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10 YEARS AGO
June 2, 1942
(It wa Tuesday)
' Almost 800 Job seekers swamp
sheriff's offices after he an
nounces he will need "from 15
to 20" men for special guard
duty.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The week
end holiday death toll was the
lowest in years. Water caused
more tragedies than gasoline and
poor diving more accidents than
bum driving.
20 YEARS AGO
Jun 2, 1932
(It was Thursday)
Medford barbers reduce price
of haircut to 35 cents for chil
dren 14 years of age and
younger.
Two Medford girls first In
this area to receive tickets for
the 1932 Olympic games, to be
held in Loi Angeles,
80 YEARS AGO
Jun 2, 1922
(It was Friday)
Chapter of the Sanity League
of America, dedicated to repeal
of the Volstead act and to allow
manufacture of light wines and
beer under government control
formed In Medford.
Strike of prisoners In Jackson
county Jail ends In few hours
when Inmates placed on bread
and water rations.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 2, 1912
(It was Sunday)
. Balloon ascension and para
chute jump performer at carni
val appearing here injured
slightly when he lands astride
a fence at Ninth and Ivy streets
Medford police chief orders
arrests to determine validity of
state law requiring all automo
biles to have licenses.
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Thanks For Help
To the Editor: I wish to ex
tend my sincere thanks to those
who helped make the Memorial
service at Camp White Domi
ciliary on Friday morning May
30th, such a beautiful tribute
to the veterans who passed away
there, since last Memorial Day.
Sincerely,
Paul G. Olsen,
Rl. 1, Box 225,
Eagle Point, Oregon.
Strange Stories Told
In Invasion of Mice
Edmonton, Alta. (U.R)
Strange stories come to light as
Alberta rode ott its worst in
vasion by field mice in recent
history.
One farmer, Elmer Emerson,
discovered his pet cat was miss
ing. Several days later it was
found dead beside a mouse-infested
stack of grain.
Emerson said there was no
doubt that mice, normally the
hunted, hnd killed the hunter.
He said the cat's body was a
mass of tiny teeth marks.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Shrine Conclave Huge Affair
Medford and surrounding towns will be literally
bursting at the seams come next May when the Pacific
Northwest Shrine association holds its annual conven
tion here. According to E. C. (Jerry) Jerome of Med
ford, newly elected president of the association,
around 5,000 Shriners enough to reach from here
to Central Point, marching four breast are ex
pected to attend. That would be the largest number
of convention visitors in the city's history, and the
figure does not include wives and other family mem
bers and friends who may be expected to accompany
the Shriners. Also, the figure does not include people
who will flock into town to witness the spectacular
parade which always marks the closing day of the
conventions. In Billings, Mont., scene of this year's
gathering, police and Shrine officials estimated be
tween 75,000 and 100,000 persons packed the three
mile long parade route.
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""THE Pacific Northwest Shrine association is made
up of fourteen temples, located in Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, British Columbia
and Alberta. Each temple has its own colorfully
garbed marching, musical or mounted unit and it is
no wonder that the parades attract such throngs for
such pageantry and display is seldom seen elsewhere.
For example, the Powder River Shrine club of
Broadus, Mont., was represented in the Billings pro
cession by "desert potentates" riding real camels,
while the Lewiston, Idaho, temple's patrol rode gaily
bedecked burros in well executed drills.
ease
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N ORDER to house the conventioners, their relatives
and friends. Jerome and
to arrange parking for several trains of Pullman cars
at Camp White. All hotels, motels ana otner stopping
nlaces in the area from Grants Pass to Ashland will
also be called upon to furnish lodgings.
The feeding problem will liKewise be unaertaKen
on a huge scale with part of the meals furnished from
a circus tent outfitted with a battery of stoves and
hundreds of tables.
LOOKING at the matter from a somewhat commer
pial nnclp. the convention is exnected to enrich
the community by some $300,000 to $500,000, esti
mated as the total outlay by such a large number of
visitors.
Tt ia nntntori nut that, in
at the convention, most of
nnrxivtunitv tn visit nnints
southern Oregon and northern California which will
also account for considerable additional spending.
E.C.F.
