Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 28, 1952, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mai Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-J8 North Fir St. Phone J-B141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manager HERB CREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporll Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered M second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year til 00 Daily and Sunday slir months 6. SO Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent end on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year $15 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.2& All Terma Cash in Advance Offlrlal Paper of the City of Mtdford Olliclal Paper ol Jackson County United Press Full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De. trolt, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATION A I EDITORIAL NIWSPAMI UUHitS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time MaaW ni Jackson County His fry tnm the riles of the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 end 40 age. 10 YEARS AGO April 28, 1942 (It was Tuesday) Chairman R. G. Fowler an nounces names of persons taking part in Jackson county scrap iron salvage drive. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The "Vic tory Hat" adorns a number of local and valley gals. It Is quite chic and looks a lot less like defeat than most feminlnp head gear. 20 YEARS AGO April 28, 1932 (It was Thursday) Junior high school candidates for city offices during "National Boys week include Dick woou- cock for mayor, Hugh Collins for city Judge, and Ray Etlnger for city treasurer. Medford high school senior class presents play written by class members to help defrny costs of graduation. 90 YEARS AGO April 28. 1922 (It was Friday) Medford merchants discuss plans for 1922 county fair, ex pected to be biggest In local history, Louis TJlrlch resigns at Jack sonvllle postmaster despite re luctance of post office depart ment to accept resignation. 40 YEARS AGO April 28. 1912 (It was Sunday) Sarah Bewick Colby, pioneer women a suffrage worker, ad dresses large gathering of Med ford women in city library. Medford Commercial club of fers to donate land to any firm or persons who will construct combined "up-to-date" pickle fac tory and fruit cannery. ' Electric Service Meeting Tonight A mass meeting of residents of the Sams Valley area who arc Interested In rural electric serv ice will be held at the Sams Val ley Grunge at 8 p.m. today, it was announced this morning by George Loftln, president of the recently organized Twin Coun ties Electrical Cooperative. An explanation of the coopera tive's program will be made at the meeting, and applications for membership will be accepted. Loftin, who has been tempo rary chairman of an organizing committee, was elected presi dent at the first formal meeting of directors and members hold here Saturday night. Other offi cers Include Michael Lofttis, vice president; Mrs. Helen Brown, secretary - treasurer, and Mrs. Natalie Hall, assistant secretary treasurer. Woman Hospitalized Following Car Crash An Ashland woman was hos pitalized for treatment of Injur ies received In a two-car crash, which occurred at the Junction of the old and new Highways 99, south of Talent yesterday after noon, state police said this morning. Tht report allowed that cars MAIL TRIBUNE Monument Hope Dim Any effort to secure the designation of Jackson ville as a national monument would have little chance for success at this time, principally because of the legal effort involved and the large financial outlay which would be necessary. That is the conclusion which has been reached after studying the various steps taken in the past sev eral years by those interested in preserving the land marks of the pioneer mining town. The study was un dertaken by Frank DeSouza and Ed Hanley Jr., both attorneys, at the behest of the Southern Oregon His torical Society, Inc. e e e ESTABLISHMENT of Jacksonville as a national " monument was first agitated several years ago as a possible means of blocking a gold dredging com pany which was reported planning to buy up a large portion of the town site, remove or raze the buildings and mine the ground. Although there are many old mine tunnels under Jacksonville, miners know there is still much gold remaining in the gravel strata which underlies the soil. The monument project has since been explored from every possible angle. There has been voluminous correspondence with the Oregon delegation in con gress and with governmental agencies and private organizations having to do with such matters. Laws pertaining to national monuments have been studied and officials and private citizens consulted as to their feelings on the matter. A TT0RNEYS who have studied the legislation ap- plying to national monuments are of the opinion that establishment of Jacksonville in such category might be done in two ways : 1 By following the provisions of the law of 1935 and having an act of congress passed with an appro priation for the acquisition of the property by dona tion or otherwise, or: 2 By following the act of 1949 and having the various properties donated to the National Trust, in which event sufficient donations would have to be raised to acquire the properties and turn them over to the National Trust, and before the National Trust would accept them, it would probably be necessary to raise funds for their maintenance by private sub scription. The "National Trust" is a federal corporation created by a law passed October 26, 1949. It was set up for the purpose of accepting donations of funds and also properties which national monuments. The act made no provision for any appropriation, however. All the money most be raised by donation