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10 YEARS AGO
May 6. 1942
(K was Wednesday)
United States announces Lt.
Gen. Jonathan Wainwright has
surrendered Corregidor fortress
In Manila bay.
From Arthur Perry'i Ye
Smudge Pot column: Strawber
ries are now on display and still
out of the reach of the average
pocketbook, and of the Jaybirds.
SO YEARS AGO
May B. 1932
(It was Friday)
Elk Creek man sentenced to
year In Oregon state prison for
"possession of illegal mash."
Saturday specials announced
by Medford grocery store Include
pound of butter, 10 cents; large
can of condensed milk, one cent;
three fryers' for $1, special Moth
ers' day cakes, 33 cents.
0 YEARS AGO
May 6, 1922
(It was Saturday)
Medford Ku Klux Klan organ
isation Invites Mayor C. E. Gates
to attend Klan meeting and hear
a report on the organization's
"lofty purposes."
Southern Oregon Federation
of Women's clubs lakes "positive
stand against the showing of
Fatty Arbuckle films" In this
area.
40 YEARS AGO
May 6, 1912
Medford Commercial club
calls meeting of all persons In
terested In legislation to allow
counties to determine the
amount of money they will spend
for roads.
City-wide cleanup campaign to
end with bonfire, free band con
cert and speech by the mayor.
Armadillos have a litter of
young all the same sex. Other
facts about this odd animal: it
can swim, walk under water,
has no front toeth, can dig: and
Is quite edible.
Court Records
pourr. tovbt
Robert Lee Rom, violation of basic
rule. $10
Jack David Johnson, expired opera
tor' license, $V
Floyd Hnyimmd Hant.com, no Oper
ator'! licrnM. 5.
James Arthur Luman. violation of
banc rule. $10.
Peter Schlnppl. failure to atop at
atop num. $A $3.!tfl impended).
Herman A St Clair, parked wronf
way on street, t'2 So.
Jogfph W. Kkiilnnda, parked wrong
tide of itrret. $2 30.
Frank Rector, no llcenied driver
With lenrner'i permit, $5.
William 11. llnnnold, parked wronr
tide of street. $2 SO.
Dorothv M. WI1on, parked wronf
trie of ulrret. $2 30.
Robert Horn, no opera tor' t llrenie,
!
K J. Ray. Earl H. Kniitht. Melvin
1 Tompkins, parking on wrong tide
of street. $2 SO each.
Mamie Susan Dally and May Allen,
failure to slop at stop tlfn, $3 each.
Raymond l.ewts Freeman and George
IMward Stacey, violation of basic rule,
10
Gerald Allen Marshall, excessive
noise, $3.
DISTRICT COl'RT
Wlllard Ray Lilly. Inadequate brake
tin.
Tnjte Wendelbn Jepnesen, failure to
dispiav motor vehicle license, tv
Arthur William Coulter, no motor
vehicle license, is.
Jntues Vrancia Martlndale, no PUC
permit.
Delberl Warren Whltely. overload
13 30.
Roy Gale Johnson and Marry Davli
Crnfoot, no operators license, is each
Floyd C. Kvernden. overload. $53.
Robert Kinney, no operator's II-
cense, $3.
Otlt S. Taller, no mud guards, $S
CTR( 1'IT COURT
Martrery 11. Nyherg vt. Richard U
Nvhertf. divorce romolalnt.
May Lee llrnwn va. Husiell Marvin
aVowa, divorce) complaint.
Medford Leads the World
"Persons lawfully walking across streets on cross
walks (whether walks are marked or not) have the right-of-way
over motor vehicles. They do not have such right of
way when crossing at other points ("Jay Walking.")
The above is taken
Manual for the state of Oregon for the year. 1952.
It will not come as news to the local "authorities
thev have known the law for many years. Nor to old
time and experienced pedestrians.
But it will be news to the pedestrians who have
recently made their residence here.
In fact their natural inquiry will be :
"If that's the law why isn't it enforced?"
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yyELL that's not a long story, but it is an old one.
The Mail Tribune has often made the inquiry,
not only why there is no effort made to enforce the
law, but none made to publicize it.
