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10 YEARS AGO
May IB. 1942
(It wbi Saturday)
Floyd K. Dover, Grants Pass,
concedes Democratic nomination
of Edward Kelly, Medford, as
candidate for congress from
fourth congressional district;
only 18 per cent of county's reg
istered voters cast ballots.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The people
poured out to vote to a man Fri
day, excepting, of course, about
10,000 souls of both sexes.
20 YEARS AGO
May 18. 1S32
(It was Monday)
County Assessor J. B. Cole
man states that the 1932 primary
election "Is the first in Jackson
county in which I cannot predict
that any one candidate is a likely
winner."
George Codding, candidate for
reelection as Jackson county dis
trict attorney, denies that he has
refused to issue warrants on
valid complaints; states "it is the
policy of my office to conduct
investigations before pulling the
county to the expense of trials."
30 YEARS AGO
May 16. 1922
(It was Tuesday)
Oregon Governor Ben Olcott
charges Ku Klux Klan backing
for his opponent in primary elec
tion shows "blind fanaticism, se
cret conspiracies and cowardly,
hidden hatreds."
Sheriff's office announces poll
ing places for Jackson county's
55 primary election polling
places
40 YEARS AGO
May 16, 1912
Oregon backers for William
Howard Taft claim his renomi
natlon as Republican party's can
didate for president is assured;
stale their candidate has 527 of
530 delegates necessary for re
nomination. Oregon delegate to national
Socialist party convention de
nounces charges his party is
guilty of causing mob violence
during labor disputes.
Gresham Girl Killed
By Concrete Pipe
Gresham U.R) Four-year-old
Karen Owens of Gresham lost
her life Thursday night during
a childish game of rolling inside
a concrete pipe on slope near
the Multnomah county fair
grounds Sheriff's deputies said the
freakish tragedy occurred when
the pipe which Karen and three
other youngsters were taking
turns "riding ' went out of con
trol and smashed against anoth
er pipe.
The impact broke the pipe
into several pieces .one of which
apparently crashed against the
youngster's skull.
Karen, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Owens, Gresham, was
dead on arrival at a hospital.
POLICE TO MEET
Seattle (U.R Police adminis
trators from Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana will at
tend a two-day civil defense
police services Institute In Port
land May 19-20, Regional De
fense Director Roger . Dunham
said Friday,
MAIL TRIBUNE
Boy Scout Circus Tomorrow
Boys singly, or in groups are interesting. Get a
thousand of them together demonstrating various
phases of Boy Scout activities, fun and frolic, and
what have you got? a circus, no less!
TOMORROW evening boys from Jackson and Jose
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piiiuc vuuuucs in uicgun, aim oioiuyuu cuumy,
California, will stage their second annual circus in
the Medford high school football stadium with the
greatest assemblage of Scouts, Cubs and Explorers
in the history of Crater Lake Area council.
Built around the theme "World Brotherhood
Through Scouting," the program will include numer
ous and interesting demonstrations of Scouting, first
aid, life saving, historic and modern methods of sig
nalling, tower and bridge construction with ropes
and logs, erection of a World Jamboree camp, au
thentic Indian dances, den meetings, a "Noah's Ark"
of 100 weird animals, and many other features.
There will be a grand entry featuring Scouts from
the three counties making up the Crater, Lake Area
council and the closing ceremony will be equally im
pressive as it will include most of the assembled
youths.
A LL in all, the Scout Circus will be an interesting
" event for the boys, their parents, and the general
public, young and old. Such an ambitious effort by
the Scouts and their leaders deserves the support of
all in the community and that support can be best
shown by buying a ticket and being among those
present when the lights go on at 8 p.m. Kids under
17 don't even have to buy a ticket. E. C. F.
Professional Merger Seen
Osteopaths in Medford are showing considerable
interest in a proposal now being considered in Cali
fornia, and by the American Medical association,
which would, according to recent articles in California
papers, "amalgamate" the medical and osteopathic
fields.
One Los Angeles newspaper said:
"THE California Medical association for the first
time has taken steps to recognize osteopathic
physicians as being on an equal footing with doctors."
And an article in the San Francisco Chronicle
quoted the chairman of the board of trustees of the
AM A as saying:
"It may be many, years
can be completed, but both
the union will be of benefit
public, and that the details can be worked out.
