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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL In. MI)FORI)TRIBUNI Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor PI7 A LI .EN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. bporut taitor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Ajt of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: ..... Daily and Sunday one year f 12.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.S0 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 123 By Carrier In A d 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 115.00 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. NATION A I EDITORIAL NEWSPAPEt PUBLIf HIKS ASSOCIATION Flight o'Time Medford and Jackson County His tery from the files of the Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 2. 1342 (It was Thursday) Bureau of census report shows average Oregonian paid $19.03 a month for rent during 1940. From Arthur. Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The weath er is apparently doing nothing to pears but making big ones out of little ones. Potatoes are reported to be suffering the same fate. 20 YEARS AGO July 2. 1932 (It was Saturday) Chandler Eg an, Medford, holds, five up lead on semi-final opponent after 18 holes in Pa cific Northwest Golf association tournament at Portland. National Democratic . party convention nominates NewYork Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Speaker of the House John Nance Garner for president and vice-president. 30 YEARS AGO July 2. 1922 (It was Sunday) Temperature reaches 108 in Medford, one degree below all time high set in August, 1920. Medford realtor offers to turn Rogue valley ranches over to persons who will use a portion of crops grown to pay for the property. 40 YEARS AGO July 2. 1912 (It was Tuesday) Democratic party nominates Woodrow Wilson for president on 46th ballot; Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana nominated for vice-president. Discord arises in newly or ganized Medford Boy Scout band when 16 scouts indicate they want to play the snae drum and eight sign up to play the bass drum. Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) Don De Fore announced Wednesday re's staging movietown's first carn ival and vil age fair" but even this gets the Hollywood glamour treatment. This fair has movie sets, movie stars, and a press agent and will be staged Aline Mosby on the Riviera polo field, usually frequented by dashing Argentinians, sun-tanned movie actors and horses. '-. The event will raise money to help the "juvenile delin quents," DeFore says, of Brent wood, a plushy community with a Cadillac in every garage and a mink in every cedar - lined closet. DeFore, the P. T. Baxnum of the plaster "city, wants $50,000 to build a playground, Sunday school building and youth rec reation center behind the non sectarian village church. Working Since January "I've been working on the carnival since January, and I turned down two pictures to do it," said DeFore at a press re view of the fair in the back yard of his Brentwood home. "My club, the Young Married'i Hazardous and Difficult Phillip B. Lowd met the death that each member of a police force faces every time he reports for duty. Officer Lowd, a member of the Oregon State Po lice since shortly after the force was organized in 1931, was the ninth state officer to die in the line of duty. He was a brave man and his fellow officers characterized him as "fearless" in the face of danger. OIS death brings home to us once again, forcibly, the devotion and service which each member of the Oregon State. Police and, for that matter, our other law enforcement organizations brings to his calling. Despite the fact that "A policeman's lot is not a happy one," it represents a challenge which, when accompanied by high traditions of service, brings to the ranks the finest type of man. The few exceptions only prove the rule. THE Oregon State Police, first organized and led by . Charles P. Prav. and later commanded by the present superintendent, H. sent as fine a torce as any m tne nauon. Ana n is ue cause of men like Phil Lowd, who laid down his life for the protection of the people of Oregon, that his fellow officers will continue to keep that reputation unblemished. AN EDITORIAL in the Salem, Oregon, Statesman, under the title "In Line of Duty," had this to say about Phil Lowd's death: ' Phil B. Lowd, a member of the state police who was shot and killed by a mountain hermit in Jackson county, was the ninth member of this force to lose his life in line of duty. This is a pretty heavy toll for a comparatively smaU or ganization. A few weeks ago a police officer at Silverton, Emory Jackson, was a similar victim as he was making a police investigation. So long as the killer instinct survives we shall have killings of police officers; and perforce we must have police to restrain those- with criminal tendencies. The long record shows it is a hazardous calling; and that ought to make society far more appreciative than they are of the work of the police establishment from FBI through state and local police and sheriff's deputies. POLICE officers have more than a hazardous call ing, they have a difficult role to perform as "serv ants of the public" a public which is not always an easy and understanding