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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. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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