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tory (rem the tiles the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years
ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 2, 1942
(It was Sunday)
Medford city officials report
Start of construction of Camp
White has brought city's popula
tion to more than 16,000, com
pared with 1940 census of
11,281.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Gasoline Is
being rationed in these parts but
there is still enough for lively
wrecks and fender hustings.
20 YEARS AGO
May 2. 1932
-i... (It was Tuesday)
Woman claiming to be secret
service Operative SMS-38 cre
ates bedlam in county jail by
throwing chairs at the walls and
(creaming.
Final tabulation of Literary
Digest's "Prohibition Poll" shows
residents of 48 states favor re
peal; Kansas and North Carolina
only states voting "dry."
80 YEARS AGO
May 2. 1922
(It was Wednesday)
Final Jackson county voter
registration figures for 1922
show 7,048 Republicans, 2,674
Democrats, 133 Socialists and 94
Prohibitionists.
Five members of Medford
American Legion post resign
when organization fails to con
demn "law violations" by Ku
Klux Klan.
40 YEARS AGO
May 2, 1912
(It was Fridny)
Members of Medford Suffrage
eliib banned from using city li
brary for meetings; women plan
to fight library board decision.
Beef prices reach "highest
level ever known in the north
west"; prime steers wholesale in
local markets at 12 cents a
pound.
Safeway Employees
Attend Annual Dinner
Medford Safeway store em
ployees were In Klamath Falls
last evening for a Snfewny
Stores Employees association an
nual banquet at the Wlllnrd
hotel. Other employees of the
stores association from Klamath
Falls, Lakcview and Grants Pass
also attended as well as husbands
and wives of the employees.
About 50 persons from Medford
made the trip.
Talent provided by the em
ployees from the various stores
furnished entertainment. Med
ford Bartlett street store em
ployees won third prize in the
show for their Interpretation of
the "Shooting of Dun McGrew."
T. C. Carter is manager of the
store. Joe Sheridan, manager of
the West Main street store here,
was elected president of the asso
ciation. Harold Johnson, district
manager of Safeway with head
quarter! here, and Mrs. Johnson,
attended;
LONG WAY AROUND
Owosso, Mich. (U.R) James
Hert, 40, fainted while operat
ing a crane on a $700,000 addi
tion to Memorial Maspital, A
fellow worker, forgetting the
hospital was only 100 ft. away,
telephoned into town for an am
bulance. By the time it arrived,
Mcrt had been carried in the
hospital, given an examination
and was discharged.
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Home Ec Extension Week
This is National Home Demonstration week and
for the 14,500 Oregon women enrolled in the work
the period April 27 to May 3 has special signifi
cance for it also marks the 34th anniversary of the
home extension program in Oregon. A principal fea
ture of the anniversary observance in Jackson county
will be the Homemakers' Festival to be staged in the
Central Point Grange hall on Wednesday, May 7.
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"THROUGH the Home Extension Service thousands
of Oregon women have learned and are learning
how to improve family health, comfort and happiness,
how to become better informed and active citizens
and how to impart their knowledge and skills to the
younger generation.
Members make their homes more convenient
places in which to work and live. They learn how to
prepare nutritious, economical and attractive meals,
how to sew and do other useful and interesting things.
Last year, in Oregon, they made more than 3400
dresses, suits, coats, and children's garments, and re
upholstered and refinished hundreds of pieces of fur
niture. 17TTHIN their communities, extension unit mem
" bers sponsor health measures, school lunch pro
grams, libraries, and beautification projects. Work
ing together through the Oregon Home Economics
Extension council, they have initiated a dental re
search project on children's teeth, and have financed
the building of a women's cooperative dormitory on
the Oregon State College campus.
Many of the 650 members in the 23 active units
in Jackson county are helping to train 4-H girls and
boys, acting as leaders and advisors.
Besides all the other benefits, many women find
membership in extension units brings new friendships
and pleasant social contacts.
THROUGH the home extension's affiliation with
the Associated Country Women of the World
there is interest in and study of the United Nations
and support for the exchange of students and visitors
between the various free countries. One of our own
county members, Mrs. R. E. Carley of Sams Valley
was a delegate from Oregon to the association's inter
national meeting in Copenhagen last year.
