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TWELVE- MEDFORD (OREGON) Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi Tina MaiJ Tribune Fubliahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-20 North Fir St. Phone 2-flHI ROBERT W. BUHL. 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. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered aa aecond claia matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: ... Daily and Sunday ona year $12 00 Dally and Sunday eix months 6.50 Dally and Sunday three moa. 3.50 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Mediord. Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Rlvar, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday ona year 115 00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash In Advance Official 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. trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, BC NATION A I EDITORIAt NIWIFAM PUillHIt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His ferv from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 rears ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 23, 1942 (It was Monday) Jackson county budget com mittee slates 'work on 1942-1943 fiscal plans; proposed budget first In history of county to con tain civil defense funds. From Arthur Perry'g Ye Smudge Pot column: With gaso line rationing soon to be ef fective, the kibosh will be put on marathon gadding. There will be no more leaving home Friday during the three-day Fourth of July celebration, speeding to Pothole, N. D and getting back in time to go to work Monday anyway getting back. 20 YEARS AGO May 23, 1932 (It was Wednesday) Vern Shangle's Junior Ameri can Legion baseball team trounces Talent, 13 to 1. Rogue valley sportsmen re quest that state Fish and Game commission place fishway at south side of Savage Rapids dam. 30 YEARS AGO May 23, 1922 (It was Thursday) Rogue valley group starts col lecting funds for construction of a radio station In Central Point "from which point crystal sets In all parts of the vnlley would get good reception." Driverless car "runs amuck" at Eighth and Bartlctt streets, causes $130 damages. 40 YEARS AGO May 23, 1912 (It was Saturday) Medford youngsters reported hard at work on gardens In va cant lots throughout the city; $159 in prizes to go to best gar deners. Medford's municipally -owned public market has grand open ing: located on South Riverside avenue near Main street. Ten New Convairs Ordered by United Denver An order for 10 more twin-engined Convalr 340 air planes will be placed soon by United Air lines, according to W. A. Patterson, president. Ne gotiations for 25 more four-en-gined planes are now under way, he said. About $56,000,000 Is involved In the expansion program. The new Convairs will be the same as the 40 already on order. The first of these are now being delivered, and will be placed in service late this summer. The plane is larger and faster and has a longer range than the old er Convair 240s, and will carry 44 passengers, crew and 3,000 pounds of cargo at a 270 mile per hour cruising speed. The new Convairs will cost some $B,- 000.000, In addition to the $23 117.000 for the first 40. The type of four-engincd plane to be purchased will be an nounced soon, Patterson said The present UAL fleet includes 143 planes. HE'S SURE HE'S GOOD Jacksonville, Fla. (U.R) A plumber who failed to pant a test to become a master plumber aid his lawyers would contest the matter In court. 5 MAIL. TRIBUNE "Forget Since the recent local disturbance there have been more personal and political rumors flying around than usual on both sides of the fence. Our advice to both sides is FORGET IT! e e e e THE election Is over. As win, and the losing side sports to abide by it. The be good sports and try no of the hot-heads having victory now suggest. If one side starts something, naturally the other side will have to hit back, and it's a fairly safe guess that would start the "feudin' " all over again. This would be an activity which might please some of the more violent no one else, and would harm the community. a a e e THE final fate of the Primary winners cannot be Aat-ovmiriflfi tmfil fliA T auo m Vnv alanf inn o nnrnvi. mately half a year hence. . This allows for a considerable "breathing spell" for both factions. Our suggestion is to take advantage of it, get down to business and give the turbulent waters a fair chance to subside. The Mail Tribune is quite certain, a refusal to follow this course by either side, will later be VERY much regretted! R.W.R. Purely Pugilistic Now Harry Matthews Is near the end of the rainbow, and the big city rulers of the sport will have to come to terms Matthews' and Hurley's terms. Rocky