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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFO Tribune Everyone m Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune f ublisbed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor ERNEST R GILS TRAP Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under A-rt of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: . Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday three mot. 3 50 Daily and Sunday one month 123 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medtord Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily ana Sunday one month 125 . 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 ASSOCIATION ZJ f unit Hit ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yeart ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 15, 1942 (It was Wednesday) Three Rogue River men Ward H. Deimler, Buren G. Ken nedy and Lewis H. Smith are among a group of 156 civilians captured on Wake island; to be interned by the Japanese at Shanghai. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge "Pot column: Stern Park Gardens, 111., changes, name to Lidice, the Czech village razed by Hitler in reprisal for the as sassination of his prize trigger man. Moscow, Ida., points with pride to its monicker, once mild ly regretted. 20 YEARS AGO July 15, 1932 (It was Friday) ', Medford's H. Chandler Egan announces that he will compete this year in the national ama teur golf tournament, a tourney that he won over a quarter fentury ago. Jackson county officials ex pect relief bill now before Con gress to "brighten the labor and financial horizons and aid agri culture, horticulture, the stock industry, road construction and irrigation projects" in the coun ty. 30 YEARS AGO July 15, 1922 (It was Saturday) Local bootblack arrested by police who find him with an open razor; he explains he's just looking for his wife. Local merchants visit fair grounds and urge the immediate construction of a merchants' in dustrial pavilion. 40 YEARS AGO July 15. 1912 (It was Monday) The Graham ginseng farm north of Prospect condemned by the health department when great numbers of insect pests found there. Grants Pass takes advantage of an oak tree on the sidelines of the Medford baseball park to win a 5-4 victory over Medford; the tree converts a Medford homer into a double. One Dead, Three Hurt In Monmouth Crash Salem (U.R) Three per sons, including a 16-year-old girL were in critical condition Tuesday as result of an automo bile accident which claimed the life of another teen-ager Monday night north of Monmouth. Richard Stoffal was killed and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Leon' Stoffal, were critically in jured when their car went out of control and crashed into a maple tree. Attendants at Salem Memor ial hospital described the con dition of Mr. and Mrs. Stoffal as only fair. The girl, Mary Eads, was tak en to Providence hospital in Portland where her condition was listed as critical. - Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line on Classified Ads: 530 n v Iap Fnllnu-ina Aav in o m Mnn. day: noon Saturday for Sunday a jn. Editorial Correspondence Chicago, July 13 Congressman Bender of Ohio, who spurred the weary Taft supporters to exhaustion at Thursday night's dem onstration, yesterday sang "Onward Christian Soldiers" to the man he tried so hard to beat, and replaced the soup-platter Taft button on his lapel to one reading "I like EVERYBODY." m Well there is the perfect symbol of the convention after math. It is a bit silly and doesn't fool any of the wiseboys, but it could no more have been avoided than the. stampede after Ike's victory, to discard Taft insignia and replace same with Eisenhower emblems. We don't mean the Taft delegates. A surprising num ber of them stuck to their colors. But the masses as usual, wanted to wear the winning colors, and this convention on the surface at least, was "AS USUAL." Underneath there were some new angles, however. For ex ample this is the first Republican convention we can recall, where the party organization had firm control and couldn't keep it. Even William Howard Taft, Robert's father, ran over the opposition here 40 years ago and he was undoubtedly' the most unpopular President in American history. But on every issue of importance at this gathering, the anti-Taft coalition made monkeys out of the organization .by taking their grievances to the floor and pulveriz ing them. Looking back, it is clear now that Ike's first victory on the credential rules was the tip-off. The undersigned so interpreted it, as the record will show, but Taft declared it really a victory for him, and much to our amazement, in his broadcast that night, our favorite news commentator Elmer Davis half-agreed with him. So did that big stuffed-shirt Sokolsky. We failed to see it then, and now NO one can see it. The writing-on-the-wall, however, seemed plain to us after that vote. As stated, we did not mean Eisenhower was IN, but we did mean, he was closer to being in, than anyone would have predicted 24 hours before. As remarked, all Ike's forces had to do was repeat what they did that first day. Which was done. - Don't let them tell you rugged individualism and private ini tiative are dead. When the weary stockyards Friday night a young with a neat little souvenir-for-free. It was labelled thus: "Snap back with Standback headache powders the Standback company Li., Salisbury, N.C., U.S.A." Standback is probably a Dixiecrat coming from South