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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDtWTRIBUIfl Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads' Tne Mali Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-20 North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W. ROHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act Of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: .. Dally and Sunday one year 912 00 Dally and Sunday six months 8 50 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3 50 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talenl and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year 915 00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Olllrlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices In New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. .. NATION Al EDITORIAL St" NIWSPAMI PUtllf Hilt 'ASSOCIATION COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the wrltei although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with n view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Main Street Yl. The People To the Editor:: Well, the big shots on Main street finally did It. They tried It on their own for one week, and decided that perhaps they were losing a cou ple of dollars worth or. ousiness. So back on standard time. Then Into a private huddle and , bingol They just bodily crammed DST down our throats. It was the most selfish and two-bit sport thing they ever did. I know a lot of people who are very much disappointed with the city officials and businessmen. All right, if that is the way Main street feels about it. Sup pose we the people do something. We stood by all last summer and never caused any turmoil, be cause the Governor requested It. But does the businessman do as much? Oh, no. It Interferes with his personal pleasure, Governor or no Governor. Now, we the standard time supporters are not going to take this sort of thing lying down. There are lots of places to buy our necessities besides Main street, until a small bunch of poor sports wake up. Where does Medford get her business? From the farmers, and the rural districts have declared their stand against DST a num ber of times. But I guess Med ford Just don't give a hoot about the wants of any but Itself. Tom Foose, 706 Newtown St., Medford, Ore. Juvenile Department Closes 29 Cases A total o 29 cases were closed by the Jackson county Juvenile department during April, ac cording to a monthly report re leased today by the office of Pro bation Officer Frank Sawackl. Four other cases were trans ferred to other courts, making a total of 33 cases terminated dur ing the month, the report shows. There were 116 cases carried for ward into April from March and 29 new cases assigned during April. Ninety-two cases were car ried forward into May. Sawackl and Miss Alice Grace, assistant probation officer, held 263 office Interviews, made 161 visits and conducted three court hearings during April. The re port shows that 11 Juveniles were detained in jail, one was given shelter care In the county shelter home and one was committed to a private Institution during the month. Government Ends Ban On Sieel Shipments Washington (U.Ri The government Thursday removed Its ban on shipments of steel from warehouses. The "freeze" was applied last week when CIO Strelworkers culled a strike and production was temporarily halted. No shipments were permitted dur ing the freeie, except for de fense orders. Commerce Secretary Charles Saywer said he had studied the situation and decided that sup plies have now been built up to a point where the restriction! could be removed. Award Well Earned The Oregon Press club's award to Bill Force for his series of articles on taxation, which appeared in The Mail Tribune last winter, rates more than pass ing interest here, for Bill started his writing career as a correspondent for this newspaper while still a high school student in his home e e FOLLOWING his graduation, Bill started at the University of Oregon, but left there to enter the Army during World War years, m Alaska and Italy. entered the university, majoring in journalism, and in June of 1948 he graduated, coming back to the Tribune that same month. . For the nearly four years Bill was on the news staff of The Mail Tribune, he continued to grow in competence and maturity, progressing from a green "cub" to a seasoned reporter with a grasp of facts, and of what makes news. . "THE assignment which won him the Press club award was a series of seven articles on taxation. Bill worked for many months preparing the series; he consulted with the county's experts on taxation, with other authorities, and itative material on the subject. The task was to write about taxation tradition ally a "dry" subject in a light vein, making it as readable as possible. We staff think he succeeded, club s awards committee After the publication peared on Page 1 of ihe cessive days, they were submitted to the Press club, to compete with others which had been submitted from the