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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
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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.
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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
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