Marciano, perhaps, is next, and then the winner of the Walcott-Charles title fight. It will be a happy day for boxing as a sport when Harry Matthews the boy from the sticks sits on the heavyweight throne. And we predict that's Just where he will be in little more than a year from now. Portland Oregonlan. Shades of Bud Anderson, Dick Donald and Bat tling Nelson also the "Medford Sun" of many, long years ago! In that far-off era we never expected to see the august and pontificial Oregonian, descend from its throne on the journalistic "Olympus," and editori ally crown the pugilistic pride of that locality with the cherished Laurel wreath. But there she AM! "Kid" Matthews the "Multnomah Mauler" and "King County Killer," gets the editorial accolade as he nears "the end of his fistic rainbow," and is des tined, declares The Oregonian, to occupy the heavy weight throne "in a little more than a year from now!" (Sic!) "To sleep, perchance to dream, Aye, there's the rubl" And we fear the Oregonian will have that dream RUBBED in a bit painfully before its prediction is fulfilled. For somehow when the assuming it HAS any tower" of omniscence to aspiring pugs are training middleweight and heavy, they almost always support the old adage that the "cobbler better stick to his last." Nine times out of ten a newspaper knows about outs of pugilism, as the average punch-drunk pugilist knows about the intricacies of higher journalism. a e e e a THAT was true of the Medford Sun at least some 40 years ago, when Bat Nelson, and then Bud Anderson, practically lived in the Sun sanctum sanc torum and heated their coffee on the old cast-iron stove. "RAT" was an "Ex" veiT mucn "Ex" and was trying to pick up some needed peanuts by meet ing an aspiring amateur from Butte Falls, who had learned the fine points of the noble" art of self-defense, by reading the life and times of "Gentleman Jim" Corbett and chopping down giant fir trees. It was also claimed he wrestled with the tame bear in the Butte Falls village square, but that was never authen ticated. The bout was held in the old Angle Opera House and the SRO sign was out early, everyone was there. But it wasn't much of a fight. The Butte Falls lad said he was going to use his head and outbox Bat, getting the decision on points. But he didn't realize that Bat would use his head also, not as a thinking-machine, but as an offensive weapon of tremendous pile-driving power. So the aspiring young pugilist returned to Butte Falls, a sadder and wiser young man and we fear Sporting News since. "DUD", on the other hand, was not an "Ex" far from it. Bud was a muscular Scandinavian youth with a non-muscular and "non-campus" man ager named Dick Donald. Donald had a passion for a fast buck and suffered delusions of grandeur, or Bud might have gone where all the local experts knew he would go, to the top of the ladder, predicted now by the esteemed Oregonian for Matthews. e a e a DUT Dick forced Bud too fast, with the result a certain lightweight dentist named Leach Cross, of New York's Bronx (who could use his Biceps with even more lethal efficiency than his FORccps), knock ed out "Medford's pride" and it was "Poor Casey, he .struck out," all over again! The sporting fraternity of that era never fully recovered, one of them left the next day for L.A. and never came back though he made a million dollars. E FEAR very much the Oregonian is due for a similar sad awakening. And conclude these Aunday. My 23, 1932 It!" usual both sides couldn't should be good enough winning side should also more shenanigans, as some tasted the heady wine of partisans on both sides, but brains of a newspaper descends from the "ivory the basement where the for fistic honors, light, the editorial department of as much about the ins and hasn't been mentioned in somewhat rambling reminiscences of the "good old days," with this out-on-a-limb prediction, to wit: "Kid" Matthews may go far In the "Big Time," pugi listically speaking, as the Oregonian predicts, but he will NEVER become HEAVYWEIGHT champion of the world for the very simple, but excellent reason, he is not a HEAVYweight, and never WILL be! R.W.R. Is Human To Err Habit is a great newspaper asset. People get in the habit of reading a newspaper, and no matter how bad or good, that newspaper may be, it soon becomes a habit hard to break. That fact explains why we comment so often upon editorials in the Oregonian. We started to read that paper, as a regular subscriber in May, 1910, and have read it fairly regularly ever since. We miss it when we leave town which we often do and it is always one of the noticeable journalistic pleasures to be resumed with our always happy return home. However, while it is an awful "cliche" to every