more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers in the state. THE announcement of the awards was made Tues day night in Portland, to learn Bill's series had came as no real surprise to diligence and sincerity in This spring Bill accepted a position with the United Press in Portland, where most of his work is cloaked in wire service anonymity. But we feel safe in predicting that more E.U.F. and E.A. Another Smudge Problem In view of the present ing each spring to protect the valley pear crop from killing frosts, it is interesting to note that a similar de bate is now in progress in the Willamette valley. The principal difference is that this valleys' fruit crop is well established, as is to protect the young, tender ern valley, heating and other crops from frost are something new. TN A front page article in a recent issue of the Ore- gon Statesman, of Salem, that newspaper's Farm Editor Lillie L. Madsen goes thoroughly into the sub ject under the heading "Fight Frost or Forget Fruit Crops, Valley Advised. Her article explaining teresting reading for Rogue valley people, and it is reprinted below, slightly condensed. Frosts In recent years have made a lot of grower! won der If there isn't a more sure way of paying the farm taxes and family bills than by raising fruit. Certain It is that frosts have taken heavy tolls in many sections In the Wil lamette Valley fruit growing area. ' "Either," said one berry grower, "we are going to have to quit growing strawberries in our section or we are going to have to learn some efficient way to combat frost damage." The question which has been raised In recent weeks by those opposing frost prevention methods is: "What did they use to do about it?" And the answer to this, berry growers will tell you, is: "The same as the day-laborer used to do about his wages: took what was offered him." Things have changed. Something was done about the former; something will have to be done about the latter if modern-day competition from other states is to be met. Berry growing In the Willamette valley has changed from a small part of a general farm program to entire farms de voted to berry growing only. To save this industry, which means a livelihood to many more than the growers, frost damage prevention must be studied. "And don't think we haven't," Don Rasmussen, Marlon County horticultural agent, said this week-end in reviewing experiments carried on. Earliest of these experiments, and method still used by a number of valley berry growers, Is that of burning straw bales on nights when frosts threaten. This gives some relief, Rasmussen pointed out, but added, that it was found "not too effective." Two methods, however, are, to quote Rasmussen, "prov ing quite encouraging." One of these is the sprinkler method and the other is the older smudge-pot method. e e e e e John Wood, Marion County berry grower, reports consid erable success with the sprinkler system, although he has not carried on the experiment over any long period. In this, a fine mist or spray is essential. The sprinklers are set for from five to six gallons a minute and permitted to run for approximately 15 minutes Just as the frost period begins. While numerous smaller experiments In smudging have been made In the valley, the most comprehensive one is that of Albert Jesse of Gales Creek in Washington county. His experiment started five years ago and he has been gener ous with Information he has compiled from results, e During the past five years an average of a little more than 13 acres was protected each year. The average annual cost for fuel was $10.55 per acre. From 1947 to 1951 In clusive, the smudge pots were In use 20 times. Jesse estimates that tons of fruit were saved in the past five years. He points to 1951, when he harvested 3.445 pounds of strawberries per acre, while a neighbor, who had 17 acres, didn't pick a crate for market. Usually the two fields ran about equal. THE situation is not exactly parallel to that in the Rogue valley, and Miss Madsen makes no men tion of the smoke problem, which is the crux of the dispute here. But the siutation is sufficiently similar to that here to show that agriculturists fight against frost is not unique to this area. E.A. Friday. Mar 1" town, Gold Hill. e e e II. He served for several After his discharge, he re he read volumes of author on the news and editorial and apparently the Press agreed. of the articles, which ap Mail lnbune on seven suc and while it was pleasant won in their category, it those who knew of Bill s preparing them. will be heard from him.