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FOURTEEN MEDrOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribuna Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phona ?-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. 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. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year 113 00 Daily and Sunday six months 8.50 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3 30 Daily and Sunday one month 125 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogut River, Talent n nri nn mnlnr mutes: Daily and Sunday one year 115.00 Daily and Sunday on month US All terms uasn in Aavance Official Paper of the City of Medford uriiciai riper oi acicson tounij United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: , WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, rNC Offices In New York. Chicago. De. troit. San Francro. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I Acrt-iiTrHu 353 I ZJ J f NIWSrAM PUilltHII ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackton County His tory inm the (Has at the Mail Tribuna 10. 20, 30 and 40 yaari aga. 10 YEARS AGO Mar IS, 1942 (It was Friday) Local loggers charge that small government allotment of tires for this area is Jeopardizing fulfillment of government lunv ber contracts. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The un smiling gas silo attendants re port that motorists, who are not smiling either, bark "Slip me a gallon, pronto," instead of "Fill 'er up," as of yore. 20 YEARS AGO May IS, 1932 (it was Sunday) Joint graduation exercises for 350 Jackson county school stu dents slated at' Medford Junior high school; largest combined f roup in county history. Slate public utilities commis sion approval given abandon ment of Southern Pacific rail road station in Central Point. 80 YEARS AGO May IS. 1922 (It was Monday) Attorney Herbert Hnnnn se verely burned when oil stove explodes In his Jacksonville home. Jackson county court decides against using double election boards in forthcoming primary election; this is first year doublo boards have been allowed in Ore gon. 0 YEARS AGO May IS. 1912 (It was Wednesday) White slavery and opium den uncovered in raid on Chinese settlement on Riverside avenue in Medford. Team of horses owned by Deer Creek rancher drowns in at tempt to ford Applegate river; driver Jumps to safety. Republican Strength Gains in California Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Republican strength Is increas ing In California, the second largest stale in the union, while the number of registered Demo crats Is on the wane, the secre tary of state's office reported Thursday. A survey of registration for the June 3 primary totaled 5.383.521. highest In history, Compared to the 1050 registra tion, the Democrats lost 66,437 while the Republican party gain ed 247.634. Democrats still hold an edge over the OOP by a margin of 803,322 but (wo years ago tliev led by 1.117.393. Site for Hospital Felt Not Helpful to Recovery Melbourne. Australia (U.R) Someone slipped in picking the site for a new 2,000.000 pound ($4,500,000) hospital at Shep parton, 110 miles north of Mel bourne. The proposed site would over look the cemetery which "might not be conducive to the patients' recovery" the city's health com mittee decided. Now they're looking for some thing on the other side of Shcp-parton, The $64 Question Is Answered The most persistent question fired at this depart ment the past 3 weeks has the tumult and the shouting Here is the question : sometimes in genuine incre dulity, more often in high "Why did you decide to mix In this mess anyway7" And here is the answer and colloquy that usually followed: "Any newspaper that had the Information we have and at a time like this suppressed It and failed to give it to the voters, ought to sell out completely and change over to a Shopping News." "You're going to get and awful beating!" "OK we've gotten them before. You can lose many battle in this business though and still win the war!" Alf HAT follows will have to be somewhat lengthy and of a somewhat personal nature so unless you are interested Mr. and Mrs. Reader, you better SKip it. When the campaign opened The Mail Tribune in formed both candidates for District Attorney, that the paper did not intend to take any part in the pri mary editorially, but would give them both a fair break in the news and communication columns, as has been the general practice. TT WAS also stated that if some important issue SHOULD come up, in that contest or any other, we WUULL) take part also Well, that sort of issue did come up almost at once, the issue of law-enforcement or non law-enforcement with particular reference to Claims started to pour con