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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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""""
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