A CCORDING to the Chronicle article, if eventually
the two groups of practitioners agree to merge,
the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons,
in Los Angeles, would become a medical school, grant
ing an M.D. degree, and its graduates would take the
regular state medical board examinations for their
licenses. Presumably the school would have to in
crease its present requirements for graduation, under
the proposal.
In Oregon at the present
states, both candidates for
as osteopaths are examined by the same board, which
is composed of seven men, six physicians and an os
teopath. In both Oregon and California, osteopaths
are legally empowered -to practice medicine and
surgery.
THE AMA spokesman said that if the proposed
merger is completed, the six osteopathic colleges
in the country would become medical schools.
It would appear that the profession of osteopathy,,
which has done much to raise its standards in the past
years, is considering the last step, which in turn would
logically lead to the disappearance of the profession
as distinct from that of medicine. E. A.
Albany's Courteous Drivers
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lives that we find ourselves writing repeatedly, per
haps redundantly, on the subject. Some of it may
sound like scolding. Well, the reckless driver has no
apology coming.
But the careful, considerate, courteous driver is
entitled to an occasional pat on the back. A friend
vvhn Viua livorl Vioro nnlv a short limp pnmmpntPCi the
other day on the exceptional courtesy of the drivers
m Albany, me ngnt-oi-way is given pedestrians wim
hottpi m-ncp Vipfp thnn wp'vp hppn Accustomed to see
ing in some others places.
death toll this year as compared witn mat 01 isnu 1
not unrelated to rather more discourteous driving than
we like to see.
Just one other thought on this: If you're a pedes
trian and we all are to a greater or less degree as we
ornt ohnnt the tnwn it. won't hp s:ifp tn flPlirp that
this commendable Albany
invariable. Don t take chances. Maybe this fellow
coming up to the crossing at a lively clip is not one of
our courteous Albany drivers. And just one single hit
may be all the way from merely expensive to fatal.
Albany Democrat-Herald.
Northwest Building Boosted 10 Per Cent
Seattle (U.R Building activ
ity in the Pacific Northwest last
month increased 10 per cent over
April of 1951, figures compiled
by the Construction News Bulle
tin showed Friday.
The Seattle trade Journal said
the dollar value of permits issued
last month waj 146,776,606, com
Friday. May 18. 19S2
before the amalgamation
groups are confident that
to both groups, and to the
time, .and in some other
licenses as physicians and
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Possibly Portland's double
courtesy of the road will be
pared to $33,278,919 recorded In
April a year ago.
Hangar Carrlaa Mothballs
Worcester, Mass. (U.P
The Hang-Wright Co. of Wor
cester Is marketing a coat hang
er made of hollow tubes to hold
"built-in" mothballs.
Crosstown
"W got a baby pitcher my pop took of rae. I'm glad
to lee you got clothei on your kidl"
Babson Discusses Sayings
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
to Mail Tribune) The man in
the street has done as much this
year to stop
inflation and
s t a b i lize our
currency as all
the govern
ment regula
t i o n s put to
gether. I won
der if the aver
a g e American
r e a I i zes how
much he has
really help to curb inflation
through restraining his urge to
spend and by voluntary saving?
He has done a job that ought to
make the front pages of every
paper in the country. I say this
because only through a program
of natural, voluntary savings can
America keep strong. ,
You can be sure that in this
election year the politicians will
be taking the credit for what
you have done. They will tell
you that inflation has been slow
ed to a standstill by their price
and wage controls, their heavy
tax program and their tighten
ing of consumer credit. Not one
of us is going to be stupid enough
to deny that an aspirin or a selt
zer mny help a headache. But
unless we are very stupid Indeed,
we realize the aspirin is only a
sedative, not a cure. A look at
the record since the close of the
war shows the politician to be a
good hawker of patent cure-alls
but a mighty poor diagnostician.
Sometimes, after awakening
from an overdose of drugs, the
hang-over which follows is worse
than the pain one first endured.
As a result, the American people
have lost confidence In the poli
tician s patent medicines and
have decided to try an old-fashioned
remedy thrift. This old
fashioned remedy is producing
some phenomenal results. It has
actually caused a halt in the in
flation epidemic.
Voluntary Savings
More Than Doubled
Through voluntary savings our
people more than doubled their
1951 savings over 1950, putting
better than $22 billion into the
sock. At the same time, consum
er debt held steady for 1951:
only 34 per cent of disposable
income after taxes, and but 32
per cent of savings. Yet, the same
potential to spend was there.
