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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OHEOOM) MedfordTribuni Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi Tne MaU Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone J-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP, Manaer KERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICJ1AHU jr.WE.il. ohuih OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered al second claia matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1B07 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Man in ftavanto. Dally and Sunday one year 111.00 n-ll?. -1 c. ........ .l mnntha A fl Dally and Sunday three moa. 1.90 Dally and Sunday one month 1.23 By Carrier In Advanee Medford. Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 Alt Terms Casb in Advance Official Paper of tbe City of Medford Official riper or mcsivd vuuuty -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. EDITORIAL PUllltHIIt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford met Jackson County His. rery front Ike files t Hie Mail Tribune 10, 20, 10 aris) 40 years 10 YEARS AGO Mar 21. 1942 (It was Thursday) Stata highway commission promises "limited improvement" in highway bottleneck at Aslf land'i Plaza Intersection, From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Summer officially arrived yesterday and the first citizen got his knuckles barked by an electric fan. 20 YEARS AGO May 21, 1932 (It was Saturday) Searchers find bodies of elder ly couple in Dead Indian area; pair missing since severe mid January blizzard. Primary election nominees In clude: Republicans Frank Perl, coroner; George Carter, county clerk; William Briggs Jr., dist rict attorney. Democrat s George Codding, district attor ney; Lewis Ulrlch, county clerk. SO YEARS AGO May 21, 1922 (It was Sunday) Woman here tells of breaking record for driving between Port land and San Francisco by mak ing trip in 22 hours, 43 minutes. Medford citizens conduct "bundle day" to collect clothing for starving orphans in Near East. 40 YEARS AGO May 21. 1912 (It was Tuesday) City of Medford announces rentals for booths in new muni cipal market of 20 cents a day, $1 a week, $3 a month and "nominal charges for persons with baskets." L. Nledcrmryer purchases three lots on Fir street for $10,- 800; plans to erect modern liv ery stable on site. Butte Falls Butte Falls The annual Junior-Senior Prom was held May 16 in the high school gym. Decorations were In green and white, the school colors, with a wishing well at one end. People attending entered through an archway of green and white streamers. Refreshments were served on the stage by Junior students. Music for tlie affair wns by Belle Van Dyke's orclv eslra. Next meeting of Mt. Pitt club will be Thursday evening. Mav 22 at the home of Mrs. Bruce Burton. H. E. C. met last May 14 at the Mill Mnr Ranch home of Mrs. Bruce Rinelo. Jess Rodgcrs, who was releas ed from a Medford hospital re cently, is now home and recover ing nicely. The Brookings Beavers beat the Butte Falls Loggers 7 to 1 in a practice game here Sunday. Some out-of-towners here for the game were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Palmer and girls, and Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Ellis and family from Medford. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Greer and daughter from Medford visited Sunday at the home of Mrs. Greer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Arnold. Miss Sandra Abbott from Med ford spent the week-end here at the home of Marlene Casey. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ttingate, Johnny and Carol, Mr. and Mrt. NATIONAL iir'.eB MAIL TRIBUNE Strange Indifference Col. W. H. Paine came into the office a few days ago with a news story about preparations for Memorial Day, May 30. The Colonel, who has acted as coordina tor of the plans for such observance here for as many years back as we can remember, remarked a bit wist fully that people seem to be growing less and less in terested in the day which Americans set aside back in 1869 for honoring their war dead. THE Colonel said he couldn't understand how such indifference has come about in recent years. It wasn't so many years ago that the Memorial Day pro cession was many blocks long, he recalled, with hun dreds of veterans, of the Civil War, the Spanish War, and since 1917, with veterans of World War I, march ing from the city park to the Bear creek bridge and later gathering in the park with the townspeople in general for the memorial program. In more recent years only a handful of former soldiers and sailors have turned out with a few mem bers of their respective auxiliary organizations. TNDEED, it is hard to explain for if we desired to A pay honor to our war dead before World War II, there should be even greater and more general desire for such tribute today when so many more of our men are listed among those who did not return, and so many of our families know from personal experience the sorrow which war can bring. 