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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, Jun 16, 1952 KtoPORlUJrTRIBWB Everyone In Southern Oregon Readl Tin Mill Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by Mrnrown printing CO. S7-29 North Ftr St. Phone S-SUl ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertiilnf Manaser E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor i-mr- A 1. 1. FN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. felelraoh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond claas matter at Medford. Oregon, under Ajt ol March 3, US' SUBSCRIPTION RATES A Uil In AHukitra: Dally and Sunday on year 13 00 Dally and Sunday eix montna o.nu . Daily and Sunday three mot, 3.S0 Daily and Sunday on month IM By Carrier In A d v a n a e Medford. Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year $11.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Term! Caih In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford oriiciai raper oi faction wumj United Preaa full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION I Advertising Representative: ' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC ! Office! In New York. Chicago, De. troit, San Franciaco, Loa Angelea. Seattle. Portland, St Loula, Atlanta Vancouver, t NATION Al IDITOHIAL NIWftPAPlR PUtlitHltS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mea'fere! nti Jackie County Hit Mr? (mm fa tiles at the Mall TrikuM 10, 20, 10 mi 40 fttn 10 YEARS AGO June 18, 1942 (It wai Tuesday) Dr. R. E. Green reelected to Medford city school board; total of 2S0 persong cut ballots. From- Arthur Perry'g Ye Smudge Pot column: Winston Churchill, premier of Britain, holds the Axis should be "beat en Into a state of complete im potency." This It not enough. They should be beaten until the Portland ball team can beat them. 20 YEARS AGO June 19, 1932 (It was Thursday) Ten of 13 Oregon delegates to national Republican convention go on record opposing repeal of prohibition amendment. Issuance of new orange and black temporary automobile li cense started at County sheriff's office. 30 YEARS AGO June 19, 1922 (It was Friday) Medford attorneys condemn ing Ku Klux Klan threat against Circuit Judge T. M. Calkins in clude Rawles Moore, Qlen. f). Taylor, H. K. Hanna, Frank P. Farrell, Gus Newbury, G. M. Roberts, Charles W. Reamcs, Porter Neff , Don R. Newbury, G. A. Codding; only two of 28 local attorneys refuse to sign. Medford Attorney B. F. Lin das starts $25,000 damage suit against Ku Klux Klan for stat ing he applied for membership in the organization, 40 YEARS AGO June 18. 1912 (It was Sunday) Medford city council receives bids for moving Main street bridge across Bear creek to Jack son street; low bid Is $4,990. Rex H. Lampman, Gold Hill, announces sale of the Gold Hill News to his brother, Ben Hur Lampman. Why Not Get Together? We have just finished reading an extremely in teresting article in the July issue of Saga magazine concerning the snow survey work of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, and the Oregon State college experiment station. The piece, written by Montgom ery M. Atwater, is of especial interest here for the elaborate snow survey system now in operation in the western portion of the nation was largely devel oped by R. A. "Arch" Work of Ashland who is pres ently project supervisor for the ten western states; and the surveys in Oregon are made under the direct guidance of W. T. "Jack" Frost, who makes his head quarters at the experiment station here. ONOW measurements have proved invaluable for years to the Forest Service, irrigation districts, power companies, domestic water systems, district water masters, fish and wild life agencies, the geo logical survey and the Park Service. When the intrepid and iron-legged surveyors make their monthly way on snowshoes, skis, by Sno-Cat or other means up to the vast mountain snow courses of the territory, they come back with positive and de pendable data on which to base water predictions. They know the depth of the show and how much water content it carries. And, they know that in due course of time the snow will melt and the water will come coursing down the springs, rivulets, creeks and rivers, much of it to find its way into hydro-electric and irrigation stor age basins and some of it to rush on in the form of spring floods. 16 e e e THOSE snow surveys also serve, or should serve, as ings, as the Saga writer points out in citing the tragic experience of Vanport, where the Columbia river flood of 1948 took many lives and destroyed the city. The warning of flood danger, given two months before, by a soil conservation service analyst had been ignored and trust had been placed in other sources of information which had predicted the flood crest would be well below the protecting dikes. On April 1, the analyst had noted that the snow pack was abnor mally deep and heavy with water. A month later, snow survey figures showed far too much snow, stay ing too late. 1 In substance, the technician's report on May 1, as related in Saga, was : "From the densely forested slopes of the Cascades in Wash ington to the granite spires of the Canadian Rockies, there's too much snow. It's hanging up there too late. It all has to come, and soon. When It does, look out!" 17HAT happened so suddenly on that May 30, when ' the rapidly melting snow released its water to gush forth en