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i EIOHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORIWKrTRIBUin - Everyone tn Southern Oregon Rcada Tne MaU Tribune Publtihed DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-J9 North Fir St. Phone 2-eMI ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager HERB CREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor urn. ciiDMirD w.lntv Friltnr GERALD LATHAM, ClrculaUon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Mediord. Oregon, under At of March 3, 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Da Mil! In AHvflUCe: Daily and Sunday on year 913 00 Daily and Sunday six monthi 6 SO Dally and Sunday three moi, 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 125 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medtord A.hinnH or.tral Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. ' Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent nrl nn mnlnr mutes: Dally and Sunday one year 113.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official I'aper oi daemon uoumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: wwRTHni.l.fr)AY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De. troit, San francisco. los Angeiw Seattle. Portlnnd. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver, B C. NATION At EDITORIAL NIWSPAMR PUillHI ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Madtard and Jackion County Hit Mry tram the files of the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 mi 40 rear. 10 YEARS AGO June 22, 1942 (It was Monday) Japanese submarine shells Seaside area on Oregon coast; nov damage or casualties re ported. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: In North Carolina more candidates than voters showed up at a political meeting. All hands went home Instead oi letting the voters ad dress the candidates. 20 YEARS AGO June 22, 1932 " . .. (It was Wednesday) I .Medford city council cuts sal aries of all employees; 10 per cent cut for those making less than $100 a month, IS per cent for those making more than $100. ' State highway commission re ports that applications for log hauling permits to be used on Crater Lake highway will be re fused; highway snid not In good enough condition to stand up under heavy traffic. 0 YEARS AGO June 22, 1922 "N., (It was Thursday) rackson county club members attending summer agriculture course at Oregon Agricultural college Include John Bohncrt, Ord Reed, Delbert Anderson and Leland Cate. Opening words of song adopt ed by Northwest Tourist associa tion are: "Crank you flivver on the Wanee river and follow the Glacier trail." 40 YEARS AGO June 22. 1912 (It was Saturday) New potatoes offered for sale at Medford public market for 3 cents a pound. Medford Drivers club starts construction of lWmlle race track to be used for Fourth of July races. Soap Box Derby Boys Will Meet on Tuesday Boys entered in the Rogue Valley Soap Box derby will meet with their parents and sponsors for a construction "problem clinic," at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday at Barnes Chevrolet company, it was announced by General Chairman Jimmy Dun levy. Refreshments will be served, and a movie about the derby will be shown. Expert mechan ics will be on hand to advise boys on any problems they may have come across while build ing their derby racers. The Rogue Valley Soap Box Wee will be on the East Main street hill In Medford July 13. Winner will receive an assort ment of prizes, including a trip to Akron, O., for the All Am erican derby. PACIFIC GENERAL RETIRES Washington (U.R) The Army announced Saturday that Lt. Gen. Henry S. Aurand will retire Aug. 31 as commanding general of the U. S, Army in the Pacific. He will be succeeded by Lt. Gen. John W. O'Daniel, now commanding general of the First Corps in Korea, MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence Washington, D. C, June 18 off four years ago, we would assume it will be equally cockeyed this year. We would especially call their attention to the latest Gallup report on the Independent vote in the U.S.A. showing 50 for Taft. The Independent voters have all the others for 25 or 30 "Honesty In government," Mr. 1 issue in the coming election. primaries, Alphonso? The most surprising thing we have met journalistically, Is the Washington Times-Herald. When the Patterson family owned and operated it, the paper wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. Now it is bad nothing but a reproduction of the Chicago Tribune, with Col. Robert R. McCormick at the masthead as "Editor & Publisher," which means It isn't a residuary legatee of the world's greatest newspaper, as the Colonel claims, it really a biased and completely UNreliable propaganda-sheet, owned edited and circulated solely for the personal gratification of its plutocratic and profoundly ignorant Colonel Robert R. McCormick! "Reproduction" Is correct. The tures, format, cartoons, type everything that the Chicago Tribune has, including its slanted news editorials. It would be amusing if lt WEREN'T so tragic. We refer particularly to the In the McCormick sheet. One can excuse the editorials, they natur ally are biased for they are expressions net of fact, but of opinion. The news stories are another kettle of fish entirely. They SHOULD be factually correct. But in the Chicago Trib une and this Washington "re-print" they never are! The Times- Herald's treatment of General is typical. The latter is by Innuendo, branded a Communist "Fellow-Traveller," while