Caro- lina.at least, obviously NOT a New Dealer. Another new angle. Never before has an Oregon Republican delegation been so united and taken such a prominent part in -the proceedings. Gov. ernor McKay as the chairman was especially in demand, being on several television programs, and selected as one of the honor-escort to accompany General Eisenhower to the platform. Senator Wayne Morse was a close second, in prominence. He was chosen for sev eral television programs, and his name on at least two occasions (overheard by the undersigned), was taken in vain by some promi nent Taft delegates. (Don't worry rising, and the Taft sun has as We also believe this is the fessional military man has been nominated for President since General Grant. We hope and believe General Eisenhower will destroy the widespread fear that military men always make poor Presidents assuming, of course, he does win in November. The General is admirably fitted by temperament to unite his grievously divided party, and this will probably be his major and primary effort. As his followers declared in however, "no party can compromise with wrong." If General Eisenhower tries and McCarthyism, that will be should NOT be done! Why was Senator Nixon selected as the VP nominee? For the usual reason POLITICS! Vice Presidents should be selected on the basis of their fitness for the Presidency, but if they ever have been, we can't Senator Nixon is young, vigorous, a good campaigner, and is generally credited with being the first member of congress who DID turn his back on Alger Hiss. As the communist issue, headed by the Hiss case, promises to be an important "talking point" in the coming election, his value as a vote-getter was obvious. - But perhaps even more important, Nixon not only comes from the Far West while Ike is a resident of Pennsylvania but from an extremely important state, when the electoral votes are counted from Oregon's, potent, populous and prosperous neighbor Cali-for-nia. And the nomination of General Eisenhower did not please the present popular Governor of California at least not the WAY it came about. California should have put over that "ko" punch instead of Minnesota, but as it turned out the master opportunist, Harold Stassen did it and poor old Governor Warren was left asleep at the switch. Just how greatly this recognition of California s junior Senator will please and placate Mr. Warren is not' clear at the moment. But the powers that be hope and pray -it will be ef fective. Speaking of Governor Warren his wife and daughters had seats just above the press-section, and to your correspondent were a delight to sore eyes and day after day a cause of reviving hope that the country and the Grand Old Party, are not in such a hope less mess, as so often appears and never more often, than dur ing the adolescent and depressing antics of a political convention. Mrs. Warren looking younger and more attractive than ever could pass as one of the daughters in a mixed assembly any time and those girls, pretty as pictures, natural, wholesome, unaffected, full of good spirits and bouncing health how we wish old Uncle Joe could see them, along with those burly rowing-kids at the Worcester regatta! We are glad we did not see the girls that last night, however can't bear to think of them ever being saddened. R.W.R. Chinese Red Persecutions Close Catholic Missions Hong Kong (U.R) Four years of Communist persecution in China have created vacancies in more than half the ecclesiastical areas of the country, Catholic headquarters here report. A statement said that of the, 143 prelates in China, only 60 are new resident in their sees with nominal freedom. The oth ers either have been expelled or jailed or died from imprison ment or prevented from proceed ing to their sees. The present box score is: 60 sees are still occupied by bish ops, while the other 83 are va cant. Of the 83 prelates who have vacated their sees, 39 were de ported, 20 imprisoned, 10 put under house arrest, six unable to return to their sees and eight died either in prison or shortly after removal from prison. Restrictions Severe The Catholic center said it is now impossible to consecrate new bishops for the vacant sees because of Communist restric tions. Heading the list of the 39 de ported archbishops, bishops and prefects apostolic is Archbishop Anthony Riberi, papal internun cio to China. Among the im- prisoned prelates is Archbishop Tuesday, July IS. 1952 Taft delegates filed out of the man greeted each and everyone Wayne your SUN is definitely definitely set.) first time a West Pointer a pro the credential committee fights, to COMPROMISE with McCarthy doing what his followers declared recall when. Joseph Chou Chi-shin of Nan chang, Kiangsi. He was jailed after he turned down a Commu nist "invitation" to become the "Pope" of the church in China. The Catholic center said, "The arrested bishops were for the most part simply picked up by the Security Police and lodged in prisons. They have had neither trials nor sentences. Ominous Silence "Scarcely any information is available on any of these pre lates, and it is a matter of con jecture whether they are still alive. Some have not been heard of for over a year." . The 60 prelates still remaining in their sees are not free to ex ercise their ministry. If they are not actually under guard, they may be forbidden to leave their compounds or are not permitted to have any contact with church members, or are not permitted to visit the other parishes in the see. LEARNS