largely pro until we believe. GO WE decided to go to the sources of information information we could absolutely depend upon trom high-up otticials who no axe to grind. We saw and talked with a great many of them, also with newspaper men we knew up and down the line most of the former in Salem and connected with the state government. Here is a summary of what they ALL agreed upon : It Is undoubtedly true, that perhaps with the exception of one county organized gambling has made greater inroads in Jackson than any other In the state. This is not a matter of opinion or of guess-work; it is a matter of the official records, which you can check for yourself. Why this is so we don't know, but there it Is. Every gambling establishment in Jackson County pays a gambling license and those licenses are on file you can inspect them. You ask why isn't the law enforced? You ought to know The Governor believes gambling is a local not a state problem, so it is up to your District Attorney why don't you get busy and see he does his Job if you WANT it done. - WELL, why didn't we? That was a pretty larly to a newspaper editor. A FTER that we went to see one of the leading law- enforcement officials in the state, whose integ rity, ability and courage no one could question. He agreed with the above and added this : "That's right. This Is a local not a state problem. How ever, if you want help down there have any, of your local officials ANY of them the DA, police or sheriff ask us or the state-police for help in law-enforcement and the organized gambling Joints down there will be shut up in 24 hoursl That help has been offered, the gambling Joints have been named, the operators and the number of ap pliances also, and here are copies of the official notices. But the result to date has been in practically every case, not even an acknowledgement of the letter, or a curt reply that no help is needed for the situation down there is well in hand. I know Jackson County well, I have many friends there, no county in the state has a finer quality of citizen ship and yet as you know every now and then something like this comes up and lawlessness breaks out like a praire fire. I can't explain it, but you should be able to. "What IS the answer?" , TE DIDN'T know. the bar in Marion County. Attorney in Jackson County other DA's in the state did, prosecuted violators of the gambling laws when complaints were filed, had done so and would continue to do so. Yet we had been in formed by reliable authorities the licensed gamblers in the county had increased steadily during his ad ministration as District Attorney and Deputy. How come? The answer was approximately as follows: "Your DA's statement Is not In accord with Information or the law. The filing of a complaint is not mandatory at all in such cases. If any District Attorney, or local law enforce ment officer has reason to believe any law is being broken, he can take action on his own initiative to determine whether or not his suspicions have been Justified. And if they were Justified he can take proper action, in fact, the gambling laws in a sense put him under obligation to do so, as the following extract from the statute declares: "Any OFFICER . . . who shall willfully NEGLECT to Inform against and protecute offenders againit this Act shall ba deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be puniihed by a fine of not leis than $50 nor more than $500 and tha court before which such officer shall be triad, shall declare the olfica er appointment vacant for tha balance of his term." "That Is the law. I believe It ii alio true that during the period you mention the number of violators of tha law In your county hai steadily Increased, which doesn't Indicate to me a vary tealous daiire to enforce the laws, particularly ai every law enforcement officer can secure a list of tha law violators In his district anytime he wishes." After that, this comment came from another of ficial source, quote : "All this Is not so hard to understand if you know how the gamblers work. Whenever they go into any district they make a careful survey and pick out the most popular and highly respectable organizations they can. These organiza tions are told here is a sure fire way for them to get some ready cash, so the "fixers" put up their sales talk and prac tically guarantee i generous "cut," not only for the club (or whatever it may be), but for the customers. Sometimes they are turned down, but more often they are not. So they have a most effective "front," and If anyone tries to start trouble, there is immediately a terrific howl from some of the ' best people'' in the community. And those "best people" Thursday. May IS, 19S2 not been answered, but as dies, will be. dudgeon very