Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 30, 1952, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDwSS&TRIBUMl Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDrORD PRINTING CO, 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-gUl ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager I. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: ..... Dally and Sunday one year 112 00 Dally and Sunday six months 50 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. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15 00 Dally and Sunday one month US AU Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLlDAY COMPANY, INC Offices In New York. Chicago, De. trolt. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATION Al EDITORIAL 6 NIWAf II PUtLIf Hltt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory fm the riles ot the Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years 10 YEARS AGO April 30. 1942 (It was Thursday) Medford leads state In per centage Increase of building during first quarter of 1942 valuation up 26 per cent to $81,' 403. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The drive for defense metals Is underway. In going over the country with a fine tooth comb, no doubt the old German cannon in the city park will escape, as usual. 20 YEARS AGO April 30. 1932 (It was Saturday) Rogue valley orchnrdlsts re portedly will receive drastic re ductions in costs of packing, storage and transportation of pears during 1932. Most Jackson county voters "apathetic" as primary election nears; large number of Inde pendent candidates expected to enter campaign. 10 YEARS AGO April 30. 1922 (It was Sundny) Ashland businessmen endorse development of large granite quarry near that city; hope to In crease the $20,000 In production reached in 1921. Medford woman painfully in jured following automobile acci dent when would-be rescuers turn car over on her. 40 YEARS AGO April 30. 1912 (It was Tuesday) Long-time southern Oregon miner reports rich strike of gold-bearing quartz ore In Foots Creek district. Medford postmaster an nounces start of Rural Route 3, to serve some 2,000 residents In nine-mile radius northwest of city. Warren To Start Oregon Campaign In Portland May 5 Sacramento (U.R Gov. Earl Warren of California said Tues day he will fly to Portlnnd May S and remain In Oregon "prac tically all the time until May 16" In his bid for the state's 18 GOP presidential delegates. Warren refused to be drawn into a discussion of his chances In the May 16 presidential pri mary. "I don't predict campaigns or their results," Warren said. "I'm going up there to express my views to the people of Oregon nd the result of the election will represent their Judgment, not mine." To Portland First Warren said he would go to Portland first for conferences with his state chairman and oth ers. He said he expected to make Portland his headquarters for the campaign swing. He indicated he expected his tour would be Inter rupted a few times at least by California business. Warren will leave Sacramento Wednesday en route to a forum tr b held by the league of worn m voteri In Cincinnati, O., A Needed Protection About every so often one reads of a house or other structure burning while fire fighting crews and ap paratus stood helplessly by a short distance away, un able to get into action because of laws and insurance regulations which forbid going out of a certain pre scribed radius. Only a short time ago a disabled war veteran, his wife and three small children watched their home and all its contents burn near Eugene. There was no insurance, and no provision had been made in that area for such protection as may be obtained through organization of a fire district, or contract with an es tablished city fire department. Neighbors and others attracted by the blaze were indignant because neither the Eugene or Springfield fire departments would come to the aid of the war veteran. THERE have been similar instances in the Medford region and after each such loss there has been talk for a time of organizing a fire district or making other arrangement for protection. Unfortunately, the talk has eventually died down, the good intentions have been forgotten and Of late, however, a concerted movement has got ten under way in the Medford, Central Point and Jacksonville areas to set up fire districts, obtain eauinment and organize manpower sufficient to guar antee that no home within the defined boundaries will be without protection mon strikes. VirUlLE there are some "in setting; up such problems which require some planning and work to resolve, the actual operation of a fire district is not complicated once it is organized. The Citv of Roerue River is the base of such a fire district and the efficiency the volunteers and the residents in general there should serve