GOLF FAST Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) J. H. Hussong made k hole in one only three months after he bought a set of clubs and start ed playing golf. What's more, it was on the 13th hole. ; . Crosstown "I couldn't, find Matter of Fact LOOKING BACKWARD Chicago "It might have been" is always the theme of convention post mortems. But in the case of the Republican con vention that nominated Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the presidency, the "might have beens" were unusally signifi cant. For example, Sen. Robert A. Taft might have been the Vice Presidential nominee on the ticket with Gen. Eisenhow er. The curious fact is that Sen. Taft wanted the second place on the ticket, or at least some of his leading supporters wanted it for him. After the ballot that named Gen. Eisenhower, the floorwork ers of Taft manager David Sin ton Ingalls quickly passed the word among the delegations to encourage" any sentiment for Taft for the second place. Later, when the Eisenhower high commanders assembled to choose the Vice Presidential nominee, they received messages that the Ohio Senator would be available. THERE WAS obvious purpose in this seemingly extraordin ary suggestion of removing Sen ator Taft from the activity of the Senate floor tc the custom ary impotence of me Senate ros trum. The nomination of the Ohio Senator would, have evoked a great convention demonstration, re-asserting Taft's great popu larity in the party. It would have constituted both acknowledge ment and proof of the contin uing power of the Republican Old Guard faction. It would have allowed the Senator, as Vice Presidential nominee, to hold the whole election cam paign on the so-called "fight ing" pattern that he favors. The Taft pepple calculated in fact, that Taft. in the second place might almost overshadow Eisen hower in the first. Among the . Eisenhower lead ers, a considerable minority fav ored the choice of Taft as being likely to reunite the badly divid ed Republican party. But Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge and others, for the reasons above given, in terposed a powerful and abso lute veto. Gen. Eisenhower had deputed to them the right of fi nal decision. And so Senator Nix on got the nod. AGAIN, Gen. Douglas MacAr thur came much closer to fig uring, as an important candidate than most people suppose, as first reported in this space, Gov. Fine of Pennslyvania had made his vital decision to throw his Pennslyvania votes to Gen. Eis enhower even before the con vention opened. Yet Fine is a devoted' Mac Arthur admirer. and there might still have been bad trouble v in the Pennsylvan ia delegation. There was bad trouble, o a sort, as a sequel to MacArthur's keynote speech. The same day Sen. Taft's weakness nad al ready been revealed by thevote on the Langlie rule neutralizing the' contested Southern delega tions. Certain Taft leaders, in cluding Pennsylvania's G. Mason Owlett and Joseph Pew, began to look with favor on a switch to MacArthur. To prepare the way, however, it was necessary to weaken the Eisenhower drive and this had to be accomplished in the oncoming vote as to which of the Georgia and other contested delegations should be seated. Gen. MacArthur, who was es corted to the airport by Gov. Fine, seems to nave used all his influence to secure Fine's help. There was a moment when Fine at least wavered. Then, Gov. Fine had given his promise to Herbert Brownell to support Gen. Eisenhower on the Georgia issue and the first ballot. . Yet the MacArthur danger continu ed in a different form. . NOW THE hope was for an in decisive first ballot, which would not nominate Gen. Eisen- By Roland Coe my scout axe By Joseph and Stewart AIsop Ihower but would persuade Sen. Taft that he had better with draw. After such a ballot, it was further hoped Senator Taft could be induced to escort Gen. MacArthur into the convention In circumstances of utmost drama, Taft was to transfer his support to the general. If this had happened, a great many Pennsylvania votes would have broken from Eisenhower to Mac Arthur on the next ballot, whether or not with Gov. Fine's consent. It was close enough to hap pening, at least, for the conven tion amphitheater management to be warned to prepare a guard ed gate for the Taft - MacArthur grand entry. Fear of this development largely influenced Sen. Lodge and the other Eisenhower lead ers to avoid a first ballot on the night of the nominating speech es. That night, the Minnesota switch was not certain, and there were other doubts about Eisen hower's immediate success. If an indecisive first ballot had been taken, the MacArthur enthus iasls would have had time to work on Sen. Taft, who always resisted the proposal that he give his strength to the general. So the balloting was put off un til the next day, when the Eis enhower gains made victory a certainty. FINALLY, the whole course of the convention might have been changed at the start if Sen. Lodge had accepted the amend ment to the Langlie rule offered by Rep. Clarence Brown. The amendment , allowed voting rights to only seven Louisiana delegates of the grand contested total of sixty-eight. It looked like a very tempting sure thing. Sen. Lodge, alone and unsup ported, was high-pressured to ac cept this tempting sure thing by Rep. Brown, David Ingalls and three or four other Taft lead ers. The meeting was in a stif ling little cubby - hole behind the convention rostrum. Lodge was outnumbered, exhausted and shouted down. Many men would have given