masse, is history. The Vanport disaster was a heavy price to pay for failure to heed the snow survey warning, but it brought greater realization that the men who measure snow banks and drifts know what they are talking about. Apparently those who minimized the danger to Vanport didn't know what they were talking about and brought the confusion which resulted in tailure to take precautions. DECAUSE the water supply forecasts issued by the " U. S. Soil Conservation Service, and numerous cooperating- agencies have been so dependable, we have been somewhat mystified by the appearance of another and completely independent government branch the U. S. Weather Bureau into the water supply forecasting field. Considering that the Weather Bureau does not depend upon snow measurements such as those made by the soil conservation service, and that its forecast for the current year, for instance, was not forthcom ing until the year was half gone, it would seem that an unwarranted and costly duplication of service is being created. If there actually is need for both services, why don t the two federal agencies get together, pool the use of their facilities and produce by joint effort the most useable and accurate forecasts of stream flow that are possible? Such joint operation would not only cost the tax payers less but would, in all probability, help to avoid the possibility of confusion and loss such as occurred at Vanport. E.C.F. Crosstown By Roland Coa i-ii.rt a. lf. T M )W I' t fit OH'I "She can lay 'Mommy,' 'Daddy television'!" 'Sister and 'turn on Matter of Fact By Jottph and Stewart Alsop In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Politics: At Wilmington the other night. Senator Taft told Dela ware's 12-man delegation to the Republican national convention he expects President Truman will be a last resort candidate for the Democrat and added that he would welcome a race with the president because it would be "clear cut. DEMEMBER Senator Smathers' " crack in Florida the other day to the effect that Truman "has his dander up" (at the su preme court, the senate, etc.) and don t be surprised if he takes a whirl at another term to gain vindication? Anyway, don't write off that possibility until after the Dem ocratic convention. TN DETROIT, a- fast, rnllv of On The Side By f. V. Durling (Distributes! by Klag Feature! Indicate, Inc.) Kisses one steals In darkness. And In darknm then returns. How turn klues fire the spirit. If with true lore It burns. HEINE. j ne term "Dacnelor can rightly be applied to a widower or a divorced man. That's what the Bachelor's Society of Amer ica claims. I dispute that claim A bachelor is a man who has never married. Only to such man can the term be rightly applied. Anyway, the Bachelors' Society of America will hold a convention In Bethlehem, N. H in July. A feature of this con vention will be a parade of bachelors. That should really be something. The parade will, of courte, be headed by a band. What can you suggest in the way of an appropriate medley of songs to be played by the band at a bachelors' parade? Pitas Not The man who inspired Fa ther'! Day was William Jackson Smart of the State of Washing ton, who devoted his life to suc cessfully rearing his children fol lowing the death of his wife. His daughter, Mrs. John Bruce Dodd, nee Sonora Louise Smart, originated Father's Day In Spo kane, Wash., in 1910, in memory of her truly wonderful father. Hams "The best flavored ham in the world comes from Trigg County, Kentucky," says Chcl Swital. "Ask any ham connois seur. I will check this with my ham expert, Joe Stevens, of the Stevens Sports Event Catering outfit when I see him. My Im pression Is, however, that Joe believes the best hams come from Virginia and Ireland. Says Ht "You recently gave space to a female who expressed some vitriolic views on the charac teristics of the average mod ern male," writes a Beverly Hills, Calif., reader. "Her ar rogance and Impertinence indi cates how far women are get ting out of hand. It was not like that when men really wore the pants and were true masters of their households. Several weeks ago a judge in Cairo, Egypt, ruled Hint a man has a right to forbid his wife to leave the house, !lsten to the radio or read a book, unless approved by him. Or to visit her parents-without his permission. The men of Egypt certainly know women. As one with long cxeperience In handling females, I maintain a woman should be kept busy washing, ironing, baking, cook ing and rearing children. Then her husband will not be Irri tated and Inconvenienced by her gadding about to hen parties, spending her afternoons playing canasta or imbibing cocktails. Furthermore if kept busy, as suggested, a woman will be more likely to have the proper respect for her husband." Asides If you play post position three al the Aqueduct race course regu larly and employ some intelli gent progression while so doing, you may break even on the meet ing. Or so I am informed by a turf statistician. CONVICTS GIVE BLOOD Green Bay, Wis. tU.Ri In mates of the state reformatory got a chance to help those "out side," and did. Out of a possible 435 eligible blood donors, 425 volunteered. Delighted Red Cross personnel could handle only 200 men with the equip ment on hand but promised to be back again. THE INQALLS PHONY Washington Having steam rollered the huge pro-Eisenhower majorities in Texas and other southern states, the campaign