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Maa'fard and Jackie County His
tory tram thai (ilea at tka Mall
Trlbane 10. 20, 10 and 40 yean
10 YEARS AGO
Jun 8, 1942
(It was Friday) .
Medford high school graduat
ing class of 194 seniors Includes
six boys In the armed forces.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Citizens are
again saying: "What is so rare as
a day in June?" after first sizing
up the cloud situation in - the
south and west.
20 YEARS AGO
Jun 8. 1932
(It was Sunday)
Members of Fruit Growers
league make first official visit
to new Jackson county experi
ment farm near Talent.
All local records broken when
3.03 Inches of precipitation fell
here during month of May
30 YEARS AGO
Jun 8. 1922
(It was Monday)
Medford baseball team reports
playing "ankle deep in dust in a
60-mile-an-hour gale" while los
ing to Weed, 11 to 9.
Film Star Rudolph Valentino
released on bigamy charge when
complaint Is dismissed.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 8. 1912
(It was Wednesday)
A. M. Woodford retires as
Medford postmaster; Is succeed
ed by his son, Ralph Woodford,
assistant postmaster for past 6V4
years.
Medford residents petition
city council against changing
name of South Peach street to
Ireland avenue.
The Grange
Roxy Ann Grang
Regular nicotine of Roxv Ann
Grange will bp Friday, June 8
when the "fathers' are to be
honored. All the ladles are to
bring pies. The program is to be
put on by the H.E.C.
Lira Oak Grang
Memorial services will be
held at the next meeting of Live
Oak Grange. Millie Walker was
elected alternate delegate to
State. Grange to be held the sec
ond week In June at La Grande.
She was also named delegate to
the State Grange mutual Insur
ance session. Master Henry
ujoelker being unable to attend
Accident and hospital as well as
life insurance is now available
to Grangers through the Grange
insurance agent.
The display table was in
charge of Laura Laws. Items in
eluded a set of table mats, the
handwork of Harold Laws who
is convalescing in Salem, also a
pair of pillowslips embroidered
in cross stitch by him, a pair of
pillow slips In applique work by
Laura Laws and a crocheted
table cloth by Myrtle Whipple.
During lecture hour at the
next Grange meeting, June 12 at
8 p.m., the fathers of Live Oak
Grange will be honored with a
special program In charge of
lone Black.
Serving committee at the last
meeting included Mr. and Mrs.
William Krause, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Solding, Marcia Brown and
Elizabeth Sheffield.
ratf line Sunday Clamlrifdi la at
8-30 p.m. for fallowing day: 10 a m
Monday for Monday; noon Saturday
for Sunday a.m.
Rosy Outlook
Another class of Medford high school seniors
about 210 this year will
night and will finds things
of the seniors in years past.
Those who have pursued their studies with dili
gence will be able to leave the halls of learning with
better than usual prospects
ness or other gainful occupation. And those who plan
to seek further education may do so with the assurance
that the demand for their
upon graduation from college.
A recent coast to coast check on job prospects
found general agreement
of both high school and college are in a field of
clover," with more job offers than ever, and at higher
pay.
TX7TTH such easy paths awaiting, there is danger
that graduates may fail to develop, or fail to re
tain, that vital spark, the urge to get ahead which has
traditionally characterized young America and so
greatly aided the nation s
Among the words of
vice for the seniors tonight
occasion to point out that
how are prime requisites
before there is need for more general realization on
the part of our young people that devotion to their
1 - . 1 i.! 1 Li.2 1 L ;a 1
woik, or eaucauonai ODjecuve, wnaiever 11 may oe,
pays dividends. It should be emphasized that in the
measure in which a man gives of himself, he is judged.
If he withholds in the giving, he cheats not only his
employer or his teacher but himself. E.C.F.
Careful Drivers
Brokers and agents who
for the fifty stock casualty insurance companies com
prising the membership of the National Bureau of
Casualty Underwriters met
discuss the possibility of rewarding careful automo
bile drivers with yearly rebates on premiums on their
insurance coverage. Although nothing concrete came
out of the meeting it was stated that the underwriters
will continue to explore the question of a merit rating
p'an.
Principal pressure for such recognition of the care
ful and accident-free driver originates in New York
State and particularly in New York City, where the
insurance rates far outdistance those in other parts
of the country, and where additional boosts are in
prospect. '
1MOST motorists drive carefully because they realize
iT it is the sensible thing to do. They wish to avoid
the possibility of physical injury to themselves or oth
ers, and also avoid damaging their cars with attend
ant lay-up and expense for repairs.