UOMEMAKERS active in extension work take se-
riously the organization's motto "Today's Home
Builds Tomorrow's World" and in a very practical
way they are doing what they can to promote a strong
family life, stress family responsibility and build
character. What can be more important?
On this 34th anniversary of their organization in
Oregon we are glad to extend felicitations and best
wishes for many more and equally fruitful years.
. E.C.F.
Where Smashups Occur
What type of road, and what weather conditions
are the most conducive to traffic mishaps in Oregon?
1WIOST of us think of narrow, slippery, or curve
filled highways as the most hazardous. And they
are danger points, but such stretches are not where
most of the accidents occur at least according to
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry whose office keeps
a check on traffic smashups.
A straight, level highway as dcy as the proverbial
bone offers more danger for this state's drivers than
any other road condition, declares the secretary of
state, and he has the figures to prove it.
TN 1951, he says, well over half of all reported smash-
ups and almost three-fourths of all fatal accidents
occurred when the highway surface was dry.
More than 25,000 accidents took place on a
straight level roadway. Slightly more than 6,000 of
these accidents were at rural locations, as compared
with 19,196 in urban areas, but 144 fatal accidents
occurred on straight highways in rural areas as against
41 in cities and towns.
All of which adds up to the fact that on hazard
iilled roads drivers slow down and use caution while
on the straightaways they are more inclined to "step
on 'er," with all too often tragic results.
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IN VIRGINIA automatic light signals are being tried
out on bad curves. "Detectors" are imbedded in
the highways approaching perilous spots. Cars travel
ing at 25 miles an hour or less cause a green light to
come on ; at higher speed a red light gives its warning
to the drivers.
Maybe Virginia drivers need to be warned of
hazards ahead. In Oregon the need is for warning
against straight, level highways which invite too much
sliced. E.C.F.
Roseburg Hotel Added
To Arnsberg Holdings
Roseburg, Ore. U.R) Asa I.
Arnsberg, owner of the Park
Avenue hotel in Portland and
the Medford hotel In Medford,
has added the Umpqua hotel at
Roseburg to his holdings, it was
reported Friday.
The US-room hostelry was
purchased from J. A. Harding
for more than $450,000. The five
story structure is the largest
hotel In Roseburg.
Harding plana to retire and
move to Portland, He has owned
the Umpqua since 1926.
DETROIT GROWING
Detroit (U.R) A record total
of 93,632 babies were born in
Detroit in 1951. There were
1,500 mora buys than girls.
Friday. May 2, 1952
Three Bus Lines Set
May 8 as Strike Date
Portland (U.R Spokesmen
for union bus drivers, shopmen
and ticket sellers for three bus
lines said Friday union members
will strike May 8 unless their
demands are met.
The bus lines Involved are
Oregon Motor Stages, Northwest
Greyhound and Overland Grey
hound, Affiliated with the AFL Motor
Coach Employes tinion, the Bus
personnel want their six-day
work week reduced to five with
no cut in pay, plus a cost-of-living
increase clause.
The union has been on strike
against Pacific Greyhound lines
for several weeks.
Dead line Sunday Cluslfledi la at
noon Saturdays.
Crosstown
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"If you get into a game, try and win back a small portion
of what all thai fishing equipment cost."
Babscn Discusses His Youth
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass., May 2.
(Special to Mail Tribune) We
read much in the newspapers
these days
about the need
of America to
undergo a mor
al r e j u vena
tion. In this
column I have
tried repeated
ly to give sug
gestions as to
how to bring
' this about. I
have suggested religion, ethics,
education, thrift and a closer at
tention to land ownership as
some of the remedies. Today, I
shnll attempt to go further into
the "grass roots" of the problem.
About the turn of the century
a great sociologist named Char
les Horton Coolcy coined a new
word: "Socius." This man said
that you could look at any man
from two points of view: (1) As
a member of his social group; or
(2) you can look at any man as
an individual apart from his
group, or as a "rugged individ
ualist." The "Socius" is what politi
clansand labor leaders want all
men to be. If they can submerge
Individuality, they will then be
able to achieve their goals. This
explains why the Russians are
working so had to develop col
lective farms. Tile independent
farmer thinks too much, as an
individual, to fit into the Rus
sian purposes. This also applies
to Chinese farmers who own
their farms, but not to "renters."