newspaper man, the fact remains: we don't always agree with the Oregonian's editorial views, espe cially in the realm of politics. (We get letters to the same effect regarding our own editorials three or four times a week ! They just don't always agree, BUT ) 17ITH that as a preliminary we can't agree with Oregon's journalistic "Bible" regarding "Morse, Steel and .the Press," of May 22nd, in which the edi tors declare Senator Morse's criticism of the press for their treatment of the Truman steel-seizure in cident, was ill-founded and "silly." We think criticism of the press treatment of this incident, (and even more the press conference when President Truman in an obvious "aside" said he would treat the press just as he did the steel companies if the latter represented the same threat to national peace and security), did comprise a sad failure in American journalism. e e e "TO SUPPORT our contention we would call spe- cial attention to the Oregonian's criticism of Sena tor Morse when the paper charges Senator Morse "backed up President Truman's seizure of the steel Companies" and makes this explicit counter charge, quote : "Senator Morse took a hasty and untenable position on steel seizure and in his efforts to justify it has made an irresponsible attack on the press." e a MOW Senator Morse may be wrong morally and legally, in his stand on this action by the Presi dent. But there was nothing "hasty or untenable in his position," and he did not, as the editorial implies, approve President Truman's seizure without quali fication. In fact, he clearly stated he thought Presi dent Truman made a mistake, and could have han dled the situation better if he had acted earlier and in cooperation with the Congress. a e e WHEREUPON, the junior Senator from Oregon did what no other member of the Congress did came forward with a measure which would more clearly and explicitly define the presidential powers, actual and implied under emergency conditions, as well as the coordinated powers of the Congress, and urged its passage and rushing same as soon as possi ble to the Supreme Court for final adjudication. e e e a e AS REMARKED, Senator Morse's action may have been legally sound or UNsound, his insistence upon correcting the President instead of demanding his impeachment may have been proper or improper, but he CAN'T justly be accused of having given the chief executive's action a blanket endorsement, for he carefully pointed out where he thought the Presi dent was right and where he thought him wrong. Secondly, instead of doing anything in HASTE, Senator Morse gave what we believe will be gener ally regarded as the most thoughtful and careful analysis of the entire problem of presidential powers, which has been delivered in the Senate in a couple of decades. WHICH brings us to the point we wish to make, namely THIS: The Oregonian in this editorial was guilty in a minor degree of the same failure Senator Morse charged against the American press as a whole (and The Oregonian disputed), in its treatment of the same incident, namely: treating the story from a prejudiced and partisian rather than from an objective and NON partisan standpoint. That's all! But it is, we believe, a very serious failing of the American press, particularly when a t presidential campaign is in the offing, partisan emotions are run ning high, and too many far too many newspa pers, being very human, either succumb or are too greatly influenced by it! R.W.R. FHA Officials Tour Hugh J. McLaughlin, chief of program operations of the De nsrtmpnt of Aericulture's Farm Home administration, and Cecil J. Youngstrom, state field repre sentative for Oregon wun Ar thur F. Koning, county super- i.iartr nf th lnrnl PfIA office last week completed a tour of farms in Josephine and Jackson coun ties which are being operated by farmers now receiving loan assistance from that agency. The nrririals Dressed satisfaction with the progress that is being made by these farmers in tins area. The Farmers Home Adminis tration, the local office of which is locatrd in the Manchel build- Ina drnnt Pass makes auner-l vised loans to farmers who arc unable to receive suitable fi l nancing from other credit tour' Two Counties ces, Koning explained. These loans are made to cover the pur chase of livestock, farm machin ery, seed, feed, fertilizer, water development, farm housing and farm development and for the purchase of farms for family size units. The local supervisor also stated that although the appro priations for fiscal year 1953 have not yet been allocated, that they are accepting applica tions now for all types of loans and will process these applica tions in the order they are re ceived. All Inquiries should be addressed to the local office, Room