strategists of Sen. Robert A. Taft are preparing to legitlmi tlze this feat at Chicago. Mean while, a great outcry is being raised that the southern men and women who voted for Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eis enhower were not "real Repub licans." It is interesting to examine the tests for "real Republicans" proposed by Sen, Taft's national campaign manager, David Sin ton Ingalls. Ingalls has defended the Texas steam-roller by pro ducing an advertisement run in the "Dallas Times Herald" be fore the Republican precinct meetings that gave the Eisen hower people their Texan tri umph. . ' This advertisement Invited pro-Eisenhower Democrats to at tend the Republican precinct meetings, sign the pledge of loyal Republican allegiance and vote for their man. This was, as It happens, the legal way of el ecting delegates to the Republi can county and state conven tions in Texas. No one has dis puted the fact that the pro-Eisenhower majorities In the coun ty and state conventions' were chosen according to the law and the rules, although the pro-Taft state organization disfranchised them. e e rpHE INGALLS defense of this - disfranchisement of the le gal majority In Texas rests on a promise included in the pro Eisenhower advertisement in Texas. The advertisement prom ised people who joined the Re publican party and voted In the Republican precinct meetings that they could also vote in the state Democratic primaries in Texas. According to Ingalls, this showed that the pro-Eisenhow er converts to the Republican party were not "real Republi cans." But by these rules, the pro-Taft minorities were not "real Republicans" either. The reason for this lies in the pat tern of Texas politics. In brief, the one-party system in Texas, which the Eisenhower forces arc fighting to destroy, effectively prevents anyone from voting on state issues ex cept in the state Democratic pri mary. Even in the tinyi rather nasty private club which Is the Old Guard Republican organiza tion in Texas, a great many peo ple still hanker to have some say about state affairs. Hence great numbers of the men and women Ingalls classes as "real Republicans" have made a prac tice of voting in the state Demo cratic primary for many years, without waiting for any adver tised invitation to do so. Take the case of Dallas. One of Dallas county's pro-Taft dele gates to the Republican National convention, Joe C. Thompson, Jr., registered to vote in the state Democratic primary as re cently as 1930. So did W. P. Lose, the Dallas member of the State Executive committee, who helped to nullify the Eisenhow er majorities, and rig the Texas state convention for Taft. So did almost a score of the other old guard Taft adherents who were seated as the "real Republican" representatives of Dallas coun ty in the rigged state convention, and there named Thompson and the other pro-Taft delegates to Chicago. traitors in Dallas did. Add that the Taft 'leader in Texas, National Committeeman Kenry Zweifcl, publicly Invited Democrats to sign the Republi can pledge and vote in the Re publican precinct meetings; and made no complaint until tob many people accepted his invi tation and voted pro-Eisenhower. Add further that the Texan political experts were unani mous in hailing the pro-Eisen hower surge as the beginning of the end of the one-party system in their state, until the local Taft steam-roller went into tion. From such unchallenged facts as these, you can get the measure of the Ingalls classifi cation of "real Republicans" and "Republicans for a day." Texas is vital, for two reas ons. First the outcome of the Re publican National convention will probably hinge on which Texas delegation is finally seat ed. Second, and almost more im portant, the issue at stake in Texas is simply the sacredncss of majority rule and democratic procedure. Undoubtedly many Democrats joined the Republi can party because they were at tracted by Gen. Eisenhower. Equally undoubtedly they had a legal right to do this, and to sup port the man of their choice. And It is also undoubted that these men and women who changed parties for Eisenhower represent the great hope of Re publicanism in Texas. By the Ingalls test, the nation al convention ought to refuse to seat both the pro-Taft and pro Eisenhower delegations from Texas. But by the tests of the in terests of the Republican party and the ordinary rules of honest politics, the majority delegation should be seated. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) AS Senator Taft says, a contest between President Truman and any candidate who is likely to be nominated by the Repub licans would provide a clear cut choice between what we have had and a CHANGE. Personally, I think that would be a good thing. Ike tells a break- his supporters that his basic concern for and his love of America is the sole basis for his quest of the Republican Presidential nomination. "If this honest, decent ap proach is not enough well, that is all I can do." I am not a medi cine man and have no panacea for all our Ills ... If I make blunders, I hope my friends will excuse them. Such as I have is America's." Klckapoo Indian Sagwa Is the sure cure for EVERYTHING. What I want is an honest, sin cere, ABLE leader who will ap proach our various problems from the sole standpoint of WHAT IS BEST FOR MY COUNTRY? Decisions made on that basis are the kind of decis ions we need at this critical per