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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.
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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
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"Well, what's
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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-
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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.
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