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10 YEARS AGO
June 28. 1942
. (It was Friday)
" Excellent cooperation report
ed. by Jackson county committee
' epllecting funds for USO build
ing In Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Wearers of
Ice-cream suits wish they were
electrically heated and are view
ing next winter's alleged fuel
shortage with alarm.
20 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1932
' (It was Sunday)
Members of county Junior
American Legion baseball team
named: group includes Ed Sim
mons, first base; Galen Knox,
eenterfield; Robert Smith, cen
terfield and Thomas White, sec
ond base.
' Major distributors here an
nounce increase In price of gas
oline to 23 cents gallon
0 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1922
... . (It was Monday)
:. Oakland, Calif., tourist reach
es Crater lake by car after "bat
tling through snow drifts for
five days" on trip from Klamath
Falls; receives silver cup for
effort from Klamath Falls bus
inessmen. ' Temperature of here
establishes all - time high on
local records; second day in row
In which temperature reaches
more than 100.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 26. 1912
(It was Wednesday)
- Local motoreylist believed to
have been traveling "as fast as
60 miles an hour" when chased
by Medford police chief for
speeding.
Medford Driving club pro
motes series of excursions to all
valley towns to publicize club's
Fourth of July auto races here.
VEHICLES MUST MOVE
Every county In Oregon Is set
ting up civil defense mobile-support
teams. In the event of a
large-scale disaster, these teams
I and other emergency vehicles
' must be able to get to a point
of need as quickly as possible.
Help keep the roads open by re
maining at home.
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view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
Objects to Ads
To The Editor:
' I am writing In reference to
a matter which has been a grief
to myself and to many others
in Medford 3na vicinuy.
In vour uaner appears at in
tervals a portion of a page de
voted to an exhortation to the
public to invite and take some
one to church, and the returns
for this to be richness for each
mnrfmrl.
At the conclusion are these
words: "Contributed in behalf
of the Religion in American
Life Program by Medford Mail
Tribune.
No one of your readers can
or would find fault with such an
exhortation or advice. But many
of us are Justly indignant and
sorry that In the same paper are
inserted advertising cuts and
persuasions for the use of intox
icant! such as beer, wine and
MAIL TRIBUNE
Give the Footlighters a Hand
Medford's Footlighters, the devoted group
which for some years past has provided local people
with excellent entertainment of the little theater var
iety, are becoming somewhat mystified. First per
formances by the devotees of sock and buskin, given
in the high school auditorium, drew fairly good
crowds and, for most plays, there was general praise
and approval.
Last fall, enthusiasm was so high that those in
terested secured one of the buildings at the county
fairgrounds which they went to considerable expense
to remodel and outfit for stage presentations.
B
OTH the Footlighters
their earlier performances there were delighted
with the new quarters. There is an air of authentic
theater about the place, somewhat like the east
coast's "straw hat" circuits where converted build
ings of one type or another,
visited even Dy nign society, in quesu u Buige enici
tainment.
DUT the recent productions in the new Foollighter
theater, despite fine acting, good stage manage
ment and other details which should please even the
most exacting, have failed
tomers.
The absence of that
box office cannot be explained on the basis of poor
stories. "Suspect," the current offering, for instance,
a gripping drama authored
and Reginald Denham, is a
It isn t a matter of amateur talent either, for as
presented here "Suspect" loses none of its interest
because of inadequacy in that department. As a mat
ter of fact, most of those
capable and experienced
mg favorably with a majority of the so-called pro
fessionals touring the country in road shows.
Nor can the setting be
properties and the various
handled, blending to produce the illusion ol realism
which spells art in any medium.
TXHILE it may be that not enough people here ap-
preciate good theatrical fare, we prefer to be
lieve that the real trouble is not enough of us have
exposed ourselves to stage plays in recent years to
learn whether we like them or not.
"Suspect" will be presented again tonight and
Friday and Saturday nights. Those who haven't seen
the play should take time out and attend. They will
find it highly diverting and their presence will lend
encouragement to the Footlighters who are trying
to give us a fine type of entertainment at a cost which
all can afford. E. C. F.
Alcoholic Deaths Decline
Either Americans are drinking less or their tol
erance for alcohol is increasing, according to statistics
recently made public by one of the country's largest
insurance companies. Mortality from alcoholism in the
industrial population has declined by 85 per cent over
the past forty years, according to the insurance com
pany, and the experience for the United States popu
lation as a whole parallels
the company asserts.
rEATHS from acute and
aged 6.3 per 100,000 of
policy holders in the period
100,000 in 1950.
The alcoholism death
fell sharply in the years just prior to the prohibition
amendment, reached its lowest point of 0.7 per 100,
000 in 1920, the first year the amendment was in ef
fect, and then moved upward to a second, but lower,.
peak of 4.9 per 100,000
through the years, a downward trend in the death
rate has been maintained.