master. That they do their job as well as they do is a real accomplishment. E.A. , Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers en What Goat en at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterlr New Features q Can women doctors join the armed services? - & Totriaiation oermitting them to do so received final ap proval of Congress June u. would authorize the appointment of qualified women as physicians and medical specialists in the Army, Navy and Air Force. The bill was signed by the President June 24. r wi.t irf House probers decide about their investigation of cosmetics? A The House Select Commit too rnvpstieate Use of Chemi- V. fcVF (Z cals June 19 reported that some cosmetic companies were not adequately testing their products ... A A to prevent injury to me.puuuw, with the result of "annoyance, discomfort , and disability." It -ommenHprl a chanee in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosme tic Act to provide safeguards. . q Do memaers ox me nm- ..Let oral colleae actually meet in Washington when they cast their voles? A No. The electors will meet December 15 in their state capi tals to cast their votes for Presi dent and Vice-President, then mail the results to the United States Senate. At a joint session of Congress January 6 the bal lots will be counted, and the win ners officially announcea. q I notice a bill introduced June 18 would let candidate for the Senate and House spend up to a dime a vote to get elected. What are the present limits? By ALINI MOSBY United Press Correspondent club of Westwood, is the spon sor.. - "You see, I was installed as honorary sheriff of Brentwood by the honorary mayor, Gary Cooper. The Los Angeles sher iff asked us to keep our eye out for juvenile delinquency. Our church needs a youth house. No Carnival People "We are staging the carnival in the very best of taste. I got some equipment from real carn ivals, but there won't be any carnival people around. We had to get permission from the Brentwood, Riviera and Pacific Palisades association. They wanted it kept on a very high level." The carnival banners for the fat lady and the fire swallower were used in "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "Annie Get Your Gun." MGM's police force will keep the carnival crowds in tow. Instead of pink candy, tasty barbecued spareribs with a gourmet's sauce will be served to the customers by an Italian cbef. - Swank Advertising ' Carnival billboards usually ad vertise razor blades, but at this carnival the signs are delicately lettered with "Sacks Fifth Av enue" and names of other swanky stores. "The polo field is being sub divided for homes." DeFore Wednesday, July 2, 1952 G. "Fod" Maison, repre- A A candidate for the Senate may spend $10,000 or an amount equal . tc three cents for every vote cast in the last election, up to $25,000. A candidate for the House may spend $2,500, or up to $5,000 at the three-cents per vote rate. Sen. Carl Hayden's (D., Ariz.) bill would make the limit simply 10 cents per vote cast in the last election. On the basis of 1950 balloting, that ranges from $589 for a candidate for Mississippi's Second District Congressman to $547,304 for a candidal e for New York Sena tor. Q I notice the Senate voted down the St. Lawrence Seaway bill in 1948 as well as June 18. this year. Did individual Sena tors vole the same way both limes? A Mostly. But seven Sena tors who voted to recommit the seaway bill in 1948 (the motion carried 57-30) this year voted or took stands against the success ful June 18 motion (43-40) to send the bill back to committee. Those voting for recommittal, thus opposing the bill, in 1948, but favoring the legislation in 1952, were Sens. Taft (R.-O.), Flanders (R.-Vt), Cordon (R.- Ore.), McKellar (D.-Tenn.), Mc Farland (D.-Ariz.), Holland (D. Fla.) and McMahon (D.-Conn.). However, Sen. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) opposed recommittal in 1948, favored it in 1952. (Copyright, 1952, Congressional Quarterly) Legion Delegates From District Named District 4 delegates to the state American Legion conven tion were elected here this week, members of the veterans organ ization reported today. The convention will be held at Kla math Falls later this month. Those elected were Otis Os borne, Bly, who was named dis trict commander, and Les Hen ry, Cave Junction, vice-commander. The two new officers will be installed with department of ficers at the state convention. District 4 delegates and alter nates to the national Legion convention were elso selected at the meeting here. Delegates are Dan Haynes, Grants Pass, and Harry Pinkerton, Ashland. El wood Hussey, Cave Junction, and Neil Allen, Grants Pass, were named alternates. said sadly. "So the last day we'll have a tribute to polo. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Danny Thomas may entertain.' LeRoy Prinz, the movie dance director, will stage that show for us. . "We'll also have a horseless carriage parade. Joan Crawford and her children will ride in it." the actor added as the movie queen swept by, wearing a girl ish gingham dress with a big bow in back, "she thinks it's a terrific idea." Crosstown r( 'fc ' r It I Ins 111 "Yeah! It does look kinda funny On The Side (Distributed by King The most successful dance hall in Germany is the Bal Paradox in Hamburg. At this place, which is highly respect able, the girls ask the men for dances. Men are not permitted to ask for dances. 