the former it is claimed, wherever he goes, speaks to disappointing audiences, arouses no enthusiasm and is, contrary to the plain record, losing Republican delegates daily. One wonders how long the McCormick type of journalism can keep going, it surely does support P. T. Barnum s classic about a sucker being born in the U.S.A. every minute. What a beating Senator Kefauver got here yesterday slaughter ed by Mr. Averell Harriman nearly five to one for the Democratic nomination. Why? For just ONE reason In every precinct where the urbane and soft-spoken Estes was slaughtered in spite of the "dark complected" gentlemen he drove around town yesterday while the populace went t .the polls. You doubt it? How about the negro clergyman wh" led his congregation of 500 to the polls, singing for the formt..' chairman of the Union Pacific, as their ancestors once sang for John Brown! Harriman followed the Truman program 100, and endorsed civil rights 100. Kefauver straddled said he was for civil rights, OF COURSE, BUT on a state, not a national basis. That helped him in Florida, but. massacred him here. ' There is an obvious political lesson in this, which both major parties better seriously' consider, before they complete their party platforms. The negro vote may well decide how many northern states go In November. The Pentagon rules General MacArthur will not be "disciplined" for keynotlng the GOP convention, as the General has been ac tively engaged in politics ever since he returned from Korea, such a decision was to be expected. At the press-club here they are wagering two to one, how ever, that MacArthur will not follow General Eisenhower's exam ple, ask for retirement and give up his salary and take off his uniform! The Taft forces here are vigorously denying the defeat of Senator Brewster of Maine, has any political significance as far as "Mr. Republican" Is concerned. Apparently it wasn't an im portant issue in the campaign but the fact remains, Brewster was and is one of the most ardent ms victorious opponent was and is for General Eisenhower. Perhaps as Maine goes, so go the Republicans. After looking over the battlefield of Bull Run last Sunday, we continued on to Culpepper Court House, also famous in the annals of the "War Between the States." The court house still stands and there is a typical post-bellum statue in the courtyard representing a confederate soldier In his field-grey uniform, can teen, squirrel-gun and all. Far more attractive and dashing than the similar G.A.R. statue in the court house grounds in Rockford, 111., which served as the centerpiece of a fountain, for so many years. This young man had a jaunty cowboy hat at an angle, a mustache almost as impressive as Secretary Acheson s, and a general attitude not of weariness, but vim and vigor, It was in Virginia, no doubt, that the finest flower of southern manhood came to full bloom. On a bulletin board nearby Culpepper county only extends for a week in the Fall, while quail, grouse and wild turkeys can be hunted for 60 days. Off hand, we should think it would be fairly Found we couldn't get a bus went to the Southern Railway who was just locking up after the train going south had departed. He was a very affable, middle-aged man, but it was difficult to understand him as he had a hair-lip, stuttered badly and his hearing-aid (a large white one slightly resembling a gorged tick), was out of order! However, a couple of colored and In half an hour we were In "streamliner," en route to Washington from Atlanta, Georgia. Judging by train travel here in the East the railroads should be making money had to hunt up the Pullman conductor to get ONE seat. Struck the first evidence of the bus and R.R. stations having separate quarters for whites and blacks. We will say this for the "blacks," they were enjoying themselves far more than the whites, Including a hot and heavy crap game In one shady comer of their platform. R.W.R. Former Resident Dies Charles E. Holmes, a former resident of Medford for 15 years, died In The Dalles hospital June 10. He was 86 years old. Funer al services were conducted in Falls City, Ore., where Holmes lived prior to his death. Holmes fractured his skull when he fell from a roof while shingling a house. He was survived by his wife; two ions, Roland, Medford, and Howard, Ashland: three daugh- Britain Claims New Jet Bomber World's Fastest Paris (U.R) Britain has In dicated it has built a new Jet atom bomber that may be the world's fastest, aviation sourc es said Saturday. The four-Jet plane Is believed to be the first heavy bomber In the form of a "flying triangle" the most efficient design for speeds up to and faster than sound, sources said. In London the Ministry of Supply declined comment on the report. Sunday, June 21, 1951 While the Gallup poll was way- advise the Taft supporters not to for Eisenhower and only 14 will decide this election as they years. So watch your step, GOP! Taft proclaims, will be the No. How about honesty in the Texas . isn't a NEWSpaper at all it is Times-Herald has the same fea stories and ridiculously reactionary slanted and planted news stories Eisenhower and Senator Kefauver the negro vote. colored people predominate, the Taft supporters in the party and we noticed the deer season In easy to hit a turkey or is it? to Washington for two hours, so and Inquired of the station agent. - boys nearby translated for us, a very modern air-conditioned Jim Crowlsm In Culpepper, both In The Dalles June 10 tcrs, Mrs. Ellen Gardener and Mrs. Lucille