethical
way to get funeral business, and
except for that, there is no rea
son or basis for a funeral direc
tor even being interested in the
position.
We feel that, actually, the of
fice of coroner should be elim
inated and his duties automatic
ally be made those of the county
health officer, who, by law, must
be a. doctor; or of the sheriff's
office, with its trained investi
gators. This, however, would be
a system the state legislature
should set up on a state-wide
level by law.
Until such laws are passed in
Oregon as they, or similar laws,
have already been passed in a
number of other states, it is our
conviction that the duties of the
coroner can best be performed
only by a competent medical
doctor.
As the coroner, a doctor is in
terested only in establishing the
cause of unexplained deaths, or
those where no physician has
been in attendance. A funeral
director, as coroner, must call
in the services of a doctor to es
tablish the cause of such deaths
in many cases anyway, so why
not make a physician the coroner
in the first place?
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Frank Morgan
Harold Snodgrass
Medford.
spread southward almost to San
Francisco bay. Sebastopol was
about the southernmost point of
their penetration, and they
named It for the Russian city of
the same name In the Crimea,
which is the Russian winter re
sort. That's alio where the name
Russian river comes from.
WHEN the sea otter began to
peter out, the Russians lost
interest in expansion southward
along the Pacific Coast and even
tually withdrew to Alaska. In
the course of time, we BOUGHT
Alaska to get rid of 'em.
THAT, I'm afraid, started a bad
precedent.
When Stalin got brash after
World War II and became.an IM
PERIALIST, after the manner of
the ciars, we started in BUYING
HIM OFF, too. I suppose we
thought we could stop him that
way, as we had stopped his pre
decessors a century and a half
before.
It didn't work. Whereas the
Russkies of the czar's day took
their millions and got out of
Alaska and stayed out. Stalin
took everything we offered in
the way of appeasement and
yelled lustily for MORE. ,
The more we appeased, the
more he demanded.
HE'S obviously a different
breed of Russian cat just as
much of an imperialist as the
czars were but bolder, greedier,
a smarter trader and a shrewder
psychologist. Every time we,
bought him off, from Tehran and
Yalta on, he dug up something
else to sell us AND DEMANDED
A HIGHER PRICE FOR IT.
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trol of the coal-rich Saar district
were "impossible." The Saar will
be a continuing sore spot be
tween the French and Germans
until it finally is settled, and
Western leaders now fear the
dispute will block German and
French ratification of the Euro
pean Army plan when it comes
before the two parliaments this
fall or winter.
3. Italy's big-four anti-Communist
political parties were having
increasing difficulties in holding
together as a common front
agains the Reds, with the im
portant May 25 local elections
coming, up, the government's
Christian Democrats have been
forced into coalitions either with
the Neo-Fascists or with the
Monarchists as the only way to
beat the better organized Com
munist bloc. Both the Neo-Fascists
and the Monarchists are
distasteful to the West
THE GOOD
1. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
on the eve of Japanese Inde
pendence, pledged that "Japan
can and will be defended against
any attack." Ridgway said the
Japanese "very definitely" can
be counted on to remain on the
side of the Western democracies
and predicted only a "moderate
reaction" to reforms adopted dur
ing the occupation,
2. The see-saw war in Indo
china temporarily, at least, was
running to the side of the French,
French troops claimed the Rebels
lost 2,500 men in the Red River
rice delta during the last week
and said that new "decisive"
blows were planned. The French
also arrested 3,262 civilians ac
cused of being Rebel soldiers in
disguise.
3. Both the British and the
Egyptians appeared to be making
a strong effort to reach settle
ment of their dispute and bring
closer a Middle East defense pact
which would insure defense of
the Suez Canal. British Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden report
edly has worked out a new com
promise formula which would
recognize Egyptian claims to the
disputed Sudan area but at the
same time would insure a pleb
iscite for the Sudanese people
and the right of self decision.
4-H Plant Contest
To Select Campers
A plant Identification contest
to select local delegates to the
annual 4-H boy's camp in eastern
Oregon will be held on July 18
during the Jackson County 4-H
crops and livestock tour, accord
ing to R. H. Cate Jr., county
agent, '
Cate explained that all boys
in the county who are working
in livestock or crop projects are
eligible to participate. The camp
has tentatively been set August
4-9 in either Umatilla, Whitman
or Ochoco forests, he added.
Jackson county is the only
county west of the Cascades to
participate in the program, Cate
jioted, and last year two boys,
Don Williams, Central Point, and
Bob Willoughby, Bellview, at
tended. Sponsor of the camp is the
Pacific Northwest section of the
American Society of Range Man
agement. Agent Advises Pruning
For Walnut Trees Here
Rogue valley walnut growers
were notified last week by C. B.
Cordy, county agent for horti
culture, that "now is a good time
to begin pruning and grafting
when the terminal buds start
their growth."
Cordy explained that many
growers prune during the win
ter, which leads to "bleeding" on
the trees with no way of stop
ping it. The correct time for wal
nuts, however, is in the spring,
he added.
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Candidates
Editor's note: This ! one of
a series of statements furnish
ed by candidates for local of
fice in ihe primary election
May 16. They are being pub
lished by The Mail Tribune
as a free service io the candl
dates, and for the Information
of readers wishing io Inform
themselves of candidates' po
sitions relative io their candi
dacy. By CARLOS MORRIS
Republican, for County Coronef
The privilege of your column!
In connection with my candidacy
for reelection as Jackson County
Coroner is appreciated.
I was born in Gold Hill in
1910; became associated with the
late Hemerly W. Conger in 1939;
have been managing partner. of
Conger-Morris since 1944.
Since taking office as Coroner
in 1948, I have reduced the
budget from $600 to $500 each
year; and my actual expenditure
have been even less.
If reelected, I will continue to
discharge faithfully my duties in
the investigation of unnatural
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CARLOS MORRIS
deaths in cooperation with all
law-enforcement agencies and
our county health officer and
registrar of deaths, as required
by law.
I feel confident that I have ad
equate equipment and facilities,
and a competent staff of depu
ties, including three employees
of Conger-Morris, and C. M, Lit
willer, funeral director, Ashland.
This permits me to respond per
sonally to all calls, without using
outsiders in this sacred trust.
A vote for Carlos W. Morris
for Coroner is a vote for effi
ciency and capability.
Postmaster Exams
Set for Jacksonville
Civil service examinations for
permanent appointment as post
master at Jacksonville will be
held soon, it was announced Sat
urday by the Civil Service Com
mission. Salary is $4,162 annual
ly. Applicants must owe alleg
iance to the United States, hava
resided within the delivery area
for at least one year, must be in
good health, and must be within
certain age limits. The examina
tion Is open to men and women.
A written examination will be
given at a date to be announced
later, and applicants will also
be judged on education and busi
ness or professional experience,
general qualifications and suit
ability. Political, religious or fra
ternal affiliations are not con
sidered. Mrs. Jean Whitney is present
postmaster.
Full information and applica
tion forms may be obtained at
the Jacksonville post office or
the Civil Service Commission,
Washingtqn 25, D.C. Applications
are due on or after May 15.
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