high!" per our established custom organized gambling. into this office, pro and did not know WHAT to KNEW the facts and had pertinent question particu We told him the District claimed he did what all Crosstown i j.t - ' i a em I ' "This is 'Green-Thumb' Kenneisy, Pop. He's taking ever my part of the garden," who don't take an active part in shushing the "reformer," also don't take any part In supporting him. So nine times out of ten the person asking for law enforcement finds himself outnumbered, discredited, lonesome and HE QUITS. That may not be the answer in your county but it is in most places and from what you say I think it's the answer In yours. Then the following this from one of the highest executives in the state, who local problem and he did less the conditions got beyond local control: "These things take time. But when the people realize the nature and dangers of organized gambling, the wisdom of our forefathers who outlawed it in the state constitution, and even more important when they realize if a community refuses to enforce the law against the better element, they can't enforce the law against the undesireable and criminal elements. When they realize this and also that a large per centage of the hundreds of thousands of dollars taken in by the gamblers, goes to the racketeers livipg OUTSIDE of the state and not to the comparatively few local beneficiaries WITHIN in other words, when the people get the facts and truth, not only because it is against the law, but against their own self-interest, they will vote organized gambling out and be quick about it." CO THAT is where the editorial "we" came in. And that is exactly what The Mail Tribune has tried to do give the facts. The issue as we see it, is absolutely clear and has been all the procedure by many of our nated. The declaration to MANY of them that the people of Jackson County just don't WANT the gambling laws enforced any way MAY be true. The election tomorrow, unfortunately, can't de termine this fact conclusively because only slightly over half of the voters will be able to express their judgment on this issue. But A ND at least this much is certain those voters who have wanted the FACTS so they might know what their votes mean, should have no complaint, when they go to the polls ballot booth they will choose between a candidate wledtred to enforce ALL the on the statute books, and record that when certain pressure, he follows those oath of office. R.W.R. The Mail Tribune Recommendations for May Primary REPUBLICAN For President: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Republican National Committeeman! Jess Gard, Multnomah, No. 12. Delegates to National Convention: Wm. McAllister, No. 47 Senator Wayne Morse, No. S3 Governor Douglas McKay, No. 48 Howard Belton, No. 17 H. Clay Myers, No. 54 Lamar Tooie, No. 65 Robert Elliott, No. 25 Frank E. Fowler, No. 29 Mark Hatfield, No. 35 Samuel H. Martin, No. 43 District Delegates to National Convention: Mrs. C. L. Hopkins, G. R. Brantley Alternate Delegates: Catherine Holti Gordon Orput J. O. Johnson Mrs. C. E. Miller Stat Treasurer: F-red E. Robinson. Attorney General: Leonard I. Lindas. District Attorney: Walter D. Nunley County Assessor: Robert (Bob) Fowler. DEMOCRATIC For President: Eitet Kefauver. National Committeman: Monro Sweetland. Delegate to Convention: Nancy Honeyman. Robinson. MacArfhur Gives Assist Lansing, Mich. (U P.) Gen. Douglas MacArlhur may be a Republican but he was willing to help a Democrat Thursday. Arriving here for a two-day vistt In yichig;m. fn' 71-ye;irold former Far East commander By AM Co. 1 S-IS-S3. also pointed out it was a not wish to enter into it un time. The opposition to this ' best people" was anticr the undersigned by so it will be an indication. tomorrow. In their secret laws as long as they are one who has shown by his pressure - groups put on the dictates, not those of his to Democrat shook hands with Democratic Gov. G. Mennen Williams and as flash bulbs popped he told Williams: "I don't know if this will help you politically or not but I hope it does.'' I COMMUNICATIONS Letters to tha Editor mutt bear tha name i under certain circumstances tha use ot Ii permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right to edit an letters wun a view to clarification and condensation. Lattars submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Farmer's Blood Bolls To the Editor: Every now and then someone writes something to make my blood boil. This time It's a character "by the name of Frank Gaster. So a majority of the Medford , workers favor D.S.T.? What does j he think we farmers are? We ' work for a living, too. Or doesn't Gaster have that much I.Q. to figure it out? And another thing how long does Gaster think