In New York State it is figured that about 80 per
cent of all car owners are habitually free from acci
dents. But the other 20 per cent, the careless, inept,
aggressive and foolhardy, get into enough trouble to
make the whole automobile insurance business un
profitable from the standpoint of the companies. It
is estimated that accidents caused by insured motor
ists cost insurance companies $111 for every $100 of
earned premiums for. automobile liability insurance
last year. ...
The difference between the costs and expenses of
claims incurred by insured
premiums ran the 35 leading stock companies writing
automobile bodily injury and property damage lia
bility insurance in the hole over $100,000,000 in 1951.
.
YHEN a motorist takes
i,wMioii.c pu.iv-j, uic iiiouiaui:c uuiiiptiiiy assumes
the responsibility for meeting, within the limits and
coverage of the policy, claim costs for the bodily in
jury and the property damage for which the motorist
becomes liable. On the average, the companies have
been paying out more money each year to meet death,
injury and property damage claims. The average paid
claim cost for bodily injury in 1951 was about 70 per
cent higher than in 1941 and for property damage it
was about 150 per cent higher.
in view of the above increases which are bringing
a growing disparity between premium intake and
claim costs and expenses, it is not surprising that the
insurance companies are planning to increase their
rites in most states before the end of the year. The
thoughtful car owner, however, must feel some sur
prise that the companies do not try to promote traffic
safety and their own interests by giving the accident
free driver a break.
TF 80 per cent of New York City's drivers are free
from accidents, the percentage is probably some
where near the same in other parts of the country.
yhy make this careful majority help pay the penal
ties for the careless minority? E.C.F.
Lumbermen Do Fine
Belief that Industry I doing a
good Job In forest conservation
and that federal regulation Is not
needed to achieve conservation
was expressed to Medford Kl
wanians yesterday by L. L. Simp
son, secretary-manager of the
Southern Oregon Conservation
and Tree Farm association.
Simpson outlined the conser
vation work of Industry In the
Douglas fir region, saying that
expenditures for the purpose to
tals 816.000.000 a year, with $5,
000,000 to $6,000,000 spent for
fire control alone. The program
Is aimed at aiding and abetting
nature.
The speaker, talking at Rogue
Valley Country club, told of the
Thursday. Jun 8. 1181
for '52 Grads
step forth into the world to
quite a bit easier than most
of finding a niche in busi
services will be even greater
that, this year's graduates
progress.
wisdom and thoughtful ad
we hope someone will take
while learning and know
for success, today as never
Dejerve Break
sell automobile insurance
recently in New York to
,
motorists and the earned
out an automobile liability
Job, Speaker Says
beginning of the forest industry
In this country. He defended the
early settlers who cut timber to
build their homes and to clear
land for agriculture. While he
admitted that the Job of conser
vation was poor, Simpson main
tained that the price was not too
high for the results seen In the
country today.
VANISHES LIKE WRITING
Lamesa, Tex. U.R An Imag
inative chap who forged checks
written in vanishing Ink left
merchants here with a problem
Thursday. The bogus check
writer apparently used the same
formula and vanished himself.
Crosstown
resv.
PI
"When w first got this contraption, neither baaaball, nor
golf, nor extra work at th offlc could kaap my hus
band or th boys away from HI"
Matter of Fact
' GEORGIA STORY
Here in Georgia, in the year
1896, the pattern of Southern
Republican nolitlcs now being
a v nl n i hv
Kf I the forces of
f I Sen. Robert A.
a- - J St m. I-
lan was orig
inally invent
ed by another
Ohioan, Mark
Hanna.
That winter,
with the fight
for the Repub
lican nomina
Jowph Alsop
tion looming
ahead the
great early master of the Ohio
brand of Republicanism unob
trusively went to Thomasville,
Ga., for his health. While re
storing his vast frame in Thorn
asville's balmy air, Hanna also
held court for Southern Repub
lican leaders. Promises of jobs,
combined with generous pay
ments from the Hanna slush
fund, produced a solid bloc of
Southern delegates for William
McKinley. And the Southern
delegates gave McKinley the
nomination In a very hard fight.
From Hanna's day until this
morning, the phony official lead
ers of the Southern Republicans,
with their phony organizations
and their obedient herds of
phony delegates, have remained
the useful props and allies of
the party's Old Guard Wing. In
certain cases, as in Texas, they
have even maintained a sort of
hereditary connection with the
local Republican dynasty of
Ohio.