American Democracy
Came From Discussions
In the "horse-and-buggy" era
of our history the rugged individ
ual rarely, If ever, let his own
p rl v a t e convictions be sub
merged by the group Judgment
of a committee, board of direc
tors, or political party. He be
lieved that "one with God is a
majority." He discussed his ideas
with other rugged "grass-root"
individuals. Democracy in Amer
ica came from long hours of
"cracker-barrel" discussions in
country stores and homes far
from city influences. Thinking
requires quiet.
Few people can think out prob
lems when their ears and eyes
are distracted by radios and tele
visions. However helpful for
quick communication these mod
ern mechanisms may be, the
danger always can be that poli
ticians or some selfish group will
dish up over them predigested
dangerous Ideas and propaganda
that they want us to believe.
Little Red School Houses
Symbol of Great Value
The Little Red School House
was a symbol of what was of
great value. When it vanished
In most communities and was re
placed by the consolidated
school, that change marked the
turn from an old to a new epoch.
What is the significance of this
symbol, the Little Red School
House?
The farmer boy's daily educa
tion began In the early dawn,
doing his chores taking food
and water to the animals, hand
ling machinery, planting, grow
ing or harvesting crops. When
emergencies arose, he had to be
alert to cope with them, which
developed ingenuity and reason
ing. By such training he also
developed honesty, common
sense and industry. Farm chores
give real education, impossible
from books.
After breakfast, this lad was
not bundled Into a bus to be driv
en to some central school, often
located many miles away. In
stead, as a rule, he walked to
his school. That walk did his
body good. If he had to buck a
billiard, resistance to the storm
gave strength of will.
At school, our farmer lad found
himself largely on his own and
was compelled to dig out most
of the facts under the rule "God
helps them that help them
selves." At noon he could In
dulge in "CNtro ; . '-u!ar" ac
tivities, such as "baseball,"
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By RofondccjOig May Day Show
"cross tag" or "pull away." Dur
ing his long walk home, he had
opportunity to mull over and re
tain what he had learned. After
supper he did his homework
which "educators" now are talk
ing of giving up.
Pendulum of Life
Swings Too Far
The Little Red School House
made for just the opposite of
what we today call "Red." It
was an institution that gave
America its best great men,
strong and fearless yes, rugged
individuals. The pendulum of
civilized life has swung too far
away in opposite soft direction.
It needs to swing more the way
I have described.
As a step in this direction en
courage your boy to plant a vege
table garden this spring. Urge
him to care for the garden and
market the product. Let him
bank any money he may make
from the sale of the garden prod
ucts to you or elsewhere. A gar
den, next to the Red School
House, is a great character builder.
COMMUNICATIONS
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view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words.
Agrees on Time
To the Editor: I agree with the
letter published in The Mail
Tribune on April 29 from Lucille
Hays Scott. I can't see any ex
cuse for the mixup in time as it
is h re now. Let us all unite on
the principle of what is best for
the most people and not some
special group. Enough said.
Henry Currier,
111 Newtown Street,
Medford, Ore.
Governor Upheld
To the Editor: The majority of
those favoring standard time
will not have opportunity to ex
press opinions on a tape record
er, on the radio, or to the city
council, nor be approached to
sign a petition to be sent to the
governor requesting him to re
verse his decision on DST.
The squawks are so loud from
those who object to our gover
nor's proclamation they give the
impression nearly every one
wants DST.
The fact is the results of the
election two years ago showed
very plainly the large majority
of the population in Jackson
county and the state favored
Standard Time, and also gave
the governor power to decide
and act as he thought best.
We have our neighboring state
north which is not strictly on
DST. And what about our neigh
boring state on the east? Let's
be fair, consider others point of
view. Those who favor Stand
ard Time have given some very
good reasons why they do and
evidently Gov, McKay agrees.
Recreation Is not the only im
portant matter to consider. For
instance, the school children
who will be standing along the
country roads in the dark next
Alderbrook Cafe
Breakfast - Lunch Dinner - Sandwiches Refreshments
' 7 A.M. 'til 8 P.M.