THE company's statisticians point out, however,
that the present relatively low mortality is by no
means an index of alcoholism as a public health prob
lem which still causes this
of almost a billion dollars a year.
The insurance concern's experts estimate that the
use of alcohol is a more or less serious problem in the
lives of about four million Americans, and that, of
these, about 750,000 are true alcoholics people who
feel compelled to drink so excessively as to seriously
harm their physical and mental health. E.C.F.
liquor, the very agents of most
of the trngedles and crimes re
corded In the pages of your
paper.
If you, Mr. Editor, and the
rest of the staff set the example
to your' readers of that which
you urge them to do, and take
your neighbors to church, you
would hear the minister read
ing or quoting such scriptures
as the following:
"Wine is a mocker, strong
drink Is raging, and whosoever
is deceived thereby is not wise."
"Woe unto him that giveth
his neighbor drink, and puttest
thy bottle to him, and makest
him drunk also."
"Let us not therefore judge
one another any more, but
judge this rather that no man
put a stumbling block or an oc
casion to fall in his brother's
way."
"But woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! For
Thursday. June 26, 1952
and those who witnessed
including old stables, are
to lure sufficient cash cus
encouraging jingle in the
jointly by Edward Percy
proven success.
in the Footlighter cast are
actors, their work compar-1
blamed, bcenery, lighting,
other effects are well
that of its policy holders,
chronic alcoholism aver-
the company's industrial
1911-1917, and 0.9 per
rate in the insured group
in 192G. From that point,
country an economic loss
ye shut up the kingdom of Heav
en against men; for ye neither
go in yourselves, neither suffer
ye them that are entering to go
in."
Can anything be seen In the
latter part of this quote for the
editor and sponsors of The Med
ford Mail Tribune, especially if
you attempted to do as you ex
hort your readers to do?
You cannot go in yourselves
nor suffer others to go in when
you virtually set before them
wine, beer, and liquor to "steal
away their brains."
It would be profoundly bet
ter for you and your readers
if you would manfully refuse
to advertise for the liquor
traffic.
Rev. H. R. Bulman,
Rt. 1, Box 318A,
Medford, Ore.
REMAIN HOME
"Staying Put" after a disaster,
especially during the first 24
hour period, is a major contri
bution to saving lives and get
ting a city back on its feet, re
minds Civil Defense Director
Colonel Charles E. Stafford.
Don't get out on the highways.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
New news from Korea:
L "Air force and navy fighter-
bombers teamed up again today
to hammer four of the five hydro
electric plants smashed yester
day in the biggest air raid of
the Korean war (now two years
old.)
"Nearly 200 navy planes from
big fleet carriers off Korea's
east coast joined air force planes
from dozens of Korean bases to
hit the shattered generating sta
tions for the second straight
day."
w
ATCH it.
Watch also the fighting around
T-bone Hill where the reds ap
pear to be employing much the
same tactics they used back in
the days when they were hitting
us hard. They're probing our
lines with many small attacks,
hunting a weak spot.
When they FOUND a weak
spot, back in those days, they hit
with everything they had.
JET'S not forget this:
We smased two big offensives,
Inflicting such losses on the com.
munists that it looked for a while
like they might be in a bad way.
Communist dead littered the bat
tlefields. Communist wounded
swamped the communist hospit
als. There was well-founded talk
that typhus, the ancient scourge,
was beginning to sweep the red
armies.
Then
On July 10, 1951
The Chinese reds, through Rus
sia's " Jacob Malik, proposed a
truce. Many competent observers
have expressed belief that they
agreed to talk truce ONLY SO
THEY COULD BUILD UP
THEIR SHATTERED ARMIES.
General Ridgway told us a few
weeks back that they have now
BUILT UP their shattered arm
ies. They are stronger now, he
said, than they have ever been.
NYWAY, watch it.
The situation is much that a
new phase of the Korean war
could be beginning.
AT THE moment, watch the
commie air force.
While we w.ere smacking the
power plants along the Yalu,
more than 200 swept-wing MIG
15s were parked on a Manchur
ian air base just across the river,
in plain sight of our pilots who
were doing the bombing. Not a
single MIG took off to fight back.
That means, only the reds
know. But it isn't kosher. Some
thing still is in the wind. What
It is, time will tell.
FTER that, ack to politics.
The library of congress opens
the doors today on an exhibition
that it calls "campaign banners,
buttons and badges." It is a re
view of the catchwords and sym
bols that have stirred the na
tion's political blood and helped
make Presidents over the past
125 years.
One exhibit has to do with the
campaign of 1840, when William
Henry Harrison ran as a Whig
against Martin Van Buren,
Democratic candidate for re-election.