'They have to wait until some young woman asks them. This results in quite a few young men knowing how it feels to be a wallflower. The success of this dance hall is due to the fact that in Germany there are nearly four million surplus women of marriageable age; Popular Seventy per cent of the films shown in Great Britain are pro duced in the United States. Seventy-five per cent of those exhibited in Australia are American films. In South Africa the percentage is 80 per cent. Speaking of films, have you seen that one titled "Week End with Father," featuring Van Hef lin? Very clever. Certainly hand ed me plenty of laughs. Should be a sequel to it. Once More For twenty-two years Great Britain barred the importation of parrots as protection against an epidemic of psittacosis, or parrot fever. Three months ago the ban was lifted. Parrots were imported in great number.' And so what? Many ' cases of psit tacosis are now being reported in Britain. I am glad I have fin ished this item. Psittacosis is one of those words it pains me to try to spell. Others are psychitrist, Connecticut and res taurant. Why the speling of res taurant baffles me I can't figure out, especially since my granfather owned a restaurant. Horses and Women R. F. Delderfeld, a conscient ious student of racing horses, reports his bankroll has been suffering a severe setback be cause of the dull performances of ' supposedly solid horses. Meanwhile, Mrs. Delderfeld has been backing animals coming home in front at fancy prices. She played Rumpelstiltskin, because it is her favorite fairy story; Spy Legend because she had been reading about Mati Hari, and so on. Things like that try the souls of form - playing husbands. Once at Hollywood Park my girl friend played a horse named Friendly Dog be cause our dog is so friendly. Friendly Dog romped home in front, paying $59 for two! Over The Bridge There never has been a peri od in film history when there were not at least three Brook lyn girls who were outstanding stars. Right now the shining Brooklyn beauties are Barbara Stanwyck, Susan Hayward and Gene Tierney. The first Brook lyn girl to become a film star was, Florence Turner. That was around 1907. Florence was from the Sheepshead Bay section of the beautiful borough - across the ; bridge. Over There At British race courses both the ; . "tote" . (similar to the mutuels),and bookies are avail able for wagering. There is often a vast difference in prices. On a recent winner named Das trette, the bookies paid off at 33 to 1. The tote paid off at 561; to 1! The wagering unit in the ; tote is two shillings, the equivalent of 28 cents. Think of being able to bet 28 cents a race! However, at the French tracks, even at Longchamps, you can bet the equivalent of 15 cents a race. Says He "That, Detroit bachelorette, who styled her city's bachelors as intolerable bores, ill - bred, cheap, egotistical, etc., is ap parently not living intelligently," writes a Detroiter. "If she would go to the right places, she would meet many fine young men. The trouble with most of these whin ing bachelorettes ' is that they base their complaints on men they have met in cocktail bars, cheap dance halls and similar places. I have two sisters both By Roland Cos try CoMOlkdatssl and I thought I saw it move.' By E. V. Durling Features Syndicate. Inc.) married to fine Detroit men and another who is engaged to an equally fine local fellow. Good matrimonial material is where you find it. Really smart girls seem to have no trouble in meeting nice men. That is not only true of Detroit, but all other major cities." Sidelights If you can name a city in this country having a population of over 400,000 that is named in honor of a former Vice President of the United States, you don't have to send me a stogie. Motorists Face Short Delays on Some Highways Salem U.R) Motorists in Oregon taking pre Fourth-of-July trips may experience short delays on some routes because of the state's road construction and maintenance program, the high way department said Tuesday. The weekly report of road conditions included: The Dalles - California: Mo doc point-Barclay springs con struction; slight delay. Nine miles south of LePine to "Willam ette junction construction; slight delay. Pacific highway: Lane county line Anlauf 3.57 miles gra ding; slight delay. Coast: Bay City south 2.5 miles grading; no delay. Reeds port south 7.25 miles grading, slight delay. Coos Bay south 6.60 miles grading; slight delay. Umpqua: Reedsport - Scotts burg half mile grading and bridge; slight delay. Coos Bay - Roseburg: Suicide creek to junction with Pacific highway 11.51 miles resurfac ing; slight delay. Tiller - Trail: 6.48 miles re grading and surfacing; slight de lay. Sams Valley: Closed at Dodge bridge; detour via Shady Cove. Federal Job Openings Announced by U. S. Examinations for seven posi tions with the Bonneville Pow er administration were announc ed today by the United States civil service commission. The positions, and salaries, are electric utility materialman, $3,175 to $3,410 a year; painter, $2.27 and $2.44 an hour; con struction equipment operator, $2.44 an hour; power utility sup ply control aide, $3,410 a year; power utility supply control as sistant, $4,205 and $5,060 