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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.
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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!"
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"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.
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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.
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"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.-
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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
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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
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