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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordiSkTribuni Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! Tne Mall Tribune published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-B141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertiilng Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD J EWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second claw matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: .,. Dally and Sunday one year 112 00 Dally and Sunday ix montha 6 50 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eag p Point. Jacksonville. Gold HI II. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year 1S 00 Daily 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-HOLL1 DAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De. ' troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta " Vancouver, rVC siitintlil EDITORIAL I c7 v-' t Nf WSrArEt PUlUISHIIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His. tare (rem the lllel o the Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 rears 10 YEARS AGO May 26, 1942 (It was Tuesday) , Graduation exercises schedul ed at Medford senior high ichool; class includes 98 girls and 96 boys. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Reports from rural regions say hailstones as big as goose eggs fell last week. Several goose eggs as big as hailstones also are reported, along with a few hailstones as big as hailstones. 20 YEARS AGO May 26, 1932 (It was Thursday) : Jackson county casts 1,903 votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt for Democratic nominee for president in primary elections; Alfred E. Smith gets only 22 votes. Family of three Injured In au tomobile accident when pet tur tle in car frightens little boy sit ting next to driver. SO YEARS AGO May 26, 1922 (It was Friday) Mora than 1,000 chickens kill ed in ranch fire near Medford; damages estimated at $1,500. Full page advertisement for "The Sheik," moving picture starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, appear In The Mull Tribune. 40 YEARS AGO May 26. 1912 (It was Sunday) Chester A. Arthur post, Grand Army of the Republic, and Spanish-American war veterans dis cuss p'ans for large Memorial day program. Local resident escapes from holdtin man on Jacksonville- Central Point rond when his team becomes frightened and runs away. New BritRin, Conn. (U.R) Stanley Gworck, a policeman, doubled in brass as a fireman. He spotted a pnrked automobile on fire, dashed Into a nearby store for a fire extinguisher and put out the blaze. NOTED engineer, Karl P, Blllner, Philadelphia, r veals Stalin medal for 1951 was awarded Red engineer for "Inventing" con Crete processing method Invented and turned over by Blllner to Soviets In 1944 under lend lease. (InUrnatunai Soundphoto) w kVSt MAIL TRIBUNE Good News for This Region Announcement that the Medford Veneer and Plywood corporation has started construction of a large plywood fabrication plant at the White City in dustrial site northeast of Medford is good news for this region. In addition to a generous increase in the valley's payroll around 150 men will be employed the installation will bring other benefits of a substan tial nature. The fact that this latest business venture has been organized by Medford men and that the $400,000 plant will be financed almost entirely by local inves tors, is also good news. THERE is further cause for satisfaction in the new company's decision to locate its manufacturing plant in the White City area. Too much of the valley's prime agricultural land is now being occupied by lum bering and other industrial plants which, in many cases, could function just as well on less desirable ground. TTHE White City area, carved out of the former Camp White reservation, is gradually taking on the appearance of a really important industrial sec tion. Installations there now represent in the neighbor hood of $4,000,000 and there are reports that major additions may be made in the not distant future. If plans of the Medford Veneer and Plywood cor poration are carried out that plant alone will ulti mately require large additions for production of hard wood veneer plywood and plywood utilizing impreg nated plastic faces and other newly developed meth ods of using lower grades of veneer. e e e IT HAS long been realized that every effort possible should be made to secure more lumber manufactur ing plants, particularly remanuf acturing, in order that greater and more diversified use may be made of our principal raw product timber and it is encourag ing to see local interests backine such development with their money. E.C.F. G.P. Has Plans Also While we're on the subject of industrial expan sion, it might be interesting to note that this portion of the Rogue valley is not alone in enjoyment of such progress. PROMOTERS of Rogue Hardboard, Inc., a Grants Pass corporation, are planning to raise the capi talization of that concern from the present $5,000 to $1,000,000 preparatory to building a plant there which would utilize waste products from mills in the vicinity. Construction of the new mill, on the site of the old golf course east of Grants Pass, is expected to start as soon as half of the million dollar capitalization has been raised. . A special meeting of the stockholders has been called for next Wednesday to pass on the proposal. E.C.F. Viewpoints Differ. . One of the interesting