Practically every other community from Portland
to San Diego, the size of Medford, puts notices at im
portant cross-walks, informing motorists as well as
pedestrians, that motor cars must stop when a cross
walk is occupied.
That doesn't mean when there is a crowd in it,
but when any member of the genus homo is in it
man, woman or child.
But Medford doesn't do it.
Why?
W
ELL there are three stock reasons- usually given,
to-wit:
No. I: there are not enough traffic cops to enforce the
law, although there are enough to enforce all the other
traffic-laws including the proper patronage of parking
meters.
No. II: Medford motorists, unlike motorists elsewhere,
pay no attention to such notices, and unless there is a pedes
trian handy that they can hit, they proceed to hit these
signs, so frequently rendering the signs unfit for further
service that there is an overhead in replacements, which the
city exchequer can not meet.
No. Ill: The state Highway department refuses to allow
the replacing of such signs on Medford's important cross
walks, because they are most of them in the state high
way system and therefore under state, not municipal con-
trol.
These explanations may not seem very convinc
ing to newcomers, but they have to date been con
vincing or at least effective as far as any change in
the Medford procedure is concerned.
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AND in spite of continued
nr nna ovnnnfa a rYi n r era
destrians. '
For they have become "conditioned" to this re
fusal to enforce the traffic laws as far as cross-walks
are concerned.
It might not be strictly correct to say some of
them particularly the younger and stronger ones
rather like it; but they do admit that thanks to the
ancient law of the "survival of the fittest" they keep
in far better physical trim than would be the case if
they received the protection
For unless they are capable (without any warn
ing) of jumping forward,
(occasionally straight up and over with equal facility
if not distance) they would
a hospital or if at home in
So, as has been previously noted in this depart
ment, the law-of-compensation really does work in
this situation, which is generally deplored but for
which there appears to be no remedy, no immediate
one at least.
In fact, while the newcomers may not realize it,
Medford is not only justly famous for its gamey trout
and succulent pears, but for its pedestrians,. the best-
trained, hardiest, most resourceful and alert anywhere
on the coast from the Canadian border to the Mexican
line. They have to be to live
And that is not to be sneezed at.
In fact, if things go on as appears likely, and the
refusal to enforce the law
through the years; and if,
Games committee does introduce an international
pedestrian contest in 1956, the Medford Chamber of
Commerce should not only finance a trip for the local
team, but put their pictures on the front page of their
new illustrated (in color) booklet!
They would win the
walk and probably get
third, in the hop-skip and
In the Line of Public Service
Many months ago the Mail Tribune carried on a
brief campaign along the above lines and with good
results.
There was no change in enforcement of the pe
destrian law, but there was a noticeable change on
the part of local motorists to voluntarily obey the
h.w.
During the past few weeks there has been a no
ticeable let-down however, and as summer comes on
and the tourist-travel increases, the hazard to life
and limb will increase also.
In fact the honorary President of the "Main and
Fir Pedestrians Club, Inc.," who was knocked for a
30-yard loss and a touchback on the asphalt last Fall,
by a skillful hot-rod performer, asked the Mail Trib
une to again please call attention to the deplorable
and dangerous situation. He is proud of his service
stripes and "purple heart," but he would rather not
have the MT publish his obituary just yet if it can be
helped.
Today's offering is a free public service in an
swer to his request I R.W.R.
Tuesday, May 6. 1952
from the official Drivers
protests and complaints
laaaf rf all tr..a 1 rtPCJ 1 TtO.
the law provides.
backward and sideways
not be here or if here in
a plaster cast.
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quoted above continues
as reported, the Olympic
world championship in a
no worse than second or
jump. R.W.R.
Crosstown
Isltttal W CaMslHW Mwi fatwi S-Q-S-
"Maybe wu'd better liynchronize our uh MY watch.
Matter of Fact
AIR DEFENSE: WE
HAVEN'T ANY j
Washington At Emwetok, in
September, the United States
will explode the world's first
hydrogen bomb unless the So
viet Union gets ahead of us. Con
trary to preliminary reports, the
new Eniwetok bomb will be a
true prototype of the terrible su
per bomb of almost limitless
power. If successful, the Septem
ber test will prove that super
bombs can in fact be constructed.