-1- debate over orchard heat the practice of smudgmg buds, while in the north measures to protect fruit the situation should be in Crosstown rn . "Oh, the game wardenl I might bt the NinTNUM Men in Uniform Can Count on Pay Boost, Congressmen Declare Washington (U.R) Congres sional leaders said Friday ser vicemen can count on an early pay raise possibly retroactive to the first of this month. But they saw only a slim chance for action on special com bat pay for men in Korea. The House and Senate are ex pected to give swift final appro val to a 1 general military pay boost approved Thursday by a conference committee. It provides a 4 per cent boost in allowances for food and quar ters. If Congress complete action before May 31 as expected, the Increases will be retroactive to May 1. In working out this compro mise pay bill the conferees drop ped out a Senate-approved pro vision for $45 per month extra for every man in a combat zone. Chairman Carl Vinson, D-Ga., of the House Armed Services Committee said he would hold Picking Young Executives . By Roger W. Babson Babson Park, Mass., May 9 (Special to Mail Tribune) It is open season now for the young executive hunt. Hundreds of company recruitment officers are in the chase, hopeful that they may bag "promis i n g" college seniors for their compan ies. Two grave mistakes will make the hunt costly In the long run: (1) colleges will give the men with the highest grades the best recommendations; and (2) comp anies will fail to Interview some of the best executive potentials because the men are "grade out casts." For years now many educa tors have promoted the nation that the same qualities which bring a man high grades in school also make for success on the Job. Nothing could be fur ther from the truth. One hun dred and fifty years ago when the purpose of our coleges was primarily to educate for the learned professions, there may have been some direct relation ship between grades and job success. But college is a vastly different Institution today from what It was then. Several re search studies indicate that good grades have little or no bearing on a man's job success in bus iness. I am assuming, of course, that job success is measured by dol lars and cents. I know that some teachers will challenge the mon etary yardstick. If the financial yardstick is not an adequate measure, why is it that so many teachers have left the profession for Jobs in industry? Or why do hoards of high school teachers slave to earn their masters' de grees? Certainly, with inflation today, college students and their parents place an ever-increasing emphasis on the monetary value of a college education. Grades and Job Success Not Always Synonlmous For years now I have been an employer, and since 1919 and the founding of Babson In stitute I have been seriously in terested in education. My obser vation Is that in the average col lege the ability to sit. read. comprehend, memorize and re ply parrot-fashion to the pro fessor will insure good grades. Do these particular abilities pay off in business? Not espec- ially, except in the professions. I Of course, if the college, in ad dition to developing scholastic- ally competent individuals, has something about character and personality development, then we have a different situation. But too many colleges give only 1 if a , By Roland Cm v ' S-9-52. St? was afraid for a minute you truant oHicerl separate hearings on combat pay later." Other committee sources said however, that the committee schedule is so tight, and Con gress' early July adjournment goal so close, that prospects are not good for action on combat pay this year. Some members of both House and Senate Armed Services com mittees are known to oppose the principle of combat pay. They also think it would be hard to draw a line as to who is and who isn't in combat. Several combat pay bills have been introduced In the House, including one to give enlisted men $50 and officers $100 extra pay during months in which they are in combat. Chairman Richard R. Russell, D-Ga., of the Senate Armed Ser vices Committee estimated the compromise bill will cost the taxpayers $484,000,000 a year. lip-service to character educa tion. Wisdom, Honesty Needed In Business Today I hope company recruitment officers won't let the schools and colleges over-emphasize the grade aspect of a job recommen dation. What business needs most . today are men with the character qualities of wisdom and honesty, a personal phil osophy of self-reliance and the ability to act and get things done. Employment experience has shown that some of there qual ities are best developed outside the classroom editing the school paper, managing a team, representing the student body in student government, being social chairman of a fraternity. The extra-cirricular record also measures best drive and follow through. Wisdom should have been developed in the classroom. The scholar is often wise but has poor judgment. The scholar sees people acting as he believes they ought to act. The, successful bus inessman, however, sees people as they really arc. Character Traits Absolutely Essential Practical application of good judgment can be measured in a man's personal conduct record, work record, campus participa tion, and in a variety of ways. A high degree .of self-reliance and competitiveness as measur er by hobbies, part-time jobs, and the kinds of extra-curricular activities in which one has participated are character traits absolutely essential to success in any free enterprise economy. 