Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 12, 1952, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextFOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDtl&wTRIBUin 1 Everyone In Southern Oregon ! Read Tua Mill Tribune published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager KERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport td tor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered at second claaa matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of : M March 3, 1697 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail in rtuvou.. . Dally and Sunday one year 112 00 Dally ana buhomj ...v.... -Dally and Sunday three mos 3.50 Dally ana sunaujr Bv Carrlei In A d v a n c e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle roini. Jackionvllle. Gold HI 1. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent ana on mow iuui"- ,nn Dally and Sunday one year 11 .00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms v-hsu in Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa rull Leased Wire . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Reprn'""v:. ,, , WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Ofllces in new AT--!--troll, San Francisco, Lot Angeles. Seattle. roniHiiu. m NATION At lOITORIAl NiwtrAriK PUIIIIHIIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Meat'' im1 Jackson Count Hit tan frm the filai at the Mall TribaM 10. 20. 10 m4 40 yearn 10 YEARS AGO JuiM 12. 1942 (It wa Friday) Navy announcement reveals losa ol aircraft carrier Lexington at battle of Midway; Chief G. E. Patterson, former Medford re cruiting officer, aboard ship. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column:, A week from today Is Father's day and one of the two longest days In the year. They all seem the long est to him, some Dads say. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 12. 1932 (It was Sunday) ' Medford American Legion post presents gold watch to George Harrington as the most outstand ing athlete in the high school 'senior class. ' . Jackson County Game Protec ,'tlve association requests dona tions of more bantam hens to hatch 'pheasant eggs at state pheasant farm here. 00 YEARS AGO June 12. 1922 (It was Monday) Medford auto accessories store offers automobile tires regularly costing $90.90 for $68.20 each at "great bargain sale." Local men's store advertises shirts for 08 cents, hats for 98 cents and suits for $12.45. 40 YEARS AGO June 12. 1912 (It was Wednesday) Local man travels from Klam ath Falls to Medford by way of Crater lake on horseback; pre dicts "machines will bowl along this summer on the road being built by the convicts" from Un ion Creek to the lake. From the Local and Personal column: Members of the Medford city council are planning an In spection trip to Fish lake, the source of the city's water supply, In the near future. Wholesale Food Price Index up Two Cents New York ttl.R) Higher prices tor 11 commodities in the week ended June 10, boosted the Dun St Bradstreet wholesale food price Index two cenls to $6.45. The index now stands 8.8 per cent below the $7.07 recorded In the like 1951 week, but 8.2 per cent above the $5.96 prc-Koroa level. The wholesale barometer rep resents the sum total of the price per pound of 31 foods In common use, of which six de clined and 14 held unchanged. The 11 foods advancing includ ed flour, wheat, corn, rye, oats. barley, butter, sugar, cottonseed oil, eggs and raisins. Prices of beef, hams, lard, coffee, steers nd ho:e declined. KEEP OREGON GREEN Editorial Correspondence Washington, D. C, June 10 to get the low-down on Camp Aside from a refresher course ger-chaser" proposal, . we could one arrived at by tnis department a long time ago, namely: If there is an all-out war something will ba don at Camp Whit IN A BIG WAYi If there isn't nothing will b don nothing of any moment at least. ' e - e e e e Of course, anything can happen in the pentagon, or anywhere else In this cock-eyed labyrinth, so if orders to spend 10 million out at General Jackson's sub-division are issued tomorrow, it won't flabbergast this department and But the best advice we can home-town is to "FORGET IT." If the unexpected happens and the camp IS really reactivated fine and dandy and we hope it will bring all the benefits imaginable, and imagined. But it would, we believe, be now to bank on it, to change eventually Uncle Sam will pour camp. Just what the compelling reason is we don't know. But we do know or THINK we do that if the powers-that-be here, really intended to do anything to reactivate and rehabilitate Camp White, It would have been started The above is, of course, based war will never become a hot one. world is transformed, including The senior grandson took in chaperoned by the distal! member how they take