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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) Iveryoae la Southern Oregon Reads Trie Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PBCiTING CO. 27-29 North Tit St Phone 24141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R- G1LTKAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JIWETT. SdotU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under At of March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday ono year lf 0 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 DaUy and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month lip By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $13 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASJOCl-ATlpN NtWSFAr-Et rimisHits ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time KUdfor) aad Jackson County His tory frm the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 "" 40 rear 10 YEARS AGO Jun 30. 1942 (It was Tuesday) Edward A. Rein appointed as first chaplain to serve at Camp White, under construction near here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Old Sol beamed again yesterday. For the first time this year pedestrians noted we snaae was always u the other side of the street and not much of it. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 30. 1932 at was Thursday) Captain Dobbsie and his Hap pytimers, well-known radio pro gram, to broadcast from Medford theater. Ashland city council votes to cut salaries of all employees by 15 per cent; saving to city ex pected tc total about $5,000. 30 YEARS AGO Jun 30. 1922 (It was Friday) Petition for candidacy of ben jamin F. Lindas for mayor to succeed C. E. Gates filed with City Recorder Alford. Entrants in West Side Tennis club handicap tournament in clude Carter Boggs, Fletcher Stout, Horace Bromley and Rawles Moore. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 30. 1912 (It was Sunday) Small Medford girl "almost loses her life" by drinking sev eral samples of patent medicine left at her home by salesman. Two local women escape in jury when man driving EMF car accidentally knocks the wheels off their carriage. Wesi Irrigation Water Seen Ample Washington (U.R) The Bu reau of Reclamation which re . ported . 57,000,000 acre-feet of water was backed up in 116 reservoirs, was confident Mon day it can provide most of the irrigation and power needs of the West this summer. It conceded, however, that shortages may develop in some areas of Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and southern Kansas In a breakdown of reservoir conditions, the bureau had the following to say about the Pacif ic Northwest areas of Washing ton, Oregon, western Montana and Idaho: Water supply "uni formly good or better. Reser voirs which had been drawn down for flood control are now filling. Storage in Lake Roose velt behind Grand Coulee dam has increased over 1,000,000 cu bic feet." Deaths on Highway Establish Record Chicago (U.R) Highway deaths skyrocketed to a new rec ord in May, the National Safety Traffic accidents accounted for 3,160 deaths during the month as compared with pre vious May record of 3,066 set in 1937. The toll was 12 per cent high er than in May, 1951, the Safe ty Council said. ESS I HAH. TRIBUNE Science Aids "It isn't always possible lars and cents, the work betterment of agriculture but Harold White of the Southern Oregon Experiment Station at Talent gave some figures recently which show that there is a very real profit in such scientific aid. QPEAKLNG at a meeting Commerce, the agronomist cited the work, the sta tion staff undertook to determine the cause of the serf ous decline in per acre yield of Ladino clover seed in this area. Research' finally insects were causing the loss, and a dusting program was instigated. As a result, the project, which cost the taxpayers around $5,000, is bringing back $250,000 annually in farm incomes to Jackson and Josephine counties. Another research project mentioned by Agrono mist White was the development of Talent alfalfa a the station. This effort, which he said set taxpayers back about $8,000, has made it possible to produce a ton mqre alfalfa per acre and the increased yield, m the aggregate, means very impressive profit indeed. A new type of alfalfa, ment at the station, gives value than Talent, the agronomist revealed in his Ash' land talk. AS EVIDENCE of what farming methods in addition, of course, to de velopment of land have meant in the way of in creased production in Oregon, Mr. White stated tha the gross income from agriculture has reached $500,- 000,000, having grown torty per cent in the last zo years. E.C.F. Holiday Travel Holds Peril The Fourth of July holiday is near and while many are preparing to load up the family car for a trip to mountains or shore, a few words of warning may be in order. ACCIDENTS can happen to anyone, but most com ... .... i i i xuuxiij taA'wjr iiif v -w wiw wva w pm7.v. AnH cfiTierallv sneakiner. the holidays Memo rial Day, Fourth