to spark like action by other valley dwellers. M( ORE and more homes are being built outside the hnnnrlnrips nf the pities and towns of Jackson county for suburban and rural life holds many at traetinna Rut tViprp is alwavs that fear of fire. And the fear is well founded once a dwelling catches tire there can be iittie.nope of saving; it with such facilities as may be at hand in the country. Not only can well organized and equipped rural fira firrVitinrr units tnUo 9W9v frn'm fear, t.hpv also iiic J1h"L" h v " " " J ft-"" , t serve to bring a substantial reduction in insurance rates within the area under Welcome Word Tlio wnrH from Washington that Secretary of the fntprinr Oscar Chanman the Grants Pass Irrigation district's application for forlpi-al funds fnr t hp rphahilitation of Savatre Rapids dam will be received with upper reaches ot the tamed Kogue river. Secretary Chapman's pledge was given to Victor Rnplil anrl William F. Johnson, irrigation board chair man and attorney, respectively, who went to the cap ital last week to request a loan of .fGGSOO from the government. The money would be used to repair the dam, the north wall of which has been undermined by the rushing water, and the hydraulic-gate system, which has been practically out of business for some time. PPLICATION has also been made for $207,000 nf nnn.rpiiiiliiirajiMp fprlpral funds to finance in stallation of traveling turbine-intake screens at the dam as a fish-conservation measure. Chairman Boehl, in telephoning word of Chap man's promise, emphasized that the latter had agreed kr. .nncwlnrulmn rf tho n rml ifn t inn as n snecific nroi- .J V.wilivtvtiin"ii v. v,- ' l' v. . . t- ! ect only. This is considered an important step as it 1 i Ml. makes eany action possune. Hoehi explained mat n tne dam renamuiauon project were to be made a pwt of any reclamation or federal power project, a delay of several years might be anticipated even though action eventually was favorable. THERE is urgent need for repairs at Savage Rapids and it is to be hoped that the interior secretary will not delay his consideration and decision on the loan. Upper river dwellers are especially interested in the possibility that something may be done about screening the dam's big turbine intakes. There has been heavy loss of fish life in this machinery over a long period, surveys have shown, and the gradual dis appearance of fish from the Rogue's higher reaches must bo considered as due, at least in part, to the ob struction. E.C.F. School Fund Money Distributed Monday The last installment of the $10 school allocation fund per cen sus pupil fnr the fiscal year was distributed Monday by the Jack son county school superintend ent's office. It was the third Installment this year, employees In the of fice reported, and totalled $37,- $10 FIDDLE REAL THING Hico, Tex. (UP) J. n. Ratliff. a grover who bought a violin lii years ago for $10, has been told that It Is an authentic Strad Ivarlus. The Instrument, bearing a Stradivarius signature and dated 1716, was pronounced au thentic at a violin shop where it was taken for repairs. Wednesday. April 30, 1932 nothing done. when, and if, the fire de legal technicalities involved districts, technicalities and and enthusiasm shown by for the records show that protection. li.o.f. has promised to consider thanksgiving along the 860 60. The money Is distribu ted according to the Nov. 25, 1050 census, they said, and the two other Installments were made on Nov. 22, 1951 and March 3. The payments to the county districts are "ordinarily in two installments," they added, "but this year the lack of availability of funds forced the distribution into three phases." HE'S AGIN 'EM New Britain, Conn. (UP) Wallace Bacon, 78, asked that his name be stricken from the ballot list because "women and foreigners vote and run the country," Crosstown "My wife layi ihe'll slart In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS Bulletin from Washington: General Ridgway, now in the Far East, succeeds General Eisen hower as top commander in Eu rope. General Mark Clark, now commander of army field forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia, suc ceeds General Ridgway as top commander in Asia. TIOW'S this as a tip for us voters: Let's follow the same prin ciple and put BRAND NEW FACES in all the federal civilian jobs at home. POLITICAL oddity: The federal government reaching avidly for control of EVERYTHING BUT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME. If it is to work, with even reasonable satisfac tion for ALL of us, "daylight saving" time must be NA TIONAL in its scope. If we are to monkey with the clocks at all, we should monkey with ALL the clocks. But the federal government clearly wants no part of daylight saving time. That's modern politics for you. SPEAKING of time, Lee Wheel er