More people are earning more
money than in any previous post
war year; Incomes arc better for
25 million families. They could
have gone on a spending spree,
Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.Rl West
erns and wrestling on television
will get competition next fall
from Bach
and Bcethov
ven. A top musi
cal conductor,
Werner Jans
sen, revealed
Friday, his
symphony or
chestra is star
red in the first
television mo
vies of long
hair music.
Alin Mo by
On these three-mimile "mast
torpicces in miniature'' the or
chestra ploys "Tales of the Vien
na Woods" while the camera
follows a ballet ... or the orch
estra is shown playing excerpts
from Beethoven's fifth symph
ony. Janssen is sure that the public
will be happy to find good music
sandwiched between panel quiz
shows nnd puppets en TV.
Relief From Puppets
"I'm sure Beethoven will be
a relief from puppet shows." the
conductor says. "When you've
had nothing but hasli for dinner,
a little cavier is good once in
a while.
"In 1933. for example. I was
conducting in Germany and tel
evision was more prominent
there than here. Television
trucks in Hie street would show
symphony orchestras, and they
would stop traffic People would
line up for blocks."
By Roland Co
' 2fif
but they didn't. My guess is that
they didn't because the average
man has lost faith in the politi
cian and his panaceas. He is won
dering if he can keep afloat if
prices go much higher. So he is
beginning to put a little money
aside for harder times. He is less
and less inclined to mortgage his
future lor a TV set or a new car.
People everywhere who have
good wages ought to continue to
save as much as they can while
the going is good.
Bank Accounts, Bonds
Most Popular Savings
Bank accounts and savings
bonds are still the most popular
places to save money. This last
year the nation's 529 mutual
savings banks reported an all-
time high in new savings ac
counts, with 3 million more ac
counts. Despite this exceptional
ly good year for the banks, there
is a trend away from the banks,
and a trend away from buying
U.S. savings bonds. The number
of families that have become in
terested in mutual investment
trusts and other stocks has tre
bled in the last couple of years
while the number who have put
their savings into real estate has
increased about 80 per cent.
I hope that small investors
who are now buying stocks for
the first time will not be disap
pointed. The high prices at which
most popular stocks are now sell
ing are danger signals. The small
saver, especially, should know
that at only one point in history
(1929-30) were stocks selling
higher than they are today, and
he should remember well what
happened then.
Risk Factor Increases
With Higher Stock Prices
I am not predicting a stock
market crash. I am merely warn
ing that the risk factor of buying
stocks increases as the prices of
stocks advance. This risk is fur
ther accentuated by unstable
world conditions and the -uncer
tainties of an election year. It,
therefore, might be wise to take
profits and put them into savings
banks and government bonds.
This would enable' you to set
aside a nest egg now so that it
will be ready for use when prices
drop. Whatever you do, save.
The great need for strengthening
our national economy today
and for keeping it strong for
years to come is voluntarily en
forced savings. Join the parade
of savers, today even though
the political outlook appears
better.
ly ALINI MOSSY
Unirid Press Cerrespena'tiil
Janssen, who's guest-conduct
ed all over Europe and on net
work radio symphony programs,
tried to interest TV bigwigs in
his musical movies two years
ago. TV couldn't afford to pay
much and the little screen would
hardly show 90 musicians, any
way.
Filming 100 Movlet
"They said it was too classi
cal," he sighed. "Television was
starting out like radio.
"I've done more symphony
radio than anybody else in the
business. I saw what was hap
pening . . , one classical pro
gram after another went off.
He launched his Idea again
this year and is filming 100 of
the three-minute movies. Now
he's swamped with offers.
The films can be combined
for longer programs, or for
showing in "art" theaters. They
are filmed in color, with an eye
on the future of TV.
Not Too Visual
"We're doing opera, ballet
symphonies, everything," h e
says, "for 'The Nutcracker Suite'
we'll show three minutes of bal
let. Or the screen will show ab
stract designs, paintings or voc
alists while the music plays. We
won't make it too visual, so it
won't detract from the music."
"I don't think the public will
object to classical music on TV
If It's done right."
Nebraska is the only state
which is contained wholly with
in the Missouri River basin.