The Whigs made an issue of
government extravagance, point
ing out that the cost of federal
government was already $6.25
per voter and charging that if
Van Buren was re-elected the
cost per voter would rise to
$17.77!
I wonder what would have
happened if somebody then
could have looked forward to
the PRESENT cost-per-voter of
the federal government. I'm
afraid there would have been a
lot of what were then called
apoplectic strokes.
BUT THE big Issue wasn't cost
of government. It was the
haves against the have-nots. Har
rison, although he came from an
old and distinguished Virginia
family, was pictured to the voters
as a rough frontiersman and sol
dier who lived in a log cabin and
drank hard cider. Van Buren was
painted as an aristocrat who
wore corsets and silk stockings.
Harrison licked the socks off of
Van Buren.
HARRISON, when elected,
took his responsibilities as
manager of the White House
quite seriously and insisted on
doing the marketing himself. He
would rise early In the morning
and walk to the vegetable mar
kets. One chilly day (less than a
month after his Inauguration) he
went to the market, basket on
arm. without an overcoat and
caught a cold that developed Into
pneumonia and he died of It. His
administration (lasting only 30
days) was the shortest of our his
tory.
It sounds like exhibition!?!
stuff, but the odd part of It l
that Harrison was honest and
sincere and really believed the
people wanted him to ge rid of
Inefficient and too-numerous
government employees. His mar
keting stunt was designed to set
an example of thrift, '
Belgrade, Yugoslavia (UP.)
Yugoslavian newspapers report
ed Wednesday the strongest con
centration of soviet troops In
Hungary since 1945. I
Crosstown
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maybe for the
Matter of Fact
OUR PORTS. OUR AIR
Washington A significant
story is told by two allied, but
in some ways contrasting, or
ders recently issued by the Am
erican government. The first is
an order that was secretly is
sued to take effect June 1. It
limits the use of our ports and
the Panama Canal by Soviet
and satellite shipping. And the
limitations are so severe, in ef
fect, the major ports and the
Canal have now been closed to
all vessels from the Soviet
sphere.
The need for such an order
has long been obvious. The Can
al and the ports are almost cer
tainly the weakest links in our
whole defensive system. Let the
Canal be blocked, and our nav
al strategy will be knocked gal
ley west. Let the ports be put
out of commission, and it will
become impossible for us to sup
ply our allies and sustain our
own forces overseas. Moreover,
the Canal can be blocked, and
any of' our major harbors can
be rendered useless, by the ex
plosion of a single atomic bomb,
which any seemingly innocent
freighter can conceal in its hold.
This danger has long been
debated in the National Security
Council and elsewhere in the
higher reaches of the govern
ment. The question was resolv
ed this spring, when the Coast
Guard was told to safeguard
the ports while the guardian
ship of, the Canal was confided
to the Navy. Enforcement of
the order has not yet been nec
essary, since almost no Soviet
or satellite vessels nowadays
cross either Atlantic or Pacific.
For the same reason, conceal
ment of the order has been pos
sible. And the purpose of con
cealment was to avoid stirring
people up, here or abroad.
fiRDER number two is more
" recent and is non - secret. It
Inaugurated the 24 hour a 1 r
watch of our great urban and
Industrial centers. It has been
much criticied just as the order
for closing the ports would no
doubt be criticied if it conflict
ed with the interests, or even
the comfort, of any large group
In this country. In the case of
this second order, what has been
concealed is the real motive for
it.
The motive is all too simple.
Six months ago, the Soviet stra
tegic air force occupied Its for
ward bases closest to this coun
try in Kamchatka. Since then,
active Soviet air reconnaissance
of this continent has been de
tected on several occasions.
Anyone can purchase aerial
photographs of every strategic
area in the United States.
Hence the object of this Soviet
air reconnaissance is obviously
to test the effectiveness of our
air warning and defense sys
tem. None of the Soviet aircraft
flying over Alaska and Canada
has yet been intercepted. The
main proofs of their presence
have been the vapor trails they
left behind. Hence our air war
ning and defense system is quite
plainly far from satisfactory.
Under the circumstances, the
order for continuous air watch
ing was, if anything, rather be
lated. But the air watch will
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be only partly effective, because
the true motive for it has been
concealed. For the same reason,
the civil defense program has
been gutted by the Congress.
Again, the purpose of this con
cealment has been to avoid stir
ring people up.
