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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORD&wTWBimi 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 Manaer HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under A-t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 30 Daily and Sunday three raoi. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 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 Vanrmjver. B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION v7 lgSC Ul4iiTiUIIH II O" NEWSPAPER PUkUISHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 17. 1942 (It was Friday) New buildings at Camp White are completed for the use of Col. Owen R. Meredith, com manding officer. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The state is willing to contribute the old battleship Oregon to the scrap metal drive, under certain con ditions. If the same avid passion to collect scrap-iron for our own use, as was expended in harvest ing it for avid sale to Japan a few years back, can be mustered, mayhap the hallowed hulk can be spared such an inglorious fate. 20 YEARS AGO July 17. 1932 (It was Sunday) Local man is jailed for operat ing a "beer joint" in the Berry- dale district; 20 gallons of beer mash, 170 pint beer bottles and 100 empty bottles seized by pro hibition agents. Lloyd Osbourne, author and the son-in-law of Robert Louis Stevenson, Visits in Medford en Toute to a Rogue river fishing trip. 30 YEARS AGO July 17. 1922 (It was Monday) Funeral services are set for Miss Julia Fielder, a long-time teacher in the Medford school system. ; Ashland man promoting con struction of sight-seeing road to top of Mt. Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO July 17. 1912 (It was Wednesday) The Indian Refining company of California, Standard Oil's greatest rival, purchases a site near the Crater lake junction for a distributing plant in the Medford vicinity. The city council, in a 3 to 2 vote, decides to pave West 11th street. 'Political Change' Sought by Cabbies Chicago (U.R) A cab driver complained today that political convention delegates aren't the free ipenden they're cracked up to be. "Those guys blew into town with one shirt and a $10 bill." he said. "So far they haven't changed either." WISE CHILD Memphis. Tenn. (U.R) Eliza beth Hamblin, 7, dropped a quarter in the church collection plate and, after a moment's hes itation, added a penny. "For taxes," she whispered. Court Records CIRCUIT COURT Doris R. Baize vs. Richard H. Baize, divorce complaint POLICE COURT Dr. J. S. Heatheyngton. parked on wrong side of the street $2.50. Henry Kershaw Miller, failure to atop at red light. $5. Austin Beedle Laymance. violaUon of basic rule. $10. Dolores Rooney. violation of basic rule. S10. Fritz John Ruch, void operator's license. S-0. Marjorie E. Lawrence, violation Of basic rule. $10. Robert Simpson Webber, failure to yield right of way, $5. Thomas Glendyn Staley Jr., viola lion of basic rule. $15. DISTRICT COURT Coe Eugene Brown, no motor ve hicle license. $5.' Jake Drape Walch, no operator's li cense. $5. MAIL TRIBUNE A uditorium Drive Started Jorgen E. Jorgensen, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, took the bull by the horns, figuratively speaking, and asked representa tives of various local groups to meet recently to dis cuss the possibility of securing a civic auditorium. THE auditorium idea, which has been kicking around here for some time, has been given addi tional impetus of late because of the growing number of conventions scheduled for the Medford area. The realization has been borne in that something should be done to more adequately accommodate, and thus encourage, such gatherings of visitors as well as pro vide a place for local organizations to meet, and for staging of entertainments and athletic events. Among the larger regional or state organizations planning to meet here in the coming year are the Pacific Northwest Shrine Council, Parent-Teacher Association, State Grange, Postal Clerks, Oregon Laundry Association, Oregon Reclama tion Congress and Oregon Drayman's Association. According to chamber of commerce estimates, these convocations alone .will bring around 15,000 people into our midst, including dele gates, wives and other members of their families. OGURING on an average stay of three days per per- son and average daily expenditure of $15, this vi cinity will be enriched to the tune of approximately $675,000 through the personal expenditures of pur guests, to say nothing of what will be spent in staging their meetings. All in all, an impressive addition to our economy. In addition to the already scheduled conventions mentioned, there is a distinct possibility that the Ore gon Farm Bureau and the Eagles lodge may decide to convene here' next year. If they do the expenditure estimate will be even more impressive. CONVENTION dollars are sought energetically by most cities for they exhaust no natural resources, they are pretty evenly distributed among all lines of business, and they require no great effort to harvest. That is why the local chamber is anxious to see every thing possible done to encourage such gatherings. . For its part, the chamber has inaugurated a com munity hospitality program which will enlist the help of local women in seeing to it that wives of visiting convention delegates are made welcome and suitably entertained. That is also why the chamber president took the initiative in setting up the meeting to explore the civic auditorium possibilities. At that meeting it was generally agreed : 1 That an auditorium is urgently needed. 