1 want to know what kind of an economic philosophy the young gradtrMe has picked up in college. The successful young ex ecutive must learn to drive him self and deprive himself per haps even his family because he sees in the long run that it is for the good of all. The high turnover of young executives on their first jobs suggests that both college and company re cruitment officers ought to pay more attention to some of the practical requirements for suc cess in the professions, manu facturing, commerce, and even in farming. "EVERYBODY KNOWS" IT'S MEDFORD'S OWN SONG Written by: Frank and Fran Durante and Jerry Miller The Whole Town Will Be Hummin' and Singin' It!! SHEET MUSIC NOW AVAILABLE AT LOCAL MUSIC STORES & OTHER PLACES SELLING MUSIC SHEETS "EVERYBODY KNOWS" In the Day s News By FRANK JENKINS In Ohio, Senator Taft scores a clean sweep, getting all 56 of his state'! Republican delegates. Forty-seven delegates had an nounced for Stassen. They were defeated by Taft delegates. Two had announced for Eisenhower. They were defeated by Taft men. Mr. Taft swept the board in his home state. He is immensely pleased as who wouldn't be? It is hearten ing1 to get the backing and the support of your HOME people. He calls the Ohio result "a landslide victory over Eisen hower and Stassen." It IS in Ohio. CO MUCH for Mr. Taft hlm self. His campaign manager, David S. Ingalls, says: "The landslide victory In Ohio gives Taft the MOST IMPRES SIVE VICTORY of any of the primary contests held so far." That Is a little harder to go along with. Ohio is Taft'g home state. He was actively opposed only by Mr. Stassen, who hasn't demonstrated much vote-getting strength in this political cam paign. Except for the two dele gates who had announced for him, the name of Eisenhower appeared nowhere on the bal lot. Neither did Warren's. But when the Republican conven tion assembles both Eisenhower and Warren will be definite and tangible contenders. I'd say the result of the Ohio primary is a heart-warming home-state tribute to Ohio's dis tinguished son, but'I can't quite agree with Mr. Ingalls that it "gives Taft the most impressive victory of any of the primary contests held thus far." TN FLORIDA, Senator Kefauv- er gets his first serious set back, losing out in a hard-fought popularity contest to Senator Russell of Georgia. ' As this is written, Russell is about 25,000 votes ahead which is no land slide. But it was a hard-fought battle, and in a hard-fought battle a lag of only 25,000 votes is nothing to be ashamed of. TN FLORIDA, a Southern state, Kefauver faced a distinct handicap. He has said repeatedly that while he and Mr. Truman have differed personally he is in general agreement with the policies that Mr. Truman stands for. That is to say, he considers himself a Fair Dealer. The South is out of sympathy with the Fair Deal. Among other things, the conservative South opposes the idea of the welfare state, which has been veering steadily in the direction of socialism. The South has no use for socialism. There Is an even sharper di vision of opinion, however. President Truman and the Fair Dealers and the New Dealers in sist that the race problem shall be handled by FEDERAL LAW. The South contends primarily that these problems should not be handled by law at all but by education and growing hu man tolerance. Specifically, Kefauver has said that if the Democratic plat form contains a Fair Employ ment Practices" commission plank he will support it. Rus sell has asserted that if the plat form should contain such a plank he would REFUSE to sup port it. When that fact is taken into consideration, it becomes apparent that at Tuesday's pri mary Florida went along with the general position of the South. TiEGARDLESS of his defeat in " in Florida, however, I think it would be unwise to write Senator Kefauver off as a possi bility, even a probability, in the Democratic convention. He is demonstrating remarkable vote getting ability. Perhaps, every thing considered, the relatively close race in Florida was the most striking demonstration yet of the coonskin-capped Tennes sean's ability to command popu lar support. He came to public attention first when he administered a re sounding shellacking to Tennes see's Boss Crump and won his senatorship. Beating an en trenched political machine is quite a star in anybody's crown. He increased his stature greatly by his conduct of the senate crime Investigation. That brought him great publicity, but it did even more for him. It established him as a sincere cru sader for a higher level of public morals. It would be hard for anybody to deny that as of now Kefauver is the man the other Democratic candidates have to beat. IT SEEMS to me it is equally apparent that in Florida Sen ator Russell has established him self as the preferred candidate of the South. If he can go into the Democratic convention with the votes of the South solidly No Drug Discovered To Clear Festering Sore That is Korea By PHIL NEWSOM Unfortunately the miracle drug still has to be devised which would clear up the fester ing gore of Ko rea. It is a world, and not a