It is far from certain, how
ever, that the Soviet Union will
not get ahead of us. Before ftis
arrest Klaus Fuchs had transmit;
ted to Russia all current infor
mation on the hydrogen bomb
problem. The American effort to
build a hydrogen bomb was kept
in low gear until the outbreak
of the Korean war. An all out
Soviet effort presumably began
much earlier. In short, the news
of the Eniwetok test can have a
two-edged meaning.
Because of these grim facts,
these reporters have recently
made an intensive inquiry into
the state of this country's air
defenses The results, which will
occupy this space for some days,
are curious, disturbing and
heartening all in the same
breath, as it were.
On the one hand, we do not
now have an effective air de
fense. And on the basis of pres'
ent plans and appropriations, we
are unlikely to have an effective
defense in the forseeabl? future.
On the other hand, improved air
warning systems and truly revo
lutionary new guided missiles
have recently been developed.
And these will make it possible
to defend the United Stales in
the air if we choose to pay
the considerable price.
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IN ORDER to understand the
state of our defenses today,
two facts must be remembered
First, the so-called economies of
former Secretary of Defense
Louis A. Johnson caused even
the most promising and vital de
fense projects to be laid on one
side, until the outbreak of the
Korean war. Second, the tempta
tion to accord a low priority to
air defense was especially great,
because a genuinely effective de
fense simply could not' be built
until the recent developments
above-mentioned.
The Chief of Air Staff, Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, has told the
county that, as of now, 30 per
cent of any attacking force could
be destroyed on the way to its
target. Like so many figures em
anating from the Pentagon, how
ever, this one, as of now, has a
larjie infusion of the theoretical.
The trulh is that both the com
ponents of our air defense system
arc appallingly weak.
Construction of the basic ra
dar screen or '"radar fence,"
which was begun after the ag
gression in Korea, is not yet
complete. Most of the many sta
tions will be in place by the end
of this summer. But even then,
important gaps will remain in
the radar screen on this conti
nent; and facilities for really
early wa-nlng,. which are the
necessary foundation of any ful
ly effective defense, still will be
lacking.
We are also gravely deficient
in the. other part of an effective
air defense system. Fighter air
craft production, still lagging
shockingly, has been mainly con
centrated on the F-86 type that
is so urgently needed in Korea.
The all-weather types, the F-96
and its intended successor, the
F-89, have been coming out in
driblets or not at all. Existing
stocks of F-98 aircraft have also
been heavily depleted to protect
our forces In Korea and our stra
tegic air bases in Britain. At
present, therefore, this country
can hardly be said to have night
and bad weather protection,
a e
OTILL speaking as of now, this
is proDnuiy not so nair rais
ing as the naked facts had first
seemed. According to the best es
timates, the Soviets currently
possess about 700 TIM bomb-
ri their Improvement of the
8 Roland Cos
By Joseph and
Stewart Alio
captured B-29 plus a very small
number of the big B-36 light
bomber shown on May Day a
year ago.
Hence the TU-4s are the imme
diate problem. They are believed
not to be equipped with good
radar bombsights. Their opera
tional radius is only about 2,500
miles. So far as is known, the
TU4 squadrons have not been
trained in the tricky technique
of air refueling, which would
extend this limited radius. Thus,
any Soviet air attack on the
United States would have to be
planned as a one-way mission;
and because of the bomb-sight
problem, would probably have
to be launched by day and in
good weather.
Against such an attack, even
our feeble present air defenses
might conceivably attain Gen.
Vandenberg's theoretical e s t i
mate of 30 per cent of destruc
tion. But this hope depends
squarely on the correctness of
the rather shaky information
about Soviet air capabilities. The
mere pitting of the TU-4s with
radar bomb-sights for all-weather
operation would revolution
ize the entire picture.
Furthermore, as time goes by
the Soviet strategic air force
will surely be improved. The So
viet atomic stockpile will surely
grow, whether or not the Soviets
produce a hydrogen bomb. And
the intensive Soviet guided mis
sile effort may well bear im
portant fruits. In short, with ev
ery day and month that passes,
the danger hanging over us will
grow greater and greater. There
is only one feasible counter
measure to begin the improve
ment of the American air de
fense system without a day's
delay.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York- Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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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. ,
She Is for Walter Nunley
To the Editor: I have resided
in Jackson county some 15 years,
and plan to reside here another
15 or more but I'd like to se
cure for my family the assur
ance that our District Attorney
exists as a protector of innocent
citizens and a prosecutor of those
who transgress against the inno
cent. Citizens who have had con
tact with the office for protec
tion FROM criminal influence
are not campaigning for another
term of "protection" such as they
have been afforded. Those who
have gone to secure protection
OF criminal influence are cam
paigning for a continuance of
this service. The present incum
bent may not have established
this policy, but we have not
seen him attempt to eliminate it
while serving as Deputy D. A.,
by appointment, nor while serv
ing as D. A., by appointment.
Have you, Mr. and Mrs. Citi
zen, compared the gambling de
vice LICENSING by the City of
Medford with other Oregon
cities? Have you compared the
criminal court statistics with
those from other counties? Have
you had contact with the office
WE maintain to protect us as citi
zens? Do you know that the ma
jority of convictions ln our crim
inal court are for "money"
crimes? Which is more Important
to us and to our children dol
lars, or sense? Do you know that
the 1950 ratio of divorces to mar
riages in Jackson county was
72; that in 1951 it rose to 85?
Some indignantly deny that Jack
son county needs moral improve
ment. No one who conscien
tiously read the Juvenile Office
report published in 1951. and
who can answer these questions
can honestly deny it. Children
are not born Inherently bad. As
the song from "South Pacific"
goes, "They must be taught be
fore it's too late to hate all the
things their relatives hate"
likewise to do all the things
their relatives uphold. Is this the
inheritance we WILFULLY, and
Meet the,
Candidates
Editor's note: Thii Is one of
a serial of statements furnish
ed by candidates for local of
fice in the primary election
May IS. 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 iheir candi
dacy. BY M. P. VOGEL, M. D.
Republican, for county coroner
I have been requested to run
for the position of county cor
oner by many businessmen and
doctors. ' They felt the position
DR. M. P. VOGEL
could be more effectively filled
by a physician.
The coroner makes Investiga
tions and reports of all deaths
resulting from apparent or sus
pected criminal means. It is
now necessary for the. coroner
to call in the public health offi
cer to determine the cause of
death. This -Is not a duty of the
public health doctor and should
not be forced upon him in addi
tion to his many other duties.
I have been a resident of Jack
son county since 1927. 1 attended
schools in Medford and Jackson
ville. I attended the Universi
ties of Alaska and Oregon, then
graduated from the Medical
school at Portland. I was a
flight surgeon in the Air Force
for two years and recently prac
ticed in Shady Cove. For the
past year I have been practicing
in Medford.
There are eight counties In
Oregon with physicians for cor
oners. These doctors continue to
carry on their practice. '
Many states require that the
coroner be a doctor, as he is the
only one qualified to do that
type of work. Lets put Jackson
county up to date.
Walla Walla (U.R) Police
throughout southwest Washing
ton were alerted Monday to
watch for Kenneth George, 34,
who escaped from the state pris
on for the third time Sunday.
with eyes closed, bequeath to our
children?
Can we be courageous enough
to face these truths squarely and
vote for some measure of im
provement, that we may be able
to hold our heads up before our
sons and daughters and offer
them faith in us as parents as
dependable and honorable citi
zens? Or are we going to say:
"Here it is. It's a mess, but it
isn't our fault. The generation
before ours left it to us so, and
we were unwilling to improve it
for you."
If we are going to try to im
prove it, we will vote for protec
tion FROM criminal influence
that which our statutes provides
we will support the nomina
tion of Walter Nunley for Dis
trict Attorney.
Mrs. L. Benson.
2665 Crater Lake Hway.
Medford, Oregon
How About It?