away. But Lodge did not. And so the famous first vote on the Brown amendment to the Langlie rule was finally taken, and the Eis enhowed movement was tri umphantly under way. Copyright, 1S52 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Two Pneumonia Cases Reported in Ashland Two cases of pneumonia in Ashland were reported on last week's list of communicable di seases in Jackson county, accord ing to the county health depart ment. A total of nine cases of disease were listed. Others included two of mumps in Medford and one in Phoenix; three of German measles in Med ford, and one of septic sore throat in Jacksonville. Dead line Sunday Classifieds is at 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. got it Pop! Let clean up a couple Multi-Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk "CLEAN-UP 1 W JULY 14-20 ij1!,. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is the picture Hal Boyle got of Ike after the vote had come and Ike was IT. He savs "I will never forget the look on the General's face as he sat by the side of Mamie on the convention platform, gazed at by thousands. From now on win or lose in November they win nave a goldfish life. "I thought there was a little sadness in his countenance whpn his famous grin relaxed, as if ne realized that he now is real ly a kind of prisoner of the peo ple ne is campaigning to serve." T THINK maybe, Hal, you sized him up a little wronz. I'd guess that there on the platform in Chicago Ike was go ing back to the day he arrived in London to take charge of Op eration Overlord. The fate of his country had been placed in his hands for if the invasion failed goodness knows what might happen. The failure of an operation of that size could mean total defeat. If the PLANS failed, the operation could fail. And it was up to Ike to make the plans. Millions of men would be un der his command, and tens of thousands of them must die in carrying out the orders it would be up to him to give. That is a sobering thought for anybody. TT MUST have been a particu larly sobering thought for the comparatively young man who had been only a colonel when the war began and now was a full general with the fate of great nations and the lives of millions of men hanging upon his ability to do his job. WELL, THERE on the platform " in Chicago,' Ike was only a buck private in the POLITICAL world who had suddenly been elevated to four star rank: Do you blame him, Hal, for looking pretty serious as he sat there with the top insignia of his party freshly pinned upon his shoul ders and the weight of his coun try's future resting on the back of his neck? - I don't. I think he was just being himself and acting natu ral. T'D LIKE to add that all Ike has to do from here on out is to be himself and act natural. That's what we all want him to do. We're sick and weary of pol iticians who think always of the POLITIC thing to do and hard ly ever .of the right and neces sary thing. That's what we want to get away from. WHAT DID you think of young I was immensely impressed with him. He stood in the glare of the spotlights and delivered his speech of acceptance as the Republican party's candidate for the vice-presidency easily and' gracefully and courteously. His reference to Senator Taft was a masterpiece of gentle thought fulness. His pat on the back for rugged old Joe Martin was just right. I think he's a comer. ASA HUMBLE follower, I'd like to make a suggestion to General Eisenhower. Don't set this gifted young man up on the shelf to be LOOK ED AT ' but not trusted and USED. TRAIN HIM CAREFUL LY for the job of President which, you know, Ike, he might have to fill. Handle him as you would a young officer on your staff who shows GREAT promise. VOU KNOW how it is. If the captain gets the one that bears his number, the first lieu tenant must have what it. takes to handle the captain's job in the pinch. And so on up the steps of rank. You know how it was with you. If you hadn't been trained carefully for whatever might happen, you couldn't have taken over as you did when in an amazingly short time you rose' from the command of a regiment to Supreme Command er of the Allied Forces in Eu- rope. IF WE HAVE made one minor mistake that is graver, than the others, it is in the way we have handled our vice-presidents. In choosing them, we've never thought of them as any thing but window dressing. That's wrong. bottles of Joraensen's Homaaanimi and then clean up the back yard!" South African Racial Problem Brings Start Of Civil Disobedience By HOMER JENKS -UP Staff Correspondent A group of 25 Negroes walked into South Africa's Port Eliz abeth railroad station through an entrance reserved for white persons the other day. They were arrested. Twenty other Negroes march" ed into a post office and tried to buy stamps at a window re served for whites. They also were arrested. Curfew Defied Eighteen ' Negroes walked along a Johannesburg street at night in defiance of the curfew for non-whites. They, too, were arrested. So were a dozen Negroes in Worcester, near Capetown, who refused to show police the iden tity cards all South African Ne groes must carry. All these Negroes deliberately broke South Africa's "Jim Crow" laws as part of a new campaign on non-violent civil disobedience against Nationalist Premier Daniel F. Malan's "white supremacy" government. Patterned On Gandhi It is patterned on the late Mo handas K. Gandhi's successful civil disobedience campaign for Indian independence from Brit ain. Altogether more than 500 South African Negroes have been arrested and thrown into jail since June 26 for their de liberate flouting of the apartheid racial segregation laws. More join them there every day. This is only the beginning. 