Cole, both Gresh am, and Mrs. Dorothy Portugal, Santa Rosa, Calif., and a grand son, Richard Holmes, Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holmes attended the funeral. Union County Farmers File DDT Damage Suits Portland (U.R) The govern ment was named Saturday In two suits on file in federal court here by two Union county form ers who charged that aerial sprayed DDT intended for forest land drifted to their hay and grain fields. Floyd W. May asked $1513 and Clarence J. and Alberta Eckstein asked $996. Named as a second defendant was Tyler Flight Service. Baltimore, which was under contract to the U.S. Forest Service to spray in a spruce budworm eradication program. The farmers claimed that DDT damaged or destroyed their crops three times in 1950. Crosstown c met Id it id Fmiwh. In. TrL -C I t M Rti V. I. Pit. Office C? "Ya want a bunt. Right? I'll home from first Matter of Fact HARRIMAN'S THREE HORSE PARLAY Washington Does W. Aver ell Harriman have a serious chance for the democrattc nomi nation? It is time to ask this question, since Harriman's re markable victory over Sen. Estes Kefauver in the Democrat ic primary here in Washington. For all his great ability, it has been hard to take Harriman, a shy and very wealthy man who has never run for political of fice before, really seriously as a Presidential candidate, But a man who can beat the formid able Kefauver by four to one, even in a relatively obscure pri mary contest, cannot be laughed off. Harriman has been display ing an Impressive combination of courage and shrewdness in his new political role. And espe cially since the primary here, a good many hard-headed political professionals are beginning to think that he just might make it. T'HE Harriman strategy is clearly a sort of bold three horse play. The first assump tion is that Gov. Adlai Steven son of Illinois will be right out of the running by convention time. Harriman himself asserts that he Is in the race to the end, Stevenson or no Stevenson. But his warmest supporters private ly agree that Harriman will stand very little chance indeed, if Stevenson lets it be known that he will run. Intimates who have recently talked to Stevenson at length have come away convinced that the odds are slightly in favor of his becoming a candidate, espe cially if Sen. Robert A. Taft is nominated by the Republicans. Yet Stevenson does have strong personal and other reasons for not wanting the nomination. And Stevenson has promised his old friend Harriman that, if he does take himself right out of the race, he will do whatever he can to help Harriman. With Ste venson out of the running, Har riman backers claim, Harriman will go to the convention with a first ballot strength of over 300 votes. T'HE second assumption on which the Harriman strategy is obviously based is that there will be a crucial struggle at the Convention between the North ern and Southern wings of the Democratic party on the civil rights Issue. Harriman himself is passionately sincere In his advo-' cacy'of all-out civil rights legis lation. But as Harriman's own victory tn the Washington pri mary strikingly showed, the civil rights Issue Is' also a matter of enormous practical political importance. It is a burning issue among the minorities in the big cities, and the Democratic lead ers In the Northern industrial areas must have this minority vote in order to win. A northern blc, led by Sena tors Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota, and Herbert Lehman, of New York, has already been organized, to write the strongest possible civil rights plank into the Democratic p'.atform, come what may. This bloc probably has the votes to triumph over other leaders who favor com promise with the South. Such a triumph, lt is reasoned, yi'ill be a victory for Harriman, and a bad setback for the front running Kefauver, whose 3tand on civil rights has been equivo cal. For example. Sen. Humph rey, (who will control a crucial 40 or so uncommltled votes from his area) could not com fortably lead a bitter fight oru civil rights, and then support the lukewarm Kefauver after win ning his fight Other Northern leaders, with the crucial minor ity vote in mind, will come over to Harriman. a THE third part of the Harriman three-hnnte nnrlnv Aurm, the support of President Truman when the chips are down. As 4y Roland Co bunt that man all'a way base. Okay?" By Joiaph anal Stewart Also Truman is reported to have re marked to one White House visi tor, in obvious reference to Kefauver, "A lot of people for get that a President of the Unit ed States, even when he's not a candidate himself, has a lot to say about who gets nominated." In the Harriman camp, Truman is credited with controlling up wards of 200 votes at the con vention, and influencing many more. If Stevenson is out of the running, it is reasoned, these votes should go to Harriman, the only candidate who has gone down the line for the whole Tru man program. Obviously all three assump tions on which the Harriman strategy is based are risky in the extreme. There will be plenty of Democratic leaders, North and South, who will want at all costs to avoid a party split on the civil rights issue. Harriman's all out stand on the whole Fair Deal program, including civil rights, involves the danger of his be coming an essentially sectional candidate, like Sen. Richard Russell, with strong sectional support, but without the support necessary for a clear majority. 