lod In our history for what is best for our country is best for all of us. AS ONE small individual who is for General Eisenhower, that is about what I want. I'm tired of medicine men whose VTEARLY a century ago when, as now, we faced prob lems of the gravest sort Joslah Gilbert Holland, In his poem The Day's Demand, put it about as well as It can be put. I've quoted him before, and I'd like to quote him again: God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; , Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office can not buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men 'who have- honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue and damn his treacherous flatteries with out winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. COMMUNICATIONS Lettera to the Editor mult bear the name and address of the writei although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication la permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the richt to edit all lettera with a view to clarificaUon and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub UeaUon must not exceed 400 words TT wasn't somebody's Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, at a dollar a bottle, that saved us then. It was MEN. Men of the kind de scribed by Gilbert who was better known at that time by his pen name of Timothy Tltcombe. It is men who will save us now. I'm for Ike because I think he is the kind of man we need. A FFIDAVITS show that these crypto Democratic tenden- cies of the Dallas county "real Republicans" are typical of "real Republicans' 'throughout Texas. Fort Worth, for example, had 57 "real Republicans" seated in the Republicans" throughout Texas. Of these, no less than 24 were sinister cryptns. who registered for the '-late Drmocranc ,rimar ies two years ago, just as Uie Rhee Threatens Tighter Controls Pusan, Korea (U.Rl South South Korean President Syng Korean President Syngman Rhee threatened to tighten his personal qontrol of the govern ment by dissolving the National Assembly and calling for a new general election. Rhee already has imposed martial law, placed the press and radio under rigid censorship, banned the Voice of America and ordered th arrest of 11 as sembly members in a bid to per petuate himself in office. The assembly, which opposes his administration, is scheduled to elect a new president on June 23. Rhee indicated that he will dissolve the assembly be fore it Is able to take action which almost certainly would be adverse to his hopes for retain ing the presidency. He has demanded constitution al amendments which would provide for a popular election of the president and creation of a legislature of two houses in place of the present Unicameral Assembly. Pickin' Pears NWJ'!! VOL T6"' ' rioni wamp nntis By BID HOLLINGSWORTH One activity which holds the interest of the men who come to Camp White is the collection and finishing of the many varieties of semi-precious stones and specimens of rock to be found in the Rogue River valley. Hardly anyone is without the visible evidence of the work of the "rock hounds" in the form of rings, watch charms or just a pocket full of gems, ground to form and polished In the lapi daries. Some of the most enthusiastic collectors have their own equip ment, while others do their grinding and finishing in . the Arts and Crafts shop under the direction of Ty Teorey, versatile head of this department. Manville Heisel Called For Air Force Training Portland. Ore Maj. Man ville M. Heisel, 1808 Thomas road. Medford, Is among 30 U. S. Air Force reserve officers taking a special course in per sonnel management at Univer sity of Portland, starting to day. For duration of the two-week course. Maj. Heisel, an attor ney in civilian life, has been ordered to active duty with the 990th Volunteer Air Reserve Training unit, composed of men from Oregon and ashington. Instructors for classes will be picked front personnel depart ments from .-tores and manufac turing firms in the Portland area. There are several stages of de velopment which occupy the at tention of the men in this hobby. The first Is the gathering of the rough stones which have to be sawed to determine what Is in side. It calls for sharp eyes to detect the real agate from the dud. The gleaners have brought many varieties to the camp. Jas pers In green, red and yellow; petrified wood and obsidian or volcanic glass, agates In the pure form or amalgamated with wood, jasper or moss, picture agates, transparent and translu cent, rainbow agates indigenous to Oregon, and the varieties found in the locality and named Oregonite, Rogucite and Med-fordite. A large part of this material is tossed aside as unsulted to the collector's fancy. But other men may see in the discarded pieces gem or a specimen worth sav ing. Several rock hounds have picked up pieces and stones from their roamings around the coun tryside and have made a gem stone walk outside the Company 1 building they occupy. Leland Green, in partnership with Hans Sorenson In the lapi dary business, has a large col lection of minerals and varieties he has gathered In a lifetime spent in the out-of-doors. He was in the Forest Service for years. Sorenson is the master craftsman who has the know how in the fabrication of jewel ry items. Their combined collec tion rates museum standing. Another dyed-in-the-wool gem worker is Perry Ericson, who is a retired barber. He has