tens me mat without count ing leap years or allowing for in terest it would take us 494 years, 122 days, one hour and 20 min utes to pay off our national debt of 260 billion dollars at the rate of $1,000 every minute. Now, if somebody will give us the odd seconds, we'll have the subject squeezed fairly dry. 4 THOUSAND dollars every " minute sounds like a lot of money. It IS a lot of money. It's nearly a million and a half dol lars every day. In a 364-day year, it s somewhat more than half a billion dollars which is another way of saying it's better than a billion dollars every two vears. Our present federal administra tion proposes a budget of 85 bil lion dollars IN ONE YEAR. This is the point: Our federal GOVERNMENT OF SPENDERS tosses billions around as carelessly as our fed eral governments of only a few decades ago would have handled PENNIES. I think it's high time for us I ..... ..tl -a, a. I! 1 J III Congressional Quiz Quaitloni and Amwsrc en What Goas en at the Capital Furniihtd by Congressional Qiiarterlt News Fsaturts Q What's 'the justification for giving fliers and submarine crewmen extra pay? A Air Force officials April 16 told a Senate Subcommittee studying incentive military pay that it was needed to keep quali fied pilots, and a Navy spokes man made the same argument for flight, submarine and diving pay. But Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D.-lll., pointed out that infantry men fight in front lines with out it. Q Why was the House asked to consider Impeaching the Presi dent? A In a resolution April 22 thnt was referred to the House Rules Committee, Rop. Robert Hale, R-Me.. said the Committee should Investigate President Tru man's seizure of the steel plants and report to the House with an Impeachment proposal "or other recommendation as it deems proper." Hale said the Presi dent's action was "an assault on the Constitution of the United States." Q How does Impeachment work? A Impeachment Is basically an accusation for "Treason, Brib ery or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Only the House can Impeach, and only the Son ate can try the person impeach ed. Conviction requires a two thirds vote of the Senators pres ent and can bring removal from PUII lillEM LIKE UniLUUEN IT! Pur orange fla vot makes thif specialised aspi rin so easy to take. Tableta are Is adult doe. Me ST.J0SEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHILDREN By Roland Co economizing when I do!' News to get a federal government that has more respect for a billion dollars. FtROM Ottawa, Canada: " Queen Juliana and her hus band, Prince Bernhard, flew home to The Netherlands Satur day night after a four-week tour of the United States and Canada. WAS Juliana's trip a good idea? I think so. She seems a sen sible woman and Bernhard ap pears to be a level-headed con sort. In her four weeks over here, she had time to see common, or dinary Americans (Canadians are North Americans, too, you know) in action. I'll bet she found them QUITE DIFFERENT from the OFFICIAL Americans that for eigners normally meet. ' I'll bet she goes home with a new and better and pleasanter and more reassuring impression of America and I'll bet also she goes home LIKING AMERI CANS BETTER. It's too bad more foreigners can't get over here oftener and stay long enough to know the people that are the REAL America. UOR that matter, it's too bad we can't get abroad often enough and stay long enough to get to know the REAL people of other countries. If we could, I'll bet we'd quit thinking of them as "foreigners." FROM Washington: Figured in MINUTES, here is the time needed in each country to earn enough to buy one pound of each of the following products: U.S. Russia Tea 49 Beef 31 Butter 30 Potatoes 2 Bread 6 960 132 270 56 14 SOMETHING to think about; In Communist Russia, the gov ernment for the past three dec ades has been handling ALL LA BOR MATTERS, including rates of pay, which the government sets, and strikes, WHICH THE GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA DON'T PERMIT. The table shows rather star- tlingly what happens to labor when GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING. office and disqualification from future office. Andrew Johnson, the only President Impeached, was acquitted by the Senate May, 26, 1868. Q Why did a ban on spend ing any federal money for seis ing steel plants fail to pass the Senate even though most Sena tort voted for it? A The ban, offered by Sen. William F. Knowland, R-Calif.. as an amendment to a $960 mil lion stop-gap money bill, would apply to all money bills. A blanket rider of that kind can pass only on suspension of the rules, which requires a two thirds vote of those present. The 47-29 vote April 22 was four short of that mark. Q What pussies me is the way Congress continues to stay in session at the same time its