To List County's Dead
rina nf tho mnvo intprflstinrr and constructive pro
jects to be undertaken in Jackson county in recent
voara was announced last week bv Crater Lake chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
The job they have unaertaKen is notning less
than making a catalogue of each of the many ceme
teries in Jackson county, listing the grave of each
person who has died and been buried here in the
more-than-100-year history
SUCH a catalogue will be a valuable addition to the
mooa vP Viicf ritMtQl malarial -rri navrun rr f Vi o nnntltv
and should prove a fruitful source of information for
those making a study of Oregon history, or those at
tempting to trace family geneologies.
There is something fascinating about old ceme
teries. We have known many people who make a
part-time hobby of visiting them, just to read the in
scriptions on the the weathered grave markers, and to
get a taste of the past at first-hand.
The Jacksonville cemetery and the Log Town
cemetery are probably the best-known of the older
burying places in the county. But a simple listing of
the places where the county's pioneers buried their
dead makes interesting reading.
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FOR instance, how many
20 cemeteries in the county? That there are five
in and around Ashland
around the county are a few known, and perhaps sev'
oral unknown, family plots?
Some of these which have already been cata
logued are the Ashland,
View and Wells cemeteries
Butte Falls cemetery; the
sonville and Medford, and
Benson family near Meadows.
Still remaining to be listed are those at Rock
Point, Antioch, Antelope near Eagle Point, Shady
Cove, Brownsboro, Stearns at Talent, Trail, Rogue
River, Griffin Creek, and Siskiyou Memorial park
in Medford.
THE local project is part of a state-wide job the
DAR has undertaken, and members of the local
chapter have asked help
other cemeteries or burial
Jet Pilots May Grow
Sydney, Australia (U.Rt
Jet pilots may run the risk of
going prematurely gray.
That's what the men who fly
Royal Australian Air Forse Jet
planes are saying after they
found some RAAF Jet flyers in
their early thirties were getting
gray hair.
"There's nothing mysterious
about high altitude flying caus
ing gray hair in let pilots," said
Prof. F. S. Cotton of Sydney
University. "Nervous strain of
high speed flight in a form of
flying which is still comparative
2
his committeemen plan
addition to the time spent
the visitors will take the
of interest in this part of
of tne county.
knew that there are nearly
alone? And that scattered
Hargadine, Hill-Dunn, Mt.
in and around Ashland;
IOOF cemeteries in Jack
a four-grave plot of the
of all those who know of
places in the county. b.A,
Prematurely Gray
ly new."
"Gray hair In let pilots may
become an "occupational haz
ard." a Sydney hair specialist
said.
However, the director-general
of medical services, Mai. Gen. F.
Kingsley Norrls, disagreed. "The
suggestion is ludricrous," he
said.
Slanted by the swift current
flowing east through the Straits
of Florida, sea level on the north
coast of Cuba is about 17 Inches
higher than at Key West. They
are less than 100 miles apart.
Mono,, ,
Crosstown
"I wish I could play faster. Four holes is about all I have
time for between the luncheon dishes and picking
lhe kids up from school."
Matter of Fact
ISSUES IN TEXAS
Dallas What has happened
here In the Republican party in
Texas confronts the national
Republican party with two of
the gravest issues it has had to
face in many years. Indeed, the
lnnr nnp works to sort out the
impres
sions left
by the incred
ible Texas Re
publican con
vention at
Mineral Wells,
the bigger and
uglier andmore
important
these issues
come to seem.
The first is
sue is simple
Joseph Alsop
enough. With Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio in the lead, the Re
publicans have been justifiably
denouncing the corruption that
has crept into the American gov-
Congressional Quiz
Question! and Answers on What
Goes nn at the Capital. Furnished
by Congressional Quarterly New
Features.
Q I liv In th "country."
Ar people in rural areas as well
represented In Congress as "city
slickers?"
A Better. In general, urban
areas continue to be under-represented
while rural areas are
over represented, both in the
two-party states and in the one
party South. For example, In
New York state, 18 of the 25
New York City and Buffalo dis
tricts are larger than the nation
al average (344,846), while in
the rest of the state all but one
district have fewer people than
average.
Q Is th "gerrymander" still
around?
A Yes. Massachusetts' origi
nal 1812 rambling distorted
"gerrymander" Congressional
district the term combined
the governor's name with the
district's salamander shape
has its modern counterparts. The
Now York legislature, for exam
ple, last year carved up six
Brooklyn districts to fashion one
that would "elect a Republican
from Brooklyn to Congress."
