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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP, Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor worn a r. i .f.n JH CAtv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STAHCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES On Ma(1Tn Advance: Daily and Sunday one year tia.00 Doily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three moi, 3 50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford. Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent mm nn mnlnr rnntpa? Dally and Sunday one year 115.00 Daily ana aunaay one monw i- All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: W'EST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De. troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. WATIONAl IDITOSIAl NIWSPAMt fOllHlt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medferd mi Jackson County Hie tory from thl tiles at Iht Mill Tribune 10, 20, 30 n4 40 run - 10 YEARS AGO Mir 1. 192 (It was Friday) Civilian employees who work through rain storm in effort to keep Camp white construction program on schedule commend' ed by army officers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A shortage now looms of sawdust for fuel, but breakfast food so far has not been affected. 20 YEARS AGO Mar 1. 1932 (It was Sunday) Crater Lake highway opened up nine miles beyond Union Creek; large crowd expected to visit area. United States secretary of in terlor approves plans for promo tion of "Sparrow Memorial" park on approach road to Crater Lake National park. SO YEARS AGO May 1. 1922 (It was Monday) Survey shows that average cost per day In Oregon of main taining a family of five persons is $1.47. Moore Hamilton, Central Point, wins boys Class C 50-yard dash at county track meet. 40 YEARS AGO May 1. 1912 Jackson county court orders construction of $40,000 bridge across Bear creek on Main street in Medford; old Main street bridge to be moved to Jackson street. Prof. P. J. O'Gara, Jackson county pathologist, opens aeries of experiments here to ascertain effects of electricity on plant life. Shady Cove Red Cross Leader Seeks Funds ShadyCove Mrs. E. W. Segcssonman, Red Cross drive chairman for this area, today asked all those in the Shady Cove area who have not made a donation to do so at once if pos sible. Mrs. Sege.isenman, who has conducted the drive for this area for many years, this year conducted a campaign by mall' end asks prospective donors to use the return envelopes provid ed for her for their contribu tions. Mrs. Segesscnman stated thnt while the return has been fairly satisfactory, a large number of residents in the area have not yet contributed. The chairman was assisted in the drive by Mrs. J. R. Bartuss. Mrs. Roy Vaughan and Mrs. Alfred Cooper. SOC Symphony Slates Radio Broadcast Today Ashland The Southern Ore gon Symphony orchestra direct ed by Glenn T. Matthews will be heard in the weekly radio pro gram prepared by Southern Ore gon college, according to Leon Ci Mulling, associate professor of speech. Mozart's Symphony No. 4 will be presented in the 15-mlnute broadcast to be aired at 8:45 p.m. today by radio station KWIN. Marlys Franklin, Medford, will play the part of Joan and Con stance Inskecp, Medford, will announce. Where Do We Go From Here "I believe that the contemplated strike, if it came, with all its awful results, would be less injurious to the - public than the injury which would flow from a timorous judicial recognition that there is some basis for this claim to unlimited and unrestrained executive power, which would be implicit in a failure to grant an injunction." In the above words Pine ruled President Truman s seizure of the stee. in dustry, to be without authority in law or the constitu tion. So the country is back where it started from, only there is a steel strike now court declares, "all its awful results, CUCH results, however, represent the lesser of two evils, according to Judge Pine, for had he upheld the President, such action "undermined public confidence in the very edifice of government as it is known bo that s that. As stated in this department when President Truman seized the steel industry we did not know whether or not his action was legal, we did know that it stopped the strike, and there was no stoppage of steel to our vital defense industries, as a consequence. Now all these regrettable things are going to happen, but public confidence in our edifice of gov ernment has been restored! Well that's something. gUT just how much? Let one assume for Pancho Villa should come with a thousand soldiers, etc. And assume at the same time the railroad broth erhood should declare a strike. Would the President have no inherent right to erate them so this invasion the proper armed force? It is hard to believe Judge Pine would deny in herent powers to the President under SUCH circum stances Well, the President said, when he took over the steel industry that he regretted such drastic action, but he could see no other rupted delivery of steel rupted delivery he thought secunty of the country. The President did not ask for "UNLIMITED AND UNRESTRAINED" in view of the war in which the country is engaged, and the loss of life that might result if steel production stopped, he be allowed the power to prevent such a national disaster, But under such circumstances this decision (if we understand it correctly), no such power to act, THEN why would he have Presumably because greater danger in the former case than the latter, If this is correct then not to right or wrong, powers or no powers, but to cir cumstances. And who is to decide stances? Apparently Judge least his court. Certainly NOT the President. However, if the US District court decides against the President, as in this case, peals to a higher court as no matter what that decision may be, one side or the other will take the case to And how long will all that take" And what in the meantime would happen on the Mexican border if with Villa the II on the warpath and there were no U.S. rail transportation to or from, because of a walk-out. Would such a situation restore "public confi dence in our edifice of government," a government incapable of defending itself m time of attack, or s'ipreme crisis? HARDLY! The above we grant is complicated and probably confusing, but the entire situation in the country, as this is written, is complicated, confusing and extreme ly unfortunate. What's the way out? It adds up, in our judgment, to this: (1) securing a Supreme the actual and implied powers of the President at ' A., n... once or as soon as circumstances allow (2) Rushing through legislation covering the question, in conformity with this decision. Or vice versa if time can be saved in the all im portant matter of getting defense production back to normal for time in this crisis is the essence. UVEN a better way would be to establish a Labor Supreme Court to which all such labor-management disputes threatening to seriously injure the na tional economy would have to be referred, and in time of war or similar national crisis from which there would be no appeal. However, this is one of the Mail Tribune's Un patented and pet ideas which to date has received no conspicuous support. Probably won't until the na tional strike problem becomes even more a threat to democratic survival, than it is today. R.W.R. RECORD KEPT INTACT Jacksonville, Fla. (U.PJ Al though flakes of snow were spot ted falling on this Florida city, it didn't go Into the weather man's records berause "there wasn't enough 'to put Into the lecords." Thursday. Miy I. 1(52 US District Judge David A, instead of none ; with, as the he declares would have under the constitution. the sake of argument, that to life and invade Arizona burning, looting, robbing, seize the railroads and op could be met at once by way of making the uninter certain. And such uninter essential to the safety and powers. He only asked, that means the President had any power to act in the the country would be in the question comes down the character of the circum Pine believes he is or at then the government ap now has been done and the Supreme Court. Court decision defining GOAT TOO HUNGRY Fort Worth, Tex. U.R Trou ble, a 3-year-old billy goat, ate himself out of house and home at the James A. Jones Jr., res idence. The Joneses turned him into the city pound after his feed bill got too expensive. Crosstown "He lays it's fast-drying Matter of Fact WHAT WILL EISENHOWER SAY? Washington As primary succeeds primary, the question of what Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower is going to say when he gets home looms daily larger and larger. It is like the famous cloud that was no bigger than a man's hand on the horizon but washed out the priests of Baal when it got overhead. So far, we have been given two intimations of the sort of line Gen. Eisenhower may take when he starts discussing domes tic policy. On the one hand, replying to a letter from the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell ask ing for his stand on civil rights, the General has written that his miltiary duties have not allowed him to reach a conclusion on this difficult issue. On the other hand, replying to a letter from his chief Texas supporter, Jack Porter, the Gen eral has written thav "in prin ciple he favors a return of the federally owned tideland oil re sources to the states. The Eisenhower letter on the tidelands oil problem was care fully phrased. It pointed out that he had previously ex pressed approval of state own ership of the tidelands "at semi- public dinners in Texas and elsewhere." It also pointed out the Federal government s duty to prevent "unfair exploitation of national resources." But these Eisenhower generalities take on much greater meaning if read In conjunction with the recent Senate vote on the oil compa nies bill which would require the Federal government to give the tidelands to the states with out further ado. rpHE three most conspicuous Eisenhower rooters in the Senate, Henry Cabot Lodge and Levcrett Soltonstall, of Massa