In the Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
From London:
"British aircraft constructors
announced today an additional
refinement to the ejector seat
of speed-of-sound fighter planes
a tiny gadget that automati
cally brings the pilot safely to
earth even if he has lost con
sciousness. "The invention is a baromet
ric box the size of a pack of cig
arettes that takes over as soon
as the pilot is hurled out of the
plane, frees him from the seat
and at the right altitude opens
his chute.
"Designers figure that in quit
ting a 600-mile-an-hour plane the
pilot might pass out or not oth
erwise be in good shape to open
his parachute."
PRETTY complicated?
Wait a minute. How about
this growing talk to the effect
that modern jet fighter planes
are getting too fast and TOO
COMPLICATED for human
brains and human reactions to
keep up with.
We are hearing already that
such planes must eventually be
MANNED BY ROBOTS. We are
told that if the Russians do it
first we'll be OUT.
That's pretty complicated
stuff, too.
THEN there are these platforms
in space, man-made and man
maintained. They'll circle the
earth in an orbit, as other satel
lites (not man-made) circle other
planets.
From them (maybe) we'll
launch (maybe) guided missiles
with atomic warheads that will
smash any city on earth we
might elect to smash. Or (again
maybe) we'll broadcast from
them television programs that
will cover the earth from one
point of origin.
Again we're told that if the
Russians do all this FIRST the
jig will be up for us. So it's up
to US to do it first.
HOW about these floating plat
forms? How will the air be
up there? How about the tem
perature? How will human be
ings sustain life on them? How
will living conditions be? Who
will want to man them? If no
body volunteers, will somebody
be drafted to do it?
Again the answer may be
ROBOTS.
That raises another question:
HOW ABOUT GOVERN
MENT? THERE is a lot of talk much
of it by intelligent, able,
thoughtful men to the effect
that the BIG thing that is wrong
with our federal government is
that it has become so huge, so
complicated that no mere man
can comprehend it all. In the re
sulting confusion, SELF-SEEKERS
find the opportunity to gain
power or to gain pelf.
Is the answer to that more
robots?
T SHUDDER to think of it.
I don't want to be governed
by a robot.
There are robots and robots,
you know just like people.
There was Percy the Iron Man
Brains He Has 'Nix. You will
recognize him, of course, only if
you're much older than you like
to admit. He was one of the
early very, very early comic
strip characters. He was an
amusing blunderer. He was al
ways getting himself into jams
and he usually got out of them
in ways that brought laughs.
BUT
There was Frankenstein the
robot created by Mary Woll-
stonecran Shelley away back in
1822 (you see, people were
thinking about robots even then.)
The robot in Mrs. Shelley's
novel was created by a scientist,
and it was a holy terror. It
destroyed its creator and raised
merry hell generally.
IF WE fall back on robots to do
our governing for us, we could
get one like that.
I'm "agin' " the whole idea.
I'd rather take my chances with
MEN.
1UT,' in a world in which com-
plication is growing by leaps
and bounds a world in which
we are already talking about
robots to handle fighter planes
that have become too compli
cated and terrible to be handled
by men born of women, a world
in which we already recognize
that our mathematical problems
are so vast that THINKING
MACHINES have to be built to
handle problems that are too big
and too fast for men's slow
minds is there any other alter
native? T THINK there is.
The alternative Is the prin
ciple of the Golden Rule deal
with others as you want others
to deal with you. That principle
is simple enough to be applied
by mere men. If we followed it.
we wouldn't need robots. We
could handle all our problems
ourselves.
To reduce motor accidents, an
institute of psychological re
search has been opened in Ber
lin, where motorists and pedes
trians may have their reflexes
and reactions tested.
SKATING
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Rojut Valley Ballroom
Signing of German
Peace Contract Could
Bring Red
Bv PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
The signing of the West Ger
man peace contract by the Big
Three foreign ministers may
touch off a big
three days for
the Commun
ists. As of now,
the United
States, France
and Br itain
are scheduled
to sign the
papers restor
ing virtual sov
e r e ignty t o
Phil Tsewsora
West Germany
on May 24. On May 25, Gen
Matthew B. Ridgway is sched
uled to arrive in Paris to take
over as European supreme com
mander. On May 26 the European de
fense community treaty is to be
signed.
Coincidentally, the important
local elections also come on May
25.
Could Be Outbreak Signal
Any one of the four events
normally would be a signal for
Communist outbreaks.
Coming consecutively as they
do, they create a situation of po
tential dynamite.