'TRUMAN, while admiring Har- riman's effort, is reportedly by no means convinced that Har riman can so quickly transform himself into a winning candi date. And the riskiest assump tion of all, of course is that Ste venson will refuse to become a candidate. For example, there are plenty of other hurdles a "unite the party" drive for the well-liked Vice-President Alben Barkley, or a sudden switch of the Ke fauver supporters to Sen. Paul Douglas, which is not to be ruled out. Yet any three-horse parlay is a risky business, and Harriman's bold venture should at least be well worth watching. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) $2,500 in Damages Awarded Plaintiff In Slander Case William Snow, a truck service station employee, was awarded $2,500 damages Wednesday in a slander suit by a jury in Judge H. K. Hanna's circuit court. Snow filed a claim requesting $50,000 damages from Penn Chitwood, operator of the Olym pic Petroleum Truckstop, 1050 South Riverside avenue. He charged that Chitwood had slandered him. and had thus made it difficult for him to find employment. The jury took about an hour to decide in favor of Snow. Was Fired Chitwood fired Snow In Nov ember, 1950, and Snow began working at the Richfield Truck Terminal, 2390 North Pacific highway, trial records show. Snow charged that Chitwood called his new employer and told him Snow was dishonest and had stolen property at the Olympic terminal. Snow was fired from his job at Richfield. (He testified it was the next day. His employers testified that he was not dis missed until nearly a month lat er) Snow said that after that he had difficulty obtaining em ployment in Medford. Snow's attorney was O. H. Bcngston. Robert D. Dames was defense attorney. CALIFORNIA WEATHER By United Praia North California Partly cloudy over north portion Sat urday and locally over moun tains and near coast but other wise fair through Sunday. The useful life of sheets In galvanized roofing may be deter mined by the amount of zinc coating rather than by the weight of the base nieUL In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Political stuff: Senator Taft said the other day he will put In a 15 per cent tax cut if he becomes president. President Truman was asked at his press conference in Washing ton the next morning if he thought any Democratic presi dent could trim taxes that much He answered: "No, I don't. If taxes could have been reduced that much I would have done it." IERY interesting and highly ' significant. Harry Truman went broke in the haberdashery business. If he had CUT HIS COSTS enough, he wouldn't have gone broke But he thought he couldn't cut his costs, so he didn't try. Bankruptcy followed. MR- TRUMAN was asked 'A whether use of the Taft- Hartley law in the steel strike is under consideration. He re plied that it has been under cn sideration right along. He was then asked if he thought he should or would use the law soon. He answered that he regards use of the law as purely PERMISSIVE, rather than man datory. linSLL, over the country as a " whole, a lot of law enforce ment officials have looked upon the anti-gambling laws as purely permissive and not mandatory. That is to say, they have taken the position that they could en force them or not enforpe them, as they chose. Out of that attitude THE GAMBLING RACKETS HAVE ARISEN. When the law enforce ment side of government claims the power to decide whether the laws that have been acted by the legislative side of govern ment shall be enforced or NOT enforced, we are playing with fire. AT its annual convention in Seattle. Kiwanis Internation al writes into its records a hard hitting resolution calling upon government to give out ALL the news AS AND WHEN IT HAP PENS. The resolution demands that the RIGHT of freedom of infor mation be continued as a funda mental right of all the people. it says: "Some public officials feel they are not accountable to the public, particularly in the han dling of information of non-defense departments; that they may conduct the business of their offices in secret; that they may seal or impound public rec ords: that they may divulge only such information as they think is good for the people to know. It concludes: Kiwanis International vigor ously condemns all such prac tices, and denounces such mis use of official influence and power." THAT is well and boldly said. NOTHTNfl in this eountrv is more dangerous than the way in which in recent years news has been fed out to us with the ob vious intent on the part of the administration (meaning the crowd in power) of HANDLING us instead of keeping us accur ately informed. You must have noticed you couldn't have HELPED noticing! that when the administration wants to dragoon more money out of congress for defense pur poses the NEWS GETS BAD. Reading the headlines at such times, you're warranted In jumping to the conclusion that the Russians are going to attack us TOMORROW! You get the shivers every time you pick up a paper or turn on your radio. But when the administration wants us to believe that be cause of the wisdom and genius with which our affairs are being handled in Washington nobody has anything to fear If only the same crowd is kept in power, then the news that is peddled to us turns rosy and hopeful. That is coming to be more or less accepted practice. TT is DANGEROUS. When government has and CONSTANTLY USES the pow er to color the news according to whatever purposes the gov ernment in power has lt In mind to employ IN ORDER TO STAY IN POWER It amounts In prac tice to THOUGHT CONTROL. Thought control is the first step toward communism, naz