And in Oklahoma, Republicans
protested that the state was ger
rymandered to benefit the Dem
ocrats.
Q Is ihr vldnc of let
up In th threat of Russian ag
gretsion?
A None which would Justify
a slackening in the U. S. defense
effort, according to the House
Foreign Affairs Committee in a
May 11 report. "Large Soviet
forces, fully mobilized, are
ready in East Germany and else'
where to attack at a moment's
notice," It said.
Q Ar lobbies spending
mora than Tr?
A In 1951, for the first time
since enactment of the 1946 Fed'
eral Regulation of Lobbying Act,
reported spending failed to in
crease. The approximately 300
organizations filing the reports
required by law said they spent
S9.488.099.39 in 1951, according
to a Congressional Quarterly
study. In 1950, the figure came
to $10,303,204 twice the
058.357 reported In 1947. j
Q W hat group spent th
most In 1951, according to re
ports filed in compliance with i
th lobbying law?
A The American Farm Bu-'
reau Federation spent most
$1,595,815.74 for all purposes, i
including an unspecified amount
for legislative activity. The Com
mittee for Constitutional Gov-:
eminent reported spending'
$773,957.59 and the American !
Medical association. $450,372.57, i
both for legislative activity, j
Twenty-three groups reported !
spending more than $100,000
last year, for a total of $6,162,-'
979.07. I
(Copyright 1952. Congres
sional Quarterly) '
By Roland Co
by Joieph Also
ernment. But honest govern
ment depends on honest politics.
And the first issue presented by
the recent events in Texas is the
issue of honesty in politics.
As to this, there can be no
doubt. A powerful popular surge
for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
gave his adherents a heavy ma
jority in politics. And the first
issue presented by the recent
events in Texas is the issue of
honesty in politics.
As to this, there can be no
doubt. A powerful popular surge
for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
gave his adherents a heavy ma
jority in the Republican state
convention, which in turn choos
es the delegates to the National
convention at Chicago. No one
has argued, no one has even sug
gested, that this pro-Eisenhower
majority in the Texas Republi
can State convention was elect
ed illegally or improperly. Un
der the law and the rules, the
Eisenhower faction had won the
fight in Texas before the Miner
al Wells meeting was convened.
e
UT TEXAS National Commlt
teeman Henry Zweifel
had already promised that Tex
as would be in the Taft column
at Chicago. Zweifel solidly con
trols both the Republican State
convention and its Executive
committee. The Executive com
mittee of the State Committee in
turn has the power to draw up
the temporary roll of the State
convention, making a prelimin
ary choice in all contests for
seats and seating those they
choose on the convention floor.
With this power, forty seedy Old
Guard politicians set aside the
expressed will of a three-to-one
majority of many thousands of
legitimately enrolled, deeply en
thusiastic Republican voters.
When the temporary roll was
drawn up by Zweifel's hench
men, all the Illegally chosen
Zweifel-Taft supporters were
seated, while nearly 600 Eisen
hower supporters were denied
their places on the convention
floor which were theirs by right
of the ballot box. Armed depu
ties were brought in the next
day, to make sure the Eisenhow
er faction did not attempt to
seize what was legally theirs.
The phony majority in the State
convention was then employed
perhaps the rawest touch of
all to vote that it was not
phony. And the phony conven
tion thereafter elected the "offi
cial" pro-Taft delegation to Chi'
cago.
The only thing that can be
said for Zweifel and company is
that they at. least had the grace
not to pretend that these trans'
actions were either savory or
honest. The case was put rather
plainly by the state chairman,
an amiable old gentleman nam
ed Orville . Bullington, whose
war cry is, "to hell with foreign
policy." He told this reporter:
"They'll barrelhouse 'em
through. Whoever controls the
committee can always barrel
house 'em through. You'll see;
it'll be the same at Chicago."
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Y THE SAME token, when
"National Committee
man Zweifel was questioned on
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In the Day's
By FRANKIE JENKINS
Our chief delegate at the truce
negotiations accuses the com
munists of blocking a Korean
armistice out of disappointment
that so few red war prisoners
want to go home.
I WISH I could believe that,
but I can't. I fear the com
mies are happier than kittens
over this whole truce business.
WHY shouldn't they be
happy?
They yelled "King's ax"
when we were running them
ragged in Korea last summer,
and in the nearly a year that
has intervened since then they
have built up their strength to
such a point that we now have
to admit that the best we can
hope to do is to hold our own.