Such men as National Com
mitteeman Henry Zweifel o f
Texas and John E. Jackson of
Louisiana are like the estate
agents and forelock-pulling gate
keepers who used to cast their
ballots as their noblemen pat
rons commanded, in the old Eng
lish rotten boroughs. And these
Southern rotten boroughs in the
Republican party (whosa, rotten
ness really has to be seen to be
believed) almost all belong ' to
Senator Taft.
II ERE IN Georgia, however,
there also occurred the first
local revolt of any importance
among these rotten boroughs.
Its prime organizer was an able
and highly respected Atlanta
lawyer, Elbert Tuttle, who
brought his Republicanism from
Hawaii, and went to work in the
Georgia party in deadly earnest
when he got back from war-time
combat service. He and the State
Chairman, Roscoe Tucker swung
the Georgia delegation to Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey in 1948.
This year, in a convention
held here last Saturday, they
have again swung 15 of Georg
ia's 17 delegates to Gen. Dwlght
D. Elsenhower. The National
Committeeman, Harry Somers, I
in a Taft delegate and strong
Taft supporter. But Sommers
takes the view that the IS Els
enhower were legitimately chos
en by marjority vote, and he
will fight for their being seated
at Chicago.
There is, of course, a compet
ing pro-Taft delegation from
Georgia, sponsored by Roy
Foster, of Wadley, but really
master-minded by a beefy local
entrepreneur, Roscoe Pickett,
Jr. At least one of these pro-Taft
delegates is now on th state
payroll, and Pickett, the master
mind, was both a law school
classmate of Gov. Herman Tal
madge and has also held state
employment under him. With
some accuracy, this pro-Taft
group is described as th "Tal
madge Republicans."
Senator Taft's Southern pro
consul, Brazilla Carroll Reece,
has at best only covertly en
couraged the "Talmadge Repub
licans.'' Reece has also promis
ed National Committeeman Som
mers that the Taft forces at Chi
cago will not recognize this pro
Taft group In Georgia. Yet at
the very least, the fact that this
group exists in Georgia is likely
to be used to cover up th steals
In Louisiana and Texas,
By Roland Cos
mm
It T
by Joiapli Aliea)
I TlHE DODGE the Taft manag
ers can use is only too obvious.
The pro-Taft Zweifel delegation
from Texas, the pro-Taft Jack
son delegation from Louisiana
and the pro-Eisenhower Som
mers - Tuttle - Tucker delegation
from Georgia will all be acclaim
ed as "real Republicans," mean
ing the official organization Re
publicans. With many pious breast-beatings,
the Taft people at Chicago
will emphasize their fair mind
ed willingness to recognize all
"real Republicans," whoever
they may be. They will point
out that this means seating Geor
gia's Eisenhower delegates. -And
thus they will apply a deceptive
varnish of fair-mindedness to
the fraudulent capture for Taft
of 55 Texas and Louisiana del
egates who belong in the Eisen
hower column by law, majority
rule and common political hon
esty. This kind of dodge cannot ob
scure the real issue, however.
By happenstance, the Georgia
Republican organization has
been reformed from within, by
the efforts of Tuttle and his co
workers, whom no less an auth
ority than Ralph McGill has hail
ed as first class political lead
ers. Having been reformed, the
organization has also turned on
the Old Guard. And McGill and
others think that if General Eis
enhower is nominated, these men
will have a chance to build a
real Republican party in Georg
ia. . .
In Louisiana and Texas, on
the other hand, efforts to reform
the organizations have been frus
trated by gross fraud. If these
frauds are not punished, the
Republicans will miss their great
chance to build a real Republi
can parties in these states. And
in countenancing these frauds,
Senator Taft's managers are not
only behaving , like desperate
men; they are also jeopardizing
their own party's future.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Rat Declines Cheese;
Likes Human Beings
Jackson, Miss. (U.R)
-Mike
is not an ordinary rat.
She turns up her nose
at
cheese and likes humans.
The little animal, misnamed
in infancy, was born to a pair
of laboratory rats at Millsaps
College. She grew up to star in
a laboratory experiment on diet
deficiency.
Now Mike is a campus pet
who is loaned to various frater
nities and sororities for enter
tainment. Her favorite stunt is to perch
like a parakeet on the shoulder
' nv one ' her many student
musters ana smacK away con-1
tentedly at the neck of whoever
is carrying her around.