fingerprints, photographs of criminals, and file everything away so in the wink of any eyelash, the complete history of any suspect can be secured. We are not sure he dreamed about "cops-and-robbers" last night, but this morning when he awoke he announced quietly there vas a dead man lying on the stone-terrace belowl Grandpappy, much amused, opened the blinds and looked out and shades of Mr, Ripley there WAS a dead man! Or at least a man lying flat on his back, his mouth open, his hat off and no indication, through field-glasses, that he was breathing. There was only one flaw in our Junior Sherlock Holmes' diag nosis the man's color was good,. e e e a The office was phoned, but it was 20 minutes before anyone appeared below and then instead of the house detective, It was a vagrant painter at work on a nearby lattice. He surveyed the prone figure for several minutes in silence, then tiptoed around it gingerly, put down his paint brush with great care, and put the palm of his hand not his ear on the prostrate gentlemen's chest. The results were not plain to us on the 6th floor. The painter, however, at once departed and returned with two of his colleagues and four Negro boys, whereupon there was more awesome and silent inspection the blacks keeping together and not getting TOO close. . . Finally the original painter departed again and returned with a fourth member of the union, an older and more resolute spe cimen (probably the foreman), who leader of men promptly directing Placing It in position he then pulled up the limply waiting victim and with the assistance of three posture whereupon, TABLEAUX! a a a Instead of falling over, protesting, or giving any indication of alarm or surprise, the' alleged corpse pulled up his tie, adjusted It to his satisfaction, brushed back his abundant hair with both hands, and our guess is asked for a cigarette altho as far as we could see he got none. Then four of the rescuers picked up the chair with Mr. Supercargo in it, and proceeded toward the terrace entrance, and on to the spacious, and always thickly-inhabited lobby. When your correspondent arrived down there the young man he WAS young and had, it seems, been the life of the party the night before was Just entering a taxi unassisted and going presumably to his home or his club, or office or wherever he decided was the best place to go, under the time and the circum stances prevailing. So that was the end of junior's FBI adventure, and will, we hope, be chalked up in his memory book for future and beneficial reference. With characteristic thoroughness, the young man went out on the terrace and Inspected the spot where he first sighted the "corpse," looked all about, and even scraped one tennis shoe on he tJes then remarked quite correctly, "WHAT a place to sleep on. He must have been TERRIBLY tired!" m "ELementary Dr. Watson, ELementary!" R.W.R. In the Home Corral . Members of the Jackson County Mounted Sher iff's Posse and the Ladies Mounted Troop will have reason for considerable jubilation and pride when the gates open next Saturday on the 11th annual Rogue River Roundup for the event will mark the realization of a dream which dates back to 1940, when the posse and troop were organized. Some 25 persons interested in horses and horsemanship got together that year on invitation of Sheriff Svd I. Brown and formed the posse, their objective being to encourage horsemanship and the breeding and de velopment of better horses in the valley, and to pro vide a trained and disciplined group to assist in emer gency law enforcement. 'HE possemen obtained fine mounts and drilled as siduously. They took an active Dart in civilian de fense activities during the war and two years later sponsored their first roundun. That initial public show was held at the Jackson county fairgrounds as were the subsequent round ups until 1951 when the grounds were unavailable for rodeo purposes because of being used for league base ball. A horse show was sponsored there by the posse last year, however. Destruction of the fairgrounds grandstand by fire later last summer forced the posse to take the action which this year brings fulfillment of that 12 year dream the establishment of a complete round up plant on the organization's own 60-acre site on Sage road near the Timber Products company mill. Seats have been provided for over 3,000 people, there are modem stables, a hay barn, corrals, chutes, catch pens, a quarter-mile exercise track and all the other facilities necessary for staging posse drills, ro deos, competitive games, etc., which go to make up a big roundup. XfHILE to some spectators, the competitive drills " are among the most interesting and spectacular of the roundup events, there is no denying that the bronc riding, roping and bulldotreing as performed bv