of July, . - , i r New Year's are the iavorite limes ior sucn unvers tn rnnvf. ininrv or Heath. - Holiday traffic accidents in the last six years - - -. a if TT . . have killed half as many Americans as ine Aorean war. the five holidavs mentioned having claimed 8,936 lives since 1946 while the V h fr eif m excessoi x,uuu.. THE National Safetv Council estimates that 40,000, X AAA nnoaa-nfraf irol"11laC UUU UCUDUltlvL V bUAklbd the three-day Fourth ot July noiioay mis year ana that they will roll up mileage in the neighborhood of 5,000,000,000 miles. - Memorial Day this year set a new recofd for that hnlirlav. when 360 persons were killed, according to a National Safety Council spokesman. That sounds bad for the Fourth. TT WOULD be gratifying A repnrrl nf annther kind for the "elorious 4th" but pvpit driver uses extra caution to make up for the extra hazard which a survey has shown to be about 30 per cent more than on r ' COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune. reserves the right to edit all letters witn view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must r riMd Seadina i To the Editor: At the' expense of being labeled a radical, a reac tionary, or Derhaps a Commu nist, I am finally inspired by the recent advertisement ot tne Moisture Conservation League, to publicly enter the hot local debate on this important issue. I am not a member of the league or the Fruitgrowers Ass'n. However, I farm an area in the Beagle District, composed of black sticky underlaid with bedrock. My onliy moisture comes from the sky. Despite ex treme crop setbacks due to lack of rainfall, I have reserved my decisions on the results of cloud seeding. Twenty years of flying military aircraft plus intimate experience with all kinds of weather perhaps has made me more objective about weather; however, I am no meteorologist and therefore not qualified to make positive claims. I cannot believe that a major ity of the League members en dorse the ad, which, in my opin ion was pure McCarthyism, im plied facts only, and unwar ranted character assasination. I sincerely hope that the voting public does not permit itself to be hazed by statements of any organization or person, which are stimulated by emotional self interest An informed .public should consider these truths: 1. No person has yet proved or disproved to the point of ac cepted scientific fact, that any person or machine can make rain or prevent hail. 2. By the mere acceptance and publication of the recent ad, your paper has indicated an im partial attitude. .3. No. proof exists that any person or machine caused the dry "condition which prevented! the mills from operating. Monday, Jun 30, 1932 Farming Here to evaluate exactly, in dol of agencies devoted to the and horticulture in this area of the Ashland Chamber o: revealed, said White, tha than with any other variety now in process of develop promise of even greater research and improved Labor Day, Christmas and i i . 1 J I at .-a m . war death toll currently is will Vin ntl tVlO TYIAVO rlnrlDO TT 111 Kf VU vuu w w 5 if Americans were to set a a new low in deaths it won't be done unless an average weeK-ena. n n n 4. No proof exists that any person or machine destroyed the- cloud coven during the recent frost. 5. The good character and work of our County Agents are known to unbiased thinkers. 6. No authoritative person is yet in a position to make con clusive statements regarding the results of cloud seeding. Meteor ologists do not agree among themselves. The Fruitgrowers think seed ing helps, the pilots who are paid for it know, and the dry land farmers are sur it prevents rain, each for their own strictly unexpert reasons. None can prove their claims. BUT I am against cloud seeding in this area, simply because1 the "possibility" exists that it may change the weather and thereby do damage to some. Therefore, I believe that seeding should cease until weather control re sults are accepted scientific facts. " Let us disperse with the emo tional name-calling instead of the clouds, and have only known facts presented to the voting public- Sincerely yours, Nathan S. Haines, Captain U.S. Navy (retired) Route 2, Box 580, Central Point, Oregon. Veteran Willamette Steamboat Retired Portland (U.R) An era of steamboating on the Willamette river above Oregon City was at an end Monday with retire ment of the steamboat Claire, a veteran of 34 years on the riv er. The Claire was the last steam boat left on the river small enough to pass through the locks at Oregon City. i Crosstovh 'Til admit Bregan has . but try to cbnf in -r Matter of Fact BERLIN AGAIN? Washington - Secretary of State Dean Acheson's little no ticed mission to Europe has simple, central object. This is to persuade our frightened, - ill-de fended and divided European al lies to accept the risk of general war, rather than to abandon Bey lin to renewed Soviet pressure. There have been all sorts of signs hi recent weeks that a new Soviet aggressive move may be m the offing, and on