and apparently the property ac quired must be come by through contract or donatioc without the right of condemnation. e e e e PARLY in the investigation- it was learned that Jack-- Bonville itself was not of sufficient prominence nationally that Oregon's representatives in the U. S. Senate and House could hope to secure an act of con gress creating a national monument. By the same token, there was no hope of securing the necessary appropriation of funds by congress to acquire the properties in Jacksonville. THE investigation of ways and means was under- taken because it has long been generally agreed that an effort should be made to preserve as many of the old buildings in the town's central area as pos sible. The Methodist church there, for example, dates back to 1854 and is said to be the oldest Protestant church west of the Rockies still in good repair and use. The Presbyterian church is almost as antique, having been dedicated on December 4, 1881. The U. S. Hotel, one of the largest structures on California street, the main thoroughfare, was built in 1880. The Orth building, erected in 1872, and the Masonic temple, built in 1875, are some of the other substantial buildings still remaining in fairly good repair. There are several others of lesser size, some of them even older than those mentioned. Among the latter are the Beekman Bank building, which was built in 1856, and the Brunner building, the latter be ing the second brick building to rise in the town. The Beekman and Brunner buildings are in very bad disrepair and may disappear completely before many more years roll around. They are sad examples of the fate that is overtaking too many of these links with the pioneer past. E.C.F. California Counts Tourists According to the annual report of Californians, Inc., just released, northern California was visited last year by a total of 1,841,033 tourists who spent a whopping $151,531,746. The Bay region alone was host to 1,012,568 tourists whose coins jingled into cash registers to the tune of $58,989,779. A tabulation of the origin of the northern Cali fornia tourist horde disclosed that 1,091,670 came from 37 eastern states, 426,900 from eight mountain states, 154,683 from Washington and 145,180 from Oregon. In addition there were 22,600 tourists from outside the continental United States. California keeps pretty close tab on its tourist business, as well it may, for the money left by visitors is one of the Golden State's main sources of revenue. driven by Ernest W. Smith, Butte Falls, and Arncth E. Myers, route 1, box 363, Ashland, col lided head on when the Myers ear attempted to turn off the new highway on to the old high way. Both were were seriously damaged. Mrs. Harriett Myers, mother of the driver of the second car, Monday. April 21, 1952 are to be administered as E.C.F. NE WCHAIRMAN NAMED Seattle (U.P.i State Rep. Mort Frnyn, a Seattle businessman, Monday was the new state chair man of the Republican central committee. was taken to Ashland General hospital for treatment of cuts and othet hurts by a private car, officers said. Crosstown 1 I ' tlTTuj SCOUTS SBSjaBBVBBaaeaBVa1aBaW i rn.im.m .., r.l.r. "I hope my mother never these Walkie-Talkie' Matter of Fact THE SUICIDAL IMPULSE Washington One of Sen. Richard Russell's last acts, be for leaving town to fight his Florida primary, was to attend a worried meeting of the Senate Democratic leaders. The prob lem was how to avoid crippling election year "economies" in the defense and foreign aid appro priations. And the meeting's most heartening incident was Sen. Russell's forthright prom ise to fight hard to sustain both these vital programs. This sort of simple, national minded courage is one main rea son why so many thinking Dem ocrats are to be heard, nowa days, fruitlessly wishing "Dick Russell wasn't from the deep South," and could thus become a serious Presidential candidate, e TN THE present instance, more over, Russell's courage should have the most far-reaching re sults. As their chosen leader for the Chicago convention, Sen. Russell can carry with him many Southern Senators who might otherwise support meat-axe cuts In defense and foreign aid. With the Eisenhower Republicans also voting for these two programs in which their candidate is so di rectly interested, the outlook for sensible Senate action is unex pectedly favorable. Even the iess popular foreign aid pro gram may not be cut by much more than $1,000,000,000, which is half the most optimistic origi nal forecast. The intervention of a single Individual may thus go far to preserve the continuity of thft most important national policies. Yet the likelihood of another hair's breadth escape from sui cide cannot conceal the exist ence of something very like a suicidal imnulse in Congress at this time. The symptoms were only too clear in the vote of the House, to cut over-ail defense appropriations by $4.2 billion, and to forbid the Defense De partment to spend $6 billions of funds already appropriated for 1953. e PHE meaning of this House ac Hon (which was engineered by the old Republican isolationist-Southern extremist coalition) can now be spelled out in terms of its specific effect on the Air Force. In considering the figures, the reader should remember cer tain facts. The Soviet atomic stockpile is approaching deci sive size. The Red Air Force comprises 20.000 planes. Soviet aircraft production is currently close to 1,000 planes it month. A turbo-prop intercontinental bomber, similar to the B 30. Is probably already in production in Russia. And experts believe the Red Air Force may soon fly a truly supersonic fighter. With the Soviet Union already in possession of such massive air power, the House has In effect voted to condemn this country to permanent Inferiority in the air. The picture painted by the President's budget was gloomy enough. In all conscience. With the officially planned build-up. we were to have 96 air groups in 1953, 120 groups in 1954, and 126 groups In 1955. The stretch out was already dangerous. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have de fined 126 groups as the mini mum reasonable peace time strength in the air. And we were to wait three years to attain this minimum strength. TUIE House vote in effect said that we can afford to risk waiting five years or even more before w eare protected. Unless reversed In the Senate, the House vote will impose cuts in materiel .procurement and per sonnel which will flatten out the j whole curve, giving us only 83 air groups in 1953, and only 104 i in 1955. The 126-group program : cannot be realized, until 1957, j if it can be realized at all. Both , the Strategic Air Force, which I is our great deterrent to aggres- ! slon. and the Tactical Air Force. ; which ti our only home defense, 6 Roland Cot J gels on to the possibilities of things!" By Joieph and Stewart Alto will be crippled by what the House has done. A few House members, like determined old Chairman Carl Vinson of the Military Affairs Committee, fought hard against this election year madness. But Rep. Frederic R. Coudert of New York, bellowing slogans supplied by the Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association, budder the cut through with Southern help. And now the damage has to be repaired by the Senate, if possible. 'FHERE is only one excuse (and it is not a very good one) for this way of carrying on the na tion's business, which makes American defense planning re semble "The Perils of Pauline." As one of the House members said, they wanted to "teach a lesson to the military," because they felt, but could not prove, that defense was costing too much. There Is no doubt at all that the unit cost of American mili tary striking power is shocking ly too high, partly because of other political votes of the House itself on U.M.T. and the like. But the way to tackle this problem is not with a meat axe, which simply cuts off striking power. The only sound way is to launch a serious, detailed and non-political study of weapon systems and tables of organiza tion and equipment, with a view to getting more power for less men and materiel. This should be undertaken without delay, to stop these recurrent defense crises. (Copyright, 1952, New York . Herald Tribune Inc.) Estate Management Forum Set Tuesday Methods of minimizing estate taxes and establishing economi cal management of estate will be discussed at a special public R. M. ALTON Conducts Trust Forum trust forum to be presented by the United States National bank Tuesday, April 29. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Pioneer room of the Jackson ho tel, according to Allan F. Perry, manager of the bank's Medford branch, who will preside. A three-man team from the bank's head office in Portland will conduct the program, which is to be a non-technical presenta tion of facts and methods of es tate management applicable to the average family. R. M. Alton, DR. H. H. I j aFJ yy Announce The'Closing of His Office FOR THE DURATION OF HIS MILITARY SERVICE In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: "The signs were clear today that Democratic attacks on Gen eral Eisenhower wiU increase in tempo as the time nears for his return to seek the Republican Presidential nomination. 'Secretary of Labor Tobin, in one of the first administration blasts at the general, said in Maryland last night: " The Democratic party isn t interested in a mystery man as a candidate. . .' . It won't be satisfied with a smile or a good military record or a knack for kissing babies.' " THESE attacks would be more convincing if the Democrats had tried LESS HARD to get Ike as THEIR candidate. YOU are familiar, I suppose, with Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes. If so, you will recall that the fox made a pass at the luscious-looking fruity But tne grapes nung too nign on tne vine. Try as he would, he couldn't leap high enough to reach them. So he cocked a cynical eye at them and remarked: "They are TOO GREEN and only good for fools." THAT was a long time ago. Aesop was a deformed Phry gian slave who lived and wrote (in Greek prose) back in the sixth century B. C, But the fables that he put into literary form are even older. Some of them have been discovered on Egyptian pa pyrus rolls tracing as far back as 1600 B.C. The Democratic politicians' at titude toward General Eisenhow er, now that it is apparent he hangs too high up on the vine for them to reach, is about as old, you see, as human nature. AT HIS press conference in Washington yesterday, Presi dent Truman was expounding to the reporters his theory of the practically unlimited powers that are held by the President and his Idea of the good that can come therefrom. Why, he said in effect to the newshawks, away back in 1946 I sent an ULTIMATUM to Per- mier Stalin to GET HIS TROOPS OUT OF IRAN OR ELSE and he got 'em out, pronto. He didn't put it in exactly those words, but that appears to have been the general drift of it. THE ' little man created quite a stir. In strined-nants lan guage, you know, an ULTIMA TUM is something you hand over with great formality (with ev erybody dressed correctly, with all the protocol flawless, with all faces grim and with the arm ed forces previously alerted) just before you start shooting at the so-and-so if he doesn't knuckle under and do as you say. rom all I ve heard of such things, I imagine the boys over in tne state department turned as pale as a sheet and ordered up a platter of stingers, or at least ultra-dry Martinis, to quiet their twanging nerves. The British didn't help any. Their papers splashed the story