Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 03, 1952, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextrOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads too uau iriDune VubUsbod Dally Except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. 17- North Fir St. Phone 24141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager . C. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor KICHABD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Malt In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year (12.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 JO Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 Iv Carrier In A d V a n C e Medford Aihland. Central Point Eacle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent tiul on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year 915.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official raper or 4acxson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WZST.HOLLJDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAPEt PUBlIf HftS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tare from the files of the Mail Tribune. 10. 20. 30 and 40 rears 10 YEARS AGO July 3. 1942 (It was Friday) Fire of undetermined origin destroys gymnasium of St. Mary's school. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Fourth ot July tomorrow will be "safe and sane." Its safety and sanity is apt to be lonesome with the rest of the world everything else but. 20 YEARS AGO July 3. 1932 (It was Sunday) General migration of Medford residents to beaches and moun tains reported as no special Fourth of July observance plan ned here. H. Chandler Egan, Medford golfer, defeats Eddie Hogan, 4 and 3, in Portland to win Pacific Northwest Golf association championship. 20 YEARS AGO July 3. 1922 (It was Monday) Southern Pacific's "Fourth of July special train will operate between Grants Pass and Ash land, stopping at all way points." . Several large grass and brush fires reported in Table Rock and Ashland areas. No forest fires "despite extremely dry and hazardous conditions." 40 YEARS AGO July 3, 1912 (It was Wednesday) First of expected 7,000 mem bers of Elks lodge start passing through Medford by train en route to national Elks conven tion in Portland. Medford resident uses shotgun to drive off man who is throw ing rocks at his dog. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writei although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Letter From Hawaii To the Editor: I'm a local resi dent of Medford, and I'm serving in the United States Navy. I am stationed in Hawaii. My name is Ed Viles, CSSN, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Viles of 3070 Lone Pine road. I saw the eruption of Halemaumau which made the headlines in all of the newspa pers in the States. I'm stationed at Kilauea Military Camp, in volcano Hawaii. Kilauea Mili tary Camp nestles on the slopes of Majestic Mauna Loa at an ele vation of 4,000 feet. Kilauea Cra ter, one of the most continually active volcanoes inthe world, is directly in front of the camp. Ac tually KMC is located within this crater, for the old rim of the crater serves as its rear boun dary. On the 27th of June, at 11:35 p.m. Kilauea erupted in all of its glory. We were having a dance at KMC when it hap pened. It's only a three minute drive from KMC right to the crater. The volcano was throw ing hot rocks, and lava Tight to the highway which is a distance of 300 feet. The depth of the vol can6 is over 790 feet. During the night, the volcano filled clear MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York City, N.Y., June 28. Well, since leaving Washing ton, we see the congress has not improved any. We hoped that our departure might help matters, but that hope we fear will have to be charged up to editorial egotism. If anything the boys in the upper and lower houses have behaved worse than when we were watching them. We wonder how many people of Southern Oregon were in favor of the McCarran bill? We wonder how many Were in favor cf killing civil service for postmasters and retaining the spoils system? We wonder how many would have advised their congress man to remove practically all price-controls and give the green light to inflation? Finally do a majority of the voters in Southern Oregon want the Wage Stabilization Board ham-strung and crip pled? Well all those things were done since our departure, and Con gressman Ellsworth, according to our records, went down the line with the rest of the boys, for them ALL. Nothing surprising in this. Harris is always with the big boys who run the GOP. But we do wonder sometimes just how many of the people who vote for Ellsworth election after election, ever take the trouble to look up his voting record, and having done so, approve it? Had luncheon today at the who was a delegate to the Republican convention in 1912 and kept a diary concerning it. He emphatically denies that Elihu Root drove any steam-roller over the TR delegates. On the contrary he maintains the former Secretary of War and leader of the New York bar, presided as chairman of the convention with characteristic skill, authority and complete fairness. The Roosevelt delegates were kicked out, the desires of the Republican party members as a whole were disregarded, but not by Root by the members of the GOP national committee. Root merely ING AT THAT TIME, and insisted upon others doing likewise, Those rules have been modified somewhat since then, and