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WHAT strikes one in the his
tories of these two orders,
in fact, is the peculiar schizo
phrenia that is revealed. The
danger hanging over us is con
sidered sufficiently great to jus
tify the orders being issued. But
the impulse to hide this danger
from the country, the impulse
to be bland and reassuring, is
also so strong that in one case
the order itself was muffled,
and in the other the easy and
natural explanation of the order
was put under wraps. 1
In many other cases, this schiz
ophrenia is producing even more
unhealthy results. For example,
the fact has trickled through the
rather misty German segment
of the Iron Curtain, that the
Kremlin has placed orders in
East Germany for no less than
6200 microwave transmission
towers. This gigantic order will
be sufficient to provide the
whole Soviet empire with a
closed microwave communica
tions system. The cost of com
pleting such a system will be
astronomical.
The fact that such an im
mense investment is being plan
ned by the Kremlin in turn re
flects the Kremlin's concern
about a very vital matter
namely, the ease With which all
communications systems except
the microwave system can now
be jammed.
The jamming art was still in
its infancy when the Kremlin
jammers all but broke off com
munications between the battle
ship Missouri and the Navy De
partment, on the occasion, sev
eral years ago, of the Missouri's
mission to the Dardanelles. The
Jamming art is in its infancy
no longer. Our own communica
tions, internal as well as trans
Atlantic and trans-Pacific, are
just as vulnerable as the com
munications within the Soviet
empire. Yet the huge outlays
to give us even partially safe
communications will never be
authorized by Congress, unless
the danger is frankly confess
ed. Confession will stir people
up. So no adequate effort to
provide us with safe communica
tions has yet been launched.
It Is hard not to feel that tell
ing the truth and taking the
consequences is preferable to
running the many risks of this
sort.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Hribune, Inc.)
Fisherman Glad
Big One Gof Away
Rolla, Mo. (U.R) Vernon
Frank can boast about the big
one he was glad to let get away.
Frank had what he thought
was an unusually big fish on his
hook because he couldn't bring
it in. The catch finally surfaced
and Frank found a large beaver
at the end of his line.
The beaver snapped the line
and disappeared.
2-8030
Russia's Surrender
Ultimatum of War II
Fails To Budge Reds
Bv PHIL NEWSOM
United Proas Foreign Analyst
"We guarantee to all officers
and men who cease resistance
their lives and safety and after
the end of the
war, repatria
tion to
or any other
country as de
sired by the
war prison
ers." The missing
word could be
"China" or
"North Kor
ea." I'hil Kewsora
As a matter of fact.
it's "Ger-
many."
The above is an exact quota
tion from an ultimatum issued
to the Germans by Russia on
Jan. 8, 1943.
A German army under Col.
Gen. Friedrich von Paulus had
beaten itself to pieces against
the defenses of Stalingrad, and
the Russians, "in order to avoid
unecessary bloodshed," issued
their surrender terms.
They included eventual re
patriation of the war prisoners
to Germany "or to any other
country" selected by the prison
ers themselves.
It was a nice piece of work
when Maj. Gen. William K. Har
rison pulled that one out of the
hat at the Panmunjon truce ses
sions. It didn't still outraged Com
munist screams that voluntary
repatriation was illegal and a
violation of the Geneva Con
vention but it did knock into a
cocked hat their claim, there
was no precedent.
Initialed by Russia
To make it more embarraslng,
it was initialed by Russia, the
Great White Father and mentor
of the Chinese and North Kor
ean Reds.
It was one of three bad turns
for the Communists in recent
days.
Another was the high level
United Nations decision to bomb
the North Korean power plants
supplying electricity to vast
areas of Manchuria, Including j
Aniung, MUKden and Russian
Dairen.
It was a freak of circumstance
that the Yalu river power plants
supplying Manchuria were loca
ted on the North Korean side of
the river. They were built years
ago by the Japanese who then
occupied both Korea' and Man
churia and did not foresee the
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time when the two would be di
vided.
The power went to the Man
churian iron, coal and steel in
dustries and to the Mukden ars
enal which at one time was the
largest in China.
The power plants first were
spared in this war as proof to
the Chinese that we had no war
like intentions against Manchur
ia and to encourage them to stay
out of the conflict. Why they
have ' been spared since prob
ably must await an explanation
in the history books.
The third unpleasant event for
the Reds has been the suggestion
that five neutral nations, includ
ing India, Pakistan and Indon
esia inspect the Koje prison
camps to disprove Red charges
of mistreatment of war prison
ers. Of the three, only Pakistan
has said definitely she would
participate in such an inspection.
Since Asiatics would be included
in the inspection teams and
since such an inspection certain,
ly would expose the Red charges
as falsehoods, the Reds have set
up howls of protest about that
one, too.
Temporarily, at least, o u r
side has seized the initiative in
Korea, both propaganda . wise
and militarily. Once at Hiro
shima we used force to encourage
the Japanese toward an early
peace. The attack on the Yalu
power plants is something of the
same thing.
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for a glass of Jorgcnien's Homogenize!
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