1MEMORIAL DAY is a day of remembrance, a day to remember that men have died and men are dying at this moment for this country. A tank sergeant writes from Korea: "The Chinks got through the lines, killed a guard then proceeded to a bunker where they shot ten men in their sleeping bags . . . when the papers say that there was only light action on the front re member this story.". Memorial Day is a day of accounting. Someone is responsible say for the death of these ten men. It is not as though ten units were stricken from a list. Each shot that was fired sheared its way through flesh and bone. Here are ten men who will not walk again on old remembered streets. Who among us is not in some way affected by their loss? Memorial Day is a day of reckoning too, for we see young men making sacrifices in lives while the nation for the first time in history makes no compar able sacrifice on the home front. Memorial Day is a day, finally, of resolve, a time when we should take stock of our thinking and re solve to give more in the way of homage and respect to those who have given all in defense of their country. e e e e IT IS estimated by those in position to know about such matters that Jackson county now has over 10,000 living veterans. No one can hazard, a guess as to the number of our soldier and sailor dead! That they are many we know for of the million Americans who have died in battle to establish and preserve these United States, this small community, this comparative ly small segment of the whole has furnished, in every war, its full share of fighting men. e e a e CTRANGE, indeed, Colonel Paine, that so many of us still alive, have become so indifferent to the day set aside to render honor to our heroic dead. Iceless Reefer Car Tested Mechanical refrigeration for railroad cars carry ing fruit and vegetables may be just around the cor ner, according to an item in a recent issue of The Pro duce News, a New York publication with wide circu lation in the produce industry. e e e e A CCORDING to The Produce News, a small diesel engine, running on fuel oil, furnishes the motive power for the refrigerating mechanism. The unit re quires only a small space in one end of the car, much less than the usual ice bunker, leaving additional space for pay load. Car temperatures are governed by a thermostat and the equipment is capable of maintaining the de gree of cold within a span of minus five to plus 65. . e a e e e A 50-FOOT test car containing 558 crates of cel " ery 158 crates more than would have been pos sible with ice reached New York in fine condition after being loaded at Sanford, Fla., it was stated. Although mechanical refrigeration has been used in cars carrying quick-frozen foods, the celery test was said to have been the first with fresh vegetables. E.C.F. West Coast Flights In Seattle (U.R) West Coast airlines plans to resume normal operations Thursday and place in effect a new spring-summer schedule made possible by eas ing of government resrtictions on the use of aviation gasoline. Operations Manager E. B. Code said the new schedule In cludes a fourth dally round trip connecting Portland, Corvallis- Herb Tungate and Mrs. Florence Best, Sharon and Dennis spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kincaid, parents of Mrs. Tungnte and Mrs. Best. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Trefren and daughter from Grants Pass visited relatives and friends here recently. Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Mea dows spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Rodgers. Jack Tungate, former Butte Falls resident, now living In Brookings. Is visiting friends and relatives her. Wednesday. Mar 21. 1932 E.C.F. Normal Operation Albany, F.ugene, Roseburg and North Bend-Coos Bay. Also, for the first lime, new direct flights were scheduled be tween Aberdeen-Hoquiam and Seattle, both northbound and southbound. This will shorten flying time between Astoria. Ore., and Seattle by 13 minutes. Code said. Judge Pays $21 Fine For Traffic Violation Memphis. Tenn. (U.R Judge John D. Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals paid a $21 fine for running a red light. "It Is rather a novel experi ence to be on the other side of the bar of Justice," the Judge said Tuesday, Pittsburgh (U.Ri Rain fell In Pittsburgh Wednesday for a record 14 straight days. There have been only three days this month it did not ram. Crosstown "Something fairly durable this time cast iron, gua metal, casehardened steel . . ." On The Side (Distributed by King Her kisses arc Soft as a mow-tuft In the dewiest cup Ol a redoubled rose, nolieleiily tailing wnen heaven li brimful of tarry night Beddoei Last year all records were broken for babies born in hospi tals in the United States. Exact number of infants who first saw the light of day in hospitals is 2,999,371. It is constantly claim ed those born in hospitals live longer and enjoy better health than those born elsewhere. I was born at home on East 120th street, near Pleasant avenue, in the borough of Manhattan, and I feel fine. I have only been ov ernight in a hospital once In my life. That was