for the better, but our friend of years ago, thinks they still give that committee too much power. We expect the proceedingg at Chicago 10 days hence will demonstrate he is right in this, as he is in most things. Another unfortunate thing will be full of lame-ducks members who have been defeated, or whose terms are expiring but still convention, and until the new members take over. Like most lame ducks they will do as they please of the party as a whole may want. This will help Taft and injure Eisenhower as will so many other factors that will be at work on and after July 7th. However, we refuse to join the defeatists or the Weeping Wall Wallers as far as the General is concerned. We wouldn't put his cnances as Better man su-50 AT that is better than they were The most surprising feature in the situation is the disappointment one hears expressed so often by original Eisenhower supporters, that the General, as a campaigner, doesn't seem to have what it takes. What, might we ask, did they Some sort of Miracle Man another W. J. Bryan, bursting fully armed politically like Minerva from the brow of Jove, making uie populace roll in the aisles and not to kiss the hem of his gar ment a couple of hours after hig arrival from Europe? When one stops to analyze up to? Merely this: The General isn't a seasoned, clever nor an accomplished POLITICIAN. He hasn't a glib and plausible answer for EVERY question, he doesn't pretend to know the last word on financial problems, sociological problems, or racial to know precisely what should pens or something else DOESN'T bridge when he comes to it he If he were a properly trained and battle-scarred politician, of course ne WOULD KNOW. But we had supposed that one General was that he was not politician TYPE. Judging by the talk one hears in some quarters at least the professional politician type is oi tne united states are clamoring wnatever happens at Chicago, the November election, we predict, will demonstrate the absurdity of this contention. For four days now count been predicting rain and cooler. It has been some cooler could hardly be hotter but there has been no rain. Certain members of the family have become so regusted they declare thev will never Deiieve the ny Weather Man again. We doubt the batting average of the NY W.M. is much worse comes to predicting what the weathsr vill be in the FUTURE, Mother Nature takes a perverse prognosticators up. We fail to see how anyone, Gen. Eisenhower since his arrival can deny two things about the man, to-wit: His complete honesty. Hig sound common-sense. He may be too honest for his as the boys in the Senate press gallery maintained. But in view of tne conditions in American public there is considerable doubt that in THAT direction. Testing all his declarations plain common sense, and Ike rates With some of those declarations the Mail-Tribune does not agree the tidelands-oil issue, for But in each case, we have to only approached them from the common sense, but has thought taken his views from any of his writers. And he does make a (1) Absolute honesty, free from all guile and double talk. '. (2) Good, plain Kansas common-sense. We don't claim those two qualities would by themselves make Ike a great President, but we do feel certain, they would make him a good one and bring a very refreshing and greatly needed cnange m xne climate ot American Acheson on Journey to By HOMER JENKS United Press Correspondent U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson is on his way home from Europe, but "he's going more than 6,000 miles out of his way just to pay a visit -to Brazil. State Department circles say Acheson is taking the long route home solely to make a good-will visit to the largest country in South America. up to the rim with hot lava. About 2 a.m. in the morning it was full of fountains that were shooting lava 200 feet in the air. It was a very interesting exper ience for me, so I have been up three days and three nights, watching it. Everyone expects it to erupt again, and it Will keep on boiling for over two weeks. Eward A. Viles, CSSN USN Kilauea Military Camp Hawaii National Park Volcano, HawaiL Thursday' Joly 3. 19 52 DownTown club with an old friend obeyed the party rules PREVAIL about that national committee it will be in there pitching at this regardless of what the members THIS WRITING, but all in all directly after the Abilene speech. EXPECT? these complaints what do they add problems. He doesn't even pretend be done if this happens, that hap- happen. He says he will cross that will do the best he can. of the strongest appeals of the is not and never will be the what the politician-wearv people for, what they MUST have! them the Weather Bureau has than WM's elsewhere. When it delight in crossing the would-be who has followed the course of In this country at all carefully, own good, Dolitically-sneakinz. life at the moment, we believe a man in high-office COULD err on policy, by the divining-rod of A-pIus. example, and FEPC. admit that the General has not standpoint of plain, unadulterated the issues out for himself not political stooges or his ghost case, in every Instance. So o public lue.K.W.R. Good-Will Brazil But most diplomatic observers think there's more behind the secretary's detour than that. More likely, they - believe, is Acheson's desire to show the U. S.'s Latin American neigh bors that our recent preoccupa tion with European affairs doesn't mean we have forgotten them. Unpleasant Things Said There