2 That an organization should be formed to carry on a campaign to seek approval by the voters of a bond issue to finance construction. 3 That the organization should be a completely inde pendent entity but made up of representatives of all segments of the community's business, religious, civic, fraternal and social life. OAVING agreed on the three matters mentioned, those present proceeded to form a preliminary organization and named A. A. Lausmann as its tem porary chairman. The next step will be the securing of sufficient funds to cover clerical work, pamphlet printing, pre liminary drawings and the numerous other expenses incidental to such an undertaking. In a circular letter which is being sent to the busi ness and professional men in Medford, Mr. Lausmann suggests that each "chip in" from ,$25 to" $250 to help finance the auditorium campaign. He states that any money unexpended will be returned to the contrib utors. . Mr. Lausmann also points out in his letter that those attending the organizational meeting were in favor of getting the campaign under way as quickly as possible so as to enable a. special election in Sep tember or October. If a favorable vote is regis tered, it is believed the auditorium may be completed and ready for use by May 1, of next year. THERE is overwhelming sentiment here in favor of an auditorium. It is generally realized that such a facility is needed not only for community gatherings but as a major argument and lever in securing con ventions. And from the latter standpoint an auditor ium will be a very: profitably investment, one from which we could get our money back the first year if that $675,000 estimate of delegate spending in 1953 is any criterion. The preliminary, steps have been taken. It is now up to each and everyone in the community to help fi nancially or by giving their support in any way pos sible if the Civic Auditorium Association is to be encouraged to follow through. E.C.F. Thrills It wasn't just the kids that got a thrill out of Sun day's Rogue Valley Soap Box Derby. The thousands cf grownups lining the course got a big kick out of the keen competition too, as the youthful drivers guided their tiny racers down the Queen Ann speed way. BUT the greatest thrill of 4-1-4 rcs tUa iTrtliivif nnrnA UlUOC W1IU VUlUllvCClCU tilt 11 Clivi w ah i ymuwiig and directing the affair as they saw the successful climax of their hard work. To the boys who labored to construct and race their little "bugs," to their individual sponsors who contributed cash and effort, to the General Motor corporation, the Barnes Chevrolet company, the Foot printers organization which helped father the derby here, and to the large number of organizations and in dividuals which aided in other ways, this newspaper, one of the sponsors, extends congratulations for a job well done. We know that they, like us, feel a bit proud to have had a hand in the first running of the Rogue Valley Derby. E.C.F. Thursday. July 17, 1952 For All . ' all must have been felt by fVi.ii Vif e in T.vrrv. -f in rr Cross town "Why should we help you? Y'got plenty of time before the game and you need to get that old pilchin' arm nicely warmed up!" Matter of Fact STEVENSON FADES Chicago The movement to draft Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for the Democratic nomi nation is now deadat least for the first few ballots of the on coming convention. As of today. in fact, Stevenson is being counted right out of the Demo cratic picture even by National Committeeman Jacob Arvey, of Illinois, who took the leading part until recently in the power ful draft-Stevenson drive. The reason for this- new de velopment, which will sharply alter the whole pattern of the Democratic convention, is crude ly practical. The able Arvey and quite a lot of other people went out on a limb in 1948, urging Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Democratic nominee. They were, left naked as jaybirds when Eisenhower refused to run Arvey does not want to go through that experience again. "EQUALLY, the other draft- Stevenson chieftains Govs. Paul Dever, of Massachusetts, G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, Paul Schricker of Indiana and Pennsylvania's leader David Lawrence all very clearly re member Arvey s misfortunes four years ago. They want no part of any such risks. Hence they all asked Stevenson to commit himself in advance to accepting the draft nomination Many of them also asked wheth er, if nominated, he would make