balance second Berlin blockade, ostensi bly initiated by the East German puppet government, has seemed the most likely move. Shortly before' Acheson left for Europe, he took the leading part in forc ing through the National Secu rity Council,, a crucial policy de cision on the American response to such a move against Berlin. Acheson took the position that Berlin could under no circum- strnces be abandoned to the viets, and the Council agreed. The Council also agreed that an other airlift,- undertaken with no end in sight, would be a defen sive and inadquate response, es pecially since the Soviet can now wreck an airlift simply by jam ming the radar at the Berlin air fields. This left just one way to hold Berlin by breaking any blockade by the direct use of military force. THIS does not mean, however. that if a blockade is imposed on a Monday, an armed convoy need necessarily be ordered to break it on a Tuesday. Sufficient stockpiles of food and other ne cessities have been built "up in the western sector of Berlin so that there is more room for ma neuver than there was when the first blockade was imposed in 1948. Western Berlin now has sufficient stocks to carry the city, without an airlift, for about six months. Therefore a military showdown need not come imme diately after a blockade is im posed. Thus according to present in tentions, the first step by this country-and if Acheson's mis sion succeeds, by this country's allies would be to order fuU mobilization. In brief the west ern allies would publicly prepare to fight a war, if necessary, rath er than abandon Berlin. Full mobilization by the West during the time provided by the West Berlin stockpiles would, of course, telegraph the punch to Moscow. But telegraphing the punch is thought to be actually desirable, simoly because this would give the men in the Krem lin time to think again, and the policy-makers still believe that the Soviets wish to avoid a full scale war. This breathing speU would also provide time for final nego tiations with the Russians. - But these negotiations would be far different from those undertaken in 1948 by Gen. BedeU Smith, then Ambassador to the Soviet Union. For this time the West ern spokesmen would be armed with the warning that unless the blockade were lifted, military force would be used to break it Then, if these last attempts to negotiate failed, Western troops would, be ordered to open the land corridor between Berlin and the West. '-' rpHIS, in broad outline, is the American position in Berlin, and it is Acheson's task to per suade our Allies to agree to this position. Obviously, this is an immensely difficult task, calling for all Acheson's persuasive abil ities. To break a Berlin blockade by armed force clearly involves the gravest possible risk of war, and our Allies, especially the French, simply are not prepared to fight a war. Nor, to put it bluntly, is this country Indeed, there is in some quarters in the Pentagon strong opposition to the Acheson-spon-sored Security Council decision on Berlin. This is for the obvious reason that awareness of our military ' unreadiness is most acute in the Pentagon. The Pen By Roland Cot rtty scrwy political viwt arguments to baseball." By Joseph an4 Stewart Also tagon has been particularly in sistent that this country mobilize fully before, and not after, the risk of breaking a blockade by force is undertaken. , Even if theWestern Allies, nice the Pentagon, should reluc tantly agree in principle to the American position on Berlin, it requires no very vivid imagina tion to see how hard it would be to make this agreement stick in the face of an actual blockade. During the brief breathing spell granted by the Berlin stockpiles, tremendous pressures would certainly build up in Europe, and even in this country, to abandon Berlin rather than to risk a gen eral war. It is on precisely these pres sures, of course, that the Soviet rHiers win count if they take the momentous decision to blockade Berlin again. No informed offi cial doubts that free Western So-fBerhn is like a cancer in the So Viet system, and that the Soviets will go to almost any lengths to excise the cancer, if they believe it can be done short of world war. Yet no informed official in this country or in Britain or France for that matter doubts that abandonment of Berlin by the West would be an intolerable disaster, amounting virtually to outright defeat in the cold war. And those who'have been right in the past believe that if our nerves hold steady, we can stiU avoid this disaster, without gen eral war, if the Kremlin does strike at Berlm again. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Oregon Editors Prefer Eisenhower Portland U.R) Oregon daily newspaper editors believe Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower would be the strongest Republican nomi nee in the November election, The Oregonian said Monday in a poll of upstate newsmen. But the editors were about evenly divided on whether Eis enhower or Sen. Robert A. Taft would actuaUy get the nomina tion, the newspaper said. " ' Two questions were asked the editors: In your opinion, who would make the strongest Republican candidate in the November elec tion? . Regardless of personal choice, who do you think will be nomi nated? The Oregonian said 16 editors replied unanimously "Eisenhow er" to the first question. Seven also named Eisenhower on the second question, but seven re garded Taft as the likely nomi nee and two were doubtful. CANNERY DESTROYED Westport, Wash. U.R) Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the Dungeness Fish Can nery at Westport early Monday, causing damage estimated at $150,000. Presenting HYMNS OF THE WORLD with John Cha rles Thomas and tht King's Men EVERY SUNDAY EVENING, 10:15 Radio Station. KMED CONGER-MORRIS ,Funeral Directors Ambulance Service " West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected MerSciens by Invitation In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS News note: Richard Pinette, a New Hamp shire school teacher, while driv ing along a narrow country road, was stopped by a bull moose, which suddenly loomed in front of his car. TQ YOU reckon that could be a political omen? Senator Taft's father, William Howard Taft, was stopped by a Bull Moose that loomed in his path away back in 1912. . ' gCONOMIC note: Mid-summer heat -this week reduced the supply of livestock coming to the Chicago market to the lowest numbers since last August and prices reacted HIGHER accordingly. CUPPLY and demand, you see, 3 still do have something to do with prices in this country. We aren't COMPLETELY reg imented yet. JOST of government note: The joint congressional com mittee on reduction of non-es-sentiai federal expenditures (more briefly tabbed as the Byrd committee) reports that civilian employment in the ex ecutive branch of the govern ment increased by 10,665 during the month of April. The total number of such civilians on Ap ril 30, the committee said, was 2,579,714. That's almost twice the total population of the state of Ore gon. HPHAT brings up another thought. The state unemployment com pensation commission estimates in Salem that during May, 439,- 700 persons were working at non-farm jobs in Oregon. That's 6,000 FEWER than were similarly employed dur ing April and 15,900 fewer than were employed in May of 1951. YOU reckon there, could be a connection between MORE government employees in the city of Washington and FEWER employees in private in dustry in Oregon? It could, be. Every needless GOVERNMENT employee has to be carried on the backs of those who work in private PRODUC TIVE industry, for needless government employees PRO DUCE NOTHING. THE LAST figures I saw in- sons employed in private PRO DUCTIVE industry now have to carry on their back one non productive government em ployee (meaning by that ALL government federal, state, county, city, etc.) That's a pretty heavy load to have to tote while you work. A NOTHER interesting, but far from comforting thought: You. must have noted that President Truman sent to con gress a budget calling for feder al expenditures totalling ap proximately 85 billion dollars in the next fiscal year. That's near ly $600 for every man, woman and child in this country. That's a good thing to re member when you pay your taxes. It explains why they are high. It's also a good thing to remember when you buy your groceries, your shirts, your shoes your blouses, etc. Taxes have to be added to the cost of production, because they ARE A PART of the cost of production. So they have to be added onto the price of what ever you buy at the store. Considering the astronomical height of taxes, it's no wonder prices are high. Ammunition Dump Explodes in Korea Seoul, Korea (U.R) An Air Force ammunition dump at Ulsan caught fire and exploded Sunday, killing a South Korean woman and injuring nine oth ers, including two American sol diers. The explosion took place two weeks after fire and explosions destroyed an 8th Army ammun ition dump near Pus an. Oregon Cherry Crop' Suffers Heavy Damaae BY UNITED PRESS Oregon cherry growers Mon- day attempted to assess the dam age done their crops by heavy summer rainstorms the past three days. Though the weather bureau said the' rains may be over, split ting and dry rot may run the loss in cherry orchards to several hundred thousand dollars, fruit men said. J. E. Klahre, general manager of the Apple "Growers' associa tion at Hood River, said the bumper cherry crop in that area has been seriously damaged. He said it wil take a day or two to evaluate the damage in dollars and cents. Hood River growers had ex pected to ship about 125 refrig On The Side (Distributee by King My love, bound me with a kin That I should no longer stay. When I felt so sweet a bliss, I had less power to part away. Had she bid me to at first. It would-not have grieved my heart Hope delayed would have been the worst But, ah, to kiss and then to part. Alas, that women do not know Kisses make men loth to (o. Campion. There are