In Italy and France, the dem
onstrations will be dealt with
by police and handled as strict
ly internal matters. The pros
pects are excellent for a few
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DST Progressive
To the Editor: I have read
most of the letters regarding
Daylight Time and have yet to
hear one real reason for not hav
ing it, other than "why change
it from the way it's always
been?" People used to drive
horses and buggies until they
tound a better way.
When the majority of the larg
er town.s in the state have adopt
ed DST. our neighboring state
to the south has done so, most of
the larger cities in Washington
are on it, surely we in Medford
are modern enough and progres
sive enough to do the samel
As far as the Little Daisies are
concerned, I don't believe they
will realize there has been a
change in the city if no one tells
them.
Surely there can be no finan
cial loss to any one either inside
or outside the city because of
Daylight Saving Time, but there
would have been severe loss to
many without it.
More power to our City
Council.
Mrs. Paul Bauer
1522 Terrace Drive
Medford, Ore.
Why Not Both?
To the Editor: As the time
bomb seems about to explode in
our midst I think it's time for
someono to extract the fuse, or
the cap or whatever they do to
render time bombs harmless.
Since our human existence
has to be largely a 50-50 propo
sition give and take live and
let live why not apply that
principla to this situation? Why
not have standard time from
midnight to noon and daylight
saving from noon to midnight?
That way the farmer and the
school children wouldn't have to
get up by dark before the cows
and the chickens and the
sportsmen would still have their
extra hour of daylight for fish
ing golfing or lawn-mowing. In
fact' if they still wanted to get
up an hour early and have two
extra hours nobody would mind
(unless perhaps their wives).
All in favor please raise their
voices!
Florence Foster
233 South Ivy
Medford, Ore.
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Outbreaks
cracked heads but probably no
international incidents.
The real danger spot is Ger
many and the core of it is the
divided city of Berlin.
Demonstrations Urged
There. East Berliners are be
ing urged by the Russians into
massive demonstrations against
the Western peace contract, and
three days of hysteria could re
sult in a real international Inci
dent, In fact, therein lies the possi
bility of just such an Incident
as Western leaders have feared
that Russia, by under or over
estimating Western intent, could
trigger off a major conflict by
accident.
Any attempt by Communist
led East Berliners to take over
West Berlin by force could be
the firing pin.
Will Fight Alliance
It is obvious that Russia will
take every step short of a major
conflict to sabotage any German
alliance with the remainder of
Western Europe.
It might be she even would
risk touching off a German civ
il war. During the three' big
days, Western eyes, of necessity,
must be on a number of points
at once.
For example French C o nv
munists plan as unfriendly a re
ception as possible for Ridg
way. Paris police are concerned
enough about it to assign 15,000
men to smash the hostile dem
onstrations. Epithets Due Ridgway
Greeting Ridgway will be such
epithets as "Korean war crim
inal" and "germ killer,"
It will be a minor test of
strength for the French Com
munists who plan demonstra
tions in all major cities.
The fact that Ridgway's ar
rival in Europe coincides with
the Italian elections may prove
a blessing to Italian police. It
alian law prohibits political dem
onstrations on election day or
the two days preceding.
Net Income Tax
Collections Ahead
Of 1951 Figures
Salem (U.R) Net income
tax collections for the first 10
months of this year are ahead of
those for the similar period a
year earlier by more than $16,
000 000 Ray Smith, chairman of
the' State Tax commission said
Thursday.
The fiscal year started July
1. In the first four months of the
calendar year, or through April
30, the state was $8,000,000
ahead of collections for the first
four months of 1951.
For the four months, collec
tions were $31,920,837.44, com
pared with $24,055,296.68 for the
similar 1951 period.
Income tax collections for the
10 months of fiscal year amount
ed to a whopping $56,699,039.16.
That compares with $40,031,570.
46 in the first 10 months of the
I Drevious fiscal vear.
Seven Spokane Mills
End Strike by CIO
Spokane (U.R) Some 450
members of the International
Woodworkers of America (CIO)
have ended their strike and ex
pected to return to work Friday
at seven Spokane mills.
The workers voted to accept
an offer calling for a 7V4 cent
hourly boost as well as Improved
holiday and vacation provisions,
O. D. Armstrong, business rep-'
resentative of local 10-100, re
ported. However, Armstrong said the
settlement did not affect the big
operations at Deer Park pine in
dustries, Northwest Timber, or
Kaniksu national forest.
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