In Tokyo, U. N. officers in a
position to know what they are
talking abo'ut say the commies
have a force of just under a mil
lion men that is capable of
mounting an offensive in Kor
ea WITHOUT WARNING.
ACCORDING to the best
ures obtainable by us
fig-out-
the subject, he made no attempt
to deny that the other side had
the real majority. The reminder
made him look a bit more shifty
than usual, but he did not ar
gue about it. And when he was
asked whether majorities did
not matter in Texas, he replied
irritably and belligerently:
"They don't in the Democratic
party in Texas either."
This peculiar explanation
that trampling on popular ma
jorities was just an old local cus
tom, like yodelling or tossing
the caber was nicely annotat
ed by the State Vice-Chairman,
Mrs. Burjc West. Mrs. West ad
mitted that the pro-Eisenhower
faction "did comply with the
law to some extent." She added,
however, that "the law is one
thing, but the law does not gov
ern a party's policies." The final
word was said by L. J. Bencken
stein, who ran the Zweifel-Taft
steamroller a task for which
he is admirably fitted, being a
vast man with a vast oily smile
and a fist like a ham.
"On its face," said Bencken-
stein, "it looks wrong. There's
an explanation, but I can't give
it to you. Maybe I will if you'll
call me up some time."
Such are the men and women
who organized the steal of the
Texas Republican delegation,
with the on-the-spot encourage
ment of Taft national managers
David Sinton Ingalls and Bra
zilla Carroll Reece. The second
issue raised by this steal ought
to transcend even the issue of
common honesty in politics, at
least in the eyes of those practical-minded
Republicans who
would like to win an election for
a
change.
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THIS REPORTER
cannot, of
J. ,
course, gauge groundswells
here in Texas, but the political
experts of the leading Texas
newspapers, who were all gath
ered at Mineral Wells, may be
considered impartial and sound
judges. These experts were un
animous on several points. First,
Texas wants to get rid of the
Democrats in Washington, and
this sentiment entered very
largely into the Eisenhower
surge. Second, the Eisenhower
surge here was a true popular
movement, as is evidenced by
the fact that in the biggest coun
ties, more people turned out for
Eisenhower at the Republican
precinct meetings than attended
the Democratic precinct meet
ings. '
Third, Texas might also have
gone for Senator Taft in the na
tional election but will never do
so after the ugly business at
Mineral Wells, unless the Sena
tor repudiates the actions of his
local agents. And fourth, if Eis
enhower is nominated by the Re
publicans, there is an excellent
chance that the 1952 election
will start a genuine two-party
system in this state.
Zweifel and his crowd, and
Ingalls and Reece too, for that
matter, have defended themselv
es on the ground that many of
Gen. tisenhower s supporters
were ex-Democrats and Inde
pendents, only recently convert
ed to Republicanism. The de
fense seems a bit odd, since this
supposedly sinister infiltration
was In fact the bright hope of
the Republican party in Texas,
The national Republican party
will have to consider the issue:
whether their hope is to be ut
terly extinguished.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
TTRaQUGlL
News
siders, about ONE FIFTH oi
our total military strength is
tied down in Korea. Korea is a
long way fom us. It is only over
a shallow river from commu
nist China.
This is the point:
The war in Korea Is bungle
some and costly for us, for we
have to ship men and arms and
supplies clear across the wide
Pacific whereas Korea is right
in the commies' back yard.
From the standpoint of logistics,
it is duck soup for the Reds but
a pain in the neck for us,
NOTHER point:
Rightly or wrongly, we have
chosen Europe as the battle
ground between communism
and freedom. It is IN EUROPE
that we have committed our
selves to bring the bulk of cur
strength to bear.
But the Communists already
have a fifth of our military
strength tied down in Korea,
and by moving against us with
their new million-man army
(apparently well supplied with
artillery and planes) they can
compel us to concentrate STILL
MORE of our strength there
thus weakening us in the strug
gle to which we have commit
ted ourselves in Europe.
If we try to lead from
strength in Europe, they' can
hit us hard in Korea. And vice
versa.
TF I WERE a communist big
1 shot, I think I'd feel that in
first sucking us into a war in
Asia, and then, when we were
winning, trapping us into a
truce that enabled them to es
cape defeat and later build up
their forces to the point of over
whelming numerical superior
ity, I had cut a fat hog,
DY THE WAY, who knows
the origin of the phrase
"king's ax?" Or is it "king's ex?"