when I was in an autnmnhile arrirlpnt In PdpI, DETECTIVES Women do not make good de tectives. They talk too much and do not listen enough. So Dan Eisenberg, top man of one of the world's greatest private detec tive agencies, is rpnnrtpri tn have observed. This observation catches our Horses & Women de partment off guard. We have nothing in our files about great feminine detectives. I have re quested our experts to check. However, seems tn mo f hnua heard that the French secret po lice, Scotland Yard and the New York police department have had some success with female sleuths. DREAM TEAM "Ed Delehanty may have been the greatest ball player of Irish descent, hut Hnn Waanaw greatest of German descent,' was aiso tne greatest of any des cent," writes a New Yorker. "Here is an all-German team that woud make any outfit of Ir ish or Italian birth or descent look very foolish: Third base, Hans Lobert; second base, Frank Frisch: shortstnn Hans Wno... first base, Lou Gehrig; left field narry Heilman; right field, Tom my Henrich; centerfield, Babe Ruth; pitcher, Ed Reulbach; catcher, Wally Schang." OVER THERE Now clothes are being wash ed by sound. A washing ma chine, originated in Germany, employs low frequency vibra tions for clothes cleaning. This machine is reported capable of cleaning eleven pounds of cloth es to one gallon of water in thir ty minutes. It is being tested by British housewives, but has yet to reach the market. Ia e to sell for about half the price of oincr wasning machines in use in Britain. HORSES It WOMEN "I am irritated by your con tinued harping on the suhWf of women wearing hats flat on their heads," writes a feminine subscriber of Seattle. "If vnu paid as much attention to wom en as you do to horses perhaps you would know that manv haia can be worn in no other way." i nai s the way it goes. Women are always asking for angle on hats and when you give ii 10 mem, ana tney don t agree, they bawl vou out. 1 tm think wearing a hat flat on the head unices a woman look slightly moronic. The tilt of the chaueau gives a woman a smart, snappy look and a whistle girl touch. ASIDES What's the record for marriag es in one day In the same church by the same minister? Can you top the record of Rev. Randolph Ray, of the Little Church Around the Corner. Manhattan, who in one day officiated at thirty-nine marriages? . . . Min nesota advertises on the Slate automobile license that it has 10.000 lakes. That's a lot of lakes. But Florida has 20,000 more lakes than Minnesota. ASKING Queries from clients. Q. Is re peatedly reported. all the girls of the original Floradora sextette married millionaires. What mil lionaires? Their names are nev er mentioned. A. Marie Wilson, most beautiful of the sextette By Roland Co By e. v. Du,nn3 Ftararw Syndicate, Inc.) I girls, married Frederick Geb- hard, Vaughn Texsmith became the wife of I. J. Hall, million aire silk manufacturer. Marjorie Relyear married Richard Davis Holmes, a nephew of Andrew Carnegie. I don't know about the other three. PLEASE NOTE Do you know the difference in quantity between a glass of beer and a seidel of beer? Freddy Sin zcig of New York is said to have consumed thirty-six seidels of beer in quick succession. It hap pened at Luchows. Can Milwau kee boast of a greater beer drinking feat? COMMUNICATIONS Ltten to the Editor muit beat the name and address of the wntei although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the rlfht to edit all letters with view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub tlcatlon must not exceed 400 worda City Officials Thanked To the Editor: This is to say thanks to Medford's mayor and councilmen for their decision to remain on standard time. For Mayor Diamond Flynn's efforts to find out the benefits to the majority of the community and country folks. Thanks from a grateful farm wife and mother. Mrs. Gladys Hamilton Route 2, Box 468 Medford, Oregon, As We Live . . . By DR. ELIZABETH HURLOCK DAUGHTER'S CONDUCT CALLS FOR STRICTLY KEPT SET OF RULES Parents of a teenager should decide what they think best for their own children and then make definite rules to govern the conduct of these teenagers If this were done, the mother who wrote the following letter, would not have the problem on her hands that she has: (Q) "I have Just found out that my daughter, who Is 16, has been going around with a crowd that I don't approve of. They go to saloons and smoke. This has been going on for ever a year. I am not old-fash-iontd and narrow-minded. I belter In her having a good time but I iold her I don'i think much of boys who take girls to such places. The boys are about 22 years old. Don't you think these boys are too old right now for girls of 16 and 17T If her father ever found out. I don't know what ha would do." (A) I cannot understand why you and your husband did not know where your daughter was going when she went out on dates and what she was doing When she start ed. going to such places she was barely 15 years old. Sure ly you and your husband should have Dr. Huilock asked her where she was planning to go and Insisted