expert cowboys draw the crowds. The Jackson Coun ty Posse found that out last year when thev staeed their show sans rodeo. It was a good attraction, with Thursday, June 12, 1952 Called at Senator Cordon's office White IF any. on the meanderings of this "nig find no "low down" except the shouldn t anyone else. give to Humdingers Inc. in the old extremely foolish for ANYone any plans on the assumption that more millions into the Medford In earnest long ago. upon the assumption the cold If it does well then, the whole Camp White and Jackson county! the "FBI" yesterday properly of the household. He was shown showed himself at once a born a colored boy to fetch a chair. others, placed him in a sitting !?!! Crosstown "Aw. thoia'ra GINGER cookias. I was hopin' they'd b cocoanutl" beautiful horses, and good cision drills, trail horse exhibitions, and contests for young and older riders but the public stayed away n droves. So this year the posse people what they want. tracted with the Christensen brothers, Hank and Bob, for a full rodeo program with all the thrills and spills which go with such exhibitions. In addition to having of bucking horses and bulls in any rodeo, aetrreera- tion in the country, the Christensens have signed up a list of performers which reads like a cowboys' who's who. There are top hands from all parts of the coun try many of whom have won championships in rodeos from Pendleton to Fort Worth. e a a a A FREE kids show Saturday afternoon with games and contests for young riders and a calf scramble for 4-H and Future Farmers of America members, will open the two-day. program. Saturday evening a downtown parade of riders will wind up at the posse grounds where the roundup program wiil get under way at 8 o'clock. Sunday's show will start at 2 p.m. m THIS portion of southern Oregon has come to look fnrurarrl fr tlin annual Pnmia T?iw.ii Panniinn anrl t ... v. .u bill u.iiiLiui i.ugu i.tici .vvyu.iuui uim this time the spectators will get the full treatment posse drills, riding, roping, bulldogging, contests and all the rest. Because it will be the first show in the posse's home corral, and because it will be the first complete roundup here in two years, it should draw capacity crowds. E.C.F. Gen. Clark Redefines Korean Ground Rules By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst j Gen. Mark Clark has redefined the ground rules in Korea. If the Reds want to start an other offensive in Korea with o u t throwing in their airpower mass ed in the Man churian "sanc tuary," we will be willing to fight strictly inside the lim its of Korea. But if the Reds throw in the approximately 2,000 planes they are known to have in Man churia, we should hit back "with no holds barred." In other words, we should hit China itself. It is a discouraging fact that In Korea the Reds still hold the Initiative. Solution Unknown It is also a discouraging fact that our military and diplomatic leaders do not know how to end the Korean war. But they agree we cant' get out until it is ended. They also know it is one of the potential "powderkegs" of which General Eisenhower spoke when he returned from Europe. Any explosion extending the limits of the Korean war could be the be ginning of a chain reaction lead ing to World War III. . Thus the caution wlih which both military and diplomatic spokesmen approach the question of bombing China. Allies Want True The United Nations side wants a truce. But its spokesmen also are preparing us for possible bad news. Clouding the issue is the fact that we don't know exactly what the Reds want. It was almost a year ago that Russia's U. N. delegate, Jacob Malik suggested that a truce was possible In Korea. Our side ques tioned the Reds' good faith but agreed to enter Into the armistice negotiations. Since then the Reds have used the truce table as a sounding board for every propaganda charge in the book, ranging from germ warfare to mistreatment of war pri.tonrrs. Vajue Indications Now again there have been Phil Ntttsom I By Roland Co rTI nfniff riders in spectacular pre is going all out to give the The organization has con the most outstanding stnng vague indications the Reds sin cerely want a peace. An Indian cultural delegation recently returned from China with reports that the Chinese were weary of the strain of the Korean war and want a face- saving way out. A personal message to General Clark from North Korean and Chinese leaders urged that new efforts be made to find an arm' istice quickly. It could mean that new in structions to the Red truce nego- tiators have come out of Moscow and Peiping, opening the way to a truce. Uprising Milked el Value It also could mean that the Reds have decided they have milked the Koje Island prisoner uprising incident of its full prop aganda value and now have pre pared