a year; power utility supply control of ficer, $5,940 a year. The civil service office in Washington, D. C, has announc ed examinations for chemist, en gineer, mathematician, metallur gist, physicist and electronic scientist to fill positions paying from $3,410 to $10,800 a year. Vacancies exist in the Washing ton, D. C. area. Further information on all po sitions may be obtained at the Medford post office. Salem (U.R) George Spaur, Oregon State forester, went back to work Tuesday after spending 20 months on active duty in the army. Spaur served as a colonel. You can't Cast XC 1 1 BIG PINES LUMBER CQ. Sixth and Fir Since 1908 Phone 2-6251 No Parking' Problem Here Drive Right in Our Building and Shop In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Here's the latest word from Washington: Reports of mounting Russian atomic power touch off big new senate fight to add billions to defense budget. t PHE JOINT chiefs of staff have just told congressional com mittees they expect Russian to reach a PEAK OF POWER by mid-1954 two years hence. They say this will mark the start of a "period of greatest danger" for this country. General Nathan F. Twining, acting head of the air force, says Russia may SOON have enough atomic bombs to launch a sur prise attack with "a plentiful reserve for succeeding tries if the first attack should fail." He adds that Russia now has at least as many first - rate planes as the United States. QOING on with the story Administration plans caU for reaching our peak of retaliatory strength ( meaning strength to hit back if Russia hits first? by about MID-1955. The house of representatives a while back vo ted to stretch out the time quite a little longer probably to mid 1956. Senator O'Mahoney has just gone to bat for an extra three and a half billions to speed things up with. He says, logi cally enough: "It makes no sense to build for peak strength in 1956 to meet a menace we ex pect in 1954." SENATOR Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas says the joint chiefs of staff have informed his sen ate preparedness sub-committee they could have 143 air wings ready by mid-1954 IF CONG RESS WOULD PUT UP THE MONEY. jyjEANWHILE A congressional survey com mittee estimates that the gov ernment will have authority (meaning previous .permission from congress) to spend NEAR LY 175 BILLION DOLLARS during the next fiscal year which started Tuesday, July 1. The joint senate-house com mittee on reduction of non-essential government expendi tures adds that this 175-billion total we could spend in the coming fiscal year comes from a nest egg of 91 billion dollars of UNSPENT BALANCES from previous years. rpHAT is to say, in previous years we've appropriated 91 billion dollars more than we have been able to spend. Yet the tale we get from Washing ton is that if congress doesn't put up more money we're sunk. Do you suppose anybody in Washington knows where we're really at? LET'S go back for a moment to this stretch-out business. (By "stretch-out," presum ably, is meant taking longer to spend the defense money nec essary to bring us to the point where we can defend ourselves if Russia attacks us.) Facing a foe like communist Russia, why did we decide ( to take more time to get ready? The answer to that, as I recall it, is that it began to look like if - we went on spending fast and making weapons and getting ready fast to defend our selves if attacked we wouldn't have enough of the GOOD things of life to go around, and if that happened (especially in an elec tion year) the people might get mad and throw out of office everybody who is now in office. ANYWAY, when we decided to "stretch out" the period of our peak preparedness, the news that was fed to us turned rosy and hopeful. Reading the Wash ington stuff in the papers and listening to it on the radio, it began to appear to us that the Russians were hopelessly snarl ed up in the inefficiencies of their communist system and couldn't fight a war if they wanted to. Now, with more money from congress, it appears that ANY DAY the Russian bombers may be overhead. IlfHAT wouldn't I give for i " for leadership in Washington j that I could and would believe unhesitatingly! ' Leadership of that sort, it i seems to me, is our greatesl ! need. With it, there is NOTH- : ING we couldn't do. ! Without it j Well, I sometimes wonder. mar its matchless beauty! Moscow Displeased With Happenings To Reds in West Europe By HOMER JENKS United Press Correspondent The men in Moscow's Krem lin are unhappy about the way things have been going for the Communists in Western Europe. And no wonder. Red strength in the West has ebbed to a post-war low, Com munist demonstrations against the German peace treaty, Eu ropean Army Pact and alleged Allied "germ warfare'' in Korea have flopped, and the head of the French Communist party has been thrown into jail. Change in Strategy To the Communist bosses in the Soviet capital, these set back clearly called for a change of strategy and tactics. It is evident now that Mos cow during the last part of June ordered a new party line in France and Italy, the Commu nists two main strongholds in Western Europe. This means another zig in the Reds' traditional zig-zag march toward their never-changing goal of world domination, a de tour toward the same destina tion. The new orders went to the Communist