chusetts, and James Duff, of Pennsylvania, were all absent from the floor when the roll call was read on this bill. None theless, all three took the trou ble to have themselves recorded as favorable to the oil com panies' states' rights side of the argument. Furthermore, this represented a definite change of heart by at least one of the three Senators. The practical reason for this curious phenomenon was the Texas delegation. The faction of Sen, Robert A. Taft had been passing the word in Texas that Gen. Eisenhower was "wrong on tidelands. The strong Eisen hower hope of garnering a good number of Texas delegates were therefore growing sndly dim. Hence the most solid evidence was needed that the General would take what almost all Tex an regard as the right line on this issue. This episode Is I good symbol of the price that is paid, over and over, in many different forms, and by both the major parties, for our peculiar system of choosing Presidential candi dates and financing political campaigns. What gives the episode special interest is simply the contrast between the Eisenhower letter about the tidelands, and the Eisenhower letter, so cool and distant, about civil rights. In Interpreting these signs one might throw in for good mea sure the recent declaration of the Committee for Economic development (of which Gen. Eisenhower is a member), favor ing a nationnl sales tax to raise additional revenue for defense purposes. COOLNESS toward compul sory civil rights legislation and approval of state ownership of the tidelands are what may be called characteristic right wing attitudes to current Amer ican politics. So too is the ap proval of a sales tax, just voiced by Gen. Elsenhower's associates although not by the General himself. And the great question about what Gen. Eisenhower is going to say when he gets home may be more realistically ' re phrased: "How far to the right Is Gen. Elsenhower going to go?" 6 Roland Cos paint. Shall we wait?" ly Joseph an4 Stewart Also As the tidelands case shows, Republican pre-convention poli tics may tend to push the Gen eral pretty far to the right. The broad mass of dominant Repub licans are very conservative peo ple. At Chicago, the General will be better able to make in roads on Sen. Robert A. Taft if he and the Ohio Senator seem to agree on domestic policy while differing on foreign pol icy. And if Eisenhower is nomi nated, a strongly conservative domestic policy will also increase the General's already excellent chance of carrying several Southern states. In short, the temptation to be strongly conservative will, be considerable. But if the General yields too completely to these temptations, the penalties can be even heavier. The same strong conservatism which will appeal in the South will quite inevitably disenchant many Northern voters, in states like New York for example, who are now pro-Eisenhower. Clumsy handling of this deli cate problem might even expose the General to defeat, although the polls now show that nearly 60 per cent of the American peo ple want him for President. For all these reasons, the strategists of the Eisenhower movement are almost using micrometers, at the moment, in order to locate the exact middle of the political road. If they have their way, this is where the General will take his stand. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital. Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. Q Have radio and TV made Presidential campaign literature out of date? A Vivid literature still is a political mainstay. Playing up the "human t o u c h," current brochures depict the traditional log cabin birthplace (Sen. Kerr, D.-Okla.), wife and children (Sen. Kefnuver, D.-Tenn.), moth er (Sen. Russcl, D.-Ga.), civilian clothes (G e n. Eisenhower, R. Kan.), and "infectious smile" (Sen. Tn't, R.-O.). Other litera ture sti ies stands on issues and political strength. Q Is Congress going io in crease farm price supports? A T h e Senate Agriculture Committee April 16 began hear ings on three bills: By Sen. Rob ert S. Kerr, D.-Okla. , to increase price supports to 100 per cent of parity on cotton, corn, wheat, rice, peanuts, and tobacco; by Sen Richard B. Russel, D.-Ga., and Milton R. Young, R.-N. D., to continue the dual parity sys tem on those crops: and another Young bill, to set price supports for which the government asks increased production. Q Don the government give defense contractors any relief for Increased costs? A Such adjustments are pro vided for In the 1951 contract renegotiation law, enacted to relieve fixed price contractors caught in the post-Korea price squeeze. But the Senate Small Business Committee April 16 criticized the Defense Depart ment's administration of the statute, saying officials should be more liberal in granting re lief for increased costs. O Since Sen. Tom Connelly. D.