phases of the recent-election was the conflicting size-up of candidates as given in the editorial columns of the various newspapers of the state. For instance, anyone perusing the dailies which came to The Mail Tribune's "exchange" desk during the campaign learned from the Bend Bulletin that: "A good many central Oregonians saw and heard Estes Kefauver yesterday. They found him a man of somewhat austere appearance and with none of the magnetism that does so much for a candidate. ... he seemed a bit awkward and confused in conversation following his short talks. There was no life, no vivacity." TO KLAMATH FALLS V. till Iv J.aUIII A v. an I v,S- wjjijvi.. v - ent person entirely. As reported by the Herald and News : "Some who went to see Kefauver when he was here . . . said that he is just like his fellow senator, Wayne Morse . . . (with) charming manner and remarkable stage presence." E.C.F. When Mule .Tnoksnn enuntv has a sent something of a problem for election returns gatherers, but for real isolation me utue muie ween community in Curry county is probably unique in the whole nation. To get the Mule Creek ballots all 15 of them after the recent primary election, Sheriff Glenit R. Sabin and his deputy, W. W. Smith had to travel from Brookings, the county seat, south on the Coast highway to Crescent City, Calif., thence east over the Redwood highway to Grants Pass and then down the Rogue river to Marial. The officers learned that on May 6, the residents of the Mule Creek region received the first delivery of second class mail since December 24. First class mail deliveries had been somewhat more frequent, the letters having been hiked in afoot twice, a month throughout the winter. E.C.F. Trail Boy Fourth Place Portland Bennie Walls, Trail, was fourth place winner In the "B" classification of the state marble tournament held here Saturday. He was the only Rogue valley boy to place In the state finals. Walls was winner of the Upper Rogue Marble tournament, spon sored by Steelhead post, Veter Monday. Mar 2. 152 people, however, the demo- Creek Votes few far corners which vie- Marble Winner ans of Foreign Wars, at Shady Cove. State champion of the contest, sponsored Jointly by the VFW and Young Oregonians, was Son ny Myrlck, 13, Molalla, who will go to Durham, N.C., for the na tional tournament. Dead line Sunday Classifieds la at noon Saturdays. Crosstown ' i3 UfJ Jl "The price Is right, but we'd better give it some more thought. The farmer says he's discouraged wants to sell and go back to the city." Matter of Fact THOSE THINGS LEFT UNDONE Washington Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson has just flown to Europe, to put the semi final touches to a grand design. The new status of Germany; the German contribution to western defense; the European army which so hopefully foreshadows a larger European union these are great achievements. Or rath er, they will be great achieve ments if the signed agreements are ratified by the French and German Parliaments. Unfortunately these European successes cannot offset the fail ures of our policy in other re gions. In the Middle East and Southeast Asia, there are no ur gent crises at the moment, to occupy the headlines and force the policy makers to reach de cisions. But in both areas, there is the same pattern of dreary deterioration, with much the same causes, and with the same threat of catastrophe ahead. As any newspaper reader will remember, the trouble in the Middle East began with the oil crisis in Iran; spread thence to Egypt and has now transferred itself to French North Africa. A decisive effort might have stopped the Iranian oil crisis at the outset. There was no such effort, since Britain and Amer ica were divided as to what should be done. TlODAY, the picture in each of the three trouble centers is decidedly ugly. In Iran, the re gime of the aged Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh has bankrupted the country. There is no cash left to pay the army or maintian the pensions of the tens of thousands of unemployed oil workers. Hence Mossadegh may fall. Yet there is little rea son to believe that the fall of Mossadegh will be the prelude to an oil settlement. And noth ing but an oil settlement which will replenish the depleted treas ury with oil revenues can save Iran from some sort of final crack-up. Equally, the British and Egyptians have now broken off their talks about control of the Sudan and the presence of the British garrison at Suez. These two issues have already caused the whole center of Cairo to be burned by the mobs. A failure to settle them is like a failure to de-fuse a bomb. Finally, the French are now engaged In a violent struggle with native nationalism in Tu nisia, and the unrest is spread ing to Morocco. The situation in French North Africa might be come more manageable, if the sources of Infection were re moved by settlements in Egypt and Iran. As matters stand, things are likely to go from bad to worse in this area which now contains our most important overseas air bases. In Southeast Asia, the outlook Is still more ominous. In Burma, the Communists have united, are making alliances with the dissident tribesmen and are di rectly threatening the feeble and distracted central government. In Malaya, the British have yet to make any solid progress in their costly, bloody struggle against the Communist guerril las. And in Indo-Chlna, the war against the Communist armies of the Vlet-Minh continues