a fighting campaign for the great majority of these Demo crats now have the feeling Gen. Eisenhower can be beaten by a hard fighter. Stevenson was. under the most back-breaking pressure. Immedi ately after Gen. Eisenhower's nomination, Democrats from all over the country telephoned and pleaded with him. But with en tire and irritating consistency, he stood on his previous position. The Illinois Governor not only refused to give any commitment as to his response to a draf t-nom ination. He went further. He asked Arvey to persuade the Stevenson - for - President Com mittee to give up its intended suite at the convention head quarters, the Conrad Hilton Hotel. He brought the heaviest pressure to prevent either the Illinois or the Indiana delegates from placing his name in nomi nation. He even indicated he was considering going to the rostrum himself, to nominate his friend W. Averell Harriman. MEANWHILE, because of Stev enson's reluctance to run, and his failure to endorse a 100 per cent Fair Deal program, President Truman had also cooled toward the Stevenson draft idea. He was not against it, but he was not plugging it. In the end, on the day alter tne Eisenhower triumph, the coali tion of nro-Stevenson Democrats dissolved because Stevenson re fused the desired comment. The Illinois. Indiana and Pennsyl vania votes will now be judi ciously scattered, while Govs. Williams and Dever will wait and see, as favorite sons. Obviouslv. this will create an insanely complex situation in he Democratic convention. The delegates will be like iron fil- ines. Dulled in three duierent ways by three different magnets, none of which seems to be strong enough to attract the greater part of the heap. Anyone of the professed can didates will need a major break through to go over the top Despite his courageous fight, W. Averell Harriman has not yet got all out White .louse support, and without this he has a long way to go. So has Sen. Estes Ke fauver. So has Sen. Richard Russell, who remains an espe cially sectional candidate despite his disclaimer. And Sen. Kerr of Oklahoma has the longest way to go of all. IF ALL these fail, the conven tion might turn to Vice Presi dent Alben Barklcy. But, partly because of Gen. Eisenhower s 6 Roland Coe By Joseph and Stewart Alsop somewhat disappointing early performance as a campaigner, and partly because of the bitter Republican split, the Democrats now think they can win. And this will make them reluctant to accept Barkley, whose age makes him look like a caretaker candi date. The odds are, certainly, that one of these men will somehow break through. If not, the con vention will only be able to turn to President Trunan or Gov. Stevenson. Those close to the President say he will not con sider a draft unless every other possibility is totally exhausted. That means, in turn, that a Stev enson draft will have to be tried first. A FEW weeks ago, Stevenson could have had the nomina tion almost for the asking. But he simply does not want it partly for personal reasons, partly because of commitments he has made in Illinois, and partly also because he has the imagination to realize the Pres idency will place impossible burdens on any man. This last consideration weighs more heavi ly with Stevenson than is gen erally known. "There's sure to be a show down with the Russians in the next four years," Stevenson said recently to a friend. "If I were President, and I tried to nego tiate a settlement, I'd be accused of appeasement. And if I tried to force a settlement, I might be responsible for starting an atomic war." Certainly Stevenson's reluc tance has markedly reduced the chances of his being nominated. Yet it is still conceivable that this may be a fate he cannot escape, resist it though he may. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribunne Inc.) -. Portland Refuses Air Force Offer Portland (U.R)-- The Port of Portland has refused to accept a compromise offer by the U.S. Air Force for joint use of Port land International airport. The port commissioners wrote the air force that a revision was needed in the offer. They said they approved most of the points in the agreement signed by Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Fin letter but they found other points too vague and indefinite. Objects to Clause The commission particularly objected to a clause giving the air force secretary the right to the final decision on the port's selection of a new terminal site. The port commission wants to use the south side of the airport on a tract now under lease to the air force. Commissioner L. H. Hoffman said, "If we make this deal, we give up the south side and we might as well make up our minds to it." . The commission also request ed more specific ' terms in the agreement by the air force to pay landing fees and for direct CAA approval of runway and taxiway construction standards. "Paw really whilrs thr crank since he started drinkin' Jergtnten'i . Homogenized Multi-Vitamin, Mufti-Mineral Milk. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you're familiar with Dr. Hewlett Johnson, England's "red dean" of Canterbury, who hes just returned from a trip to Korea and is asserting that Am ericans DID use germ warfare there. His charge stirred up a hor net's nest, and the demand was made in the house of commons yesterday that he be fired from his job. It brought from Winston Churchill this characteristic statement: "Dr. Hewlett Johnson must be tolerated AS PART OF THE PRICE OF FREE SPEECH." TiHAT BRINGS to mind Vol taire's classic phrase in his letter to Helvetius: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." "DOTH CHURCHILL'S words and Voltaire's, I think, con tain the ESSENCE of what wise and tolerant and enlightened people term LIBERALISM a word that has been badly mis used by politicians in recent decades. T WAS READING Churchill's statement to the commons on the teletype this morning and one of the boys in our radio room was looking over my shoulder. "What Churchill means," he remarked, "is that if you let the cranks talk enough they'll de feat themselves." I thought he put it pretty well. T'D LIKE to add that in our politics today we have too much of the spirit of YOU'RE A LIAR and too little of the toler ant spirit of Winston Churchill and Voltaire (whose real name, by the way, was Francis Marie Arouet; Voltaire was merely his pen name). TiHAT BRINGS us back to politics which, with the two big party conventions held in this month, is, I suppose, in evitable. We've been hearing and read ing a lot in the past few days about the slick "strategy" that won for Ike at Chicago. It leaves me cold. Here's what won for Ike: Millions of people have FAITH in him as the kind of man they want for their leader. The. Republican " delegates at Chicago were in the main JUST PEOPLE. A decisive majority of them shared this FAITH in Ike. So, when the time came, they voted their convictions and their faith and Ike won the nomina tion. That's the long and the short of it. THE PROFESSIONAL politi cians like to make us think politics is a complicated, intri cate, highly skilled trade that only they understand. If they ever let us get the idea that poli tics, in its truest sense, is simply the INSTINCT of the people for better leadership and sounder government, they'll be sunk. They know it, and so they give us all this double talk about the "strategy" they pro vide for us. I'D LIKE to make a radical statement here: In these days of radio, tele vision, ably edited and well written magazines and increas ing numbers of OBJECTIVE, UNPREJUDICED newspapers that are more intent on bringing to their readers an accurate pic ture of what is going on and why than in winning elections, the professional politician who makes a living by "handling" the people is becoming about as out of date as a dinosaur. I HOPE Ike doesn't get im pressed by all this profes sional patter about political "strategy." I hope he parries the loaded trick questions that will be addressed to him as skillfully as he parried enemy offensives in the ETO and gives simple, honest answers to all the simple, honest questions put to him by simple, honest people who want to know. If he'll just BE HIMSELF from here on out," he'll find on the fourth day of next Novem ber that he has done pretty well. TF YOU WANT an example of how that works, take a look Demo Leaders Huddle With TV Experts on How To Put on Show New York (U.R) The Demo crats are huddling with televi sion experts this week to see how much they can profit from technical and production errors committed by the Republicans in the first presidential conven tion to be televised nationally. The concensus was the GOP put on an absorbing, slam-bang affair, but got nowhere near all it could from using television's unblinking eye as a vote attac- tor. Most authorities predicted that both the Democrats and Re publicans would have to change their political shows from the ground up by the time 1956 rolls around. Death of Oratory For example, they said the so- COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letter, with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. McCarthy Defended To the Editor: You have been attacking Sen. Joseph McCarthy quite frequently and no one seems to take issue with you. To my way of thinking the greatest menace to the world and to the United States today is Russian communism. From your editorial column, you seem to think that so-called McCarthyism is the greater menace. Many people at all levels have been deceived by such propa ganda as Chinese agrarian re formers and other similar hoaxes. Other people see through the rosy picture painted by Marx and know that man is a mere unit, a tool, a -slave in this materialistic system. What else is man in this sys tem which proposed that 50,000 ranking German military men be murdered after World War II (Stalin to Church at Teheran), that liquidated 15,000 Polish of ficers in 1941, and that starved 5,000,000 Ukranians to death in 1932? Sen, Joseph McCarthy has been fighting to remove from office the advocates of this sys tem who have wormed their