local, infec tion. So, even should the p r i s o n er of war Issue In Korea be set tled and the wound closed over, it would be but a sur- hil Ncwsorn face healing. Washington, London and Paris have made it clear now that they stand together in hav ing mtide their last concession toward a peaceful settlement of the Korean war. Thursday, as the negotiations went into the 302nd day since their beginning, only one issue remains. However, since it deals West Bus Operations Hampered by Strike Portland, Ore. (U.R) Grey hound bus operations in the Western part of the United States were parlyzed Thursday as 1,000 drivers, shopmen and ticket sell ers for three major lines went on strike at 12:01 a.m. The walkout hit Northwest Greyhound, which operates north of here; Overland Greyhound, operating east of here ,and Ore gon Motor stages, whin operates only in Oregon. The strike is in addition to the one several weeks ago which saw Pacific Greyhound lines tied up. Pacific Trailways busses were still operating. Members of the AFL motor coach employees unions called the strike after five weeks of un successful bargaining in demands for a five-day week for six days' pay and cost of living increase. New Superintendent. Named at Jacksonville Jacksonville Clyde F. Suth erland, 46, his been named superintendent of Jacksonville schools it was announced Thurs day by Mrs. Otto Heckert, chair man of the school board. Suther land has served as superintend ent of schools at Estelline, S.D., for the past five years. The new superintendent is a graduate of State Teachers col lege, Dickinson, N, D., and re ceived a masters degree from Montana State university in 1941. He has a wide range of teaching experience, including instructing at the teachers col lege in Dickinson, according to Mrs. Heckert. Sutherland is married and has three children, two sons now in college and a daughter attend ing high school. He expects to move his family to Jacksonville in June. Sutherland succeeds Dick Boyd, who resigned earlier this year. Ban on Color TV Sets .. .. May Soon Be Relaxed Washington (U.R) Na tional Production Administra tor Henry H. Fowler indicated Thursday the ban on produc tion of colored television sets for the home may be "relaxed" soon. Portland (U.P) Naomi Mooney, 18 - year - old Franklin high school beauty, was named Rose Festival princess from the school Thursday. behind him while the support of the Northern Democrats is split among a large "number of contenders, he will be in a strong position. Free Mass Meeting! ON PETITION TO STOP CLOUD SEEDING Friday, May 9, 8 p.m. AT THE Eagle Point Grange Hall Petitions May Be Signed at ED HANLY'S OFFICE 212 Leverette Bldg. MEAT LOCKER at Shady Cove SUNNY SIDE SERVICE STATION at Ruch .. REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS, '111 California St., Jacksonville with an essential freedom. It ts a fundamental one. The United Nations say they never will re treat from their stand against forcible return of prisoners who have renounced Communism. Personal Issue To the individual prisoner who has renounced Communism, the issue Is exceedingly personal. To return him now very likely would mean to send him before a Red firing squad. To the Allies, it ls world issue, since many Red soldiers surrendered on the promise of Allied protection. To go back on that promise would mean to destroy the faith, not only of what friends we have left in the Orient, but of Czech and Polish fighters for freedom and all others as well. Holding Up Peace Were it not for the funda mental issues involved, we un doubtedly could have arrived at some sort of a peace and been out of Korea long ago. But we are learning all over again now that Korea is not a local issue. The coming months of the presidential campaign will see a iot of argument as to whether we should or should not have entered the Korean conflict in the first place. There also will be arguments as to how we should deal with it in the fu ture. Must Be Honor Settlement However, there will be agree ment on one point, and that is, that whatever settlement is reached, it must be reached with honor. So far as the Allies are con cerned, the point of no return finally has been reached In the haggling over a Korean armi stice Now it seems that it is up to the Communisfs to find a loop hole if the negotiations are to continue. If history is to repeat Itself, the Reds -will find that loophole rather than to continue the pres ent military stalemate. Waiting Game Seen They will, that is, unless one more they underestimate us. The time has passed when the North Korean and Chinese along,,' can drive us out of Korea by ' force of arms. It may be now that they again will fall back on a waiting game. However, they also thought we would tire of the Berlin blockade and pull out. They thought we would abandon Iran and Greece. They thought we wouldn't fight in Korea. Events of the last week should give them food for thought. Don't Let- It Be A Close Shave.. GO REPUBLICAN Go To The REPUBLICAN RALLY! MAY 12 6:30 P.M. WEST SIDE SCHOOL BOX SUPPER MUSIC PRIZES