without Interruption, and exhausting the resources that France needs for Europe, e a a IN ALMOST any one of all these countries, a quite cas ual accident will be enough to produce a full-scale catastrophe. In the case of Indo-China, for example, the French people are increasingly hostile to the war there, and increasingly worried about having to keep the bulk of their armed forces in the Tong klng delta while Germany re arms across the Rhine. At any moment, another reshuffle of the French Cabinet can produce a government unwilling to carry on the Indo-China war. And then the choice will lie between fill ing the vacuum ourselves, or seeing all of Southeast Asia go the way of China. By Roland Cot By Joseph anal Stewart Altop Meanwhile the American pol icy makers, while deeply wor ried and spasmodically active, have never seriously attempted to take the one absolutely essen tial step. This step is, simply, to forge a working unity of pol icy and action in both the Middle East and Southeast Asia among this country, Britain and France. The present haphazard approach is bound, eventually, to lead to catastrophe somewhere. But ca tastrophe may still be warded off by the united and deter mined efforts of the three great Western powers with interest and influence in these troubled regions. There are all sorts of reasons for the present disunity. Both the British and French have sometimes been remarkably short-sighted. The Americans have been naturally reluctant to extend this country's already over-vast commitments. Every one has made bad mistakes. Equally, there are all sorts of shadings.' In Southeast Asia, there is something approaching day-to-day unity by consulta tions, but there is no agreement on a common plan to bring the troubles there within bounds. In the Middle East, there is no un ity at all. Achieving unity will of course place additional burdens on this country, since every increase of responsibility carries an increase of burden. But when this coun try again possesses an adminis tration capable of creative and dicisive action, the effort will have to be made and the burden will have to be shouldered. A foreign policy that solves only European problems is not good enough, in a world in which all problems are inexcusably inter twined. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 4 Car Accidents Listed in County Over Week-End Four automobile accidents oc curred in the county over the week-end, according to state police. Three occupants of a car which hit the rear of a grader one mile north of Central Point Saturday afternoon were treat ed for slight cuts, according to Community hospital attendants. State police said that the car, driven by Oneal Ross, Rogue River, was traveling south on Highway 99 and ran into the back of a parked grader with damage resulting to the grill and windshield of the car and none to the grader. The two passen gers in the car were Lorena Lewis nnd Corinne Ross, accord ing to the police. The occupants were taken to the hospital by Conger-Morris ambulance. Cars Collide Early Saturday, g car driven by Ned Barraclough, 829 Beek man street, Medford, and a pick up driven by Vernon V. Rasmus sen, 308 Garfield street, Med ford, collided on Highway 99 near the county hospital south of Phoenix, police records show ed. Both vehicles sustained mi nor damage, but no one was hurt, the report Indicated. Another Saturday accident oc curred near Talent, involving cars driven by Richard Hunt and Ilia M. LeBrun, both Ashland, police said. Minor damage to the cars was listed. Sunday afternoon a car driven by V. B. Blickenstaff, Crescent City, went out of control on Highway 99 near Blrdseye creek south of Rogue River, injuring the driver and a passenger, Phil ip Evanow, also Crescent City, police reported. They were tak en to Josephine General hospi tal, police said. Blickenstaff was thought to have suffered a brok en shoulder, and the passenger cuts on the leg. Vat Mail Tribune Want Ads In the Day's News , By FRANK JENKINS As these words are written, there appears to be nowhere in the world any news that goes BANG! I'm inclined to regard that as a good sign. I wish we could have about 50 years more of such days. IN ENGLAND yesterday, Prime Minister Churchill's Conservatives won the first tests of their election pledge to undo1 parts of the previous Labor gov ernment's nationalization pro gram. They defeated by a 24 vote margin a Labor party reso lution attacking DE-nationaliza-tion as a "return to wasteful competition." The house of commons then adopted a government motion to return to private ownership the nationalized long-distance truck ing industry. 'THAT means that in England (for the moment, at least) they are TURNING AWAY from socialism. In this county, we're STILL MOVING TOWARD so cialism. ()UR MOST decisive move to " ward socialism was Presi dent Truman's seizure of the steel Industry when it refused to accept his government-ordered increase in wages without an offsetting increase in prices. If that had gone through, its ulti mate result would have been re fusal on the part of individuals to invest any more money in steel stocks. If private investors won't buy steel securities there can be no more expansion in the steel industry. We have to have steel, so the next move would have been NA TIONALIZATION, with the gov ernment providing the money for expansion and moderniza tion. That is socialism. 