SATISFRIED CHICKEN OR f")AA
BROILED STEAK DINNER 3X.UU
With hot biscuits, fresh vegetable and ho-made pie
Enjoy our free rock-mineral exhibit. Additional specimen
appreciated. Gold panners welcome
One Mile Wait of Cold Hill hira North on hard surfaced Sardine Creek
Road (referred to as the Mystery House Road) About 1 Mile Beyond
Old Oregon Museum.
Seen as Satisfying
To Stalin, Cohorts
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
Josef Stalin and his Red lieu
tenants must have viewed their
May Day celebrations with con
siderable satis
faction.
At 10
(Moscow
Thursday
a. m.
time)
the
daylong
pro-
cession past
the reviewing
stand atop Len
in s tomb be
gan. It was at
once a tribute
to Soviet
might,, to these
men who have shown the most
sheer cussedness and the great
est ability at the double-X since
Cain and Abel.
Around the world, Commu
nists and fellow-travellers pa
raded, demonstrated or rioted in
tribute to the master-planners'
slogan:
"Divide and conquer."
Stalin and his men could tell
themselves in some 35 years they
had reached the point where
they controlled the destiny of ap
proximately 1,000,000,000 peo
ple, or more than a third of the
earth's population.
Rest of World Scrambles
Russia itself occupies more
than one-seventh of the land sur
face of the globe surpassed in
world history only by the Brit
ish empire at its peak.
Aside from the peoples and
land already under the Hammer
and Sickle, most of the rest of
the world, including the United
States, is scrambling to stay out
of its grasp.
And yet, it is better to take
warning from the May Day pa
rade of Red might, rather than
to look hopefully toward its
head at a man who is 72 years
old, who has been its guiding
genius and who from the age
factor alone might not be expect
ed to be around too long.
Health Apparently Good
Stalin, the man who proudly
records seven arrests by Czarist
police and seven escapes? appar
ently is in excellent health and
intends to stay that w y.
It is said that not one bottle
of wine reaches his lips without
fall waiting for a school bus if
we change to DST.
Arise earlier if you like,
change your working hours. But
it's not necessary to change the
clocks, and attempt to regulate
the lives of every one. Too much
regulation now, most people
will agree.
Let's do write our Gov. Mc
Kay and thank him for doing
his duty as he sees it, In spite of
all the pressure brought to bear
on him.
Mrs. Gertrude Lewin,
Rt. 1, Box 280
Eagle Point, Oregon,
via Shady Cove.
Basin Residents Must
Hold Decision Power
Seattle (U.R) People living
In the Columbia basin must con
tinue to hold the power to make
decisions concerning develop
ment of the region, according to
Gov. Arthur Langlle.
In a speech to the annual con
vention of the American Public
Power Association, Langlie said:
"I am not one who says the
federal government has no place
in development of the Columbia
river or region, but I want the
power to make decisions to re
main in the hands of the people
of the region.
"There is no reason why local,
state and federal representatives
cannot work together in the in
terest of the people."
CAT IN ENGINE
New London, Conn. (U.R) A
local woman complained about
her car purring. A mechanic took
the car on a test drive but
couldn't spot the trouble until
he opened the hood. A large cat
leaped out.
being checked and rechecked
and that all his meals are cook
ed under the supervision of two
chefs.
He works a long day. breaking
It up with a nap, except for
about three months of the year
between September and Decem
ber when he goes to the Caucas
ian Black Sea Coast on the bor
der of his native Georgia.
Stalin is one of the most pow
erful men on earth, but he takes
advice from other members of
the politburo and shares respon
sibility with them. His death Is
not expected to produce a major
crisis inside the Soviet state.
In the Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
From Berlin:
Two Russian jet fighters at
tacked an Air France commer
cial airliner with cannon and
machine gun fire in the allied
air corridor over the Soviet zone
today. Two German passengers
were wounded and two crew
members (French) were nicked
by bullets.
None of the passengers or
crewmen was an American.
TRIGGER-HAPPY Soviet pi
lots? I doubt it. Members of the
Russian armed forces who do
something the Kremlin doesn't
want done seldom live long.
There was some purpose be
hind it. What purpose? That I
wouldn't know. But the Rus
sians are gunning to break West
ern Germany loose from our
side. They might figure that
shooting at a French plane
wouldn't be unpopular with Ger
mans, who are hereditary ene
mies of the French.
Time will tell maybe.
A BOARD the USSS Boxer off
Korea:
A cool sailor averted possible
tragedy aboard this aircraft car
rier the other day by sticking
his finger in the mechansism of
a live bomb to keep it from ex
ploding. The bomb jarred loose from a
returning jet fighter and went
bouncing and sliding up the car
rier's deck. The arming propel
ler on its nose spun ominously.
Ralph O'Dell, aviation ordnance
man, rushed up, jabbed his fin
ger into the space between the
striking pin and the fuse body
to prevent discharge and held it
there until the bomb had been
carried to one side.
Then he slipped a piece of
wood into the mechanism and
calmly removed the fuse.
fTHAT'S quick and accurate
thinking. We need more of
it in this hair-trigger world.
HERE'S one from Leghorn,
Italy:
People here are saying a
thirsty American in the middle
of a desert would probably stub
his toe on a bottle of champagne.
"They're Just THAT LUCKY,"
the populace is saying.
How come?
The U. S. arm supply port
command needed water. Water
is so scarce in Leghorn that it is
rationed even for drinking pur
poses. The Communist city coun
cil refused to allow an adequate
supply for the Americans.
So the army engineers DUG A
WELL. At 170 feet they struck
a supply yielding 1,000 quarts a
minute. The doctors analyzed It
and found it was a healthy min
eral water of a kind that sells in
Italy for 20 CENTS A BOTTLE!
T UCKY?
Heck .no! The Americans
just had the wits to DIG for the
water they needed. Quick wits,
horse sense and WILLINGNESS
TO DIG have made America
what it is.
T)Y THE way
" That crack about thirsty
Americans in the middle of a
desert being so lucky they'd find
a bottle of champagne is horse
feathers. When Americans are
thirsty, they're sensible enough
to WANT WATER.
They use champagne for cele-
IN PERSON!
The Most Talked of Band in the Northwest!
JOHNNY REITZ
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
You've heard them on records, Now Hear Them in Person!
ELKS LOUNGE
IN ASHLAND
SAT., MAY 3 10 P.M. to 2 A.M.
For Elks and Their Ladies
DINNER SERVED UNTIL DANCETIME
Meet (he
Candidates
Editor's notes 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
sitions relative to their candi
dacy. By RALPH E. SWEENEY
Democrat, for County Treasurer
In submitting my candidacy
for re-election to the office of
County Treasurer, Jackson coun-
r
I - tr
(t!
RALPH
ty is assured the benefit of over
forty years training and experi
ence in office detail in the ad
ministiation of the office.
The large growth of our coun
ty the past few years has result
ed in an increase in the operating
detail of the office. My years of
training and experience has en
abled me to maintain the high
standard of efficiency I have set
with the same office force (2) as
in years past, thus saving the
expense of hiring additional
help. This is well worth the con
sideration of the taxpayers.
Your consideration of these
quali'ications is respectfully so
licited, and your support will be
deeply appreciated.
bration purposes only.
Til L. JOHNSON sends me a
Ills dipping of an editorial in
the SF Chronicle dealing with
rapidly rising costs of automo
bile insurance and why. The
Chronicle says:
"The increase in the cost of
driving an automobile resulting
in the (recent) hike in insurance
costs adds to almost everyone's
cost of living, but this is one
case of inflation in which the
victim can blame nobody but
himself.
"Insurance rates are deter
mined by the way drivers drive
automobiles and the way juries
award damages for injuries in
accidents."
iy L. SAYS: "I am just bring
ing this to your attention
for whatever you may see fit to
say about it."
Well, here goes:
When people drive carelessly
and bash fenders and collect
from the insurance company, or
when juries award excessive
damages on the theory that the
insurance company pays it any
way so who cares, it isn't a case
of GETTING SOMETHING FOR
NOTHING. Insurance is based
on the wise principle of spread
ing the loss among a LOT OF
PEOPLE instead of forcing one
poor devil to bear it alone.
When losses get too numerous,
the cost of insurance goes up.
Keep this in mind:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS SOMETHING FOR NOTH
ING. FROST DAMAGE TOLD
Seattle (U.R) S ome frost
damage was suffered by straw
berry, raspberry and blackberry
crops in the state as a result of
the recent cold weather, the
Washington agricultural depart
ment reported Thursday.
E. SWEENEY