under such headlines as "SEN SATION AT TRUMAN TALK" and "BLUNDERS BY MR. TRU MAN." When it comes to diplo macy, the British are a good deal like the rich and be-dia- monded dowager in high society. They know what's what. rpHE upshot of it was that one - of the President's secretaries (a guy named Tubby), who be fore he became a Presidential secretary had been a state de partment man since away back when, took front and center po sition and explained that Mr. Truman was just outlining to the newspaper boys how vast and un inhibited power in the hands of the President can work for the good of the people, and picked the wrong word when he chose "ultimatum" he didn't know it is the atom bomb word of diplo macy. "Excuse, please," Tubby said to the shocked chancellories of the world. "Our Harry didn't quite realize what he was doing." w ELLI Weill Well! INCIDENTALLY, if Harry CAN get results- like he says he got in Iran, I wish he'd de liver another ultimatum to the Russians to set their atnnooc out of Korea. That would be an ideal way to end the war over there. It could save a lot of Amprlrnn lives. vice-president and head of the bank's trust department, will head the group. The forum will conclude with a question and answer period to De toiiowed by a social hour. Dead tine en Classified Aua. sat pm for following day; 10 a m Mon day noon Saturday tor Bunda m BRESEE jFT7 . q w , 3 j eaesssaasasasaaaM jLaaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaa luAal $ VISIBLY SHAKEN, millionaire Tommy Manvllle learns that his eighth wife, Mrs. Georgina Campbell Manvllle, 33, has been killed in an auto collision in Oreensburg, N. Y. Mrs. Manvllle was reportedly receiving $1,000 monthly allowance from her. husband under separation agreement. (International Soundphoto) Indiana Republicans Show Confidence for Presidential Race By LYLE C. WILSON Indianapolis (U.R) H ere in Indiana is a state where Republi cans bubble with 1952 confi dence, and with good reason. They carried the state for the Meet the Candidate? 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 to the candi dates, and for the information of readers wishing to inform themselves of candidates' po-f silions relative to their candi dacy. L. G. Morthland Republican for County Commisioner I have been a resident of Jack son county for 23 years and pres en county commissioner, and am seeking reelection on the Repub lican ticket. I feel I am fully qualified and capable, having had 30 years active business experience be fore joining the county court three years ago. I own Jackson county property, and am presi dent of the Civilian Defense agency, superintendent of the courthouse, on the board of the Keep Oregon Green committee, member of the board of the Southern Oregon Historical so ciety, on the committee on taxa tion of the Association of Judges and Commissioners, and on their agricultural committee. If I am nominated and reelect ed to the office of county com missioner, I assure you I will continue to perform the duties of the office with thoroughness, efficiency and economy. I will continue to spend your tax dol lars as care'fully as I spend my own. I consider my three years in office valuable experience gained so that' I can better serve the people of Jackson county. H y. Hj- Sit j m I L n CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation last three Republican presiden tial candidates, licking FDR In the nrneess. Both of In diana's United States senatort are Republicans. The House score is 9 to 2 in favor of the GOP. Best Democrat Through Further to sweeten Republi can dreams Is the fact that the best Democratic vote getter in the state says he is through with politics with public office, any way. He is Gov. Henry r. Schricker, a Democrat who usu ally can persuade even some of Indiana's very Republican Re publicans to vote for him. Schricker told the United Press Monday he would not be a candidate for the U. S. Senate this year. His opponent prob ably would be Sen. William Jen. ner, OS.-Ind.), who is expected to obtain nomination to a sec ond term without much trouble. Not After Presidency And Schricker said he would not offer himself as a favorite son presidential candidate, either, not even for the purpose of keeping the state's delegates to the Democratic National Con vention in a safe place until they could be most advantage ously utilized. Schricker is popular despite 20 years in executive and legis lative office. But at 68 he says now he has had enough. With the governor out of their hair, In diana Republicans await elec tion day more confident than somewhat. . The Indiana Republican OK ganization favors Sen. Robert A. Taft. There is sentiment in the state for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Republican d e 1 e gates will be chosen by state convention July 3, four days before the Republican National Convention. May Leave Delegated Eisenhower backers evidently intend to let the organization pick the slate without much pro test, but to attempt to lure awar from Taft a hatful or more o$ delegates later by individual per. suasion. The comparative speedl of the Taft and Eisenhower band, wagons in the fortnight befora the Republican convention prob ably will have much to do with the success of the effort to split the delegation. The zip departed Indiana Democratic presidential politics when neighboring Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois said he did not want the 1952 Democratic nomination. There is no enthusi asm for other announced Demo cratic candidates here. A draft - Stevenson movement would get quick response in In diana. Stranger things have hap pened. noSe"lat'inrSay,Unda' C"""" v READ Mail Tribune Want Ads STAFF MEMBER Charles G. Dorrell Veteran W. W. 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