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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. May IS, 1951 Wind Machines Fail In Frost Protection, Fruit Growers Report Results of experiments this year with wind machines to pro tect pear crops from damaging frost have been "very disap pointing," it was reported today by members of the Jackson County Fruit Growers league. In assessing the value of the machines, which have been used on an experimental basis in previous years and this year by the league and by individual growers, the league said the ma chines "do not give adequate protection from frost In this val ley." They were tried again this year despite "unsuccessful trials In previous years." Higher Air Layer The league's report said the reason for the failure of the ma chines here is the temperature of the air 30 to 40 feet above the ground. In southern Cali fornia, where they have been used successfully, the daytime temperatures warm the air suf ficiently to provide a warm lay- Parade, Program For Memorial Day Plans for the annual obserV' ance of Memorial day in Mcd- ford including a parade and program, were announced to day, following a meeting of representatives of veteran and patriotic organizations Tuesday evening. The program will be similar to those of recent years, the an nouncement said. A patriotic pa rade will leave the Old City park at 10 a.m., and will go east on Main street to the bridge across Bear creek, where there will be a short ceremony. The parade will conclude at Haw thorne park with a program. All fraternal, social and civic betterment organizations of Med ford and neighboring communi ties have been invited to take part in the parade, and the pub lic has also been invited and urged to attend the program in the park. er of air at that height, and it remains through the night. The machines then stir the air, bring ing enough of the warmed air down to ground level to provide protection. Increases in ground level temperatures of as much as six degrees are not uncommoo there. However, in the cooler tem perature of the Rogue valley, the league's estatement continue, the air layer above the ground is not sufficiently warmer than that at ground level to bring up the temperature more than two degrees, and that for only limited time and areas. The statement concluded that this is not adequate protection for the $10,000,000 fruit crop of the valley from the spring's damaging frosts. DAV Chapter Here Buys Property Jackson county chapter No. 8, Disabled American Veteran's, voted to purchase the property at 1515 North Riverside avenue, at a meeting Tuesday evening. The properly was purchased from Mrs. Anna Great through the real estate firm of Harry Long. The lot extends from Riv erside to Beatty street, and has on it houses facing each street. The DAV plans to occupy one building, after some enlarge ment, and to rent the other. Delegates from the chapter to the annual state convention of the DAV were elected at the Tuesday meeting, which was held in the courthouse auditori um. Those named include E. R. Rice, commander; Cloyde A. Golden, senior vice-commander; James R. Lillie, chaplain; George W. Simmons, junior past com mander; Lester P. Mathes, ex ecutive committeeman; Paul G. Olsen, state executive commit teeman, and Pat Graham, adju tant, service officer and state publicity chairman. rfr"1" i .if ATTENTION DEMOCRATS! Vote, by Write-in, for LULA G. WATSON DEMOCRAT FOR COUNTY CLERK May 16 Writ in the nemo Luis G. Watson on your billot in tht space entitled County Clerk thus: X Lull G. Watson (Ba lure to put cron before name) She li efficient, experienced, fair. ELSII WERNER, S.cy. Luis 0. Watson for County Clerk Committee Pd. Pol. Adv. Immc fifty Iff :sm VISITING AT HYDE PARK after being named "Mother of World" for 1952, Senora Rosa Markmann de Gonzales Vldela, wife of Chile's President, chats with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (left) at Val Kill cottage after laying wreath on late President's grave. (International) In the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS From Salem: "Genual Dwight Eisenhower and Senator Estes Kefauver will win Oregon's May 16 Presiden tial primary by clear majorities, in the collective opinion of Ore gon newsmen (as expressed in a poll taken last week)." I THINK that is probably true. At least, it is the general ex pectation in these final few days preceding the Oregon primary. But heie is something that isn't so generally understood. Let me put it in the words of Charles A. Sprague, the clear-thinking, well-informed editor of the Sa lem Statesman. He says in his column "It Seems to Me:" "Oregon Republicans may give a big majority to General Eisen hower in expressing their Presi dential preference at the pri maries on May 18 and yet Sen ator Taft might get eight of the 18 delegates who are being chos en at that time. "The 1915 law setting up the Presidential preference primary requires candidates for delegate to the national convention who file under this law to take a pledge to 'use his best efforts to obtain the nomination of the candidates for President and vice-president who get the high est number of votes in the party primary An older law however, permits candidates for delegate to file by petition. If they do this, they are not required to sign this pledge. In other words, they are free agents. "Without doubt, this circum vents the 1915 law which tried to bind delegates to the popular choice." THESE candidates for delegate to the Republican national convention (there are eight of them) who have filed by peti tion In order to be free to sup port whomever they please, re- I gardless of the popular vote in the preference primary, are: For delegate-at-large: Lowell C. Paget, Mrs. Irene Gerlinger, ; John R. Latourette Jr., Irving i Rand, Robert A. Bennett and Phil Melschan (nephew of the Inle Phil Metschan.) For dele gate from the second district; U. j S. Bnlentinc. For delegate from the fourth district, Ernest G. Swigert. T HAVE no objection to anyone being for Taft for President. Choosing your candidate and do- VOTE FOR El WW REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL Morality and Dignity in Government 't.fSV f ' w I RE-ELECT L. G. "SHY" MORTHLAND A BUSINESSMAN FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER Ably, Efficiently and Conscientiously