have been some unpleas ant things said recently by Nel son Rockefeller, one Of Latin America's best friends in the U. S-, and a number of Latin politicians along these lines. In brief, they contended we have been so busy building the North Atlantic Pact, fostering a European Army, concluding a separate peace with Germany and fighting the Korean war that we have been neglecting the Southern neighbors we are pledg ed to protect under the Monroe Doctrine. Acheson's visit to Brazil should Crosstown "I wish you'd stop going food shopping with my brother's wife. They always know when we've managed to get a good meal cooked up I" . Matter of Fact KOREAN AIR REINFORCEMENTS Washington The American air forces in Korea are now re ceiving massive reinforcements of jet fighters and fighter bombers. The planned reinforce ment will increase the over-all strength by nearly 40 per cent and the strength in jet planes by an even higher percentage. This great and painful effort is a response to a corresponding reinforcement of the Commu nist air force above the Yalu. Until 'recently, the Communist air units in a position to parti cipate in the Korean fighting were estimated to number 2,000 aircraft, with a thousand jet fighters. In recent weeks, at least 200 and more probably 300 new jet fighters have been add ed to this Communist force. Furthermore, the strengthen ing of the Communist air force has been accompanied by other signs even more disquieting, al though less clearly defined for public consumption. "The Russians," it is said by those who will discuss the sub ject at all, "are taking a far more overt part." Reports are circulating that the Communist Air Force in the Korean theater now includes Russian units which have not gone through the significant formality of hav ing their insignia painted over. Other reports suggest the ap pointment of an over-all Soviet Air Commander. In any case, while the form of this more overt Soviet participation is not precisely defined, the fact is quite undisputed. THERE are several different J - XT- i ways 10 measure me puicu- tial importance of these develop ments. The . Under Secretary of the Air Force, Roswell Gilpat rick. the Acting Chief of Air Staff, Gen. Nathan Twining, and the Air Force Fighter Com mander, Gen. Roger Ramey, have just left for Korea for a personal inspection of. the front line situation. A party -of this character would hardly have been sent out, unless serious concern were felt. Again, the reinforcement of our Korean air units has in turn necessitated really disturbing changes in other priorities. In order to muster the necessary F-86s and ' F-84s, plans for strengthening the Strategic Air Command and equipping the NATO forces in Europe have had to be readjusted. Such cru cial schedules as these would hardly have been altered, if the position in Korea were not caus ing real worry. All this does not mean, of course, that new trouble in Kor ea is now to .be regarded as a certainty, or even as a prob- serve as an effective reply to that. He will spend more time in Brazil than in any other country he has visited during his current 18,000-mile tour except Britain For three days, he will be the official guest of the Brazilian government. Then he will spend two additional days just walking around getting acquainted with Brazil on an informal basis. Moreover, he is the first re cent secretary of state to visit Brazil on such an informal basis. His predecessors notably Cor- dell Hull and George C. Marshall went there solely to attend meetings of the foreign ministers of the Americas. Other U. S. government depart ments also have been clasping Brazil's hand in friendship. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGED Vancouver, Wash. CUP) A charge of manslaughter was filed Wednesday against William Perry Randolph in Superior Court by Don Blair, assistant' prosecuting attorney of Clark county. Randolph, who turned 18 Monday, will face trial for the fatal shooting of Mrs. Fran- cine : Miller, 17, of Camas on June 27. By Roland Co By Jotsph and Stewart Alsop ability. For one thing, so far as is known, the reinforcements of the Communist air power do not yet include jet fighter bombers. With really fast fighter bomb ers (which one must remember could be sent into Manchuria at the last minute), the Commu nists could make a pretty fair stab at neutralizing the Ameri can forward airfields in the Se oul area. But with the obsolete bombers which they now pos sess, the Communists will have the odds heavily against them in any such attempts. While we occupy the Seoul airfields, the Communist air units will find it very difficult to prepare and use their own air fields in North Korea. And with out these forward air bases of their own, the short range Com munist MIGs cannot easily chal lenge our supremacy in the air over the battle lines. a A GAIN, there is the curiously rnnfliftinT ehnractpr nf oth er evidence. Take, for example, two reriorts sent in - recent months by the recently trans ferred Indian Ambassador to Peking, Sardar M. Pannikkar. In one. he auoted a hifih Chin ese Communist official as saying that "when the tigress has its raw in the tran. vou do not let it go." The implication was, ob viouslv. that the Chinese Com munists feared the United States and thnneht it wise to keen this country continuously involved in Korea. This would rule out hnth a Korean settlement and a risky intensification of the Korean fighting. On the other hand, when tne truce negotiations