he and his friends would have a job if it wasn't for we farmers? How long does he think the merchants in Medford would stay in business without the farmers' patronage? And yet he thinks we shouldn t have any say in this controversy. Brother, he has a lot to learn and a lot he could learn from a cow. She at least has sense enough to get upset. And all this malarkey about an 'extra" hour to work in the gar den or mow the lawn. Why don't such fellows admit the truth and say they need that extra hour to consume their limit of beer in the nearest tavern? Here's the opportunity for some of you other farmers and dairymen to let Mr. Gaster know which side his bread is buttered on. Get busy and write your let ter to the editor and let these city fellows know we aren't stupid as they think we are. As for me I have to go milk my cows since it upsets them when I'm a little early or late. Mrs. Oscar Gysin, Route 3, Box 198, Medford, Oregon. Agrees, It's War To the Editor: When Mrs. Zella Tullis of Trail wrote May 10 saying we the public believe it is War in Korea, I agree with her 100 per cent. When our boys are being drafted and sent over seas to be slaughtered by the thousands it is a war, whether declared or not. This is a war without reason or sense. The same enemy our boys are fighting and being killed by, is a greater part of our own U.S.A. than many of us wish to think. But this is true. Of course, once in a while a few of these "Reds" are brought to face our courts, given a fair trial and sentenced to a few years in prison or perhaps fined and released. Sure this is a free country for all to come and seek out a good living in. We continue to let our land be filled with groups who try to dominate not only our lives but also the weather. Again I say, Mrs. Tullis is right and I agree by saying a rotten odor is mild to all what our noses have smelled out. I believe God does bless those who stand up for their own rights, and shudder to think just what may happen to those He may not choose to bless. Mrs. B. J. Dickerson, Route 2, Central Point, Oregon. Why the Interest? To the Editor: I no doubt would have voted for Paul Havi land, if I had not noted the ex ceedingly large amount of ener gy and wealth being exerted in his behalf. There must be some reason for this expensive effort in his behalf. Inasmuch as the prosecution of gamblers is the main issue, can it be the money is being put up in their interest? As we observe from his record and statements he follows the same policy as the government in the Hiss case. Prosecute and convict the witness if possible even to the point of suicide, In that case (only averted by acci dent). Haviland puts all the bur den of conviction on the com plainant witness to such, an ex tent that only a Whittakar Cham bers would have the nerve, and be willing to sacrifice unto death, to become the witness. That is. of course, the kind of prosecutor gamblers would want. Ira C. Jones, 2325 Stewart Ave. Medford, Ore. Improvements Appreciated To the Editor: In a recent is sue of the Medford Mail Tribune Mrs. Brown wrote of her appre ciation of the improvement our merchants have made to beautify our city to which I agree. Another great improvement is the new street signs that can be read very easily from a car. An Iowan visited us not long ago and he commented on the beautiful lights Medford has. H. B. (name on file) and address of tha writer although a pen name or Initial for publication EDITOR'S NOTE We have received a number of com munications directly endors ing candidates in the Primary from residents who will not allow their names er ad dresses to be used, but ask to have them placed on file. Although this permission has been granted under nor mal conditions, as noted above; it has not been grant ed In any hotly contested po litical campaign, and can't be In this one. In other words communica tions of a highly personal and controversial nature partic ularly of a political type must Include the writer's name, and proper identification of same. Time Marches On To the Editor: Not until 1883 or thereabouts did Congress rec ognize standard time, though its desirability had been recognized for a century or more, in order that records of vital statistics might be more accurately kept. It would perhaps take another century before the proposed time changes talked about today could be coordinated so that disorder would not be the order in many cases. Try and persuade a chicken off the roost for breakfast before sun-up, persuade old bossy to leave her afternoon grazing per iod to be shoved through our modern cow parlor, try to tell the small fry it s time to go to bed before the normal time for the Sandman. Time and space could be used, talking about the age-old prob lem of