TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor
ERNEST R. GILSTRAP, Manager
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RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor
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tory from thl tiles at Iht Mill
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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
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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