that she tell you if the plans were changed. i Of course she Is too young to be going out with young men, especially those who take a girl of her age to a drinking place. This you should have known when she started going out with a crowd and put an immediate stop to it. Like all parents, you naturally want your daughter to have a good time but there are limits to what girl of her age can do. She has certainly gone far be yond the limits and it is going to be hard for you to bring her back within the limits, after per mitting her to do much as she pleased for the past year. Tell your husband what your In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS From Washington: "Senator Taft of Ohio and Senator Ferguson of Michigan estimate that a constitutional amendment they propose would hold federal spending to about 25 billion 'dollars a year ... It would prohibit the lawmakers from authorizing expenditures in excess of 25 per cent of the estimated national income, ex cept for military spending and interest payments on the federal debt. "In outlining the proposal to the senate, Taft said: 'We are convinced that we cannot main tain a free economy in the Unit-1 ed States if we spend more than approximately 25 per cent of the national income on government of all kinds." TttUCH AS I would like to see " government spending reduc ed, I think Mr. Taft and Mr. Ferguson are barking at the moon. As long as we the people continue to vote for spenders, the government will go on spending. The only way to stop spend ing is to vote out the spenders. ORPINGTON, England: "The Orpington town coun cil has sternly banned all Jitter bug dancing in the town hall." Morally bad? Nope. The town engineer re ported that local hep-cats had BOUNCED THE FLOOR BOARDS LOOSE. PRINEVILLE, Oregon: "The Oregon Cattlemen's as sociation, meeting here last week, proposed that brand fees be raised or cattle and horses be taxed to provide funds for an expanded brand inspection pro gram." Holy cow! Do these Oregon cattlemen mean they want to pay for an expanded brand in spection program THEMSELV ES instead of asking Uncle to pay the bill? T EXPECT that's exactly what they mean. Cattlemen gener ally and Oregon cattlemen par ticularly are sound economic thinkers and haven't much use for government subsidies. ON THE subject of subsidies, the cattlemen are evidently in agreement with these stanzas from Lydia Huntly Sigourney's poem, The Camel's Nose: Through the open window's space Behold, a camel thrust his face. "My nose is cold," he meekly cried, "Oh, let me warm it by thy side." To evil habit's earliest wile Lend neither ear nor glance nor smile Choke the dark fountain ere it flows, Nor e'en admit the camel's nose. TT MIGHT be added that the potato men admitted the cam el's nose in the form of a govern ment subsidy to maintain a floor under "prices and eventually the camel more or less crowded them out of house and home with a government ceiling on prices. LOS ANGELES: "It took an art dealer 30 min utes to convince customs offi cials that one of three bright-colored posters by famed French painter Henri Matisse ACTU ALLY IS ART." That's one time when I find I can agree with government offi cials. Would-Be Visitor ' Shot as Burglar New York (U.R) Young Mike Broderick couldn't s 1 1 down Wednesday because a clev er neighbor was afraid of rob bers. Broderick, 16, saw a light in the window of William Buhl's Bayside home Tuesday night and decided to visit him. In crossing Buhl's lawn Broderick stepped on electrical contacts that set off an alarm. Buhl began fir ing his .22 caliber rifle before the youth could identify himself and a bullet nicked Broderick as he retreated. Police said that Buhl was not booked and the two neighbors are still 'friends. daughter has been doing and with whom she has been going. He is her parent too and he has a right to know such facts, un pleasant as they may be. Then. togeth?r, work out a set of rule; about what she may do. where she may go. and with whom she may go. Then stick to these rules, no matter how much she may protest. Your daughter's reputation and whole future happiness are at stake. You can't afford to let her go on as she is without pay ing the penalty sooner or later It is better to have her upset now than heart-broken later. If you have a problem about family or friend, ask Dr. Hurlock to help you. Write her in care of this newspaper. (Copyright, 1952, j General Features Corp.) J Enlarged Columbia River Power System Seen Need Portland (U.R) A Columbia river power system capable of producing 7,000,000 kilowatts by 1960. five times present capacity, will be needed unless national defense production is to be cur tailed, according to the Bonne ville Power Administration. The BPA, In its 1952 advance program for defense, estimated regional power requirements would be 750,000 kilowatts of new generating power capacity each year for the next 10 years if existing power deficiencies are met and if load growth is provided for. Schedule Key Factor Key factors in meeting power needs, the BPA report said, are completion on schedule