his own equipment and gathers, cuts, polishes and mounts his own creations. One reason for the keen In terest in rock specimens at the domiciliary is the iufluence of , Dr. Paul Olsen, who with Mrs. Olsen has offered entertainment j continuously since the camp was opened with their Enchanted j Grotto appearances. Dr. Olsen ! has collected tons of material In his travels since his interest was awakened some years back by the finding of a rare meteorite specimen in Arizona which formed the beginning of his col lection. When he was offered a good bit of money for the prize at the time, he decided that there must be something in the hobby of collecting rocks. He brings part of his exhibit to the theater fre quently and with his short-wave ultra-violet light, displays the coloring inherent in many min eral types. Hardly a species is missing from his distinctive col lection. The result of all the enthu siasm shown has been the culti vation of a keenness of percep tion of a somewhat specialized nature and a considerable amount of academic Interest in minerology and gems. Books on rocks are in constant demand at the Library and the quest for terminology and distinctions in the various classifications of quartz, chalcedony and agate types is constant. A new variety of gem material will arouse the keenest Interest in a large seg ment of the membership. And slices of rock are traded around like stocks and bonds. It Is not strange, then, to find that another club is in the mak ing at Camp White. It will be composed of "rock hounds" and when formally organized, the group expects to join the North west Federation of Minerologi cal Societies. An invitation has already been received. Juvenile Group To Hear Report John Chapps, director of the western office of the National Probation and Parole associa tion, will report on the recent juvenile survey made in Jack son county at a meeting of the Jackson County Juvenile Ad visory committee tonight. The meeting will be in the circuit court room in the court house at 8 p.m. Mrs. Victor Birdseye, com mittee president, urged all groups which joined in recom mending the survey to attend the meeting. Recommendations to be presented by Chapps will be discussed, she said. WEATHER By United Praia North California: Fair day and Tuesday. Mon- Weather View Disputed To the Editor: I have read Mr. Beard's statement in the Sun day Mail Tribune denying "anti hail flying has any effect on rain fall in this area." If Mr. Beard makes this statement sincerely, then I think he has missed his calling. Surely there is a post high in the Federal Weather bureau for one so blessed with insight since government weath er experts quickly admit that no one yet knows fully the results of cloud-seeding. He states that this informa tion is based on "facts relative to precipitation figures." This must have been a wonderful study in deed. For three years the cloud seeders have flown; for three years we have had the worst droughts in our memory . . . and one prolonged flight which seemed to disperse all our clouds gave us the worst late-freeze in history. If Mr. Beard's study of these facts proved to him that cloud seeding has nothing to do with the weather then his place isn't in the weather bureau at all. He should be able, as mag- j ically, to balance the budget, reorganize the Voice of America and get the RFC out of a deep freeze. The latest maneuver is to blame freeze, drought and all, on the rest of the state, the Northwest, and an Arctic flow of air from Alaska. A question: Did any other valley west of the Cas cades fail to get enough cloud cover, June 11, to protect their crops? Regardless of the rest of the state, did our farmers ever fight for irrigation water in May except when the cloud-seeders were riding herd? One more question. Has any human the God-given power to determine our weather with, not a wing and a prayer, but a wing and a sack of silver iodide? The members of the Moisture Conservation League are not generally wealthy . . . Their in heritance is a lifetime of hard work. That's the trouble. If they only had money . . there is a happy solution to the whole thing. Let them perfect a "hail making" machine, and then if they were to say "you send up yours, we send up ours," the whole thing could be solved in a matter of minutes,, and once more our "little white clouds" could stay with us, and if they chose, "cry." Jane Gillaspie, 820 Summit Ave., Medford, Oregon. 3 Treaties Okayed By Vote of I to 0 Washington (U.B Th Senate ratified three Interna tional agreements with only two members present. Ratified were consular con ventions with Ireland and Great Britain and a supple mentary protocol to the Irish agreement. The vol was unanimous. Sen. John J. Sparkman. ID Ala.), presiding, voted "yes" and Sen. Edward J. Thy. (R Minn.), said nothing. Men Beheaded Geo. N. Taylor . The African chief and his men trailed a string of terrified na tives to tile central town. There, just as you would kill a hen for the pot, these captives were be headed. The Chief knew bet ter than to have killed them, for at birth God had engraved on his heart yours al so the moral law against mur der, theft, pro fa n i n g God's holy name. Etc. Cinn Rnmane 3-. Geo. N. Taylor 13-16. As the chief danced round and round, an English M.D. stepped up to whisper in the chief's ear "God had a Son who died for your sins." 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