To the Editor: We fully agree
that collective bargaining that
settles disputes fairly and satis
factorily to both sides is the
ideal way to settle differences
between capital and labor. But
everybody with intelligence
knows that the minute a strike
Is threatened there Is no more
fair bargaining. It is coercion
from then on, and as soon as a
strike is called, it is war.
A labor court might be all
right if we could be assured of
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Pacts for Germany
Part in Europe Army
Begin Falling Apart
By PHILL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
The old saying that there's
many a slip twixt cup and lip Is
demonstrated nowhere better
than In our
dealing with
Weat Ger
many. A s recently
as last March,
the United
States, Britain
and France be
lieved the last
obstacles in the
way of full
West Germany
part icipation
in the defense of Europe had
been removed.
Big Three foreign ministers,
in conferences with Germany
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
reached agreement on the
amount of money a virtually in
dependent West Germany should
contribute. The Bonn govern
ment announced it would draft
upwards of 300,000 men to take
part in the European army.
Germany and France came to
what seemed to be at least tem
porary agreement on the Saar.
Agreements Fall Apart
Then, one by one, agreements
began falling apart.
The Germans wanted to use
the bulk of their money to build
up German armed forces, reduc
ing drastically their contribution
toward the upkeep of Allied
forces already thee. German so
cialists wanted a proviso that
German troops would not be
used outside of Germany, thus
violating the whole theory of
European defense.
The Saar issue exploded again
and Adenauer said the Germans
and French were so far apart
in their thinking, there was not
even any use talking about lt.
Doubt Is beginning to creep
into talk that agreement for
liberation of West Germany will
be reached by May 20. .
German Opposition Seen
And it seems that if any agree
ment is initialled by that date,
it will be over the opposition of
a great many Germans and with
considerable reservation among
other nations that it ever will
be a success.
Aside from opposition from
both inside and outside Ger
many to a revitalized Germany
army, H ere is the German fear
that an alignment with the West
an impartii one, but we know
from experii ice that a court ap
pointed by tl president is not
an impartial one, nor would an
elected court be. The only pos
sible fair solution is a board com
posed of three partisan factions,
representing employer, labor.
and the consumer public. Let
the board members be selected
by their three factions, then we
could get real Intelligent justice
and prosperity, their agreements
being final, and enforceable.
The present system can only
result in ruin.
Ira C. Jones
Medford, Ore.
Editor's note: The Supreme
court has been appointed by
Presidents ever since this nation
was founded. Would Mr. Jones
declare that Its record as a whole
has been unfair and has NOT
been Impartial?
Airliner Kills Horse
On Takeoff Collision
Hermosilio, Mexico (U.R)
This is a story of an airplane
accident with a happy ending
for the passengers and crew,
that is.
A Mexican- DC-3 airliner
struck a horse on takeoff Mon
day but the pilot brought his
damaged plane back to the air
field without even Jarring a
passenger. Old Dobbin was
killed.
TAKES COMMAND
Seoul (U.R) Brig. Gen.
Robert L. Dulaney, Marshall,
111., has taken over command of
the veteran U. S. Third Infantry
Division, the Eighth Army an
nounced Tuesday.
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will mean the permanent divi
sion of Germany.
Thus mounting pressure for
another meeting with Russia for
one more Big Four attempt at an
overall German peace treaty.
British Add Weight
British Laborites have added
their weight to the demands,
and the United States is reported
reluctantly coming to the view
that another meeting must be
held, If only to convince the
Germans of the hopelessness of
doing business with the Reds
and that the Western Allies are
not arbitrarily forcing national
partition upon them.
The Russian offer to negotiate
an overall peace treaty for Ger
many undoubtedly has muddied
the water in Allied attempts to
set up a West European defense
army.
But there also are conditions
inside West Germany which
make it difficult.
Shaky Coalition Rules
Outstanding of these, Is the
fact that Adenauer rules by vir
tue of a shaky coalition.
His unceasing demands for
new concessions from the West
ern Allies are in part the result
of pressures put upon him by
opposition parties which either
oppose rearmament in its en
tirety or which have recovered
their old arrogance and now re
fuse to admit that Germany lost
the war.
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