All I know about it is that
when I was a kid back in the
cornfields we'd yell "king's
ax" when 'we got in a tight
place in a game and the other
side would then have to lay off
us until we could get reorgan
ized. It certainly came in handy
when you got in a tight hole.
I've just made a hasty search
of all the reference books I
have at hand, and I can find
no mention of It in them. Nor,
as I recall, have I heard it used
by the kids in their present-day
games.
'THERE'S another intriguing
little item in the news.
Jacques Duclos (pronounced
Zhock Du-clo), France's top
communist, was caught carrying
a gun in a bloody demonstration
in Paris against General Ridg-
way, who succeeds Eisenhower
as our top commander in Eur
ope, and was jailed by the
French gens d'armes (meaning
cops.)
Duclos is the guy who if
France should be taken over by
the communists would become
the big boss. That raises an in
teresting academic question:
Who would become the big
boss if the United States should
be taken over by communism?
T DON'T think that is likely,
" but I'd like to point out here
that it is the HOPE that they can
take over the United States and
become top dog that animates
the commies among us. They
aren't moved by any idealistic
vision of the rights of the com
mon man, as they pretend to be.
They just want to be IT.
Local Governments
Deprived of Revenue
Chicago U.R) Local govern
ments are being deprived of vi
tally - needed revenue sources
under terms of many defense
contracts awarded to industry by
the federal government, accord
ing to the National Association of
Assessing Officers.
The association's general ap
praising committee said that un
der terms of some defense con
tracts, ownership of all raw ma
terials as well as machinery used
in production of war goods
passes to the federal government
when the first payment is made
on the equipment in the process
of manufacture.
All federal property Is exempt
from state and local taxes unless
taxation of such property is spe
cifically authorized.
OBSERVATION
W are proud that so mony of the families in our
community who call us ar Influenced by their ob
servation. They admir our establishment. They appreciate
our services. They recognize th competence of our
. staff.
CONGER-MORRIS
Funeral Directors Ambulance Service
West Main at Sixth Medford
Member National Selected
Morticians by Invitation ' ifatWjtartVrtrM
srrtM
Missionaries
Attitude Toward
Reds 'Inspiring'
Hong Kong (U.R) An In
spiring thing about the persecu
tion of missionaries by Chinese)
Communists is that the mission
aries always leave China saying
"We bear no resentment," the
China Missionary Bulletin said
in an editorial.
The Catholic magazine gave
as evidence the case of five Ca
nadian nuns who were tried be
fore a screaming mob in Canton
on Dec. 2. Three of the five have
arrived in Hong Kong. Two are
still In prison in Canton.
"The 'trial' of these five nuni
in Canton was conducted with a
degree of barbarism generally
associated with the publbic spec
tacles of Roman amphitheaters,"
the editorial said.
"For a brief moment, the spec
tacle of cruelty held the amazed
attention of the world."
"It can be said with no cyni
cism that the major portion of
shocked humanity failed to un
derstand the true significance of
what it was witnessing.
Brutal Treatment
"Their brutal treatment, the
unfounded accusations, the
hours of questioning, the months
of imprisonment, their illnesses
in jail, the indignities undergone
when they were spat upon and
stoned by an infuriated mob . . .
drew no comment from their
lips."
The "utter simplicity" with
which the nuns accepted the
"confinement of prison after the
confinement of the convent,"
and "accepted the ingratitude of
the people they had come to aid
has escaped a reading public
'curious to hear only the brutal
details of one of Canton's big
gest 'Roman holidays' " the mag
azine said.
That these missionaries accept
this treatment is due to their vo
cation and calling, the editorial
said. The missionary's life is
fundamentally a sacrificial of
fering of his whole self."
'Little Dictators'
Hike Accident Rate
Chicago (U.R) Formen
who tend to be "little dictators"
increase the accident rate of
their workers, a survey suggests.
The study was made by
Charles W. Nelson, research as
sociate of the University of Chi
cago industrial relations center,
who disclosed the results at a
meeting of the American Psych
ological Association.
Nelson studied the five-year
accident rate in a heavy mach
inery assembly plant employing
5,000 workers. He said he found
the accident rate among subor
dinates of "autocratic" foremen
four or five times greater than
that of other groups in the same
plant.
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