-Tex., la retiring In January, who will take his place as Chair man of the Foreign Relations Committee? A The Job will go to the ma jority party Committee member with the greatest seniority, if the Democrats retain Senate con trol, that would be Walter F. George. D. Ga. If George, al ready Senate Finance Committee Chairman, should turn down the post, Theodore Francis Green. D. R.I., would head the Foreign Relations group. Among Repub licans. Alexander Wiley, Wis., leads the list. O I read that the Senate For eign Relations Committee report ed the Si, Lawrence Seaway and j COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beer the name and address of the writer elffiouoh under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. A Deserted Wife's Problem To the Editor: I have for 14 years been trying to collect some support money for my daughter from her father. I have tried in Josephine county where the di vorce was granted and also in Jackson county where I live and have lived for five years. But al ways for some reason I have not been able to get the papers serv ed on him by the sheriff's office. Two years ago I called on the District Attorney here and tried to get some action but he refused to do anything because my ex- husband was, and still is, living in Eureka, California. I under stand there is a way they can bring him back to Oregon but don't know what it is. What I cannot understand is why the county officers do nothing to help a little girl get the pitiful sum of $15 a week awarded her by the court. Why may I ask did tne court even bother to award her any at all if they did not in tend to see she got it? Any par ent knows that no matter how small a sum it seems when you are raising a child, every penny counts and can be put to some good use. Is all a deserting father needs to do in Oregon is go barely across the California line and he s safe from his responsibili ties? Edith Gallimore, Camp White, Oregon "Jesus Is Standing By" io tne tailor: Enclosed is a little reading which was sent to me by my father just before he passed away in Scotland some years ago. I though it would do some good to read it through your paper. It is true our world is in a chaos hardly know what way to look or turn wondering what is going to happen next In this old world. Mrs. T. L. Taylor, 320 South Holly St., Medford, Ore. "While we are struggling and toiling, while we are worrying too, while we are trying to work things out, when we don't know what to do. While we are win ning and losing, while clouds are low in the sky, while we are longing and hoping Jesus is standing by. While life goes swinging against us, while we go forging to fame, while we are bright and courageous, or while we go down in life's game. While we are raging and fuming, when our hopes we can t gratify, it's a sob ering thing to remember that Jesus is standing by. "For whatever we do He will see us, whatever we say He will hear. Whenever we weep He will help us to regain our hold over fear. And whenever we sin He will suffer, in His hands are the wounds sinners made, yet ever since then He has helped us, and still that help is betrayed. "Well, whatever the urge or the reason, for all the things that we do, Jesus is standing by us, and watching us struggle through. And whether we do good or evil, or whether we fall or rise, Jesus is standing beside us, with the hope of the world in His eyes." All Out To Help To the Editor: We would like to go on record as being all out to help in any way we can, to rid the valley of the disgraceful "ordeal of smudge" which Is In flicted upon us any time our am bitious orchard-growers see fit to turn on the heatl Speaking of heat, we are all looking foreward with dread and apprehension to another drouth stricken summer which we feel is at least partially due to the efforts of these same selfish in terests and their confounded weather-control technique! We have sat with friends who are employed by the State For est Protective association, in a fire-lookout tower, and watched Power Projeei bill "without rec ommendation." Isn't ihai unus ual? v A A Committee acting on a bill usually reports it with a rec ommendationeither favorable or unfavorable. But the Senate Committee acting April 22 on the controversial St. Lawrence Seaway legislation split 6 6 on a motion to approve the bill. To break the deadlock, it then voted 9-4 to send the document to the Senate without recommendation. (Copyright 1952, Congressional (Copyright 1952, Congressional Quarterly) Court Records pot ter rot'RT Burt W. Peterman, failure to stop at slop sign. S3. DISTRICT COy'KT Carl F chnstensen Jr . overwtdlh a's Gilbert Victor Wlllhlte. overwidlh. $. Jack IVe Myers, no motor vehicle license. $5. Charles A. Miller, no PVC permit. $10. Ariel H. Hubbard, overwidlh. SS. John B. Robinson, no operator's li cense. SS John Albert Edwards, basic rule. $750. CIRCfIT COl'RT Robert E. McCorkle vs. Louis Me Corkle. divorce complaint. Nellie Phippe vs. John Phlppa. di vorce complaint. Moose calls are most success- ful in the evening when they ire on the move. the weather-control planes go about the work of cloud-seeding, stripping the gathering clouds of rain just in the nick of time, be fore they got over the heavily forested mountain, and