Members are running for re election back home. How do they do It? A The dilemma bothers Con gressmen, too. Rep. Usher L. Burdlck. R-N. D-. predicting April 17 that Congress might not adjourn until September, said this means "rough going for Coi gressmcn who have primaries in Expert Watch Repairing Reasonable Prices All Work Guaranteed All Watches Electronically Timed! INMAN JEWELRY CO. 229 EAST MAIN PHONE 2-2935 FDR, Willkie Planned Merger of Liberal Demo, GOP Elements Philadelphia (U.R) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie made tentative plans be fore their deaths to merge the liberal elements of the Demo cratic and Republican parties in a re-alignment of the two major parties, Roosevelt Adviser Sam uel I. Rosenman revealed Wed nesday. In Secret Meeting Rosenman said he had repre sented Roosevelt in a secret meeting with Willkie on the sub ject on July 5, 1944, and quoted subsequent correspondence be tween the President and the one t i m e Republican presidential nominee. He told of the Roosevelt-Will-kle plans In an article in the May issue of the Ladies Home Journal. Both men were enthusiastic Transfer of Ridgeway Indicates Change in Truce Talk Status BY PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The sudden change which makes Gen. Matthew B. Ridg way supreme commander in Europe sug gests there also may be a sud den change in the status of the Korean truce talks. It also indi cates that Pres ident Truman -Sal ,u. -u..r. .... aiiu ine Lincia I nil Ne.som of staff expect no outbreak of general war in the Orient, and that defense of Europe continues to be No. 1 on this country's foreign agenda. With Gen. Dwight D. Eisen howers return home to cam paign for the Republican presi dential nomination, Ridgway will become this nations foremost soldier-representative abroad. The change in the Korean sit uation, if there is to be one, need not necessarily result in an armi stice. Reds Building Strength Ridgway's Tokyo headquarters warned the first of this week that the Reds have taken ad vantage of the lull in Korean fighting to build up their ground forces to more than 750,000 men. They have a powerful air arm of some 1.500 airplanes based in Manchuria and they have in creased their frontline artillery so that in some sectors they some times fire more rounds per day than we do. Their artillery in cludes rocket launchers. However, there have been no signs so far that the Reds in tend to launch a spring offensive such as they did at this time last year. In any event, Gen. James A. Van Fleet still commands the 8th Army, and In trading Gen. Mark Clark for Ridgway the Allies are not losing in battle ex perience. Considerable Bearing Seen It could be that Japan's return to independence is having a con siderable bearing on the future of the truce talks. The U. N.'s offer of a "pack age" deal to the Reds to settle the last three remaining issues of the negotiations could be a last attempt on our part to reach a settlement before new compli cations set in. For instance, under the Japa nese occupation, Ridgway was the man in charge. He not only ran the Korean war but he ran Japan as well. He could dictate what Japanese ports and bases would be used as staging areas for troops and supplies enroute to the war. He also could dictate what portions of Japanese indus try would be utilized to manu facture war supplies. He had a State Department adviser but, theoretically at least, Ridgway dictated the final answer. Problem Complicated Now Japan is a free nation and the military have given way to the State Department. For Russia the problem is even more complicated. Separate treaties have given us the continued use of Japanese bases and help in obtaining sup- May or June. If we abandon our work . . . people at home will want to know what we are doing back there ... If we don't go home, many people will think we don't want to be elected." (North Dakota's primary is June 24.) (Copyright 1952. Congressional Quarterly) about the possibiltiy of bringing together the progressive ele ments they represented in a sin gle party free of the lntra-party strife between conservatives and liberals, Rosenman said. Meeting Postponed At Willkie's insistence, he said, a meeting between the two men was postponed until after the 1944 presidential election. Willkie died in October. Roose velt was dead within the year. Rosenman's article was made up of excerpts from his forth coming book, "Working with Roosevelt." The former New York Su preme Court Justice was counsel to Roosevelt when he was gover nor of New York and remained a close adviser and speech-writing "ghost" until Roosevelt's death. plies, but Russia now has no legal representation in Japan at all since she refused to sign the Japanese peace treaty. Furthermore, Russia has a mutual assistance pact with the Red Chinese against