No. 9, Manchel building, Grants Pass. HOSEMAN IS FIREMAN Vickr burg. Mijj. UP J. F. Hoseman is fire chief here. In the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS At a grasslands program spon sored at Klamath Falls the other (iay by the agricultural commit tee of the Portland chamber -of commerce and attended by Klamath, Lake and Jackson county people, E. R. Jackman, crops specialist at Oregon State College, told us that if we can get back into grass all of the area of Oregon. that ought to be got back into grass we can quad ruple in Western Oregon the value of these potential grazing lands and in Eastern Oregon we can increase their value by TEN TIMES. TIE ADDED: " "Generally speaking, our crop lands production is at a high level. As of now, consid ering our present technical knowledge, we would be hard put to it to INCREASE their pro ductivity, at least to any con siderable extent. "Our grasslands are another story. Their production can be increased IMMENSELY. If we want to add to agricultural pro duction in Oregon, our grass lands provide the BIG opportun ity to do it." T ET'S paint a quick, sketchy picture here of a sound and stable economy for Southern Oregon, and far Northern Cali fornia: Grow meat animals on our millions and millions of acres of range lands. Finish-fatten them on feeds produced on our crop lands. Slaughter and pack them here at home. THAT'S a FINISHED economy. Each cog of it meshes into every other cog. We would then be using our land resources to their fullest capacity. The out lying areas would benefit by in creased production of livestock. Finish-fattening the livestock would provide a market AT HOME for the feeds grown on our croplands. Slaughtering and packing would provide addition al payrolls for the towns. THAT would round out our economic picture for, thanks to modern science, our timber lands can be expected to take care of themselves from here on out. In their case, our big job is to USE THEM WISELY, pre venting in the future the stag gering waste that In the past has made our timber industry so uneconomic. LET'S take a quick look Into the past. When the Mountain Men first topped the barrier ranges and reached the Pacific Coast area, they found a grasslands econo my. In Spanish California, a glamorous (indolent and pleas-) ant civilization rested upon cows. The ox-team pioneers who settled the Willamette valley were farmers. In each wagon was a plow. The bright dream that led them westward over the deserts in one of the greatest migrations civilized man ever made was to grow wheat and sell it to the Orient. That dream was never fully realized. The Orientals were rice eaters. So these Willamette pioneers fell back on COWS. They brought them from California. En route to the Willamette, they fed their cows on the grass of far Northern California and Southern Oregon. When they got them home, they fed them on the grasslands of the Willamette valley and its foothills. It was CATTLE that enabled the Willamette settlements to sur vive and prosper. Grass fed the cattle. SOUTHERN OREGON, South- eastern uregon and North eastern California, the early ex plorers tell us in their journals, were waving seas of grass. On this grass the wild game fed. The Indians lived on the game. It was a natural grassland econ omy. The white man took over this grassland economy. Sad to re late, he MISUSED It as so often the white man has done. He OVERGRAZED the ranges not, probably, so much out of greed, as the muck-rakers like to tell us. as out of stern necessity to make living in a new land. THAT was the way of the times, and men then knew nothing better. A NYWAY, the native arid-land " grasses practically vanished under unwise usage, and sage brush took their place. Thus we lost what had been the basic re source of the semi-arid ranges. Our job now is to get rid of the usurping sagebrush and get the rangelands back Into grass. T'HAT, in substance, is the mes sage brought to us by these men of the agricultural commit tee of the Portland chamber of commerce. Rich rewards, they told us. await us if we do It in telligently, taking full advantage of modern knowledge. I'm sure they're right and I think we should all be grateful to them for bringing to us this message as to what grass can do for us if we handle it right STAMPS COME ALIVE Milwaukee (U.R) Mrs. Don ald Schnyder had a hard time believing her eyes when she saw two postage stamps moving around on her dining room floor. Investigation showed that her daughter. Susan, 3, had pasted stamps on the backs of two lady bugs. . Crosstown """If,.,, ' mmt S fnllSiUS , ., fm "Well, what's COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication I Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Cure