no longer any dance hostesses at Manhattan's cele brated Roseland Ballroom.' At one time this dance hall employ ed 250 dance hostesses. Rose land was the inspiration of that song classic of the yesteryear titled, "Ten Cents a Dance." At present there is not need for hostesses at this famous dance palace. Feminine patrons out number the male customers two to one. However, the manage ment may find it necessary to engage some dance "hosts" so the feminine customers will have somebody to dance with. Asking: Queries from clients. Q. Did you attend Brown or Dart mouth, or both? A. Did not at tend either. Am a graduate of Wesleyarr University, Middle town, Conn. Q. I claim Gertrude Hoffman did "The dance of the Seven Veils" in vaudeville. Right? A. Quite right, sir. In a sketch titled, "A Vision of Sal ome." This sketch ran for twenty-two weeks at Hammerstein's Victoria Music hall. Incident ally, Fanny Brice did a. hilarious burlesque of the dance you men tion as an accompaniment to a song titled, "Sadie Salome go Home." Q. Where was the "smoke filled room" so often re ferred to in connection with the Republican National Convention of 1920? A. At the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. To be specific, Suite 804-5. Perhaps there should be a memorial tablet in that room. Tips Again The correct tip for a manicur ist is 50 cents. That's what I re ported in quoting an elleged ex pert on the subject of tips. Now a Manhattan manicurist says the man doesn't- know what he is talking about. She states that five years ago a half dollar was a "fair" tip for a manicurist. But not now because of rising prices. The young woman points out that the manicurist has to purchase all her instruments and materials, prices of which have tripled in recent years. Horses and Women Is Hollywood being unfair to blondes? In the films, when a brunette and a blonde compete for the love of the hero, the bru nette always wins out. This is a terrific blow at the claim that gentlemen prefer blondes. The Dividend Time... . Will Soon Be Here! Let Your Dividends Earn Divi dends by Reinvesting in the Jackson County Federal. 3 CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE Invest by July 10th Fundi invested here by July 10th will earn dividends from July 1st Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST'MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Growing With Jackson County Since 1909 erator cars of fruit this year, about double that of last year, but much of it mav be lost. Klahre said. Fruit that is not split may be ruined by dry rot. In Wasco county. Extension Agent E. M. Nelson said about 40 per cent of the cherry crop is "just about gone" because of rain damage. Week-end rains reached their peak in Eugene Saturday when 1.83 of an inch fell in one 24 hour period. At Junction City the downpour flooded the United States National bank when roof drains filled up. Damage to bank fixtures and the building itself may run into several thousand dollars, officials said. Firemen had to be called to pump water off the roof and the main floor. bye. V. Durling Feature Syndicate. Inc.) blonde loses out because she us ually plays the villainess, tech nically known as "the .heavy." She is usually depicted as being catty, sarcastic, unscrupulous and disloyal.. Take the case of the truly beautiful blonde stage, screen and television charmer Nina Foch. She appeared in twelve consecutive pictures in which she lost the hero to a bru nette. Nina thought that con stantly losing out that way was not doing her career any good. And so what? Why she had her hair dyed. And now is a bru nette. What's more, no sooner had she become a brunette than she was assigned a film part in which she gets the man. Famous Lines As for the six most quoted lines from stage plays of the past fifty years, the following is the final selection: 1. "The world is mine!" James O'Neill in "Monte Cristo." 2. "If you don't vant her, I vant her." .David Warfield in "The Music Mas ter." 3. "That's all there is, there isn't any more," Ethel Barry more in "Sunday." 4. "Nobody loves a fat man." Maclyn Ar buckle in "The Round Up." 5. "When you call me that, smile." Dustin Farnum in "The Vir ginian." 6. "Why don't you come up and see me some time?" Mae West in "Diamond LiL" Passing By Fred Whitehouse. Song writ ter from Brooklyn. He collabor ated with Milton Berle in writ ing that quaint ditty titled "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long." This song was sold to Joe E. Lewis for $25. That was in 1932. Joe is still singing it. Please Note . Are you a veteran of World War' I or II? Even been in the regular Army. Do you know the origin of the "Taps" bugle call? It was originated during the War between the States by Gen. Dan iel Butterfield of the Union Army. The general, a musician, didn't care for the "tatoo" call then used to close the Army day. So he taught the bugler a new melody. That melody is the one now known as "Taps". 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