Japanese aggression. It is not impossible that the Chinese now might charge that Japanese aid to the Allies consti tutes aggression and thereby calls the pact with Russia into effect. There is no indication that Rusia wants to be dragged into the Korean situation any more man sne already is. Editorial Comment A Bishop Assays the Demagogues Methodist Bishop Paul B. Kern of Nashville, Tenn., did a cour ageous thing the other day. He stood right up in meeting (the general conference of the Methodist church) and told his fellow churchmen that "reckless demagogues are aggravating and exploiting fear to the point where it "is becoming more and more impossible to shape foreign or domestic policies upon ration al grounds." He struck straight out at "vicious efforts" to regiment thought and curb freedom of speech, a traditional American freedom. Rumor peddlers, he pointed out, enjoying congressional and legislative immunity or hiding behind innuendoes or hearsay evidence, break down confidence in our society and throttle the voice of free men. Then he said: "The democratic process can not operate when disagreement is counted disloyalty." This is the same kind of cour age that was shown by United States Senator Margaret Smith of Maine in her "declaration of conscience" blast at McCarthy ism on the floor of the senate. All too few people of influence! either in government, education, business or labor, have it in these days when It has become popular for "reckless dema gogues" to smear anyone who dares disagree with them with a Communist or treason label. The things Bishop Kern, Sen ator Margaret Smith and others of equal fortitude have said aren't popular. They invite the "vicious" attacks to which the bishop refers. But they must be said, over and over, If freedom of thought and of the press are to be maintained In America. Oregon Journal. Court Records POI.TCR COURT Mabel A. Searle, violation of baste rule. $10. R V. Bales, overnight parking. $s. Mose Hart, overnight parking, sa.so. DISTRICT COURT Norman Clarence Love, violation of basic rule, $10, Wayne W. McElroy, inadequate brakes, S3. Jere Kreischer. overload, S41. Richard Lee Wales. no operator's license. $5. Stanley L. Parish, passing with In sufficient clearance. $10. Roger Jorden Dew, no red flsr on end of load, $5. Allen P. Colllngwood. overheight. SS Charles H. Myers, overload, S53. scmrt'iT rot'RT Ruth Mildred Lewis vs. William A Lewis, divorce decree. Saxton Jane Jeschke vs. Curt Jes chke. divorce decree. Lawrence F. Conant lr va t.-i. cla J. Conant. divorce complaint. znmry June uonung vs. Fred W. Bohling. demurrer In divorce suit Dead line Sunda Classified is a 5 30 p.ra for following day: 10 a ar Monday tor Monday, noon Saturday for Sunday am Growifif with Jtckton County Stnc 1909 Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Association 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Meet the ' Candidates Editor's note: This If one of 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 sitions relative to their candi dacy. BY ROBERT W. ROOT Republican, for Stat Representative I was born in Jackson County 36 years ago, educated in the Medford public schools, attended F,!:,-,v. , fc? ; - ";-r f...j yj m t.'Kjfci.-??!. - I ROBERT W. ROOT Southern Oregon College and was graduated from Oregon State College. I am a veteran of World War II with four years service. I am married and have three small children. I am an orchardist, farmer and cattle raiser. At the last session of the legis lature, I served Jackson County as one of its two representatives, with appointments to the High way and Labor and Industries Committees, and was Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Agri culture. At the present I repre sent Southwestern Oregon on the Interim Legislative Highway committee which has been study ing all legislation affecting high ways, such as taxes, load limit! and fines for the last ten months. I believe that my legislative experience plus a knowledge of many of the problems of this area will enable me to do a good job for the people of Jackson County. I am not bound by prom ises to anyone, but will, serve all the people of Jackson County, i Seniority in legislative service'' will assure me of better commit tee appointments, thus giving Jackson County a stronger voice in the affairs of the State of Oregon. HIS VIEWS FIXED Hastings, Neb. (U.R) A Frank lin County school teacher likei to tell about the quiet, shy youngster in her room whos family had some firm political views. The teacher was astonish ed to see the shy youngster push a playmate to the ground, ad minister a last blow and then say vehemently, "Never call me a Democrat again." r-Ad rienne s i REDUCTION SPRING Millinery 214 E. Main Abrtpnnf'a Ph 2-7149 IMPROVE Your Home With A Jackson County Federal Loan y2off pr Jy? CROUP $5-00 t r