broke down for the last time, Panikkar sent another and seemingly contra dictory reDOrt. It will be recall ed that the cause of the break down was the unexpectedly laree number of Chinese and North Koreans voting against repatriation. When the breakdown happen ed Panikkar relayed a seeming ly authoritative Chinese sugges tion that we compromise Dy keenine the Nofth Korean pris oners and sending back the Chinese. As the Chinese prison ers had voted almost 3 to 1 against going home, forcibly driving them back to their fate was rather too steep a rise above principle. Yet the Chinese pro posal looked like proof of a genuine desire to end the Kor ean hostilities. In short, anyone who seeks to forecast the future in Korea (or in Berlin and several other places, for that matter) is under taking an impossible and fool ish assignment. But by the same token, anyone who pretends that there is not serious danger in Korea (as well as in Berlin and several other places) is being idiotically complacent. However painful the effort may be, the American air reinforcement is undoubtedly justified ,and it will reduce the danger to the ex tent that such dangers can be reduced by preparedness. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone Today Is Deadline for Filing Initiative Petitions; Cloud Seeding Ban Bill Quali With today the deadline for the filing of initiative petitions for the general election, 10 state wide petitions and one county measure have been submitted to the Jackson county clerk's office for checking of the validity of signatures. There is some question as to In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Economics: The Canadian dollar advanc ed five thirty-seconds of a cent today to SI. 03 in terms of Am erican dollars. It was the high est price for the Canadian dol lar since 1934, when it went to S1.0334. H OW COME? Two reasons. Americans are spending more in Canada, so on supply and demand the Canad ian dollar goes up in terms of the American dollar. The other reason is that the Canadians have balanced their budget, spending no more than they take in. S PEAKING of money: The French franc now buys less than ONE-EIGHTH as much in terms of the American dollar as it bought at the end of World War II. Y? Again two reasons: 1. The French buy far more abroad than they sell abroad. So, on supply and demand, their currency depreciates in value, 2. They spend more than they take in in taxes. They BORROW THE DIFFERENCE from the Bank of France, which then starts its presses and prints paper francs to make up the dif ference. yHAT is the net result? This is it: FRANCE IS BANKRUPT. yEATHER note: Europe got another dose of hot weather today. It was so hot in London that as a special con cession the Lord Chief Justice permitted British judges to doff their traditional white wigs. When the heat upsets British tradition, it's REALLY HOT! QOOD advice: Don't scoff at British tradi tion. Traditionally, the British OBEY THE LAW. That's all to the good. fYLD FOGY opinion (still en- titled to some respect): If we had followed more closely the traditions establish ed by our Founding Fathers, we'd all be better off. M AN-BITES-DOG note: Claude Hammond of New York City stood beside the road trying to thumb a ride to the Newark airport. A big sedan carrying three men stopped. One of them asked Hammond to identify himself as a responsible citizen. When he got out his wallet to do so, the guy GRAB BED IT, jumped back in the car and it sped away. Man's inhumanity to man (on both sides of the fence) makes countless thousands mourn. D OG-BITES-MAN note: Farmer Luigi Costa, living near Rome, N.Y., came to town yesterday to get spruced up for the Fourth. He bought a snappy new suit, had his gray hair tint ed back to its original brown, got a shave and all the works and went home smelling sweet ly of shaving lotion, massage pomade and such. Today's he's all bandaged up. His dog FAILED TO RECOG NIZE HIM and sank its teeth in him as a suspicious character. JOME clean, now. When you meet an old bird with his hair freshly dyed, and maybe with a new permanent wave, and smelling of all the bottles in the barber shop, I'll bet you feel the same urge as Costa's dog. 2 - 8030 whether the cdunty petitions must be filed with the secretary of state's office by today, accord ing to Bruce Manley, attorney for the Moisture Conservation League, Incorporated, which backed the petitions asking for an act prohibiting weather con trol and cloud modification in Jackson county. He said that the law merely stipulates that they be filed and that the anti-cloud seeding petitions will all be in the county clerk's office by July 3, if not in the secretary of state's office. Question on Numbers A question also arose over the local petitions in that the law isn't too clear on the percentage of legal voters needed to put the measure on the ballot Manley sfated that County Clerk George Carter had contacted Salem and had been assured that about 1,700 were needed. Up to last Friday, 2,357 names had been declared bona fide, the attorney pointed out, and enough more have been submitted since that time to add about 300 legal names. He believes, however, that only 940 names were need ed, but cited two legal opinions, one of which calls for 15 per cent of the legal voters, the oth er for 8 per cent. Other Measures Besides the local proposals, other measures which had peti tions checked. in this area for the state ballot, included: Establishing U. S. Standard