ism, fascism or any other Ism by means of which the FEW seek to gain control of the lives, the fortunes and the liberties of the MANY. Political Convention Functions To Be Talked Ashland The functioning of the national political conven tions to be held in July will be discussed Monday afternoon at Southern Oregon college, ac cording to Miss Ollie Depew and Dr. Arthur Kreisman, co-chairman of the 4 o'clock tea pro gram. Dr. Donald A. MacDougall, assistant professor of social science, will present the infor mal lecture at Susanne Homes hall. Refreshments will be serv ed and the public it invited to tteud. . . Italian Ratification Of Schuman Plan Tops World News of Week By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The week's balance sheet be tween the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: THE GOOD 1. Italy ratified the Schuman Plan to merge Western Europe's coal and' steel industries, becom ing the sixth and final nation to do so. The foreign ministers of Italy, West Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg will meet June 30 to set up machinery to run the plan which not only is a first step toward European economic unity but also is looked upon as a hope to prevent further wars. Liked What He Saw 2. British Defense Minister Field' Marshal Earl Alexander visited the Korean battlefield, the Koje prison camps and saw South Korean President Syng man Rhee. He liked what he saw and said British 6rlticism of U.S. Mrs. Hopkins Again To Head Republican County Committee 1 Mrs. Bereth Hopkins was re elected chairman of the Jack son County Republican Central committee at its organizational meeting Thursday evening, it was reported Saturday. The committee is crmposed of precinct committeemen and wo men elected at the May 16 pri mary election. . Clifford O. Lovejoy was elect ed vice-chairman. Other officers named are Mrs. Margaret Den man, secretary - treasurer; Rod ney Keating and Mrs. Ed Bolt, congressional district committee man and woman; Mrs. Faith McCullough, alternate to the chairman, and Col. W. H. Paine, alternate to the vice - chairman. Pre-election Plans At the meeting, held in the Jackson hotel, plans for pre election work, including the checking of voter registration through block workers. The next meeting will be July 21, when precinct voting lists will be checked. The post . election organiza tion meeting of the County Dem ocratic Central committee will be held in Room B of the Med ford YMCA the evening of Mon day evening, June 30, according to Chairman Mrs. Mary G. Kel ly. Officers for the coming two years will be elected, and other business will be transacted, she said. The state Democratic Central Committee will meet July 12, Mrs. Kelly reported. .Dead line Sundnv riAmri ! nf 3:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday iur ounaay a.m. II II l H "Grandpa lays ha awai It all to Jorgamon'l Homoganlitd Multi-Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk!" Veterans think of the future! Put your bonus in a it the Jackion County Earn Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Association 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Growing with Jackson County Since 1909 management in Korea came as result of "the ignorance In Eng land about what is really hap pening out there." The criticism, he said, was "absolutely unjusti fied." 3. Another Communist at tempt to stir up demonstrations against new NATO commander Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway flop ped. Ridgway Inspected defense, installations in Italy where part of the Communist failure could be traced to the strong guard set up to assure his visit would be a peaceful one. THE BAD 1. Russian MIG-15s shot down an unarmed Swedish airforce plane over the Baltic and the traditionally neutral Swedes hit a new high in indignation. There was little likelihood that Swe den would depart from a policy which for more than 170 years has prevented it from entering into alliances or treaties, but the Swedes pointedly announced that henceforth their fighter planes patrolling the Baltic would be carrying live ammuni- y , tion. Ratification Demanded 2. Russian UN Delegate Jacob Malik kept Communist germ warfare charges against the United States boiling by de manding that all nations ratify the 1925 Geneva protocol out lawing bacteriological warfare. The U.S. attacked the proposal as a thinly' disguised "fraud" which could, in fact, open the way to Communist use of germ warfare. 3. Floods swept Southern Aus tralia while a disastrous drouth tightened its grip on the north. It was estimated that 150,000 cattle already had died from lack of water and that hundreds of others were threatened. No rains were expected in the north, until October and meanwhile the result could mean new beef shortages for Britons and even a home meat shortage for Australians. Wall Street New York, -(U.R) Industrial shares led stocks higher during the past week, while the recent ly strong rails rested. The industrial average stead ily climbed toward its 1952 high set early in the year. It closed the week at 270.19, up 1.63 points and a new high since last Feb. 2. The rail average added one cent and the utility average lost three cents. It was an improvement all around over the previous week in prices, but a disappointment in sales volume. Sales for the week totaled 5,671,500 shares, a daily average of 1,134,300 shares, against 6,176,600 shares of a daily average of 1,235,320 shares a week ago. , Saving Share Account Federal and let it cry Up Ko