another trap. All we can do is wait and find out.. The Reds hold the Initiative but Clark has warned them of the mistake they could make by permitting the war to spread. EYE FOR BEAUTY Milwaukee (U.P.) Two teen-agers were watching a pa rade in which pretty girls rode down Wisconsin avenue with the movie stars. Tony Curtis and Pi per Laurie. "Isn't she a beauty?" asked one of the boys. "Which one?" "The red convertible," the boy said. Deed line on Classified Adt: 9-36 pm. lor foiKvwtnr day: 10 am. Mon day; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. "I tee ran " aa.tr aim ef Joreeesee's Hemaeeelied M.rri.Vrt.mia, Mvrti-Miaertl Milk this nKaiae," In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A Washington dispatch says: "Congress today sent to the White House a 8,447,730,750 foreign military-economic bill providing about IVi billion dol lars LESS than President Tru man requested." PERSONALLY, I'm inclined to think that with careful econ omy, spending other people's money as painstakingly as we SDend our own. we might be able to provide as much military and economic help for the small er sum as we've been providing for the larger one. There has been a lot of extravagance in our handling of our public ex penditures. What do you think about it? . WE HAVE to provide help for our friends in the rest of the world if we want them to be strong enough to help us in the big job of saving the free world from being gobbled up by com munism. We HAVE to spend a vast amount of money in building up our military strength if we are to convince the communists that we are too strong to be tackled. The communists seem to respect only force. And, of course, we HAVE to pay interest on our immense public debt and we have to pay the carrying charges on the cost- by wars of the past. ALL OF THESE things are un avoidable. But we DON'T have to be recklessly extrava gant In the way we spend our money. Wise thrift and careful buying will do the job for us ev en better than waste extrava gance. ANOTHER one from Washing ton: "The government today cut the size of down payments re quired for the purchase of new homes." The reduction is expected to provide a considerable stimu lus to the building of new hous es. SUPPOSE it will do just that. But it might be at least aca demically interesting to point out that the reduction of down payments on houses doesn't pro vide any, actual new money - for house building. It merely pro vides LESS cash and MORE debt. T MIGHT be academically in teresting to point out that it Isn't actually necessary, in order to get enough houses built, to pass a law enabling us to use more debt and less cash in pay ing for them. fF.WE WANTED to, we could save up the money f iKbi ana then use it to pay for the houses when they were : built. The scheme will work either way. For example, you can pay a dol lar down and a dollar a week for 39 weeks for a $40 suit of cloth es. Or you can save a dollar a week for 40 weeks and at the end of the 40 weeks you can go down to the store, lay your cash on the barrelhead and take the suit home with you. Either way will get you the suit. It works - the same way with houses. 4 WAY BACK in Grandfather's "time, people saved up the money FIRST and then used it to buy what .they wanted or needed. Now we prefer to do the buying first and the paying for it AFTERWARD. Either method seems to work. But we look back with quite a lot of envy to the LOW PRICES that Grandfather paid In com parison with the higher prices we pay now. The fact that Granfather sav ed the money up. first and then paid cash on the nail whereas we prefer to do the buying first and the saving afterward has something to do with the differ ence in price. There is no such thing, you know, as something for nothing.- ' ILLNESS OPPORTUNE Allegan, Mich. (U.PJ For once, Josephine Meade didn t mind being 111. The 17-year-old high school student had to stay home and smelled smoke while convalescing. Her parents were away. A small blaze was put out by firemen before it could spread and destroy, the family home. Matter of Fact BERLIN AND SEOUL Washington There can be little doubt that this battered world is entering another period of war danger. For example, the Soviets and their East German stooges are making gestures to wards a renewal of the blockade of Berlin. But before Secretary of State Dean D. Acheson left for Eurore. the grave decision Lwas taken to use force, if need be. to prevent Berlin from being blockaded a second time. The initial move, no doubt, would be to send an armed con voy to the beleaguered city. Four years ago, only General Lucius D. Clay in the American govern ment and Aneurin Bevan in the British cabinet odd partners, indeed advocated opening the way to Berlin by an armed con voy, j - , . Now, however, minds and