Central Committees in Paris and Rome. Grave Errors Admitted In accordance with establish ed procedure, the committees first confessed that they had committed grave errors in the past. The French party's confession appeared in L'Humanite, the party newspaper, June 19. It ad mitted "opportunism," "sectar ianism," lack of cool-headed ness, and muddled direction. The Italian party followed suit last Sunday in its Rome newspaper, Unita, admitting "defects, gaps nd errors." Both newspapers subsequent ly published inklings of the new party line. More of it was dis cerned from Communist propa ganda and conversations with disgruntled Reds. New Tactics Needed In brief, the new line calls for donning kid gloves, seeking new allies among workers, women and youth by sponsoring causes popular even with non-Cpmmu- nists, infiltrating non-Red organ izations to bend them to the Communist will, and tightening discipline among party mem bers. It is to be a period of good will and popular, fronts, with the Communists on their good behavior. The objective is to lull the Western powers into a false sense of security as well as to increase Red strength. There are to be no more at tempts at general strikes. Those called in recent months have fizzled and served only to dem onstrate Communist weakness rather than strength. Strikes still may be called in individual factories, but only where Com munists are in complete control of the workers. Militant demonstrations are Rogue River Teacher Gets Harvard Award Leslie J. Weigart, science in structor at Rogue River high school, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Harvard summer school's spe cial program in the teaching of science, according to a univer sity release. Weigert will take a course en titled "The Methods of Science," which is to be taught by James B. Conant, president of Harvard university. Conant will be as sisted by Harvard and Columbia university professors. The class is scheduled to be in session through August 22. Save Your Dividends the Jackson County Federal Way CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE Invest by July 10th Funds 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 I out for the same reason. Recent Communist attempts to drum up demonstrations against Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, Atlantic Pact supreme commander, fail ed miserably in both Rome and Paris. Moreover, the violence stirred, up earlier demonstrations alien ated rather than attracted pub lic support for the Communists. It also gave both the French and Italian governments an excuse to crack down hard on the Reds. All in all, it looks as though the Western powers have won the current round from the Communists. But the fight goes on. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the wrltei although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen nam or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub UraUon must not exceed 409 words Broken Glass Plea To the Editor: The public in Jackson county is particularly fortunate in having available for use a series of three lakes built by C. C. Hoover and his sons, Claud and Melvin, in the Camp White area. The owners have been more than kind in permit ting use of these lakes. The only restriction that the Hoovers have placed on the use of the same is that they do not want broken glass on the ground because of the possible injury to the cattle there. The public was thoughtful along this line for a considerable period of time, but now broken bottles are becoming evident on the lake shores and along the roads leading to the same. This is particularly dangerous for cat tle, as well as dogs which are being trained in the area. There is a likelihood that if this prac tice of breaking bottles on the Hoover property does not stop that the gates will be locked and access will be restricted. There fore, this letter is written as an urgent plea to all who use the Hoover lakes area to refrain from breaking bottles, and if they have any empty bottles, for them to please take them home and place them in their garbage cans. If it should be necessary for Mr. Hoover to lock said gates it will cause a considerable in convenience to a large number of people who are using the land for recreation. The same condition that is de veloping on the Hoover land ex ists to a considerable extent throughout the entire state. The sides of our highways are litter ed with broken glass. Those who use the Military Bridge area of the Camp White land know that a great amount of broken glass is all along the banks of the Rogue river. The same condition exists to a certain extent in all our outdoor areas. More and more people are cutting their feet on glass while swimming. Not only broken glass, but cans, garbage and other debris is ap pearing. This practice is also de plored. This lack of thoughtfulness is a serious reflection on the por tion of the public which is guilty of these practices. A campaign to eliminate this condition would be a good project for recreation groups, chambers of commerce, state organizations, and any oth er group interested in maintain ing our County in a safe and beautiful condition. Let us all eliminate the presence of broken glass, garbage and debris in our outdoor and recreational areas! Kenneth G. Denman Member, Oregon State . Game Commission. 3