way into our government, those who have been misled by this system, and apparently innocent Amer icans who have made too many mistakes which further the march of Russian Communism. Senator McCarthy is a tough fighter and he uses tough meth ods because he Is fighting the world's most inhuman foe. Noth ing is right for a Communist ex cept that which furthers the spread of communism. Lying, stealing and murdering are good if the end product of spreading Communism is achieved. Can you treat people like these with kid gloves? They don't under stand our system of ethics and morality. We are compelled to hound them down and expel them if our country is not to endure the fate of Czechoslo vakia, Korea and China. Some officials high in govern ment seem to have the mistaken notion that loyalty to friends who havetbeen led into the red movement comes before loyalty to country and the sacred trust of public office. Our country first! And fallen friends must eat the bitter fruit of their mis guided labors. Let us not get lost in personal dislikes and political rivalries so that the common enemy succeeds in his fight to divide and con quer. Let us recognize that Com munism is the enemy and ruth lessly crush it locally, nationally, and internationally. Let us help, not hinder, men like Senatorf McCarthy who are leading in the fight to save our country and the world from Russian commu nistic slavery. Patrick L. Kennedy, 17 North Peach St., Medford, Oregon. at Churchill. All his life, he has BEEN HIMSELF. Never has he been anything but just Winston Churchill. As a result, he is probably the most TRUSTED leader on earth today. Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone called "Fourth of July" orator has been given his death notice. In his place will come the poli tician who watches his make-up as carefully as his cohorts and values his tailor side by side with his campaign manager. "Those are only some of the obvious changes" said veteran TV producer and director Jeanne Harrison. "This year's conventions should convince both parties they need entire staffs of stage managers." "Some of the little things that happened were very bad show manship," Miss Harrison said. "For instance, try to imagine Bishop Fulton Sheen or Milton Berle allowing various charac ters to wander around in back of them just as they reached the critical part in a sermon or com edy routine." Eye Easily Distracted She said the political bosses at the GOP show might have been sharp as tacks on their smoke-f illed-r o o m techniques, but none appeared aware of how easily the human eye is dis tracted. "Even the most gifted speaker can lose his audience if there's some hanger-on behind him fidg eting with his tie or wiggling his fingers." she pointed out. "Our political leaders will have to learn to beware of what Holly wood calls 'scene stealers'." Visual Aids Still another TV authority predicted that the day will have to come when speakers consci ously use "visual aids' in pre senting a speech and rely less on "booming voices and grim ex-, pressions." "Take the time Fiorello La Guardia went before Congress to complain of high food prices and brought along a pair of pork chops which he waved in the air as he spoke." recalled veteran MC Tod Russell. "That's making visual drama of a talk." Truck Discussion Open To Public The public is invited to at tend a meeting at 8 o'clock this evening in the YMCA aud itorium, sponsored by the Ore gon Highway council and the Jackson county members of the organization. The importance of Oregon's trucking industry as related to the state's economic welfare will be presented by four Portland speakers, including Ellery Sills, president of the Oregon High way council; Robert Knipe, manager of the Oregon Motor Transport association; Earl White, manager ci the Oregon Draymen's and Warehousemen's association, and Bert Trask, as sistant manager of the Highway council. Ranks Second .. According to Sills, president of the council, few people rea lize that nationally the trucking industry ranks second in im portance, exceeded only by agri culture. ''One out of four non-agricultural employees in Oregon works for the trucking industry. The total of these truck and bus driv ers, mechanics, service em ployees, dock hands, and office help approximates the combined population of Salem, Eugene and Medford," he said. The council is one of the spon sors of a proposed constitutional amendment, to be voted on in the state this fall, which would ban weight-per-mile lees on trucks, and also sponsored the referendum to a legislative bill providing for changes in truck taxation in the state. Russell Snack Bar Convention Feature Chicago (U.R) Something new has been added to the na tional political 'convention scene a "Dick Russell' snack bar where newspapermen can munch sandwiches and swig free beer and soft drinks. Reporters assigned to cover the Democratic National conven tion are enrolled automatically in the "Dick Russell Press Club" and become eligible to use its rather lush facilities. 2 - 8030 Nt Mil