However, psychology profes-
sors fear she may get an infer-lit
iority complex. She finds it dls-
concerting when the women she
tries to kiss scream and run
away.
"Jaan'a ta matt papular girl a tha aaach tine aha ttirtaa drinking
Jartanian'l rlamettnUa' Miirtl-Vrtamia, Malrl-Miaaral Milk"
NRA'lelferAsks
Reinstatement
01 Rifle Funds
A letter from the National Ri
fle association of America, urg
ing reinstatement of a congres
sional appropriation for civilian
rifle practice during the coming
year, was received here recently
by D. J. Bolton, 527 Spencer
street. Bolton is a director of
the association.
Appropriations have been
made for this purpose annually
since 1903, according to the let
ter, and have been recognized as
"vital to national defense."
The failure of congress to ap
propriate any funds for the pro
motion of. civilian rifle practice
for the coming fiscal year
would have the following ef
fects, the letter states:
Clio Arguments . ,
1 The only agency of gov
ernment charged by law with
the encouragement of civilian ri
fle practice would close on June
30.
' 2 The sale from ordnance
arsenals to civilians of ammuni
tion, spare parts, targets and
other supplies would cease.
3 Accessories for marksman
ship practice would no longer be
provided for 2,000 senior rifle
clubs, 1,200 junior .rifle clubs
and 34 secondary military
schools.
4 All ordnance equipment
loaned by the government to
clubs would be recalled, recon
ditioned and stored at a cost es
timated to be "several times the
amount recommended for appro
priation." 5 Losses would result to ci
vilian rifle clubs for previous
expenditures on renting range
sites, etc. . . .
6 Rifle ranges wholly or par
tially dependent on government
material would be forced to
close.
In the Day's
BY FRANK JENKINS
Here is a stubborn fact:
In a world full of powder kegs
and plenty of matches lying
around loose, we have a steel
strike on our hands. .
. We shouldn't have, of course.
If Russia should move swiftly
and decisively, a shortage of
steel could be disastrous to us.
But there it i, staring us in
the face. It can't be waved away
with a wand.
WHAT are
about it?
we going to do
Congress could pass a law EM
POWERING the President to
seize the steel industry again.
The government could then op
erate It as it operates the post
office and has been operating
the railroads. If any other indus
try ' gets obstreperous, we could
SEIZE IT and operate it. And
so on.
Do we want that?
I don't. It smacks too much of
socialism.
TT SEEMS to me, as one small
1 citizen, that we'd better tough
this existing steel strike out,
trusting to the power of public
opinion to bring a reasonable
settlement reasonably soon, and
concentrate our efforts on pre
venting other strikes in indus
tries of the magnitude of steel.
TTOW shall we do that?
" It appears to me that the
first and most Intelligent step
would be to ban industry -Iwide
bargaining. Industry-wide bar
gaining brings into play forces
that are TOO BIG TO HANDLE.
Forces that are too big to
handle are almost certain to be
come intolerant. I think every
one will agree that there has
been a lot of intolerance on both
sides of this steel strike. There
would have been less intoler
ance. I believe, if the steel situ-
! ation had been handled in small
er units.
The old strike, for example,
was much less menacing and was
settled much more quickly and
with less heat and ill will on
both sides. Bargaining in the
case of oil was not on an Indus-
iry-wiae Dasis. ...
I
jN INDUSTRY-WIDE bargain
ing. under government control.
is evident from the beginning
that the final decision will be
i made by the government. That
practically insures that there
I will be no REAL bargaining be-
Several World Spots
Seen as Possibility
For 'Powderkeg' War
BY PHIL NEWSOM - itlons all the way from Moroc
Unitad Praia Foreign Analyst co to Pakistan are stirred up
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
doesn't believe that Russia is
foolish enough at the moment to
start a global
war.
He does be
lieve there Is
a possibility of
a satellite get
ting out of
hand or of a
"powder kelg"
war.
The latter
touches off
Phil N.os. ,ome lnterest.
ing speculation.
First, where do we have "pow
derkeg" situations?
The No. 1 spot could be Ger
many where East Germans
might be induced to attack West
Germans in a sort of "holy" war
to unite the nation by force if
necessary.
Another could be Iran where
the Communist Tudeh Party has
been outlawed but still is proba
bly the strongest and most active
party in the country. Iran's tot
tering economy could suffer, a
fatal blow through a crop fail
ure a real possibility this year
because of the locust plague
threatening the whole Middle
East. . -
Might Tempt Russians
An eruption by the Tudehs,
playing on the country's general
misery, might tempt the Rus
sians enough to invade on the
pretext of reestablishing order
and thus touch off a major con
flict. Still another possible "pow
derkeg" is in North Africa.