'FHE STEEL mess is now in the courts. But what the courts do won't in itself stop our pres ent trend. That can. be stopped only by electing a President and a congress who are AGAINST socialism and will pass and EN FORCE laws that will STOP it. We'll know more about so cialism in America after the fourth day of next November. rpHERE'S an intriguing tale on - the wires today about a $42-a-week messenger-handyman in Chicago who was big-hearted with money. He liked to GIVE IT AWAY to people. He gave $10,000 to a saloon keeper whose house wasn't as good as it might have been. "Your kids will like their home better," he said to the bar boss, "if you'll fix it up." To another friend, he shelled out $9,650 one day as a friendly gesture. "You aren't well en ough dressed," he said to the guy. "Go out and get yourself some good clothes." To another friends he gave $5,000 to pay off the mortgage on his home and to pay for an operation he needed badly. WONDERFUL? We ought to " have more people like that? Well, there's a catch to it. It seems that he was tapping the boss's till for the money. It came out when he was arrested that the total amount h had tak en from the till for his philan thropies came to $34,300. The boss didn't share his em ployee's enthusiasm for philan thropy and appears to have squealed like a stuck pig when he found out what had been go ing on. T'D LIKE to add a word here ' about this boss and his de part ed $34,300. Anybody as careless as that with the firm's money not only deserves to lose but ought to be hauled before a morals court and given a stiff sentence for CORRUPTING HIS EMPLOYEES by putting temp tation in their way. WORD more! This poor devil will probably be sent to jail for giving other people's money away and we'il all applaud. In our private affairs, we don't like such things. . If he had been a POLITI CIAN, we'd probably send him back to,congress or maybe elect him President for giving other people's money away. We the voters are an inconsis tent lot, aren't we? COP HAS EAGLE EYE Gibson City, 111. lU.PJ D. C. Jacobus of Milwaukee. Wis., wrote to local police asking that they searchxfor a trinket his wife had lost while on a picnic in a Gibson City park. The trinket was a gold pin. Police Officer Elmer Sawyef found the pin and mailed it to Jacobus. San Francisco has a total of 27.031 street lights in opera tion. Medford Students Win Several Medford students at Willamette university, Salem, were among the 41 who were awarded scholarships or prizes at the annual awards assembly May 22 at the university, accord ing to a news release from there. Keith Mirick received the An nie M. Barrett Memorial schol arship and also was tapped for Enemy Forces Win Propaganda Battle Over Koie Incident By LYLE C. WILSON Washington U.R) The Com munists won the propaganda battle over the Koje island general-snatching. Military morale was hurt by the blunders of two brigadier generals. They were Francis T. Dodd, who was kidnaped by the prisoners, and Charles F. Col son, who made concessions to free him instead of rescuing by force. Both have been broken to colonel, a personal tragedy dif ficult for a civilian to under stand. Concessions Disavowed Gen. Mark W. Clark was com pelled to disavow the conces sions made by Colson for Dodd's release. That was a necessary re pudiation. But it is difficult to defend in the propaganda war of words. The Communists are making hay with that one. The Communists consistently outsmarted the American brass with a series of deceptive plays which our side will be a long time explaining away. Order Not Executed - The fact that Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's direct and plain or der for the use of force in free ing Dodd was not executed ' re mains still to be explored by the Army's department of fuller ex planation. Communist propagandists will exploit all of this and do it smartly. Better than a propagan da triumph for them was the Congressional Quiz tfuestlons and Answers on Wha Goes on at the Capital. Furnisher) by Congressional Quarterly New Features. Q Will I have to sell "brand name" merchandise in my store at prices set by manufacturers if the "fair trade" bill becomes law? . . A It depends on your state's laws. The biU passed May 8 by the House was designed to re establish the laws in 45 states which permit a manufacturer and retailer to agree on mini mum prices which would apply to all retailers, regardless of whether they signed the agree ments. The Supreme Court ruled a year ago that the states lack ed authority for such laws. Q What's the "lobby lineup" on "fair trade" legislation? A "Fair traders" leading the fight for legislation binding all retailers to price agreements on "brand name" products are the American Fair Trade Council and the National Association of Retail Druggists. "Free traders," opposing such legislation, in clude the Farm Bureau, the Na tional Grange, the CIO and drug and department stores in New York City, Virginia, Washing ton, D.C., and Florida. Q Has Congress looked into whether the International Ma terials Conference is giving U.S. manufacturers their fair share of scarce raw materials? A Eight Republican House members headed by Rep. Antonl N. Sadlak, (Conn.), investigated IMC and reported May 4 that the International group which regulates the flow of materials throughout the free world was a "super-cartel" which is "short changing" the U.S. in copper. It said unemployment in certain industries resulted from copper and .other shortages "largely traceable" to the