the minority imposing their wishes over- the majority but what's the use, after three or ten or even seventeen attempts we find only that a circle has been completed, and the big noise is still that of the self-appointed benefactor of the great ignorant majority. J. D. Bowdish, Cherry Lane, Medford, Oregon. Cows and DST To the Editor: Just one more letter about DST. Mr. Johnson, I have no objection to your get ting up at 3:30 a.m. (which your DST would have me do) and get in two or three hours work at your place before you go to work, then come home and work until dark them get to bed by 10 p.m. And to the man who didn't want to be ruled by cows: They are creatures of habit, are used to being fed, milked and cared for at certain hours of the day. A good milk cow gives half a ton of milk or better a month; break her routine, she drops in produc tion and doesn't get it back until the next freshening period. With cows eating $96 per ton concentrates, plus their min erals, salt and hay you can't af ford to have production drop. Pefhaps you in town should visit some of the dairies and get their hours of work. Most of them are up at 4 a.m. and start ing the days work, because there is more than just reaching for a bottle of milk, for the people who produce it. Don't visit at milking time be cause it throws the herd into tizzy to have strangers around at that time. A griper who wants a fair deal for all. Mrs. Gladys Hamilton Rt. 2, Box 468 Medford, Oregon V0TE F0R I I Dr. G. A. 4 Dierdorff ( 3 REPUBLICAN pV. STATE KjfJ ! Representative Vf1 . Integrity In Government X ' Social Improvement IMr ''1 without Socialism K J Pd. Ally. Dierdorff for V State Repr. Comm f Keep An Experienced Man On The Job! VOTE FOR J. B. COLEMAN REPUBLICAN for COUNTY JUDGE CONTINUE BUSINESS - LIKE PROGRESSIVE ADMINISTRATION! M. Ad. Celtmae Far Cauary Judoe Cemmitta Douglas Again Eyed by Some Democrat Leaders Washington (U.R) Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois la again being eyed by some Dem ocratic leaders as a possible presidential candidate. The Illinois senator disavows any desire for the presidency. He said Thursday he is still for Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn, "all the way." But Douglas did not slam the door completely on accepting the presidential nomination if the Democratic convention wants him. "The less said about It the better I'm for Kefauver," he insisted. That's as far as he would go. Approached Frequently Despite Douglas' repeated statements that he is not inter ested, it was learned that the Illinois lawmaker has been ap proached frequently by key par ty figures to "feel him out." The Douglas interest centers mainly in the same forces that hope that Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson may change his mind at the last minute and ac cept a "draft" for the Demo cratic nomination. But sources close to Stevenson think that is likely only if the Republi cans nominate Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-O. Taft Sees Victory Meantime, Taft backers claim ed that his West Virginia pri mary triumph "puts him within striking distance of a first bal lot victory" for the GOP nomin ation. With 15 out of 16 West Vir- ginia's delegates tucked away, Taft's campaign manager, Dav id S. Ingalls, claimed that the result gave Taft 448 assured convention delegates to "about 280" for Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower. The United Press tabulation of publicly pledged or commit ted delegates showed 363 for Taft and 322 for Eisenhower, with 31 for other candidates and 132 uncommitted. It takes 604 to nominate. Oregon Comeback Seen Supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower were fighting for a comeback in the Oregon GOP primary Friday. The Oregon balloting offer the first direct test between Eis enhower and Gov. Earl Warren of California, who presently holds only seven convention del egates. Also entered are Harold E. Stassen, who has beaten ev erywhere except In his horn state of Minnesota, and Sen, Wayne L. Morse, R-Ore., an Eis enhower backer. What? NOTHING about NunleyT To the Editor: The fact that there is only one paper in Med ford is something that can't be helped, but when that paper i prejudiced, it's time for some thing to be done. Instead of you (the editor) using your editorial page for printing facts, you spend all your time running down one candidate. That one being Paul Haviland. Look at the dozens of other men running for an office here in Jackson county. Why not spend a little time on them? You never print anything about Wal ter Nunley good or bad! Why is it that you ridicule Paul Havi land but never anyone else? Isn't this a little on the "imma ture" side? Judy Pavlat 606 Whitman Place t