The French still are wrestling
with the nationalistic ambitions
of the Tunisians and Arab na-
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tween the parties. Each feels
that the settlement will go to
the government anyway,- so nei
ther is inclined to make con
cessions. The result is that indus
try-wide bargaining drifts into
an impasse such as we have seen
in the case of steel.
Such impasses, in vital indus
tries, are dangerous.
T OOKING to the future (and
" we HAVE TO look to the
future) we'd better remove the
causes of the trouble instead of
trying to deal with consequences
as they arise to plague us.
TT STILL seems to me that the
-most striking development
arising out of this steel contro
versy is the way ' in which so
many justices of the supreme
court crossed ideological lines
in order to get to the root of a
situation that could threaten the
nation s very existence.
Let's put it this way:
Practically all of the justices
of the present court have been
appointed by New Deal Presi
dents. If they had been ideologi
cally stubborn that is to say, if
in their thinking they had put
the philosophies of the New Deal
above the constitution they
could have felt that it was their
obligation to support a New Deal
President at any cost.
They did no such thing. In
stead, they went back ' to the
basic constitutional concept of a
GOVERNMENT OF LAWS and
ruled against the New Deal Pres
ident who has sought to make
this a government of men.
TN DOING so, they set a prece-
dent that "congress may well
follow. This is a campaign year.
In campaign years, members of
congress tend In these modern
times to throw courage and prin
ciple to the winds and grasp at
expediency.
If, In . this instance, congress
will follow the courageous and
statesman-like example set . by
so many justices of the supreme
court It may be possible to enact
laws so wise and sound as to get
at the ROOT of our industrial
troubles.
That would be wonderful.
COP STOLE GAS
Detroit, Mich. U.R) Police
man Arthur Schmidt was under
suspension Thursday for syphon
ing gasoline from a patrol car to
run his cement mixer..
1
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Phone
about It. However, in that area
there would be little chance for
the Russians to intervene di
rectly.
Warfar Encouragad '
It is noteworthy in connection
with Tunisia that the Russians
have encouraged actual warfare
only in those areas where they
have direct land communica
tions. One example was th
guerrilla war In Greece. A clas
sic example is Korea. Elsewhere,
they encouraged Internal ex
plosions such as at the moment
in France.
A fourth powderkeg could ex
plode in Burma.
The situation is precarious for
two reasons. The Burmese gov
ernment itself is in trouble.
Home-grown Reds are exerting
increasing internal pressure and
the Karen, population, whosa
menfolk malce formidable fight
ers, are battling for an autono
mous state inside Burma. -Excuse
for Attack
Some 10,000 refugee Chinese
Nationalist troops in Northern
Burma might give the Chinese
Reds an excuse for an attack
from the outside.
Considering the strict disci
pline practiced inside Russia's
European satellites, it seems un
likely one of them would start
a fight without Russian sanction.
Assuming Russia does not want
a world war now, such sanction
also seems unlikely.
The real powderkeg, there
fore would seem to be Asia
where the Russians do not have
such firm control of their fel
low Reds.
Phobably even Russia Isn't
too sure what the Chinese will
do.
It seems a good bet for now
that a great deal of. Russian at
tention will be directed toward
the East and Middle East, con
solidating control where they
they can, and stepping up their
infiltration tactics in such great
areas as India.
Chaplain Retracing
de la Salle's Route
St. Joseph, Mich. (U,R)
The Rev. R. N. Helverson, chap
lain of students at Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, N. Y., is travel
ing, in reverse, the route of the
French explorer Robert de la
Salle followed nearly 275 years
ago.
, Helverson set out from her
in a sailing kayak to follow the
Lake Michigan - shore through
the Straits of Makinac into Lake
Huron and Georgian Bay, thence
to Lake Simcoe via the Severn
River and finally into Lake On
tario to Kingston, Ont., where
La Salle set out on his first ex
pedition in 1878.
Ual.... 1. -1 -.' .1
,,.,,vimi ,B malting iiic trip
in short stretches while his wife
and son keep up with "him by
car.
He said he decided on the trip
because canoeing is his hobby
and be wants to promote a great
er recognition of La Salle.
Before the 10th
: Fundi invested here by
; June 10 will earn divi
' dends from. June 1
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