grazing land of the valley, in which a pear orchard happened to be located, too! Surely, there must be some way to start motion toward get ting some sort of legislation to control these public nuisances in a way that will be fair to all California is doing away with its smudge-pots, and good pears were grown here in the valley before any wiseacre ever thought of "weather control!" Wally Neece Gean Neece Carl Nelson ' Ray Shunterman Henen Wentworth Lloyd F. Wentworth Thomas Carlton Gertrude Carlton Route 1, Box 118, Gold Hill, Ore. Dairyman Protests To the Editor: I noticed in an advertisement in the April 23 is sue of the Mail Tribune that steps are being taken to protest present smudging practices of fruit growers in the Rogue River Valley. I am operating a grade A dairy east of Medford, and it is my ex perience that the settling -of smudge on my pastures and hay lands results in an oil residue thereon which makes my pasture grasses and hay unpalatable to my dairy stock with the result that the cattle dislike to eat the same and my milk production suffers. Complaints have been made about smudging practices by householders, merchants and oth ers whose household goods and merchandise are damaged by smudging but I believe the detri ment to dairymen and cattle of the valley is, if anything, greater than to the above, persons. I understand that in some dis tricts orchard heaters or other apparatus is used which elimi nates the unnecessary smoke and smudge and feel that some action should be taken to require our local orchardists to protect their fruit in such a way that the an nual damage to property of oth ers will be eliminated. I under stand that this can be done by the orchardists. W. W. Wooldridge, Rt. 3, Box 76, Medford, Ore. Opposed to Diciatorshlp To the Editor:For a good many years millions of people have re joiced that they lived in the good old U.S.A. where we have a democratic form of government which was made by the people and for the people. After seeing the agitation that has been going on here in Med ford the last few days, it seems a few people have lost the spirit of democracy and have tried to cultivate a spirit of dictatorship. At our last general election there was two measures on the ballot dealing with standard and daylight-saving time. The first one was a state meas ure, making it possible for the people to choose whether this question should be decided local ly or to be handled by the gov ernor. The people chose to let the governor decide so that the whole state would be uniform in time. A few days ago the gov ernor after considerable study decided there was not sufficient cause for changing the time so he proclaimed standard time for the state. The second measure was a county measure, which was to permanently establish standard time. Eleven thousand four hun dred seventy voted for it, and onlv 6249 voted against it. To most people the majority should , rule if we are to continue in a i democracy. i If I were a busines man on Main street I believe I would think twice before I would take a stand against the will of the majority of my customers. There Is no law preventing a man from getting up when he likes and go ing to work when he likes, but don't try and dictate to your neighbor. A. A. Mann, Medford, Ore. Vote for a DOCTOR for CORONER Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone Meet the Candidates Editor's note: This is 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 candi dates, and for ihe information of readers wishing io inform themselves of candidates' po sitions relative io their candi- daey. By PAUL RYNNING Republican, for County Surveyor "I have been County Surveyor of Jackson County for 28 years and during this time I have en- PAUL RYNNING deavored to perform the duties of that office in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon. If re-elected to that position, I shall continue those same efforts." Boosters' Club For Posse Planned Rogue valley merchants are being contacted this week in an effort to interest them in forma tion of a boosters club for the Jackson County Mounted Sher siff posse, members of the posse said today. Merchants joining the boosters club will receive tickets to the 11th annual Rogue River Round up here June 14 and 15 and will receive an advertisement in the roundup program, they stated. This is the first time in the hislory of the posse that an ef fort has been made to form a booster's club. Members of the sheriff's posse and the ladies mounted troop have invited Rogue valley resi dents to visit the groups' new rodeo grounds and grandstand on Posse lane. Espee Discontinues ! Yard-Long Tickets San Francisco (U.R) The accordion-pleated railroad ticket will be a thing of the past Thurs day for travelers on the South ern Pacific railroad. The SP announced It is re placing the old yard-long forms with a booklet-type ticket about the size of a dollar bill. Funds invested here by May 10 will earn divi dend! from May 1 Jackson County Federal Savings & Loan Association 126 East Main, Medford 2-8030