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 with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Plea for Blood To the Editor: I am writing this in the hope that it will reach the hearts and minds of the peo ple of this and all surrounding cities. I am asking you people as citizens to just stop and think for a few minutes of the boys over in Korea who are fighting and dying. It is not money you are being asked to donate, nor clothes, but just a pint of blood. During World War II, boys who had been on the front for days during heavy fighting just about to drop from fatigue, men who could go no further, crawl ed beside their .wounded com rades and gave blood. Surely you people here can spare one pint. In fact, you should be ashamed of the reports that are published in the paper after the mobile unit has been here. You people here should get mad and demand the mobile unit, to be held here two days and swamp it wijh donors. Just what is it going to take to wake you folks up to the great need for blood? A few bombs on Portland, Eugene, Salem and other cities? Must you have to see men, women and children lying in the streets hurt and dying to make you realize the need for blood? But if you are afraid to give, please keep your rumors to your self or take them to the Red Cross center, they will be very happy to check and investigate. People would not think of sabotaging mills, factories, bridges, so why spread rumors and sabotage a great work, a wonderful organization is doing? Just close your eyes and pic ture young boys and men blast ed by shrapnel, mortar shells, riddled by machine gun fire, shedding their blood by the quart, staining the sands red with their blood. I ask you, is a pint of your blood too much to ask for them? John G. Dickson, 1129 W. 9th St., Medford, Ore. Disgusted Fan To the Editor: Here is one of the disgusted hard-top stock car fans of Medford. And here is why: After our own valley men ecvDce . . . A PUBLIC TRUST PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Years of Friendly Service o- according to sponsors of the campaign. Dr. J. S. Moroka, head of the African Negro National Congress, says it will go on un til South Africa's jails are full to over flowing. "Nothing will stop the fight except withdrawal of the dis criminatory laws which are the cause of the present action," he said. Others To Fight Also in the 'battle are half castes and Indians, like the Ne groes victims of apartheid, and the white opposition parties. The Indians have joined in acts of civil disobedience, de liberately courting arrest. The half-castes are fighting for their rights in South Africa's courts, although Malan has tried to cir cumvent the courts by proclaim ing Parliament supreme in mat ters of law. Among whites, South Africa's Union Party, formery headed by the late great Field Marshal Jan C. Smuts, the Labor Party, and an organization of 250,000 war veterans known as Torch Com mando, have united for a cam paign to thwart the government in Parliament and defeat it at the next election. Civil War Feared Malan's white opponents ad vocate a gradual lowering of the racial barriers. They fear that the Malan policy of cracking down ever more severely on the non-white population, slashing its housing appropriations and disenfranchising even half-castes has brought the country to the brink of civil war. I paid out to have a track made land started, the Sheriff's posse men, or our own Jackson county Sheriff let Yreka, Calif., bring their cars in the Rogue valley out on the posse grounds. Come on Medford, what has happened to our Rogue valley fans? Are we going to stand for this when our own men are trying to make a sporting place for us, or let outsiders come in and take away the sport of our valley as well as the name se lected for our new track? May be they aren't as efficient as YVeka, but after all, let's at least support our Rogue valley men instead of letting outsiders come in and do it. Let's see if others feel the same way I do. Personally I ' think our sheriff, if he stands for Jackson county, could elimi nate this or have I been mis informed? A disgusted hard-top fan. (Name on file.) Trucking Problem Discussion Slated The importance of the truck ing industry in Oregon as re lated to the economic welfare of its citizens will be told at an open meeting scheduled at 8 p.m. Thursday, at the YMCA auditorium, under the auspices of the Oregon Highway council. The council, a state-wide or ganization of fhe trucking in dustry, will hold the meeting with Jackson county members of the organization. Scheduled speakers include Ellery Sills, president of the council; Earl White, manager of the Oregon Draymens' and Ware housemen's association; Bert Track, assistant manager of the Oregon Highway council, and Robert Knipe, manager of the Oregon Motor Transport asso ciation. Several local speakers also will appear. According to reports of the US Bureau of Public Roads, during 1950 the industry paid nearly 40 per cent of the total revenue from tax sources re ceived by the state highway com mission in Oregon, as against a national average of 32 per cent. To serve our community with in tegrity and consideration is the heart-felt wish of Perl's for the past 44 years. You'll find our services efficient, dignified and reasonable. Call uport us in time of need.