Time in Oregon, which would abolish daylight saving time. A constitutional amendment prohibiting lotteries, bookmak ing, and pari-mutual betting. (United Press reported Tuesday that a spokesman for the Oregon Council of Churches stated that the measure would "definitely" Voters Not to Have Direct Participation In Naming (Editor's note: Following it the first in a series of six ar ticles on election procedures prepared by the Congressional Quarterly. The articles will ex plain how to qualify and vote; what the vote means, and the importance of voting vot ing as wisely as one can. Also to be explained are election procedure, national conven tions, party labels, electoral college, what campaigns cost and who's running for vice president. Washington (CQ) Ameri cans assume that the President of the United States is chosen by "the people," yet no voter will have a direct voice in the choice of the next President Nov. 4. The election procedure is devi ous and complex more devious than the Founding Fathers planned and more complex than the average voter realizes. It is set by federal, state-and local laws and party custom. If pend ing laws are approved by Con gress, however, the system could be greatly streamlined. Congressional Quarterly has rounded up the procedure as you will find it in this Presidential election and here it is: First, every person who wants to help choose the President must register as a voter. In 47 states he can do so if he is 21; in Georgia 18-year-olds can reg ister and vote. There are other requirements in different states. In most places a year's residence in the state, three to six months residence in the city or county and 30 days residence in the pre cinct are required. Six states impose a poll tax. Several require the person to be able to read and understand the federal and state constitu tions. The candidates who run for President and Vice-President are chosen in party conventions. In 32 states, the delegates who do the voting at the conventions are chosen at state party ses sions, and the individual can par ticipate only indirectly. Individ mm "So long, guytt I gotta go tske my music Ituon ind my afternoon glue ef Jorgtnioa's Homogtniitd Vitamin 0 Milkl" be on the ballot next November as 35.631 legal names were on the petitions submitted to the state elections director.) A constitutional amendment providing "equitable" taxing method for use of highways, which would, in effect, abolish ton-mile fees payable by motor trucks and buses. A bill repealing public assist ance relative responsibility law. which would repeal the present law requiring living relatives of persons receiving public old-age assistance to contribute to the support of the recipients. A liquor prohibition amend ment to Oregon constitution. A milk production and market ing act bill, which would create a milk control administrator with power to regulate the pro duction of Oregon milk, desig nate marketing areas, and fix a minimum price to be paid pro ducers. A constitutional amendment authorizing alcoholic liquor sale by individual glass. A gross income tax and $100 monthly state pension fund bilL A constitutional legislative senator and representative ap portionment enforcement amend ment, which would require the legislature to follow each federal census to reapportion legislative representation among counties of Oregon, or districts according to population. A bill repealing lien laws on estates of public welfare recipi ents. ' Besides these 10 measures that were circulated locally, there were nine others circulated else where requiring a state-wide vote, which may appear on the November ballot if they have met the necessary qualifications. President ual voters have some voice in se lection of convention delegates in the other 16 states those with Presidential primaries. Yet even the results of these party preliminary elections are not al ways binding on the delegates chosen. The state delegations will gather at the national party con ventions in Chicago the Re publicans July 7, the Democrats July 21. There the party candi dates are picked. The voter has a voice only if he stands in the galleries and cheers. After the national conventions name the candidates, the voter is once more important. He lis tens to the campaign oratory, checks each candidate's stands on the issues and then votes for one, Nov. 4 He hasn't chosen a President, however. He has only laid an informal groundwork for what the fram- ers of the Constitution decided would be the formal means of choosing a President. The voter, if he was on the winning side in his state, has chosen a slate of Electors who like the same candi date he does. All of tlie Electors picked in the states meet in December, as the Electoral College, to make a President. They almost always Vote for the man who won in their state, but the Constitution would let them vote for anyone. The candidate with a majority of the 531 Electoral votes is the next President. If there are three candidates, a Democrat, a Republican and a Dixiecrat, for instance, and none receives a majority of Electoral votes, the House of Representa tives picks the President and the Senate picks the Vice-President. Bills have been introduced In Congress to do away with this indirect system. Some of them would provide for nation-wide primaries to give voters a chance to name the candidates. Others would abolish the Electoral Col lege so that the final selection would more nearly reflect the popular vote.