conditions have changed'. On the one hand, it is almost certain that a Berlin blockade, if impos ed, at all, will be imposed by the East German Communist gov ernment and its army, which is now being brought up to strength. Thus an armed convoy sent to relieve Berlin would have to fight German Communist un its instead of Russian forces. On the other hand, during the op ening months of the Korean cris is in I960, the Western govern ments publicly committed them selves not to tolerate another Berlin blockade, and his com mittment is to be honored if the need arises. e a ' a CERTAINLY passive accept ance of a new Berlin block ade would be the beginning of total defeat in the Cold War. At the same " time, significantly enough, there is far less worry about the situation in Berlin than about the situation in Kor ea. This is for two reasons. First, the Western agreement on West German independence and rearmament has produced a much milder Soviet response, thus far, than was anticipated. Second, and more important, new Berlin blockade would con stitute a, frontal attack, would tend to unite- the West, and would positively invite a gener al war. Whereas the Politburo, which wants victory, without war, must perceive that a suc cessful offensive in Korea would constitute a brilliant flank at tack, it would tend to disunite the Western powers. It would subject the West to a shatter ing defeat in the Far East. And they- might just get away with it without a general war. 1 The fundamental - Drecarious- ness of the Korean situation has already been reported in this space. The cause, of course, is the huge enemy build-up that has taken place there in the last 10 months. The most vivid illus tration is provided .by the real facts of the Korean air fighting. about which President Truman was so complacent in his .speech to tne 33th Division reunion.. In brief, we now have air su periority over the Korean battle field, but we cannot possibly count on maintaining this super iority, in the face of a massive enemy offensive which achieves serious initial gains. The Com munist commanders -in- Korea now have at their disposal 1,800 aircraft, of which 1,000 are MIG jet fighters. Our commanders dispose of approximately 1.000 aircraft, of which approximately nau are jets oi various types. a a e THE COMMUNISTS have nev er thrown their entire fight er and bomber forces into the air battle at one time, as they would in a major offensive. Among the American fighters, only the F-80 can meet the MIG on better than equal terms, and Gen. o. P, Weyland ia already using his F-88 wings at full stretch. In recent months, more over, the advantage of the F-86 over the MIG has been dimin ishing. Formerly the American fighter surpassed the Russian in its electronic controls, rate of dive and rapidity of iire. .All these defects have been remed ied in newer models of the MIG that have recently appeared in the Korean air. Hence the Am erican advantage, even in F-86 combats, now mainly rests on the better training of our pilots. Finally and most important of all, the MIGswith theic short range and their bases beyond the Yalu, have only been able to reach central Korea with ex terior, xuei lanKs, . while our planes can range northward from their forward bases. But most of these vital American forward airbases are in the region of Seoul, only sixty miles behind Chapel Mortuary Across from Y Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone y Jenefc ana) Stewart Alio the battlellne. And any enemy break-through that caused these bases to change hands, even if it failed to disorganize Gen. James A. Van Fleet's ground defense in depth, would automaticlly al ter the whole balance of the air battle. The threatening alteration of the climate in Moscow, the con. cern about Korea displayed by the wise Winston Churchill, have lately concentrated atten tion on such unpleasant facts as the foregoing. For the first time since the first Korean aggres sion, there is a feeling abroad that the Soviets may be contem plating another major move. As the scene of such a move, Korea is rated highest, Berlin comes next, and Yugoslavia is held to be the least likely. PRESIDENT Truman himself, in his 39th Division speech, went out of his way to mention the possibility ,of such a Sov iet move, after he had got through denouncing Sen. Rob-bert- A. Taft's remarks about airpower. Very likely the war danger will pass again, as it has passed before. Yet it is sym bolic of the distortion of our current thinking that what amounted to a Presidential war ning got less attention than Tru- man's slambang campaign-time politics. (Copyrlfht 1852. N.Y. Herald Trlb.. Inen m Sale Terry Shorts and Bras- $3.95 ON THIS Nylon Blouses $3.95 $5.95 Pastel colors with Rhinestone buttons ' All At 22 S. CRAPE 2-8030 ( s ss: