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10 YEARS AGO
May 1942
(It was Friday)
Approximately 19,378 applica
tions for sugar ration books filed
here; teacher, and volunteer
workers lauded for work during
registration.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Today, a
week before the primary elec
tion, major virtues have started
to stick out like a sort thumb on
all candidates.
10 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1932
lit wm Kundav)
Jackson county political ex
perts state "at present the vot
ers are looking for a place to light
and have not made up ineir
minds."
Total of 37,000 pounds of air
mall carried between Medford
and other Pacific coast cities
during April by trl-motored
transport planes . and single
englncd mail-passenger planes.
80 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1922
(It was Monday)
Medford Mayor C. E. Gates
agrees to attend Ku Klux Klan
meeting if Klan will conduct
full initintlon ceremony. If all
persons are not masked, If he is
given a list of members and
copy of the Klan bylaws and con
stitution and with the reserved
Tight to comment publicly on
anything contrary to good cltl
renshlp. Rogue valley fruit crops es
cape damage "hy a miracle" in
widespread killing frost.
40 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1912
(It was Wednesday)
Medford city council calls for
$20,000 bond Issue to pay city's
portion of costs of new Main
street bridge over Boar creek.
Local residents warned by
Medford doctors against eating
fish caught in Bear creek.
Confino Starts
Hitch in Army
Hollywood Calif. U.R) Ac
cordionist Dick Conlino. who
served a federal prison sentence
for draft evasion, began his sec
ond Army career Thursday and
said this time. "I simply want to
be a good soldier."
The curly-hnired 22-year-old
musician was inducted into the
Army as a yrtvnte Wednesday
for a 24-month hitch and was
sent to Fort Ord, Calif., to begin
his basic training.
Contino was dratted the first
time more than a year ago, but
he fled from the Fort Ord Induc
tion center because he "couldn't
stand being fenced In." He later
surrendered to federal authori
ties and served a four and one
hnlf month sentence at McNeil
Island Penitentiary,
A total of 1.393,000 motorists
ran out of gasoline on the road
last year and 733,000 lost their
keys or locked themselves out
of their cars, reports the Auto
mobile Club of New York.
Tiny smocks, tailored to take
plenty of laundering, have been
designed to protect the finger
paint set from permanent discoloration.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
While Congress Fiddles!
Thomas K. Finletter, Secretary of the Airforce
is a very able, and a very
He is author of a new
resentative Government do
The author is definitely
read his book without sharing his worry.
e e e
FOR at this moment the government of the United
States, particularly the congress, has reached a
new low in blind vindictive partisanship and reckless
futility. .
And the worst offenders in this direction are
those who only a few months ago a few weeks in
some cases were the most
the very course they are now
And the one outstanding cause of this switch is
the quadrennial presidential
DECAUSE of this campaign the motto on all sides is
not (with perhaps half a dozen exceptions) what
is best for the country, but what is best for "me and
my party" what will bring in the most votes.
for example:
Because of the perfectly natural feeling against
high taxes and because of
penses due to war there is an extremely strong popu
lar demand for economy.
So representatives of
themselves to lop off a billion here, and lop off a bil
lion there, so they can please their constituents, re
gardless of whether such reductions are justified from
the standpoint of the national safety and security, or
not.
ACCORDING to Mr. Finletter many of them. are
MOT t
And unless this wild
gardless of what such action may mean to the coun
try s defense effort, is soon
may be the victim of one of
history.
And the congressmen
tragedy if it comes will be practically the same group,
that less than a year ago were branding as "criminal
negligence," the failure of the Truman administration
to keep a large army and a fit and fighting airforce in
Europe when War II ended, regardless of the then
overwhelming demand by the people to "bring- the
boys home."
CMALL wonder that one of the men responsible for
the critical task of remedying this tragic error, as
he pleads for appropriations needed to do the job
right before it is too late, should give way at times to
discouragement and despair, as he sees these demon
strations of irresponsibility, and frivolous political
self -interest, when the very survival of the nation, may
in another 90 days, be at stake.
It IS a most alarming and depressing spectacle
to any thinking person. And it is fairly safe wager
that no one in the world is enjoying it more than dear
old Uncle Joe Stalin himself I
And with good reason.
For no nation that in time of crisis, CAN'T, su
bordinate political self-interest to a spirit of unselfish
and self-sacrificing patriotism can long endure. For
it is following the "road-to-ruin" the road that Nero
followed when he played the fiddle while Rome
burned and everyone knows what happened subse
quently to Rome ! R.W.R.
0
Can Democracy Survive?
Supplementing the above, the present situation
demonstrates another serious defect in our representa
tive system of government.
The Mail Tribune has probably defended Presi
dent Truman against the "slings and arrows of out
rageous fortune" as consistently and vigorously as any
daily on the coast.
One of the main reasons has been an instinctive
distaste for the mob spirit of kicking a man in the
face when he i9 down.
DRESIDENT Truman has quit. He is not a candidate
for reelection and probably never will be a candi
date again.
He has made mistakes serious ones but con
sidering his limitations, and the multitude of extreme
ly difficult decisions he has had to make; the Mail
Tribune believes, he deserves far more praise than
blame, and is confident history will sustain this judg
ment. But that is not the popular verdict todav. It is
"open season" on HST and even many prominent
members of his own party are now joining the pack
to do "the old chief" in.
pjOWEVER that is not
The point is that had
of government like Canadas or Englands, this "open
season" would never have been possible.
Just or unjust, the plain fact is that the Truman
administration has not enjoyed the confidence of the
people for a year a majority of themor more.
Under a parlimentary system a test vote would
have been ordered long ago and instead of the coun
try staggering along month after month without co
hesion and without real leadership, there would have
been another party in control and a new leader at the
helm, perhaps since early in 1951.
And even more important there would have been
an Immediate and a short campaign a prompt
change in answer to popular demand instead of this
unending and dem-essintr
thing confused, adrift and at sixes and sevens, with
Uncle Sam lucky if he escapes a major catastrophe.
Thursday. Mar 19!J
wise man.
book entitled : "Can Rep
the job?"
worried. And no one can
scathing, pitiless critics of
pursuing.
campaign.
our increasing federal ex
both parties are falling over
stampede for economy, re
checked, the United states
supreme tragedies in all
chiefly responsible for that
the point we wish to make.
we a narliamentarv form
"battle roval." with everv
K.W.K.
Crosstown
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"Haven't you something
Matter of Fact
AIR DEFENSE)
MURDEROUS BIRDS
Washington Historians are
quite likely to hold that this
year's most significant military
advance, surpassing even the
scheduled explosion of the
first hydrogen bomb, was the
obscure testing of an obscurely
named guided missile.
The missile, called "Nike" for
the Greek Goddess of Victory, is
a fully guided, supersonic rocket
developed by the Army. In an
impressive number of tests, it
had achieved 100 per cent de
struction of drone-o p e r a t e d
B-17s flying at maximum speed
at 35,000 feet. Because of this
triumphant showing, "Nike" has
already been ordered into quan
tity production.
When available in quantity,
"Nike" will give our great cities
and critical industrial installa
tions their first effective "point
defense," which is technician's
language for close-in air defense.
But even this long forward step
is only a fragment, so to speak,
of the truly revolutionary mean
ing of the "Nike" tests.
In brief, the guided missile
art consists in solving an inter
related group of hideously diffi
cult problems, involved in build
ing, propelling, stabilizing and
guiding any missile in flight.
Each "family of birds," as the
initiates call the types of guided
missiles, of course presents its
own family problems. In missiles
of great range, for instance, it
is necessary to overcome gyro
scopic precession the tendency
of gyroscopes to get out of
whack because of prolonged fric
tion between their parts. "If the
gyros precess, the birds lose sta
bility and can't fly," is the way
the practitioners of the art put it.
...
f?OR all the families of birds,
A however, the really basic
problems are similar or closely
comparable. The "Nike" success
therefore suggests that birds of
other families either have flown
or will shortly fly. It can in fact
be stated, on highest authority,
that this is the case. And from
the standpoint of America's air
defense, this general progress of
our guided missile development
is inexpressibly more important
than the single success of "Nike.
This is true, in turn, because
a fully effective air defense now
requires an elaborate weapons-
system, including at least two
guided missiles besides Nike.
as well as many other essential
parts.
Early warning radar must in
stantly revefl the enemy s first
approach. Radar-directed fight
ers must intercept the enemy
while he is still in the outer ap
proaches. For accuracy of de
struction, the fighter intercep
tors must fire air-to-air guided
missiles able to seek the enemy
flight. An inescapable conti
nent-wide warning net must
await the enemy who evades the
fighters onslaught. Missiles of
considerable size and range must
be guided by the warning net,
to strike down the enemy flying
towards his target. And finally,
the point defenses, which "Nike"
will afford, must destroy any en
emy plane that succeeds in run
ning the formidable outer gaunt
lets.
Such are the fantastic require
ments of a true air defense now
adays. Nothing less will give
reasonable security against air
attack with atomic weapons,
when all may be lost if half the
enemy planes get through. And
no such defense was even re
motely practical, until the doors
of a new era began to open this
year.
e e e
11HE alr-to-alr guided missile,
- needed to assure maximum
kills by fighter-interceptor air
craft, is not quite so well for
ward as "Nike." Neither is the
larger, longer range missile need
ed to transform the continental
area into one huge hornet's nest.
Yet. Air Force and Navy efforts
to build these missiles give the
greatest promise. According to
responsible informants, proto
types of all the different birds
needed for air defense should be
satisfactorily tested before the
yean end.
By Roland Cot
with a larger feather?"
ly Joseph and
Stewart Altop
Furthermore, the other miss
ing parts of a modern air defense
system have been, are being, or
can be provided. The all-weather
fighter-interceptor now in use
the F-96, is unsatisfoctory, but
there are great hopes for the
newer F-89. The continental ra
dar warning net is on its way
to completion. And for the really
early warning which the conti
nental net cannot give, there is
the combination of radar picket
ships and, still more important,
air-borne early warning. Con-
vair aircraft, equipped with
warning devices, designed to fly
continuous patrols at the extreme
limit of the outer approaches, are
included in the Air Force bud
get which Congress is currently
hacking to death.
In theory, then, the Job of air
defense against atomic attack
can now be done, although it
will take a long time to do it. To
this, however, three stern warn
ings must be added.
e e
CMRST, no single wonder-weap-A
'on will do the air defense
Job. "Nike, ' for instance, with
its short range, cannot knock
down bombers firing ground-to-air
guided missiles against their
targets, which is the offensive
technique of the future. And it
is also questionable whether
Nike" can hit these much small
er, far speedier ground-to-air
missiles as well as it has hit the
lumbering B-17s. Everything de
pends, therefore, on having the
whole weapons-system.
Second, there is the widest eaD
between probable performance
in a combat emergency and per
formance in carefully prepared
test flights like those which
Nike has shown up so well in.
Even with the complete weapons-
system,, tnere will be no comDlete
security hardly enough' securi
ty, in fact, to let us sleep at
night, and certainly not enough
to Justify abandoning the bal
anced defense effort because of
our new air defenses.
Third and finally, creating
tnese new air defenses will im
pose very great additional bur
dens.
(Copyright. 1952.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's
Br FRANK JENKINS
Just to keep the record
straight, it still seems to me that
the clocks should be- ruled by
the federal government.
In a great and advanced
country such as ours, with fast
trains and fast planes and in
stantaneous radio and Instan
taneous television operating from
coast to coast and from border
to border, our general economy
will function more satisfactorily
If we operate on the same time.
ALL this confusion could be
avoided if we kept all our
clocks on the same time. There's
nothing sinful about "daylight"
time. If people generally prefer
to go to work an hour earlier
and quit an hour earlier, chang
ing the clocks is an easier way
to bring It about than trying to
change the hours of work, which
have grown up through long
years of negotiation and adapta
tion to changing conditions.
But I do think we should keep
all the clocks on the same time,
and that can be accomplished
only by regulation on a national
scale which is specifically per
mitted by the power granted by
the constitution to congress to
regulate interstate commerce.
pROM Korea:
"General James Van Fleet said
today there are indications the
Communists never have wanted
to make peace In Kotea. If the
Communists had wanted an arm
istice, he told correspondents,
some agreement could have been
reached In the almost 10 months
of truce negotiations.
"But.' he added, "the United
Nations can either outfight the
Reds on the battlefields or OUT
SIT them at the conference tables."
Arkansas Town
Hit by Twister
West Memphis, Ark. (U.B
Four persons were injured, four
homes In ruins and the new high
school was roofless Thursday
after a tomadic wind twisted
through a five-block area of
West Memphis, at the eastern
edge of tornado-queasy Ar
kansas. A 24-year-old mother, Luclnda
Lewis, who had herded her four
small children under a bed when
the storm approached, suffered
leg and shoulder injuries when
her flimsy four-room home col
lapsed and the chimney blew
over. Three of the children also
were hurt.
The wind matched the roof
from the new high school build
ing, completed only last year,
and knocked out toll lines to
nearby Osceola, Ark. Authori
ties estimated total damage at
S3U.000.
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view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Why Make a Change
To the editor: "Why Make '
Change." A great number of peo
ple in this valley like myself
know that Carlos Morris is fitted
for the job he now holds as
county coroner.
As we know he is gifted with
a wonderful personality, very
considerate, and is all around
fitted for the job as coroner of
this county.
Those of us who have had the
misfortune of losing someone
very close to us know the won
derful way Mr. Morris has of go
ing about his task at a time like
this. Since we have three funeral
homes In Medford there is com
petition, and competition is
something we need in every day
life, by that I mean competition
in almost every thing.
We have our freedom of
speech and of the press and we
may use it as we see fit, but I
don't believe his competitors
should use him in a round about
way In their advertising.
There must be a reason why
he gets the majority of the busi
ness In the valley. So I ask you
Mr. and Mrs, Jackson County,
"why make a change," when we
ha' t good man on the job?.
Joe McCallister
Rt. 1, Box 29114
Medford, Oregon
Who Favors Fait Time?
To the Editor: '
Again the tail wags the dog.
Gov. McKay said after a lot of
thinking that Oregon would stay
on Standard time.
Immediately a hullabaloo
came In from Portland. We are
going on Daylight, Mr. Gover
nor; what are you going to do
about it?
Medfords big shots, we are too.
And did, and will, until the
STATE will again have the SUN
(STOP) AT ELEVEN A.M.
they can get home an hour
earlier, to get to hell and gone
from there until the old place
gets opened an hour earlier the
next morning.
How many ??? are there any
way? I would wager a carton of
cigarettes that there are not
three thousand persons In Jack
son county who favor daylight
time.
Edgar Rose, Rt. 3, Box 148
News
TIE SPEAKS confidently and
"so he inspires confidence in
the rest of us. That is good. If
we are to be the world police
men (as Rome and Britain were
before us) we must have confi
dence in ourselves.
Otherwise, we will fall in our
Job. If we fail in our present job
of policing the world, goodness
only knows what the result will
be.
Van Fleet sounds like a good
leader In the right place.
WHEr.
ly I
HEN those of us who sit safe-
here at home, with other
people's sons doing the fighting
in Korea, talk about battling to
the bitter end we expose our
selves to the charge that such
talk is cheap.
Gen. Van Fleet is in nrf such
situation. His pilot son Is missing
In action and may be one of the
prisoners of war that U.N. and
Red truce negotiators are hag
gling over.
TWERE ii lot of talk about
the cushy Jobs held by the :
upper echelons of the military .
brass. Most of it is loose talk, '
based upon complete lack of un
derstanding of the crushing bur den
of responsibility that rest?
upon the shoulders of officers
commanding men in battle. j
No decision can be more soul
rending than an order that sends
men to their death. Yet military
officers have to do it, over and
over. That is war.
TN FACT, one of the most la- '
mentable of human shortcom
ings is our general lack of under
standing of the burdens and the
responsibilities of others.
That makes for intolerance,
and there is far too much intol
erance in this world. 1
Envoy to Russia Will
Be Closely Watched
Because ot
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
It isn't likely that our new
ambassador to Moscow, George
Frost Kennan, ever will be in-
vited to the
Kremlin for a
friendly glass
of vodka.
In fact, in a
city notorious
1 y suspicious
o f foreigners,
Kennan prob
ably wili be
the m o' s t
watched and
the most sus
pected. ; I'hil Ncwsom
Newsom
ii that he is
The reason
'Mr. X."
It-was Kennan, who as charge
Letters submitted for publication must
j Takes Issue With Mrs. Benson
To the Editor: In reference to
the letter by Mrs. L. Benson in
your May 6 edition. I read it
with much indignation, not be
cause I am a personal friend of
District Attorney Haviland, or
even an acquaintance, but be
cause I consider the letter de
faming and unnecessarily criti
cal. '
When I began the letter I
thought it concerned the gam
bling issue raised by the newly
arrived attorney in his bid for
the republican nomination for
district attorney. After some
consideration I decided that my
action, as a righteous and out
raged citizen who had regarded
the presence of some unneces
sary evil, would be to take said
complaint to the local law en
forcement officers. It undoubt
edly would be a highly publi
cized fact if such action had
been taken and no satisfaction
gained.
If we would all be a bit more
ready to lend assistance to our
public officials and not quite so
quick to criticize them their
achievements would be more
satisfactory to all. Perhaps It
would make the positions more
desirable to our more capable
men and effect a higher stand
ard in our public officials.
I do take issue with the state
ments criticizing Mr. Haviland
for "few" convictions, for the
alleged "protection" of crimi
nals, for the proportional in
crease in divorces, and the de
rogatory remarks in regard to
the Juvenile situation.'
It is not the duty of the dis
trict attorney to prosecute he
innocent, as well as the guilty,
but only to seek conviction of
guilty individuals. No reference
is made to any particular action
made to free a criminal, and yet
she deplores the fact that there
have not been more convictions.
It is not the duty of the D.A.
to mend broken marriages and I
don t see how he can be held
responsible for the morals of the
individuali concerned In di
vorces.
Does Mrs. Benson recommend
a larger number of juvenile sen
tences? Does she find fault with
the whole juvenile program
here? If so, let's come out and
say so, not make guarded defa
mation of an individual and im
ply he is leading our children
along wrong roads.
Let Mrs. Benson face facts.
She is campaigning for Walter
Nunley for district attorney.
Such being the case, if she can
give no more valid criticism
of Mr. Haviland than she did,
then I compliment Paul Havi
land for a job well done and will
be early at the polls to mark my
"X" before his name.
William Donahoe,
38 No. Oakdale Ave.
Medford, Ore.
Timber Cruiser Kills
Rattlesnakes in Den
John B. Cox, 515- West Jack
son Boulevard, a timber crusier
for Timber Products Company,
states that it is not too early
for rattlesnakes.
He and his son-in-law, Dean
Pruett, recently, were in the
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Writings
d'affaires in Moscow In 1948,
iir.i huan writing the brilliant
reports which outlined Russia'!
aggressive Intent. It was iiennan
who advised the "policy of firm
nnntalnment" aeainst the Com
munists which is the keystone
of our foreign policy, ne cre
ated an international sensation
urhon h wrote about it In the
magazine "Foreign Affairs" un
der the pseudonym, "Mr. a.
Kennan arrived in Moscow to
tnWo nver this new Dost Tues
day. The Russians approved hia
appointment but they weren't
entirely happy about it.
Kennan has made it clear that
as an ambassador he does tiot
expect to make U. S. policy.
He has been accused by the
Russians of believing that war
between Russia and the United
States is inevitable. His writ
ings do not bear out the charge.
He says that the Russians are
tough and do not scare easily.
Moreover, he adds that the Rus
sians believe that capitalism
must fall of its own weight and
that they have plenty of time
to wait without going to war.
They also can retreat, if neces
sary. Specific Dangers
However, he believes there
are two specific dangers:
1. The Russians might mis
calculate U.S. reaction to a piece
of local aggression as they did
in Korea.
2. They might become con
vinced that the U.S. was prepar
ing to attack Russia.
Milwaukee-born Kennan be
lieves that an Important part of
his Job Is to prevent the Rus
sians from making either mis
take. A comment by Radio Moscow
last December was typical.
"It is not by chance, said
Radio Moscow, "that the State
Department appoints as diplo
mats in Moscow and In the
people's democracies shady per
sons who are usually spies of
long standing."
Branded 'Shady' Character
Thus in Radio Moscow's eyei,
even before Kennan arrived, he
already was a "shady" charac
ter and a spy.
Kennan's appointment Is espe
cially interesting in that It
marks the return of the career
diplomat to the Moscow listen
ing post. Kennan has been with
the State Department since his
graduation from Princeton in
1925, in contrast to our last two
ambassadors there who were re
spectively Gen. Walter Bedell
Smith and Adm. Alan G. Kirk.
Now 47, Kennan began to
make his acquaintance first with
the Russians as a bright young
man attached to the legation at
Riga, Latvia. Later he helped
U.S. Ambassaddr William Bul
litt open the first U.S. embassy
in Moscow since the Russian
revolution.
vicinity of Rail gulch touth of
Talent when they came upon
den of rattlesnakes, and killed
12 with rocks.
Last Sunday Cox and R. Q.
Skeeter, Jacksonville- Phoenix
road, visited the same den and
with a .22 caliber automatic
rifle killed 20 more,-making a
total of 32 rattlers from the one
den.
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