IMC. Q What's the idea of the "group libel" law? A Four New York Congress men Reps. Javits (R), Keogh (D), Klein (D) and Powell (D who May 5 introduced bills to make it illegal to defame mali ciously any race or religious class, said the legislation was aimed at "dishonest purveyors of defamatory matter" and con tained "effective protection for freedom of speech." No one who could prove his statements true or that he "honestly believed" them true on reasonable grounds could be convicted. Q Any action 'in the bill lo enforce mine safety rules? A The Senate May 7 passed by voice vote the bill which would authorize federal mine In spectors to require mine owners to order miners from unsafe areas. It also would make a mine owner's refusal to comply a felony. Before approving the bill the Senate adopted an amendment by Everett M. Dirk sen, (R, 111.), to let mines re sume operations after correcting unsafe conditions if federal offi- Experiments are being con ducted with California obsidian for use as high-grade optical glass. Willamette Awards membership in the Sigma Alpha Chi, sophomore men's service honorary fraternity. Sally Coon ey was awarded the Roy H. Simmons prize; Herbert James Brower was given the home scholarship awarded by Associat ed Women students, and Jean Arden Kyle was given the sec ond award of the Paul H. Doney prize. . decision just announced by Clark to build new enclosures to hold the prisoners in smaller groups. There are about 80,000 POW'a in the big Koje island stockade now and, at one time, there were as many as 132,000. United Na tions officials agreed with pro testing Red Cross investigators that the stockade is much too large. But the more stockades erected for dispersal of prison ers, the more soldiers necessary to guard them. Five United Stat es and one other battalion were on guard duty when Dodd was snatched. Senate investigators say there are 14,000 U. N. secur ity forces there now. These could not easily be spar ed from combat duty. More bat talions will have to be with drawn from the line to police more stockades. United States troops displaced Republic of Korea troops around the Koje island stockade months ago because ROK guards were shooting prisoners who jeered through the barbed wire. Very serious consideration is being given now to putting the ROK guards back on duty. If so, American guards would return to combat. ROK guards would resume shooting prison ers. Communist propagandists would obtain new material and, perhaps, punish United Na tions prisoners in their stock- ades. cials haven't started an Inspec tion within five days. v Q If a dispute develops be tween my company and the un ion speaking for my workers, will the Wage Stabilisation Board automatically step" in? A No. WSB can take up dis putes only by agreement of the firm and union or upon certifi cation by the President when he believes the dispute threatens national defense. As an after math of the steel dispute, a House committee May 6 began an investigation of WSB and a Senate Committee May 13 urged the Board be stripped of author ity to recommend wage dispute settlements. Q How did the Wage Stabilisa tion Board get into the strike settling business? . A As originally set up in 1950 under the Defense Produc tion Act, WSB's job was to help develop wage stabilization pol icy. WSB was re-constituted Ap ril 21, 1951, and given jurisdic- tion in labor disputes in defense industry where collective- bar gaining or federal mediation had failed. The Senate Banking committee recommended May 13 that WSB be revamped again; without the disputes function. . Q What's being done to help people in crowded defense areas get adequate housing? . A The Senate Banking and Currency Committee May 5 be gan hearings on a bill to increase by $1.3 billion the government authority to make advance com mittments to handle housing mortgages in the absence of pri vate capital. The Housing and Home Finance Agency chief test ified for the bill, but a Mortgage Bankers association witness op posed it, suggesting that interest on government-insured home loans be hiked to encourage handling of loans by private in vestors. Q Can I get any government help in obtaining insurance to protect me in case my farm gets flooded again? A President Truman May 6 asked Congress to establish a na tional system of flood disaster insurance for homes, businesses , and farms. He proposed a maxi mum of $250,000 insurance for one person or business. The gov ernment would issue policies on ly where private insurance was unavailable at reasonable rates. ' Copyright 1952 by Congress ional Quarterly News Features- After To -Day Geo. N. Taylor This age is to end when God has completed his roll-call of the saved. All in a flash, the cur tain is to drop. The Lord Jesus is to descend from heaven with a shout and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then His still living shall be caught up together with them and, says the Bible "So shall we eveV be with the Lord." See 1st Thess. 4:13 17. Npyt with Geo. N. Taylor the saved gone, comes the great tribulation. Awful signs like the oceans turning putrid like dead blood. And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would be left alive on the earth. This present day is the day of salvation. May you believe in Christ as the Lord and Saviour who died for your sins. So you have eternal life. Vast blessings for you out of God's love. So says the Oregon family that sponsor! this space. . dv