Fulfilling the Duties of County Commissioner LET'S KEEP "SHY" ON THE JOB Vote 113-X For L. G. "SHY" MORTHLAND Pd. Adv. MonaUitd for Co. Comm. Committee ing everything you can within the limits of good sportsmanship and good citizenship to get him elected is about as fundamental in our system as anything could be. And as Sprague says, it can hardly be labeled as a political trick because the significance of this way of becoming a candi date for delegate has beenwell publicised. But I think it would have been much OPENER if these candi dates had announced flatly that if they are elected they will sup port Mr. Taft, regardless of the outcome of the preference oi tne voters as expressed at the pri mary. It would have been even better if they had explained that they filed by petition in order to be free to vote for Mr. Taft and had added that they filed that way specifically in order to get, if possible, some Oregon delegates for Taft even though he had not chosen to submit his name at the Oregon primary. For that matter I think It would have been belter still if they had circulated petitions and had filed Mr. Taft s name as regular candidate, whether he wanted to come into the pri mary or not. If we're going to have "preference" primaries, how are the voters to express t real preference if the names of the candidates are not on the primary ballot? i NYWAY, I shall take care not to vote for any of these candidates at the primary elec tion on Friday. I am for Eisen hower. I'm not ashamed of it, So I don't want to vote for any one who would thwart my de sire to see Ike get ALL the Re publican delegates from Oregon On the other hand, I wouldn't want to discourage any Taft voter from writing in Mr. Taft's name on the ballot. I think all elections. Including primaries, should be completely free and open. Even if Mr. Taft didn't choose to tile as a candidate in Oregon, there is no reason why his supporters should not write in his name. Fort Worth, Tex. U.R Mrs. F. H. Wilson, a retired school teacher, charged Thursday that wearing shorts is "Just an adver tisement for adultery." She ask ed the City Council to make it against the law to wear them in public. Charles A. Spraguo's OREGON STATESMAN rocommandi Paget "Paget't pedigrat of party loy alty and activity it commanding . Paget may bo depended on to work faithfully for the party inter est regardless of who the candi dates are. Paget has earned the job if National Committeeman for Oregon and lo (we) recommend him." C. C. Chapman's OREGON VOTER endorses Paget! "Our preference Is for Lowed Paget because of his lifelong con sistent record of work in and for the Republican Party, his previous experience as national convention delegate and chairman of national committee subcommittees, as chair man of Oregon party organisations, and his character, skill and profi ciency. OREGON VOTER MAY 10, 1952 Btcct a REAL REPUBLICAN fo frill mporfanf fftpubJcan Party petitioni i - Climax Said Nearing On Germany Situation By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst We're near a showdown on Germany. Tuesday's reply to the United States, Britain and France to the Russian peace propos als kept the door open for f u r t h e r ex c h a n ges and that's about The Russians probably won't like the sug gestion that a i I 1'hil Nevsons neutral commission Investigate the possibility of free German elections any better than they liked a proposal that a U. N. commission undertake a similar job. The U. N. commission hung around Germany for weeks and didn't even rate the courtosy of a reply to their request that they be permitted to enter East Ger many. Russians Adamant Similarly, the Russions so far have been adamant in their re fusal to reconsider the so-called Oder-Niesse boundary line which turned over about 45,000 square miles of East Germany to Poland. In effect, we have been trying to carry water on both shoulders. We have not wanted, or dared, to slam the door on the Russian proposal for an over-all German peac treaty and a unified Ger many. Neither have we dared al low It to interfere with our own plans for a sovereign West Ger many and eventual German par ticipation in a European army. But now the chips are down. Treaty To Bo Signed Toward the end of this month the Big Three foreign ministers will sign the treaty which grants virtual autonomy to West Ger many. The Red strategy already Is Obvious. What they can't get with prom ises, they'll attempt to obtain by threats. Thus the threat of a renewed Berlin blockade. Reprisals Threatened And the threat by East Ger- DRUNK. NOT INTOXICATED New York (U.R) A chauf feur, accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol, admitted in Auto Court Wednes day he had been a drunk all his life but said he never had been intoxicated. Joseph Drunk, 40 was ordered held in $300 ball for trial June 3. many's "strong man" Walter Ul brlcht that the Reds will take Immediate reprisals against West Berlin when the peace contract with the Western Allies is sign ed. Finally there is the probability that ' Allied plans to form 12 West German divisions will be met by Russian moves to set up 25 German divisionn in the East. The nucleus of these divisions already is there in the so-called people's police which has some 54,000 tough and well-trained officers and men. Zual DeMolay Peanut Brittle SALE FsrEVERSOMbSy 3 BIG DAYS! THURS.-FRI.-SAT. MAY 15 - 16 - 17 m. : v j& jf 4 i r VOTE TOMORROW Be Sure To for A JACKSON COUNTY MAN FRED E. MdDIBIIMSaDRT REPUBLICAN FOR STATE TREASURER Jackson County Robinson for Treasurer Committee A. A. LAUSMANN HUGH COLEMAN LARRY BARNES STANLEY C. JONES JOHNNIE WALKER OTTO EWALDSEN REESE ALEXANDER WALTER LEVERETTE DICK HOUSE GEORGE POTUCEK BILL BRIGGS OTTO BOHNERT This Advertisement paid for by the Fred E. Robinson for State Treasurer Committee A. A. Lausmann, General Chairman, Box 1268, Medford, Oregon Millions of Americans this month are making it a special point to invite their friends into their churches as freely and frequently as they ask them to their homes. You'll find that SHARING your faith does something for you, and for your friends as well ... it grows when it's shared . . . and your friendships grow, too. Take someone to church this week . . . you'll both be richer for it A 481 v Contributed in behalf of the Religion in American Life Program by Medford Mail Tribune