of dams now under construction, addi tional needed projects in the Columbia and Snake river bas ins, fuel fired plants, and Oregon-Idaho and Oregon-California transmission inter-connections. "The Pacific Northwest faces an estimated regional average deficit during this year's 1952-53 draw-down period of over 600, 000 kilowatts, including inter- British Concerns in China Throw in Towel By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst British business concerns in China are throwing in the tow el. The first result is that they will ab andon assets vauled unoffic ially at nearly one billion dol lars. The final result may spread well be- nn Va Unr. I'hil NBon. . . fact become world-wide. The news must have sent a shiver of apprehension through Hong Kong, the British crown colony standing at the gateway to China. It must have caused serious discussion in Tokyo where it would be realized that the diver sion of British commercial en ergies from China would give the Japanese serious competi tion in the markets of Thailand, Indo-China, Indonesia, Burma and India. It must have brought a grim victory smile in Moscow and Peiping. Conversely, it could bring about even closer cooper ation between the United States and Britain in Asia. Greater Cleavage Seen In Britain itself it could fore shadow an even greater cleavage between the Conservative forc es of, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the left-wing La borites led by Aneurin Bevan who have favored close relations with the Communist countries. At any rate, British business has found out the hard way that a free enterprise system cannot operate under Communist rule. So the British will salvage what they can and get out, ab andoning 100 years of effort. What they get out with won't be much. Reds Have System The Communists have anoth er neat system for taking over whatever is left after their con fiscatory taxes. They will demand virtual ran som for the release of some 700 or so Britons still remaining in side China. . The ransom will come in the form of fines for various "vio lations" such as tax evasion, failure to declare, assets, or il legal sales, or in demands for vast sums to be paid former em ployees. Two considerations undoubt edly gave the British business men reason finally for accept ing their hard decision. Insults Forced One was that despite diplo matic recognition of Red China, the British government has been forced to accept one insult after another from the Chinese Reds and has not been able to provide protection for British invest I L E O N S GREAT ANNUAL SHOE SALE for Continues All This Week by 1960 ruptible sales, or more than the output of Bonneville dam," BPA Administrator Paul J. Raver said. "The full output of McNary dam would barely take care of our present deficit and other fed eral dams now under construc tion will be adequate only to take care of load growth." Raver said that only through the new project will BPA be able to serve any new industrial or defense loads. The current defense genera ation schedule of 7,000,000 kilo watts by 1960 was recommended by BPA, the Bureau of Recla mation and Corps of Engineers. Raver said the Ice Harbor dam was the most urgently needed of the project authorized but not under construction. Hells Can yon dam also is important in helping meet Northwest power needs. Raver said. In addition to increased Indus trial needs, the BPA administra tor said increases in power will be needed for residential and farm use, commercial and small industrial consumers and fed eral agency loads. ments behind the Bamboo cur tain. The other was that while the British literally were losing their shirts in China, a sover eign Japanese nation already taking away markets in South east Asia, notably in Indonesia and India. Motorist Has Reason For Going Wrong Way Bloomlngton, 111. (U.R). Po liceman Robert Schaefer stopped motorist Charles Schultz to give him a ticket Tuesday for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. "My car Is on fire and I'm heading for the fire station," Schultz said. "Take off," Schafer said and Schultz drove to the firehouse four blocks away. Court Records POLICE COURT Then C. Aya, void .motor vehicle license, S5. DISTRICT COURT Mary Louise Dean, no operator's li cense, $5. Da r old Roger Barrlt, failure to stop; 1 at stop sign, SI0. Benjamin H. Belknap, overwidth, $10. Roy Kenneth Morris, operating mo tor vehicle while driver's license sus pended, $30. Kenneth Keith Shroyer, overwidth, 7. Roy C. Lilly, overload. SI 4.50. Roy B. Conner, overload, $13.50. Milo G. Palmer, overwidth, $7. George Miller, petty larceny, $10. Eugene D. Caldwell, no operator's license. $5. CIRCUIT COURT Ted L. Pearson vs. Eleanor L. Pear son, divorce complaint and decree. Eddie H. Barden vs. Dorothea Bar den, divorce complaint and decree. Betty Grumbo vs. William Grumbo, divorce decree. James F. Riley vs. Rena Estill Riley, divorce complaint and decree. Helen Marie Hostutler vs. Ernest Clifton Hostutler, divorce decree. 0B hapi Bf siumu 31 CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central faexatn I