for Lingerie Looters To the Editor: I just finished reading an item on "College Girls Fed Up with Campus Loot ing." Well, it's been done be fore, but never to such a degrad ing extent. The love and laugh ter of the fairer sex has been pursued since time began, but never to my knowledge, in large groups and seemingly for the purpose of obtaining articles that are traditionally laundered and hung in the dormitory hall or in private rooms. As I recall, there have been colleges, universities and other educational facilities all over these United States with the ac cepted knowledge that the duel between the sexes has been pur sued aggressively but no one ever heard of such large scale demonstrations before. In my opinion such a nation wide movement must have been started by quite a brain or quite an elaborate network to invoke so many and to go to such ex tremes. This movement is probably be yond the control of the individ ual schools and their faculties but don't you believe that all that excess energy could be al leviated by a much needed ro tation for our G.I.'s in Korea, Germany, Alaska and elsewhere outside the continental limits of the U.S.? Then, if these "lingerie loot ers" wish to take someone's pants let them try their luck on one of the inmates of Koje island prison, or better still, try their luck on "Blood and Guts Ridge." If they come back without a pair, who knows, it may be their own. If these pubescent puppies in sist on demonstrating their man hood maybe congress should re consider the universal military training act and lower the age accordingly. 1 am doubtful if their loss would be greatly noticed by "So rority Sue." Ralph R. Johnson, 812 Adams Lane, Medford, Ore. How About Medford? To the Editor: The other day there was an article on the front page of the Mail Tribune stating that the decision of the Mayor and Council to keep Med ford on standard time met with widespread favor. They must mean favor by the opponents of D.S.T. What about all the Medford civic organizations, the merch ants association, and hundreds of individuals and various groups who requested the council to declare D.S.T.? The council voted to comply but our mayor decided to make a study of the situation. Where did he make this study? I un derstand it was out of town. I guess he checked up with the rural sections and small towns around the country and of course vetoed the council's action, claiming it would work a hard- An Everlasting Tribute Siskiyou Memorial Mausoleum CREMATORY and URN SPACE Cremation $45.00 Phone 2-2344, Siskiyou Memorial Part By Roland Co 5-3.4-Si. YOUR opinion?" I ship on the other communities. It seems to me that it is the mayor's" duty to give the people of Medford first consideration. I would like to know what It is about D.S.T. that makes it so unpopular with the farmers. I know a few farmers who like it and some don't care. If it is as disastrous as some claim I would be willing to forget it. I'm inclined to think some far mers are against it mostly be cause so many city people like it. I hope we get a bill on the November ballot, a simple hon est bill that will not confuse people like the trick bill that was voted on two years ago. At that time a lot of people voted against D.S.T. when they thought they were voting for it. Elmer Knips, 147 So. Holly St. Medford, Ore. WALL STREET New York (U.R) Prices slipped slightly on the Stock Exchange in another dull Sat urday trading session. Dealings in the abbreviated trading session were conducted at a snail's pace. The reporting tickers stood idle for minutes at a time and as a result, the ses sion was one of the dullest In three years. This being the last Saturday before the market recesses for Saturday summer closing, at tendance in Wall Street was very light. Dow-Jones closing stock av erages: 30 industrials 263.31 up 0.04; 20 railroads' 96.17 up 0.04; 15 utilities 49.82 off 0.01; and 65 stocks 101.91, unchanged. Sales Saturday approximated 300,000 shares compared with 270,000 shares traded a week ago. RADIOACTIVE SALMON SAFE Hanford, Wash. (U.R) Each year 25,000 salmon are hatched and raised at the atomic energy works to check the effect of radio-activity. If anyone could hold that much he woud have to eat at a single sitting 100 pounds of the salmon to get any noticeable amount of radioac tive material. BACK TO HAWAII Woodland, Calif. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Henon fin ally made the trip to Hawaii they had dreamed of for years. Two weeks after thay got back from the islands Henon found , he had won a sales promotion 1 contest. The prize was a trip to Hawaii. CAN'T LIVE ON THAT NOW Concord, N. H. 4U.RI--. The average yearly wage in New Hampshire at the turn of the cen tury was $382. 3 t
